Jesus was known as a miracle worker, but there were times when He was unable to perform miracles because the people lacked faith. Today we look at examples from Scripture of those who did show great faith in Christ and the miracles that were performed, and ask the question "do miracles still happen?".

In today's sermon we look at the first miracle Jesus performed, turning water into wine at a wedding in the town of Cana. Oftentimes today, just as when Jesus was physically walking among us, we can have a tendency to want God to perform a miracle in our lives...but are we more concerned with receiving a miracle than we are with having a relationship with the giver of miracles?

The end of the year is always a great time to assess and look back before moving forward into the new year, and as we end 2023 and launch into 2024, we look at ways to help prepare ourselves for what God has in store for us in this upcoming year. In order to be ready for what God wants to do in our lives, it's important that we take the necessary steps so that our lives are open for those moments when they arrive.

As any parent knows, a baby really does change everything. And on that first Christmas night, the cry of the baby Jesus signaled the beginning of something completely new and different for the entire world. The Heavenly Father sent His only son who would grow up to provide a way for sinful humankind to be restored and redeemed, and it all began with God taking on human flesh in the form of a helpless baby, born in a stable in the town of Bethlehem.

Singing is something that God has created for mankind to do, something that accompanies a whole range of emotions and seasons of life. But there is something special when it comes to singing songs to and about God. It is one of the ways we express the joy we find in Him, and we can look back in Scripture to see people across the ages worshiping God in this way. The Christmas season is a wonderful time to lift up praise in song to God as we celebrate and reflect upon the miraculous birth of Jesus.

Bells are an instrument that we use for many different things in our lives. For some, we have a bell sound to alert us of incoming texts or calls, for others bells let us know it's time for something to begin or end. But for many, when we get tired of hearing the bells, we start to silence them. God, in His own way, gives us many "bells" to alert us and help keep us on track...but when we start to ignore them, we find that our hearts begin to harden towards God, and we can find ourselves walking down different paths than the good ones the Lord has laid out for us.

This week begins a new series for the Christmas season entitled, "The Sounds of Christmas", and this Sunday we look at the long gap between the last time that God spoke to His people through the prophets, and the birth of Jesus when He once again spoke to mankind.

In our final message of this series, Pastor Chad helps us to understand why God is so good to us, and how recognizing how good He has been helps to cultivate a life of gratitude towards Him.

Oftentimes when circumstances are good and gifts from God are plentiful, it can be easy to have a grateful heart. But what does gratitude look like when seasons of life are hard and the gifts from God seem to have dried up? Pastor Chad helps answer this question and more in today's episode.

We begin a new series this week called "Gratitude", and in this episode we look at Luke 17, which tells the story of Jesus healing several lepers, but how only one of them came back to praise and thank Jesus for healing him. What we find is that a heart of gratitude is often the key to something much bigger that God has in store.