Sunday Sermons

Love makes forgiveness possible, forgiveness makes new life possible, and Jesus never let anyone's sin keep Him from offering them both love and forgiveness. Both are gifts God chooses to give us and expects us to give others, and both are investments in the future.

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Series: JESUS

Speaker: David Pryor

Christ knew that physical healing often leads to the spiritual and relational restoration that He came to give us. Each recorded healing demonstrated His power over creation itself and gave someone an opportunity to live a full life after reconnecting with God and others.

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Series: JESUS

Speaker: John Pryor

Jesus violated man-made rules because He celebrate what the Sabbath and the other Jewish rituals were designed to be: regularly scheduled new beginnings. Today we honor His sacrifice by accepting all He offers and living out His will.

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Series: JESUS

Speaker: John Pryor

Jesus intentionally recruited marginalized people—even those who seemed to deserve their suffering or rejection. He knew that beneath all the distortion and brokenness, we are all made in God's image and longing to belong and play vital part in His story. He also knows that the "least likely" are often first in line for love, forgiveness, and a genuine new start, and He went where they were to reach them.

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Series: Jesus

Speaker: John Pryor

The core of Jesus's message was a royal proclamation: He is King, and everyone is invited to follow Him. Using poetry, commands, symbolic stories, and His own example, King Jesus made His expectations clear…

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Series: Jesus

Speaker: John Pryor

Godly mothers (and all true believers) value and live out their identity as Christ followers more than what anyone else thinks about them. They refuse to define themselves by past successes or failures and relentlessly keep growing and strategically passing on their faith—mostly by example.

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Series: Jesus

Speaker: John Pryor

Literally everything Jesus did at the beginning of His ministry—including His own baptism—was a symbol or an example of this truth: Jesus creates new beginnings when we do what He says, His way.

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Series: JESUS

Speaker: John Pryor

Jesus showed us exactly what God would do if He lived life as a human being—and made it possible for us to live our lives the same way. Every day, we work together in the "family business," restoring all things with the Father, the Son, the Spirit, and with all our brothers and sisters.

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Series: JESUS

Speaker: John Pryor

Transformative churches grasp the imperative understanding of God as a sending God and recognize themselves as a church of sent people. As a result, they integrate into their communities and impact their neighborhoods and cities, having been transformed by incarnating Jesus in everyday life in everyday circumstances.

Three Rivers Collaborative "The Seven Marks"

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Speaker: John Pryor

Series: Game Changers

Transformative churches have a clear and compelling understanding of why they exist and what they are called to as a faith community. They can articulate their identities and missions. People at every level of the church can clearly answer the question: “What is the story we are called to live out as a community of Jesus followers?” Further, they express this focus in their allocation of resources and communal practices.

Three Rivers Collaborative "The Seven Marks"

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Speaker: John Pryor

Series: Game Changers