This is a rather unusual title for a message from Pastor Todd. "Learning from Crazy People". He is teaching today on finding your calling from God.

From the scriptures Pastor Todd shares the wisdom and insights of people who follow God's call to do crazy things.

Then He asks us if God has ever asked us to do anything that we might have thought was a bit crazy. His call may make no sense at all. How did we respond? How did it work out? God may call us to lead a zoo. He picks us because He knows that we are capable in Him to do anything.

God has a plan that may not make sense and He may call you to participate in that plan. We may not need to understand when we are called. We may need to be a little crazy, look a little crazy, and even be criticized for looking crazy.

Let's listen in as Pastor Todd reveals the character of God and the nature of our calling in His plans from scripture.

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Pastor Massey speaks to us today that there is more to be seen and experienced and overcome in the Kingdom of God. More than success, more than fleshly desires, more than our pain, more than our trials, much more. God has prepared us for great and supernatural things because we have His Spirit.

The Bible tells us that we are more than conquerors because we trust in Jesus. In Jesus the old has passed away and we are new creatures with a new seed and a new power because we have the favor of God.

The Bible also tells us that we will have trials in this life but He promises to deliver us from those trials. We are to count it all joy when these things happen because we can trust Him. We are not destroyed. We are victorious because of His promises.

We are not fighters who can win or lose. We are conquerors because God has fought our battles and made us conquerors 100% of the time.

Let's listen in as Pastor Massey shares this very timely message with us.

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Pastor Todd is in a series called "Love Never Lies". He teaches us, "We're talking about the fact that the world would look at Christianity and say, Hey, you guys should be nice and kind and loving and tolerant because that was what Jesus would do."

This may be a bumpy ride for some. He is going to talk about the blessings of the Lord but perhaps that doesn't mean exactly what we think it means.

He is teaching us today from the story of Jesus confronting the money changers in the temple. We see Jesus with a whip in His hand overturning tables and scattering coins of money. Does this sound like the kind, tolerant, nice Jesus that the world has stereotyped Him as?

Is Jesus really mad simply because people elected to buy their sacrificial animals at the temple instead of bringing them from home? Is Jesus mad because He doesn't want anything for sale even in the outer courts of the temple?

Pastor Todd explains from scripture that the blessings of God come from obedience. Yet many of the people were disobedient before coming to the temple and still expect the blessings of God. The people do not know their God.

Let's listen in as Pastor Todd reveals the truth about the character of Jesus, our obedience, and about speaking the truth in love.

Please listen to the end for some important information.

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John 15:13 But He, the Spirit of Truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth. Truth gives us boldness.

Pastor Todd asks, "How long will we, believers, allow unbelievers disciple us?" The world looks at our Bible and misquotes it and abuses it and throws it back in our face. For the most part in the church we let them do it. All too often we are silent in these situations. Two reasons could explain this. 1) We don't know the truth ourselves or 2) we think that passiveness is Christianity.

Jesus demonstrates boldness to everyone. He tells people the truth. He is not passive. His love for people required Him to tell them the truth about their lifestyles and destiny.

Pastor Todd shows us that we do not have to accept what the world tells us what Jesus was like. We do not have to accept the world's word about tolerance. We have the truth in the Spirit of Truth from God.

The world does not understand the Bible. They do not have the Spirit of God to give them revelation of what it means.

Let's listen in as Pastor Todd teaches us about this very important topic.

How do we become sober and vigilant? Why is this important for these times?

Pastor Massey teaches us today about becoming sober minded. Some people associate this with not drinking alcohol but it is so much more than that. It means to avoid anything that would lead us away from God's truth and sound judgment.

Sober is not lazy or passive. It is steady and even keeled in the midst of a storm. To be alert is to be sober, committed to truth, trusting in God. When trials come a sober person remains stable because we put our faith and trust in Jesus. Soberness keeps our character stable.

Don't we need to be models for those around us? What happens when people see us fall apart when difficulties come? They can lose faith.

Sober is a state of mind. Vigilance is a state of action. We cannot be vigilant in Christ if we are not sober in mind. When you aren't sober you can't be bold for Christ.

When we are sober we can see clearly. We can deal with the world clearly. We see ourselves and others clearly. If we are sober in mind we can see the Word of God clearly. If we are sober in mind we can be vigilant. We can be victorious.

Let's listen in as Pastor Massey shares with us about vigilance and being sober in mind in Christ.

