Delighting in God is so straight-forward, so very simple, and yet so neglected in the church world today. Why is it that so many simply don’t worship God throughout the week? Why do so many “worship” Him on Sunday morning, and then wait a whole week for the next Sunday to roll around? It is crazy to think that we claim to be Christians, bought and redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ, but we don’t worship Jesus or treasure Him or delight in Him every single day.

I wonder, then, if it would help to understand that Jesus delights in you? In fact, not only does Jesus delight in you, but God the Father delights in you too. Even more mind-boggling is the fact that the Bible tells us that God is going to rejoice in us and delight over us with singing!

This time we will be looking at Zephaniah 2:8-17 to try and understand how important it is that we start delighting in the God who delights in us.

In this special guest episode, Pastor Jason Mitchell shares the Biblical truth of how only when we are made weak can we be made strong in Christ. A powerful sermon relevant for all ages. Listen as Pastor Jason unfolds truth from 2 Corinthians 12.

In this message from Pastor Scott Planck, we learn why revival is so needed in our church age today, and just why exactly we don’t seem to be finding it. This is a message that is both encouraging and challenging, and needs to be heard. It is relevant not just during revival season, but for every day. We need revival! So why don’t we have it yet? What do we need to do to get it? Pastor Scott aims to show us just that in this message. Revival can, and will come. We will be studying 1 Kings 18:36-46 in this message.

Sometimes we repeat certain commandments from Scripture without really understanding what they mean. “Jesus commands us to be the salt of the earth! Jesus commands us to be the light of the world!” We’ve all heard people say this before. Many of us have likely even said it ourselves. But, I wonder, how many of us can actually say what in the world we’re talking about?

What exactly did Jesus mean when He said to be the salt of the earth and light of the world? What is the connection between the two? These two commandments are some of the most famous, some of the most important, and also some of the most misunderstood. We can’t continue in ignorance any longer. We must come to an understanding of what it means to be salt and light.

We are looking at Matthew 5:13-16 and studying what Jesus meant by this strange, but ever so important, commandment.

The veracity of God’s Word is often brought into serious question and doubt. This, unsurprisingly, results in a willful negligence in the reading and studying of Scripture. What a mistake this is!

Jesus commanded us to live by every Word that proceeds forth from the mouth of God. James challenged us not to be hearers of the Word only, but doers as well. Yet, we ignore our Bibles, cast them aside, and don’t pay any attention to them.

Still, the Bible has stood the test and weather of time and has proved time and time again that not only is it true, but it is powerful and needed. Apart from God’s Word, there can be no salvation, or spiritual growth, or revival. This Word is such a gift that should be eternally treasured. Instead, it is ignored.

In this message we look at 2 Peter 1:12-2:3 to find out why the Bible can be trusted and why it should be studied and abided by.

God often calls us to do some pretty incredible things that require great leaps of faith and are impossible apart from Him. In this very special first guest episode, Pastor Nick Smith shares a sermon that he preached January 7, 2018. Join us as he brings to life the story of Abraham (still called Abram at the time) as he is called away from his homeland to an unfamiliar place.

Life is strange, sure, but it can also be fairly ordinary. We wake up, take a shower, eat breakfast, go to work, come home to eat dinner, sleep, rinse and repeat. Ordinary moments consume a larger portion of our lives than any other. We long to have the exciting movie-adventure, “Take my hand and walk on the water with me,” leap of faith moments, but instead we get the “I need this report done by noon,” ordinary moments.

This can impact our prayer lives in various ways, often negatively. Rather than trusting in God and praying, we just sit around waiting to see what God will do next. That is not fulfilling commandment given to us in Scripture to pray without ceasing.

To pray without ceasing means to pray fervently and effectively, whether we are facing a moment of ordinariness, or a moment of tragedy, or a moment of extraordinariness.  We must learn to pray more. And, rather than wanting to do the extraordinary things on our own, understand that our extraordinary God will take care of those big moments for us. He gets the praise. We, as His servants, sometimes only need to focus on the ordinary tasks set before us and, most importantly, keep on praying.

In this sermon, we look at Acts 12:1-11 to try and see how the church handled prayer in moments of tragedy, ordinariness, and extraordinariness.

So many people look all over the world to find satisfaction. They look to money, fame, power, and all sorts of other things to find even a tiny bit of satisfaction. They often even look to sin itself. But, time and time again, they fail to find even the smallest hint of satisfaction or joy. Could it be, then, that perhaps they are merely looking to the wrong places?

The only one that is going to satisfy our souls eternally is Jesus. He is the King of king and the Lord of lords. He also just so happens to be the Bread of Life. As the Bread of Life, He can meet all of our spiritual cravings. He can fill us. He can satisfy us completely.

Yet, so many people will treat Jesus as though He were just a magician, or, an ATM. They go to Him only when they need something. Not because they need or want Him. They only want what they think He can offer. That’s a problem. If we’re not going to look to Jesus to be our all-sufficient Savior and satisfying King, we will never find true satisfaction or joy.

To understand this, we will look at one of the most misunderstood miracles – the time Jesus fed over 5,000 people when He started with only 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish, found in John 6.

We've all heard the story before: There was no room in the inn, so Jesus was born in a manger. What we don't often hear about is the implications in that statement for us today. When Jesus was born, there was no room for Him. The question is, do you have room for Jesus?

Our hearts are like inns. We choose what gets in and what gets out. We choose who to open the door to and who to keep it shut for. So, when it comes to Jesus, are you making room for Him in your heart? Are you opening the door to Him?

Many celebrate Christmas but claim to have no room for Jesus, just like there wasn't any room at the inn. We are just like innkeepers. So, what about you? Do you have room for Jesus this Christmas? What about the rest of the year?

Through the story of the birth of Christ in Luke 2:7-18 we are seeking to find what it truly means to make room for Jesus.

We spend our whole lives trying to plan and plot out every little detail. We try to plan what we will do with our lives, where we will work, where we will go, what we will do. We try to plan down to the minutest details. Yet, our plans often fail and fade away. They’re here one moment, gone the very next. They don’t work out the way we hope they do and they pass away. But, God’s plans never change. God’s plans always come to pass.

The question is can God’s plans be trusted? Not just individually, but nationally and globally, can God’s plans really be trusted? The obvious answer is, yes! Of course they can be trusted! But, so many people doubt God. They doubt His plans. They doubt He’s got their best interest in mind.

The Bible is very clear in Romans 8:28. It tells us that God is working all things out for the good of those who believe in Him. If you believe in Jesus, glory to God, everything is working out for your good! But, what about the suffering we face daily? What about the tribulation we encounter? The temptations? Is this all really part of God’s plan too? And, if it is, how can we still trust that He’s working it out for good, that He really does have our best interest in mind?

We will try to answer all of these questions this week as we look at Romans 8:18-30.