This last Sunday Alex gave part one of his teaching on our fourth core value: we have the privilege of hosting the Father’s Presence. 

We believe the Scriptures teach that the Church is supposed to be a home for God’s Presence, an access point between heaven and earth. (1 Pet 2v4-5, Gen 28v11-17)

The first identity that we want to take on as a church to host the Presence of God well, is the ministry of a priest. 

Priests in the Old Covenant offered up physical sacrifices, but since Jesus offered himself as the ultimate physical sacrifice, our ministry as New Covenant priests is to offer up spiritual sacrifices. Like David, we are to center our entire lives around praise, thanksgiving, song, and gazing upon the Lord. 

This is one of the primary ways we participate in heaven coming to earth. You are a priest! 

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10.13.24 Sermon Guide

This past weekend we had our very first all church camp out at the Oregon coast. Our senior leader, Alex Rettmann, spoke from 1 Peter 4:7-11 about the two priorities we have as we live in the last days: People and Prayer.

On Sunday, we got to hear from one our deacons, Chris Sharp. Chris continued in our Luke Series with a teaching on Luke 17v1-10.

All throughout the gospels, Jesus reveals to us that to follow Him and to live in His kingdom looks like something. This teaching in Luke highlights how radical it will be to live as a child, to offer forgiveness, and to exercise our faith.

This lifestyle of complete trust and obedience to God requires us to repent of lesser pursuits and be strengthened and comforted by His unending love and provision for us through His body and his blood.

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09.01.24 Sermon Guide

This last Sunday we continued in our Luke series with a parable from Luke 16v19-31 about the relationship between worldly wealth and eternal wealth. 

In this story, the rich man is the example of someone so consumed with lack, that they cannot use the material of their life to tell the truth of compassion and friendship.

God is, and always has been, after a people who are so aware of His love for them that they can’t help but join in and use the physical world to tell the truth of God’s love to others. 

As New Covenant believers, our inheritance is Jesus! His Presence is our portion, and don’t have to settle for lesser things. 

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08.25.24 Sermon Guide

On Sunday Alex led us through Jesus’ teaching in Luke 16v14-18.

In this teaching, Jesus is highlighting the shift from the era of the law and the prophets, to the era of His kingdom. To live in His kingdom is to submit to the internal rule of God within your heart.

Jesus’s critique of the Pharisees is that they spend all their time trying to justify themselves by the law, yet their hearts grow cold to the things that God loves. This new kingdom requires radical trust and submission to Jesus. 

We can only do this to the degree that we receive His overwhelming love and depend on Him for the grace needed in every situation.

On Sunday we looked at an interesting parable in Luke 16v1-15 about a dishonest manager.

Through this parable, Jesus teaches us that there is a way of using possessions and money that tells a heavenly truth but an earthly lie. 

In the same way that Jesus used His possessions to gain our friendship, our lives on earth are to declare heavenly truth. Friendship, love, and generosity are eternal things that will last in the age to come. May we be the kind of people who pursue these eternal things over and above the perishing things that the world finds value in.

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08.11.24 Sermon Guide

This last Sunday, Bria taught on the parable of the lost coin in Luke 15v8-10.

This parable is situated between two other parables like it, each one centered around God’s great love and pursuit of the lost. This parable in particular emphasizes the thoroughness of God’s pursuit of the lost. It acts as an invitation to receive the heart of God in order to love people the way He loves them.

We receive the heart of God by receiving Jesus - His body broken for us and His blood poured out. The reality of His overwhelming love will change the way we see everything.

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08.04.24 Sermon Guide