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Throughout our faith journey, we have all had doubts. So often we try to bury these doubts and pretend they don’t exist; but Jesus isn’t scared of our doubts, and He certainly doesn’t turn away from us when we doubt. For the first week of our series, One Verse, we will study Mark 9 to show how leveraging our doubts can greatly increase our faith and drive us closer to Jesus.

In our lowest moments, in the seasons of uncertainty, in the face of our greatest fears, God loves to turn the tables. In the final week of our series, If These Walls Could Talk, Pastor Gabe teaches on the great reversals of Esther and how God longs to do the same work in our lives as well.

When we follow God’s leading the journey of our lives will always speak of the goodness of God. But just as God’s plan speaks of His goodness, our enemy is scheming to undermine that plan with his own purposes. In week three of our series, If These Walls Could Talk, Pastor Gabe teaches on the courage of Esther and Mordecai to trust God and take a great risk even in the face of fear.

As much as we dread feelings and seasons of uncertainty, they do serve a purpose. Many times their purpose is to awaken purpose in our own hearts that over the course of time has died off. In week two of "If These Walls Could Talk", Pastor Gabe teaches from the book of Esther on the awakening of purpose in the life of Esther, and the great risk that her purpose caused her to embrace.

We all love to remind others that God is sovereign and in control, and we all love to look back on a season and be reminded of His faithfulness, but usually never do we like to be in the middle of a season where we need that reminder. In week one of our series, If These Walls Could Talk, Pastor Gabe teaches on the sovereignty of God in the book of Esther and the reminder that regardless of how uncertain our season may feel, we never enter the season empty-handed.

We’ve all felt the flesh scream for gratification and suggest that once you fulfill the desire you’ll feel much better. So, we post the reply to Facebook, we send the email, we speak our mind, we lose our temper... and the only thing we experience is the prison of regret. In week 4 of our Feel Free series, Pastor Gabe teaches a message called “Don’t Do It” and speaks to the power to not follow through when our flesh suggests otherwise.

Everyone of us struggles at some point with impulsive thoughts and desires, and in Galatians 5 Paul explains that those little thoughts unguarded and unchecked will eventually lead to destructive habits. In week three of our series, Feel Free, Pastor Gabe teaches on the correlation between our freedom and our thoughts, and how God intends for us to gain control of our minds.

We are all familiar with turning to someone or something for validation and assurance. Yet too often we become slaves to the very thing we seek for comfort. In week two of Feel Free Pastor Gabe teaches from Galatians 5 how Christ gave Himself for our sins that we might experience His rescue and the life of freedom He desires for us.

When you remove God from any equation, what you get is deep potential for absolute wickedness and sin. When you remove God from the equation of creation, you forget that all of mankind was made in the image of God.
Watch as Pastor Gabe Turner shares from Ephesians 2 what our response should be when the unthinkable happens in our city.

So often freedom is perceived as an external or emotionally satisfying experience. We must have the “right” circumstances, be married to the “right” person, have the “right” job, be at the “right” place in life in general, or whatever our idea of “right” is. In Galatians Paul is writing from prison and still experiencing freedom. In week one of our series, Feel Free, Pastor Gabe teaches from Galatians 5:1 on the reality of our freedom in Christ.