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Sunday School Stories- The Sequel: Passover

May 27, 2025

May 26th, 2025 | Speaker Kyle Collins God blesses people so that through them God can bless others.

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Sunday School Stories- The Sequel | Beginnings

May 19, 2025

May 18th, 2025 | Speaker Jonathan Cleveland You are walking around for one reason- because God likes the idea that you would exist.

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Partner Launch: Guatemala

May 12, 2025

May 11th, 2025 | Speaker Rowland Smith We’re excited to announce a new partnership with HopeChest in Guatemala, working together to support children and communities in building brighter,

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Uncommon Kingdom: Wise & Foolish Builders

May 5, 2025

May 4th, 2025 | Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland Faith in Jesus is about becoming who we were created to be in the midst of a broken world where it rains a lot.

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Uncommon Kingdom: True & False Prophets

April 28, 2025

April 27th, 2025 | Speaker Kyle Collins Instead of bearing good fruit, we allow God to transform us from our old selves into our new selves- we become a different kind of tree. A good tree that

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Easter Sunday

April 20, 2025

April 20th, 2025 | Speaker Jonathan Cleveland Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate

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Uncommon Kingdom: Ask, Seek, Knock

April 14, 2025

April 13th, 2025 | Speaker Christy Penley To be given something ask! To find something, seek! To get the door open, knock! For everyone who receives has been asking; those who find have been

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Uncommon Kingdom: Judging Others

April 7, 2025

April 6th, 2025 | Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland If we let Jesus reign in our life, we will lose our tendency to form strong opinions about other people.

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Uncommon Kingdom: Seek First the Kingdom of God

March 31, 2025

March 30th, 2025 | Speaker: Christy Penley Righteousness is compassionate action done by people with authentic character for those in need.

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Uncommon Kingdom: Prayer

March 24, 2025

March 23rd, 2025 | Speaker: Kyle Collins The sermon on the mount helps us understand the context of the Lord's Prayer and the Lord's prayer helps remind us and walk out the teachings in the sermon

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Uncommon Kingdom: Giving & Fasting

March 17, 2025

March 16th, 2025 | Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland Jesus says we have to be careful because there will be a temptation in us to do spiritual things, not because we really love God, but because of how

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Uncommon Kingdom: Big Love

March 9, 2025

March 9th, 2025 | Speaker: Christy Penley The best message of spiritual maturity is not how much you know about God but how much you imitate his loved towards your enemies. - Rich Villas

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Uncommon Kingdom: Ranking

March 3, 2025

March 2nd, 2025 | Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland God is trying to help us see that the real issue is the heart, and God wants our heart. Nothing else matter is he doesnt have our heart.

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Uncommon Kingdom: Law

February 24, 2025

February 23rd, 2025 | Speaker Jonathan Cleveland The grace of Jesus is the only thing that changes the human heart.

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Uncommon Kingdom: Salt & Light

February 16, 2025

February 16th, 2025 | Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses it's saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to

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Uncommon Kingdom: Beatitudes

February 10, 2025

February 9th, 2025 | Speaker: Christy Penley Psalm 34:18 The Lord is close to brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

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Uncommon Kingdom: Sermon on the Mount Intro

February 3, 2025

February 2nd, 2025 | Pastor Kyle Collins The Sermon on the Mount is an invitation into an entirely new way of seeing, hearing and being. Are you willing to set down your version of the good life to

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Becoming Like Jesus: New Relating

January 27, 2025

January 26th, 2025 | Pastor Jonathan Cleveland We have to stop relating to others in the "normal" human way and embrace the radically different way of Jesus.

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Becoming Like Jesus: New Serving

January 20, 2025

January 20th, 2025 | Pastor Jonathan Cleveland In the same way God led Jesus to Kingdom work that was uncomfortable. Jesus led his followers to uncomfortable Kingdom work too.

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Becoming Like Jesus: New Thinking

January 13, 2025

January 12th, 2025 | Pastor Jonathan Cleveland Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will

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Becoming Like Jesus

January 6, 2025

January 5th, 2025 | Pastor Jonathan Cleveland Because Jesus is not like the rest of us, we will never become like him if we keep living how we've always lived. Becoming like Jesus requires us to do

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A Year in Review

December 29, 2024

December 29th, 2024 | Jonathan Cleveland, Kyle Collins, Christy Penley In this sermon, Jonathan, Kyle, and Christy take us on a journey through the past year, reflecting on the impactful sermon

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Advent: Adore | Christmas Eve

December 24, 2024

December 24th, 2024 | Speaker Jonathan Cleveland

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Advent: Adore | Herod & The Magi

December 22, 2024

December 22nd, 2024 | Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland Sometimes the person worshipping the loudest and the enthusiastically on the outside is worshipping the least on the inside. Because they are using

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Advent: Adore | Mary’s Song

December 15, 2024

December 15th, 2024 | Speaker Christy Penley | Luke 1:46-56 What is Mercy? Mercy is compassion or forgiveness shown toward someone whom it is within one’s power to punish. Mercy is not getting

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Advent: Adore | Mary, Elizabeth, and John Luke

December 8, 2024

December 8th, 2024 | Speaker: Kyle Collins There is something that happens in our worship that overflows to others. This is true in specific moments of worship but it's also true of our lives.