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Pastor Todd speaks to us today about seasons. Seasons tell us what we need to do. In agriculture there is a planting season, when seed is spread or pressed into the ground. There is a watering or growth season where we need to nurture and water. There is a harvest season where we reap the benefit of the planting and watering seasons.

In life we have seasons of growth from a child. Other seasons where we may be raising children. Later a season of retirement comes. Each of these seasons requires that we do certain things. We may even have seasons of grief or anxiety or loneliness. In those seasons we also have things we can do and should do in order to continue.

In scripture, Deuteronomy 28:12, God promises rain on the land in the right season and blessings on the work of our hands. The blessing is contingent on our work. If the rain comes and we have not planted nothing will grow.

Even so, we can plant the wrong seed in the wrong season and we will be unproductive because the growth will not be there. So we need to plant the right seed in the right season. Sometimes we can be doing the right things but at the wrong time.

Pastor Todd shows us in Gen 8:22 that these seasonal patterns repeat and continue. They will not cease as long as the Earth remains. We ignore or dismiss or mis align them at our risk. We need to pay attention to these seasonal cycles and act according to them.

There are seasons in the Kingdom of God as well.

Let's let Pastor Todd explain how we should be responding to seasons in the Kingdom.

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Revelation 12:4 tells us that satan was cast out of heaven and he took a third of the angels with him. These became the demons. Their job now is to torment us, God's people, if we let them.

Many churches teach that demons were just an old testament thing or something in the gospels and we don’t really have to deal with them anymore. The question is "where do they think they went?".

Pastor Todd teaches us that demons are mentioned over 83 times in the New Testament. 25% of Jesus' ministry dealt with demons. Jesus gave us authority over demons.

Demons have a will of their own and they have emotions, knowledge, self awareness. They can speak our language.

Demons deceive, lie, and oppress. They also can be responsible for illnesses, physical, emotional and mental.

Let's listen in as Pastor Todd teaches us about this very important topic.

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If you currently are experiencing anxiety about anything in your life or you have in the past this message is for you. Who hasn't?

Pastor Todd presents a simple, practical process to go through when you are experiencing anxiety about anything.

Often we can make our situation appear worse by repeating a negative narrative about it. Sometimes we can be listening to the wrong voices like the internet. Perhaps shame and guilt keep us from confessing things to God. Often we can get attention by repeating our anxiety story. It's called a victim mentality. If we are defined by our tragedy, our condition, our pain, what does that say about our role as a child of God?

Pastor Todd is not discounting real tragedy or pain but he is sharing with us a new way to see and describe our situation.

How we see and describe our situation can shorten that experience. We can do it as Jesus does.

Let's listen in as Pastor Todd helps us find a way out of our anxiety. There is victory available.

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Pastor Massey speaks to us today from 2 Corinthians 4:7-12 We are earthen vessels carrying about the Lord Jesus.

Its time for the church to move and mobilize. Evil is great today but it is not worse than its ever been. We should not fear evil. We should fear God, in a good way.

Massey reminds us that the moment we became Christians a target was added to our backs. The enemy is seeking to defeat us in every way, afflict us in every way, discourage and degrade our faith and therefore our message about Jesus and our message about evil in this world. Some may be persecuted, some imprisoned, some even put to death. Scripture tells us that this is very likely.

Nevertheless, this is not the time to shrink back. Now is the time to move forward.

Let the Holy Spirit speak to you today through Pastor's Massey's message. This message is for all of us.

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Pastor Todd teaches us today from Philippians 3, reminding us of Paul's comments about leaving things behind and reaching forward to what God has for us in Christ Jesus.

In order to move forward in anything you have to leave things behind. Your future is not going to be any different if you stay in your past. A baby cannot be birthed until the umbilical cord is cut and they leave the womb.

The Israelites had to leave Eqypt to become free or they would have remained slaves. Even so, when they had actually left Egypt they were not yet free. They carried with them the slave mindset. They were, effectively, runaway slaves.

It was not until they saw the bodies of the Egyptians who were chasing them to bring them back into slavery, that they were delivered from the mindset of slavery. They had to see the death of what kept them captive in order to become truly free.

Sometimes we can go to a new place with an old attitude. The people of Israel were delivered from their captivity but still desired the things of their enslavement. There is something comforting about enslavement. Why? Because I don't have to think for myself. Whatever we are enslaved by makes my decisions for me and determines my future.

Do you look to your past to define your future?

Let's listen in as Pastor Todd explains.

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Check out Pastor Todd's latest book, "Old Is the New: Connecting Covenants".

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