This is the first of four messages from our 2025 Fall Retreat. The theme for the retreat is "Jesus is Better". We will be focusing on how Jesus is better than all the other things in this world that compete for our love and attention. In this first message, Alex starts us off by telling us that Jesus is our God and king. This means that He deserves our obedience and love.

Where do we get the power to live for God? This is the crucial question that will be answered in this message from the book of 2 Peter. Listen in as we continue our series teaching through the New Testament.

In this message, Alex will walk through a passage in 1 Peter to show how our identity in Christ shapes our lifestyle and that lifestyle can have an influence on those around us.

In the sermon this week, we will learn about how God trains Christians to live for Him, through His grace. Paul shows us that grace trains us. to live a certain way, it gives us hope for a future with God, and it makes us new people.

As Christians, we are new creations. The old is gone and the new has come. In this message, Alex will teach from Colossians 3 and show us that this change in our lives should change the way that we live. New creations live in a new way.

All people want two things: joy and peace. In this message Jess will teach from Phillipians and show us that God is the source of all true joy and peace. She will also help us understand how we can have these things in our lives.

Listen in as Ben Brannon continues our teaching series through the New Testament by covering Ephesians 4. In this message he will answer the questions: How does God want us to relate to other Christians and what does He want to accomplish through those relationships?

As we make our way through the New Testament join us as Alex teaches about how we should live our Christian lives. He will explain what Paul means when he tells us to give ourselves as living sacrifices to God and how we are to do that.

Listen in to hear Jess use Romans 6 to explain what "sanctification" means and why it is important for Christians to understand.