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Advent: Adore

December 1, 2024

December 1st, 2024 | Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland Adore is a posture of the heart, characterized by love and awe. In strict terminology, the Latin expression means adore is a designated act of

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Kingdom Emotions: Awe & Wonder

November 24, 2024

November 24th, 2024 | Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland Ave is an experience of truth that cannot be put into the woods. It is the sudden realization of the way things are, that evokes an emotional

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Kingdom Emotions: Grief

November 17, 2024

November 17th, 2024 | Speaker Cindy Limbrick Grief is not a single emotion that can be summed up in one word, rather it is an internal process involving a range of emotions in response to the pain

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Kingdom Emotions: Anxiety & Hope

November 10, 2024

November 10th, 2024 | Speaker: Kyle & Janae Collins Jesus was confident and expectant about the future (hope) because He knew the character and promises of His father and because He experiences

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Kingdom Emotions: Anger

November 3, 2024

November 3rd, 2024 | Speaker Christy Penley If anger is not dealt with it can lead to depression. Go to God with your anger- He can handle it and honestly, He already knows. Tell Him!

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Kingdom Emotions: Shame

October 27, 2024

October 27th, 2024 | Speaker Jonathan Cleveland Shame is the feeling that there is something wrong with us that needs to be remedied and what what we need to observe is the same is always rooted in

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Kingdom Emotions: Uncomfortable Emotions

October 21, 2024

October 20th, 2024 | Speaker Jonathan Cleveland If we don’t find ways, with God, to make sense of our emotional world it will absolutely limit our spiritual growth.

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Kingdom Emotions: Notice, Name & Navigate

October 13, 2024

October 13th, 2024 | Speaker Christy Penley How are emotions and feelings different? Feelings are sensations in the body and are not always related to emotions.. for example, you can “feel” cold

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No Other Gospel: Galatians 6

October 6, 2024

October 6th, 2024 | Speaker Jonathan Cleveland Restore is not about changing the nature of something- only Jesus can do that. It is about helping something regain function and flourishment, and He

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No Other Gospel: Galatians 5

September 29, 2024

September 29th, 2024 | Speaker Jonathan Cleveland Either you trust your actions of devotion, or you trust Christ.

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No Other Gospel: Galatians 4

September 22, 2024

September 23rd, 2024 | Speaker: Kyle Collins It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

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No Other Gospel: Galatians 3

September 15, 2024

September 15th, 2024 | Speaker Christy Penley Jesus was the promised one who fulfilled the law and loved God and neighbor and took on himself the curse of sin on himself. So now through Jesus all

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No Other Gospel: Galatians 1-2

September 8, 2024

September 8th, 2024 | Speaker Christy Penley The heart of the gospel is that when people trust in Jesus that what is true of him is true of them. His life becomes theirs.

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No Other Gospel: Galatians Intro

September 1, 2024

September 1s,t 2024 | Speaker Jonathan Cleveland | Galatians 1:1-9 Grace – Jesus won’t let you participate in your own salvation. It is his gift for you.

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Church People: Formation is Complex | 2 Corinthians 3:17-18

August 25, 2024

August 25th, 2024 | Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland Healthy churches honor the complexity of knowing an invisible God who is redeeming and transforming you into the image of Christ.

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Church People: Theological Triage | Acts 15 & 1 John 2 &

August 18, 2024

August 18th, 2024 | Speaker:  Jonathan Cleveland Everything we believe matters but not all of it is of EQUAL importance.

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Church People: Love One Another | 1 Peter 2:1-25

August 11, 2024

August 11th, 2024 | Speaker Kyle Collins We have to recognize that following Jesus requires us to participate in faith that is by nature and from the beginning - communal. It's shared and requires

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Sunday School Stories: Esther

July 28, 2024

July 28th, 2024 | Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland Nothing you do and nothing that has happened to you will keep you from Kingdom work if you are willing.

