This Sunday we begin an all new series, "Living In God's World: Even When It's Hard" from the book of Daniel. The first scene focuses on four young Jewish men taken captive to work in the administration of the king of Babylon. They are treated well. They have all they could want: nice clothing, good food, a place to live in the palace, new names, and the highest education the Babylonian Empire had to offer. If all goes well with them, they can just walk away from their old life in Israel into an exciting new life in Babylon. They could give up their faith and no one would care. They could have it all. Nobody would ask them if they were being faithful to their God. They could just enjoy the pleasures and freedoms given them in the palace. All they had to do was just go with the flow in Babylon. Why wouldn't they? But they don't. Is it possible that God will be with them even though they are far away from Israel, when no one else cared if they were faithful to God or not? Come see.

As we conclude our series Finding God In Your Anxiety this week, we will discover one more tool that God gives us to face anxiety in our lives—Community. Paul tells us to put into practice the things we have heard and seen from him. This means that his readers were to remember what it was like when Paul was with them in person, and imitate Paul's living example. Sometimes Christians have the impression that "me and Jesus should be able to handle everything." That is not what Paul tells us. We need the help of our Christian family to face anxiety and many other challenges in life. What if you were able to talk with others about your struggles? What if they listened, accepted, and encouraged you when they listened? How much stronger can we be together than when we are apart?

As we continue our series "Finding God In Your Anxiety," We will explore the importance of our thought life. Anxiety is an internal struggle and God invites us to face it with his help by seeking to transform our thought life. We can filter out thoughts through his. We can modify our thoughts to his. And we can form new thinking habits. If you are interested in finding a new way of thinking, you will benefit from what Paul has to say.

This Sunday will be our second teaching in the series Finding God in Your Anxiety. In Philippians 4, Paul does not just tell us not to be anxious about anything, he goes on to give us 4 really helpful faith tools to help us wrestle with our anxious thoughts. This week we will consider the power of thankful prayer. How does prayer help? How does being thankful help? What does God do when we pray? If you or someone you love struggles with anxiety, come prepared to be encouraged.

This week we begin a new series entitled "Finding God in Your Anxiety." Anxiety cripples many in our world and I know it affects quite a few in our faith family as well. As Paul is finishing his letter to the Philippian church in chapter 4, he instructs them not to be anxious about anything. Sounds impossible, but them he gives us some practical tools that we can use to battle anxiety. We will spend the next few weeks learning what those tools are and how to use them. It's my prayer that God will help us and any who come seeking help.

Join us as we hear God's word brought to us by Nate Parks, President/CEO of Berea Ministries.

The first Easter was a surprise. Jesus' followers and friends never expected him to rise from the dead. They were concerned with where his body had gone. Were they in for a surprise. When Mary Magdalene wept at the tomb in grief, she was shocked to hear a voice that she knew call her name. What a surprise! It is always a surprise when we hear the voice of the risen Jesus call our name. Jesus' resurrection had an explosive effect on his first followers. They took the news everywhere they could. It started an explosive movement of new life and faith that has circled the globe and passed through the centuries. When Jesus calls your name, you experience resurrection power expands within your very being.

Join us Good Friday as we explore Paradise for the Undeserving.

This Sunday concludes our Lenten series, "Eating Humble Pie...And Liking It??" We will be looking at a passage in 2 Corinthians 7 in which Paul talks about "godly sorrow" over against "worldly sorrow." Paul is encouraged that the Christians in Corinth chose godly sorrow, rather than worldly sorrow. The difference is really important. We are always going to experience a degree of sorrow in our relationships, but it doesn't have to be destructive and permanent. Godly sorrow is when God transforms our struggles and disappointments with one another into a redemptive opportunity, we grow in our faith and are transformed. The experience of Godly sorrow is temporary and those who go through it arrive on the other side with "no regrets." How many of you would enjoy living life with "no regrets?" Me too. Please come so that we may discover together how that happens.

This Sunday in our series "Eating Humble Pie...And Liking It?" we're going to look at a series of challenges that James the brother of Jesus gives us about humble community. What does it look like when an entire faith family is humbled by the grace of God? How do we do life together? There is honesty and integrity in worship. People aren't pretending to be something that they are not. There are those reaching out for help, especially prayer help, for healing and forgiveness. There are those watching for the wandering. If a member of our faith family is missing, we go and find them. It is a beautiful but humbling picture of what made the Jesus community in James's day prosper. May we learn to prosper that way.