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This weekend, we’re wrapping up our series, The Unseen Battle! We’ll be looking at a familiar passage of Scripture in Ephesians 6, where Paul teaches us about the armor of God.

My hope is that everyone leaves Sunday understanding that we do have an enemy whose desire is to take us out and tear us down. But as believers, we don’t have to live in fear! We are empowered by God’s strength and equipped with His armor to stand firm and fight back.

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In this episode of The Unscripted Podcast, Pastor Lydia Miller shares her journey from growing up as a pastor’s kid to becoming a teacher and eventually stepping into ministry at Sunnybrook. Fresh off her ordination, Lydia opens up about discerning God’s call, navigating the challenges of teaching Scripture as a woman in ministry, and the importance of staying grounded in her personal relationship with God while serving others. She also shares her heart for Sunnybrook and why she’s passionate about serving wherever God leads.

Join Pastor Jeff, Pastor Lydia, and Erich for an honest conversation about calling, obedience, leadership, and using the gifts God has given you.

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What do you do when your world falls apart? It’s a question I hope you haven’t had to answer in your life, but my guess is that you have. When the doctor calls and it’s worse than you thought, when the person you pegged your future on ends the engagement, or when your boss calls you in and informs you your position has been eliminated… What do you do in seasons like that?

This Sunday, we’re taking a look at the Unseen Battle that happens in our minds when our world falls apart. We’ll draw wisdom from a man who had great experience with this: Jeremiah. Together, we’ll study his lament and his resolution as found in Lamentations 3. We also hear a testimony from Brielle Schorg, a young women who's world changed in a moment when she woke up and found herself paralyzed at the age of 15. We’ll discover Jeremiah’s wisdom for what believers are called to do when their world falls apart.

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Last week, we landed heavily on the brokenness of our world. We are tainted by sin, and everything we interact with is impacted by it. Which means living as people of faith is—and will continue to be—increasingly difficult. So how do we do that well? If we are facing an unseen battle at every turn, up against spiritual forces and our own sinful nature, how do we grow and develop a faith that can withstand it?

Throughout this series, we’ve taken a somewhat defensive approach: Here’s how you battle against sin, brokenness, and evil. But this Sunday, we’re switching sides. We’re taking the offensive.

How do you and I lean into the testing? How do we allow what we’re up against to grow our faith, refine our faith, and test our faith?

Listen as we study how God works with us and in us to do just that—to train us, strengthen our faith, and prepare us for the day when He eventually returns.

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New season. New look. New studio. Same real conversations.

Welcome to the new season of the Sunnybrook Unscripted Podcast! We’re kicking things off with a new setup and a new voice joining the conversation as Erich Erdman joins Pastor Jeff and Pastor Lydia as a host.

For our first episode, we’re getting to know the man behind the microphone. Pastor Jeff sits down with Erich and Lydia to share his story, from growing up in the church and sensing a call to ministry in high school to nearly 24 years of leading Sunnybrook. He opens up about the joys and pressures of preaching, what people may not understand about life in ministry, carrying the weight of other people’s struggles, and what the next five years could look like as Sunnybrook prepares for the future.

It’s an honest conversation about calling, leadership, ministry, and what it looks like to faithfully step into the next season.

This is Sunnybrook Unscripted. Real life, real questions, and deep conversations about faith, Scripture, and what it means to follow Jesus.

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Have you ever found yourself asking, “Why is life so difficult?”

Sometimes it seems like everything in life is an uphill battle. Our circumstances, our marriages, our relationships, and even our relationship with God can feel difficult. Why is there so much pain and suffering in the world? Why is life so hard?

This Sunday, as we continue our series, The Unseen Battle, we’ll explore some of these questions. We’ll take a look at the brokenness of our world and the difficulty it has caused us. We’ll talk about the reason life is so hard—sin—and the damage sin has caused throughout creation.

Finally, we’ll look at how we should respond to the effects of sin in this world.

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This week, we continue our series “The Unseen Battle” by asking the question: “How do I make the hard change in me?”

We’ll take a look at the well-known passage on change in Ephesians 4:21–27. Because isn’t it true that all of us have areas in our lives we want to change? We’ve tried to change through our own willpower, only to find ourselves falling back into the same patterns.

So, how do we surrender to the work of the Holy Spirit in us and experience real, lasting change? What steps do we need to take to bring about Godly change in our lives?

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Ever heard a statement before and thought to yourself, “Where is the good news in that?”

Last week in Romans 7, Paul essentially said, “The things I want to do, I don’t do. And the things I don’t want to do…I do.” And he ends Romans 7 with these words: “What a wretched man I am!”

But this Sunday, we’re turning the page to Romans 8.

Romans 8 brings us the good news of life in Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit. This week, I want to share seven life-changing truths from Romans 8 that are only possible through Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit at work in your life. 

To wrap up today's message,  Brooke courageously shares her testimony and how God worked through your journey with addiction. 

Brooke shared how she truly met Jesus through Celebrate Recovery, and through her relationship with Him, Jesus didn’t just remove her addiction; He broke her chains and set her free. 

Join us as we talk about “How to Be Set Free” in Jesus—how we can overcome the sin and struggles of the Christian life through the power of the Holy Spirit.

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If you or someone you know could benefit from Celebrate Recovery, we’d love to invite you to join us. Celebrate Recovery meets at Sunnybrook every Thursday from 6:00–8:00 PM. You don’t have to walk through it alone. 

This Sunday, we continue our series, The Unseen Battle, as we look at one of the toughest battles we face—the battle within us.

It’s easy to point the finger at the brokenness around us. It’s much harder to turn that finger inward and acknowledge the brokenness within us.

Together, we’ll walk through Romans 7:15–25 and explore the inner battle we all face—and why looking to Jesus is the cure we desperately need.

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Ever feel like throwing in the towel on Christianity? I mean, honestly. Ever feel like maybe following Jesus isn’t necessarily worth it? Does it ever get any easier?

It’s a question worth asking—and one that, if you’ve never vocalized it, you’ve likely felt. Many of us enter the Christian life with enthusiasm, but endurance is hard to come by. We have the toughness, but lack the tactics to make it last long-term. We muster our spiritual strength, but don’t have a strategy to keep moving forward.

So how do we run with endurance the life that God has marked out before us?

This Sunday, we’re starting a new series entitled The Unseen Battle. Together, we’ll take a look at the battle of the Christian life, the battle plan provided to us in Scripture, and how you and I can run with endurance the Christian life marked out before us.

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