Renaissance Church

We had the honor of having Patrick and Gladys Mpande with us from Redcliffe, Zimbabwe. They lead a church planting network in Africa and have started a Christian school in Redcliffe. In this episode, Patrick delivers a message on turning fear into your advantage. Patrick shares stories from his life and ministry and how God came through in the hour of need. This message was recorded on Sunday, April 24th, 2022.

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He is risen indeed! In this episode, Pastor Chris Kipp shares an Easter message entitled "What Difference Does Easter Make?" based on Romans 6:4 in which the apostle Paul states that "...we too may walk in newness of life." Chris illustrates how the old way has been disrupted by a new kind of life because of Jesus' resurrection. This new kind of life is marked by peace, hope and power. We "may" walk in it, but we also may not. Chris invites us to consider the one thing that changes everything in our lives.

If you had to describe God in one or two words, how would you describe Him? Could you say, without a doubt, what He is like? In this message, Pastor Chris Kipp teaches on Palm Sunday from Zechariah 9:9 and Matthew 11:28-30. The message is entitled "The Heart of the King" and Chris invites us to take Jesus at His own words and to experience His heart.

In the famous Parable of the Sower, Jesus reveals a "Word war". The war isn't the Word trying to overpower the opposition, because no opposition can overpower the Word. Rather, it is a war for how the Word is received. In this episode, Pastor Chris Kipp teaches a message entitled "The Clashing Kingdom" from Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23.

If a road was ending would you rather have it clearly marked with lots of warning or would you rather it not be marked and crash your car? That's the question that Pastor Chris Kipp leads with as he teaches a message entitled "The Coming Kingdom" from Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43. In this parable about the kingdom, Jesus' teaching grounds us in reality, issues a real warning and yet gives us real hope. The question is: do you really believe what Jesus says about the coming kingdom?

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Have you ever felt the empowerment of someone handing you the keys to a vehicle? In this episode, Jason Bollinger looks at the words of Jesus found in Matthew 16:13-20 as Jesus hands the keys of the kingdom to the disciples. Jason teaches on what that means for us and what binding and loosing looks like in our lives.

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We often tend to overvalue what isn't truly valuable and, conversely, to undervalue those things which truly are valuable. In this episode, Pastor Chris Kipp teaches a message entitled "The Priceless Kingdom" from 2 of Jesus' parables found in Matthew 13:44-46. Chris teaches about the true value of the kingdom of God.

We are a culture infatuated with the BIG and the FAST. Yet, if we're honest, our life transformation is more accurately described as SMALL and SLOW. Why is that? In this episode, Pastor Chris Kipp teaches a message entitled "The Patiently Permeating Kingdom" from 3 of Jesus' parables about the kingdom found in Matthew 13:31-33 and Mark 4:26-29. Chris reminds us of the good news for those ways in which God's work seems small or insignificant to us.

The "kingdom of heaven" is the central theme of the Bible and the primary focus of Jesus' teaching, yet we often have vague ideas about what it means. It's what the apostles taught about and what the diaspora preachers like Philip taught about. If it's so primary to our Bibles, should't we know what it is? Shouldn't the kingdom of heaven be primary to our lives? In this episode, Pastor Chris Kipp teaches a message entitled "The Priority of the Kingdom" from Luke 12:22-34.

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Every where we look it seems that people aren't filled but rather they are filled with opinions, positions, axes to grind and more. All of this points to lack rather than filling. In this episode, Jason Bollinger shares a message entitled "Do You Want To Be Filled?" from Matthew 5:6.

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