2022 is behind us with its personal history, challenges, trials, and disappointments. Let’s carry the good from 2022 and leave the pain behind, committing to pursue the promise of 2023 and all that it means in our walk with Jesus and involvement in expanding His Kingdom.

Every person would love to have a life free of trouble or disturbance, but is that the definition of peace God intends for people? What does peace look like in a world riddled with pain and problems? Real peace is far more spiritual than circumstantial. God wants you to enjoy perfect peace even while navigating life’s greatest challenges.

What might it look like to have joy - not just happiness, but a deep satisfaction that can’t be taken away? Only God can give the greatest and most powerful sense of joy. That joy doesn’t come from relationships, work, hobbies, or anything in this world. God wants you to have that incredible gift of joy through His Son, Jesus, this advent season.

Hope is not a way out, it is a the way through. It provides a vision of a preferred future and strengthens us as we journey with God and others toward freedom from sin and an abundant life. Tune into today’s message to learn four keys to bearing the burden of hope.

Parables are stories that Jesus used to reveal the truth of God’s Kingdom while simultaneously challenging the commonly held views of his listeners. Jesus shared over thirty parables in the first three gospels, but only five are included in all three. Today’s message will summarize those five popular parables, emphasizing that Christians are God’s Kingdom seeds planted in the world.

Most people believe they’re living a good and truthful message. Most will also follow others who embody that same message. Beyond style, preferences, and traditions, is there a tried and true way to identity a truthful message? The Bible embraces differences while providing ways to identify those living the truth of God’s Kingdom.

Under the old covenant, people knew that when something clean touched something unclean, the clean person or object would become defiled. But in the new covenant, when something unclean touches something pure and perfect, the unholy is transformed and made clean again.

Stress comes when you don’t have the internal capacity to deal with external demands. Today’s message will focus on how Jesus restores rest, helping you to prevent external pressures from setting your internal agenda.

Jesus communicated and demonstrated a gospel of hope and healing. He provided a perfect example of God’s heart and intention for humanity. But God’s plan and purpose didn’t stop with Jesus; it now includes you. God is gathering a dream team to partner with him in advancing his Kingdom cause. Will you join him?

There are experiences in life through which the Father intends to prove and improve our character and faith, but the evil one sneaks in and intends to destroy our character and faith. God’s desire is that we would learn to lean on and rest in him especially when things are difficult.