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Sunday School Stories: Daniel and the Lions | Daniel 6

July 21, 2024

July 21st, 2024 | Speaker Christy Penley The purpose you live for and what comes out and the impact on others….it is not about just praying because it is good but because it is necessary. Sounds so

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Sunday School Stories: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego

July 14, 2024

July 14th, 2024 Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland From the Exile to the NT the relationship between the people of God and culture is to win Babylon over through acts of goodness and love. And to be

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Sunday School Stories: Elijah | 1 Kings 18 & 19

July 7, 2024

July 7th, 2024 | Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland What deep and good longing in you is the enemy is exploiting to lead you away from God? Are you chasing a thing (idol) that promises power over that

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Sunday School Stories: David and Goliath | 1 Samuel 17

June 30, 2024

Sunday June 30th, 2024 | Kyle Collins In the ways God intervenes, we see something about God’s heart for His people… He doesn’t abandon. Even though they reject God as their king and the

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Sunday School Stories: Samson | Judges 16

June 23, 2024

June 23rd, 2024 | Speaker Preston Goff When we look at the story of Samson, we see a man who had to reach the very depths of his own failure and brokenness to finally understand the true source of

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Sunday School Stories: Jericho | Joshua 6

June 16, 2024

June 16th, 2024 Speaker: Christy Penley | Joshua 6 When life is hard we need perseverance. Oftentimes we quit. Sometimes we pray but it is easy to feel that since we’ve asked for something, the

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Sunday School Stories: 10 Commandments | Exodus 20:1-21

June 9, 2024

June 9th, 2024 | Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland | Exodus 20:1-21 The only reason God gives commands is because he loves us so deeply and he is hoping to lead us to a life full of freedom and

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Guest Speaker: Greg Lindsey

June 2, 2024

June 2nd, 2024 Join us as Greg Lindsey from Discovery Church shares about his journey and walk in Christ.

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Sunday School Stories: Burning Bush to the Red Sea | Exodus 14

May 26, 2024

May 26th, 2024 | Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland | Exodus 14 We need to be still. We need to still ourselves so that we can see what God is doing… How he is working in our lives and how he fighting

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Sunday School Stories: Moses | Exodus 1 & 2:1-10

May 19, 2024

May 19th, 2024 | Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland | Exodus 1 & 2:1-10 As we become more formed into the image of Jesus, we will also want to participate in God’s work of opposing oppression.

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Sunday School Stories: Joseph’s Coat of Many Colors | Genesis 37:1-36 & 45:1-11

May 12, 2024

May 12th, 2024 | Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland | Genesis 37:1-36 & 45:1-11 Jesus broke the rule of Karma in our life. And because of his forgiveness we won’t ever reap what our sin has sewn with

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Sunday School Stories: Jacob Wrestles the Angel | Genesis 32:22-32

May 5, 2024

May 5th, 2024 | Speaker Suzy Bates God is with us, present in that struggle, no matter what it is and no matter what caused it. We can be assured that God is present and maybe even closest when we

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Sunday School Stories: Abraham & Isaac | Genesis 22:1-19

April 28, 2024

April 28th, 2024 | Speaker: Christy Penley | Genesis 22:1-19 How could God be opening up your eyes to more of himself? What does it look like to step into believing God’s character more fully?

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Sunday School Stories: Tower of Babel | Genesis 11:1-9

April 21, 2024

April 21st, 2024 Speaker: Kyle Collins Adam and Eve did the same in the Garden by trying to become like God. We will get something from God and then we won’t need God. In fact the whole first part

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Sunday School Stories: Noah | Genesis 1-11

April 14, 2024

April 14th, 2024 | Speaker Jonathan Cleveland | Genesis 1-11 The flood is not the story of God destroying humans because he is mad. The flood is the story of how humans destroyed the earth and

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Easter: I AM The Vine

March 31, 2024

Easter Sunday March 31st, 2024 | Speaker Jonathan Cleveland

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I Am: The Way The Truth and The Life

March 24, 2024

March 24th, 2023 | Speaker: Suzy Bates Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one

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I Am: The Resurrection and Life

March 17, 2024

March 17th, 2024 | Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland What would you do, and how would you live if you really believed death is not the end?

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I AM: The Good Shepherd

March 10, 2024

March 10th, 2024 | Speaker: Christy Penley “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep.

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I Am: The Gate

March 3, 2024

March 4th, 2024 | Speaker: Suzy Bates God knows what he’s doing in the people around us. The moment we think WE are the ones who know what God is or isn’t doing in somebody else is a moment worth

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I Am: The Light of the World

February 25, 2024

February 25th, 2024 | Kyle Collins A secret to the spiritual life is this… the ultimate destination is being with God, not a specific place in our formation or spiritual maturity. Relationship

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I Am: The Bread of Life

February 18, 2024

February 18th, 2024 | Speaker: Christy Penley Don’t settle for coming to Christ for something from Him instead of Him. He is the bread, He is life.

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Sidetracked: Sexuality

February 11, 2024

Feb 12th, 2024 Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland People who flee sexual immorality and brokenness understand that sex is symptomatic. And they attend to the issues under the surface that express

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Sidetracked: Marriage

February 4, 2024

February 4th, 2024 | Jonathan Cleveland The goal for a Christian marriage is to experience the grace of God and to represent God’s grace to your spouse.

