Have you ever found yourself in a season where you felt like you were being forced to wait on God and you were really struggling, while other people who aren’t living for God seem to be prospering? In this message, we will talk about what God is up to in times like these. We will also discuss five indicators which reveal the degree to which we are trusting God as we wait on Him.

When you find yourself in the middle of a trial what is your first response? Do you try to solve your problem without seeking God’s help or do you immediately turn to the Lord and begin seeking the Lord and waiting for Him to respond? In this message, we will discover how much God really wants to bless us when we seek Him and wait upon Him.

Have you ever felt like God was making you wait in some area of your life? In this message, we will talk about what it really means to ‘wait on the Lord’ and what God might be doing in your life by making you wait.

What if there is a better way to do community? Have you ever thought of prophecy as a gift God gave us to ensure the health of our community? How well do you understand the three characteristics of prophecy described in 1 Corinthians 14:3? In this message, we will explore the New Testament meaning of these three characteristics and look at how these prophetic dynamics are an important aspect of healthy community.

The Spiritual Gifts are a very exciting part of our walk with the Lord, but they are also something that can become an idol if we are not careful. This message is a reminder to make sure we make and keep our intimacy with Jesus a higher priority than the Spiritual Gifts.

God wants His children to be committed to building others up in love through the Spiritual Gifts, but the very gifts that have so much potential to express love also have the potential to cause us to get puffed up. God has a solution to this problem.

When the church was birthed, both Jesus and His disciples wanted to make sure that new believers received the promise of the Father. This promise is a gift that is received by faith that is meant to bring freedom into people’s lives.

Most of Jesus’ closest disciples initially struggled to believe he had resurrected from the dead. The good news is, if we struggle with our faith in the resurrection, we can learn some helpful lessons from their struggle.

The way God interacted with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden reveals to us that love is a choice. If God forced us to love Him, it would not be love. It would be coercion or manipulation or control or some unloving dynamic. The same is true for relationships between humans. We have to allow other people the freedom to choose to love us or reject us, otherwise we will never truly experience love.

Along this line, we also have to take some risks and allow other people to know our needs, so they can choose to freely love us. However, the nature of sin distorts how we view ourselves and it can cause us to be ashamed and hide the real us. It is critical that we stop hiding behind fig leaves like Adam and Eve did and let other people know our needs. Otherwise, we will never know true intimacy (‘Into Me You See’).

Love is a commitment more than it is an emotion or feeling. The commitment of love is what keeps us loving, forgiving, & reconciling. When the emotion of love disappears, then without commitment we will start behaving in anti-love, anti-forgiveness, and anti-reconciliation. Without the commitment of love you will eventually lose the emotion of love, because loving, forgiving, and reconciling will no longer be a priority.