This Father’s Day, Richard dives into one of the images we see of God as Father in Luke 11. In a world where it was not common to address God on a personal basis as Father, they had to go to the temple and have someone intervene for them, Jesus taught them to pray to […]
This week Richard challenges us to ask ourselves what value we place on following Jesus. Would we be willing to give up everything to follow Him. We look at some examples in Matthew where Jesus does this exact thing, challenges others to give up what they value to follow Him. Matthew does not record the […]
This week we are in Matthew 5:43-48 where Jesus gives the instruction to lover our enemies. Richard takes this lesson and applies it to us today and shows us how we can pray and love our enemies, because they may be our brother or sister… Maybe not today or tomorrow, but the Gospel can change […]
Richard is starting a new series for the summer where we will be examining the ministry of Jesus to learn His lessons and understand what the Gospel is all about. This week we start in Matthew 4 where Jesus calls his first disciples and what he says they will do. They were fishermen, but he […]
Richard brings us a Mother’s Day special this morning from Isaiah. At this time in Israel, they are feeling lost and abandoned. It is not uncommon for us to feel these same feelings, but there is hope. In Isaiah 49:14-15 an Isaiah 66:13, God reminds the Israelites that he will never forget you or abandon […]
This we we wrap up the Be the Church event and talk about why we spent last week being the church instead of being in the church. It doesn’t matter what you are doing, there may be a way to spread the message of Christ, and Richard details his opportunity to do so in the […]
As we prepare to Be The Church next week, Richard brings us a message on service and the example we were given by Jesus. As you read the record of Jesus’ life, you see His life was filled with service to others. He even said in Matthew 20 that whoever wants to become great among […]
Richard wraps up the Growing Pains series on Easter Sunday sharing the message that Paul shares to believers in Corinth regarding the resurrection. We have hope because of Christ’s resurrection, and our future resurrection where we will join Him and the Father in Heaven for eternity. The cross of Christ was the cost of life.
This week Richard walks us through 1 Corinthians 14, specifically verses 26-40 where Paul focuses on order in the church. In the first half of 1 Corinthians 14, Paul addresses the gifts of tongues and prophecy and how they should be used to build up the church. Richard emphasizes throughout the message that everything we […]
This week we dive in to a popular wedding passage around love; we are in 1 Corinthians 13. After Paul speaks about the gifts that have been give, he says that if we are using them but we do not have love then they are like clanging cymbals that just make noise and are not […]