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Sidetracked: Community

January 28, 2024

January 28th, 2024 | Jonathan Cleveland To be human is to face this choice: The pain of loneliness OR the pain of relationships with sinners.

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Sidetracked: Kingdom Purpose

January 21, 2024

January 21st, 2024 | Speaker Jonathan Cleveland The vision that he has about his Kingdom reigning on earth as it is in heaven is for every person.

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Sidetracked: Victory Over Sin

January 14, 2024

January 14th, 2024 | Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland Sin always begins with us believing lies about our self and God.

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Sidetracked: Identity

January 7, 2024

January 7th, 2024 | Jonathan Cleveland We get sidetracked spiritually because the way of Jesus is not what humans would commonly expect it to be.

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Advent: A Light to Follow

December 31, 2023

December 31st, 2023 | Speaker: Kyle Collins Joy isn’t a result of our effort... its a gift that finds us as we follow and walk in the light of Christ

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Advent: The Light of Christ Has Come

December 24, 2023

December 24th, 2023 Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” (John 8:12 – NIV)

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Advent: We Are the Light of Christ

December 17, 2023

Speaker: Christy Penley December 17th, 2023 | Christy Penley Jesus is essential

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Advent: The Light of Christ in the Darkness

December 10, 2023

December 10th, 2023 | Suzy Bates The light shines on inside the darkness, and it is a light that darkness cannot overcome. John 1:5 NIV

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Advent: The Light of Christ Wakes Us Up

December 3, 2023

December 3rd, 2023 | Jonathan Cleveland The light always influences the darkness and the darkness never influences the light.

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Romans 14 & 15: The one where the food fight breaks out

November 19, 2023

November 19th, 2023 | Speaker Suzy Bates Jesus is the way to God for everyone

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Romans 11 & 12: The one about christian shoes

November 12, 2023

November 12th, 2023 | Jonathan Cleveland Love is the fulfillment of the law. True righteousness is not about being a perfectly moral person. It is about being a loving person.  

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Romans 9,10, &11: The one about theology

November 5, 2023

November 5th, 2023 | Jonathan Cleveland How am I currently trusting a righteousness of my own?

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Romans 7 & 8: The one where we preach the same passage again…

October 29, 2023

October 29th, 2023 | Jonathan Cleveland Apart from Christ we suffer and we are condemned alone. But in Christ we are redeemed together.

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The Good Book: Studying the Historical Context of the Bible

October 22, 2023

October 22nd, 2023 | Christy Penley Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore, be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the

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Romans 6: The one about sinning more?

October 8, 2023

October 8th, 2023 | Speaker: Jonathan Cleveland The scariness of hell has never changed a heart of stone. It is the beauty of eternal life that changes the heart.

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Romans 4 & 5: The one about getting saved…again

October 1, 2023

Speaker Jonathan Cleveland | October 1, 2023 Faith is us learning to trust that promise and when we do it will change our actions.

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Romans 3: The one about the brothers

September 24, 2023

September 24th, 2023 | Jonathan Cleveland | Romans 3 Sin is about being oriented towards self not towards God. And we will never really understand what sin is or how the Gospel frees us from sin

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The Good Book: Understanding the Context

September 18, 2023

September 17, 2023 | Christy Penley Romans 8:28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

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The Good Book: Asking better questions

September 10, 2023

Speaker: Kyle Collins The word of God is only alive and active when it's connected to the Word made flesh... Jesus

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The Good Book: Bias, Certainty & Unlearning

September 3, 2023

September 3rd, 2023 | Suzy Bates The depth of the bible is in the transformation of lives. Not in how we are so tempted to use it, to prove this or disprove that.

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Romans: 1 & 2 | The one with the clobber verse

August 28, 2023

Romans 1 and 2 don’t single out gay people as a special class of sinful human. It actually levels the playing field and points out that all humanity together and individually has walked away from God

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Romans: 1 | An Intro

August 20, 2023

August 20th, 2023 | Romans 1:1-17 Paul is convinced that it is only the Gospel that has any power on earth to change things, repair things, and save people.

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Radical Encounters with Jesus: Conclusion

August 13, 2023

August 13th, 2023 | Jonathan Cleveland God is redeeming and reconciling all things on earth under the reign of Jesus Christ our King.

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Radical Encounters with Jesus: You are Loved

August 6, 2023

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Stories from Within: Lacie Phillips | July 23rd, 2023

July 23, 2023

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Radical Encounters with Jesus: Nicodemus

July 16, 2023

July 16th, 2023 | John 3:1-21 | Kyle Collins To embrace the kingdom Jesus is talking about here means Nicodemus was going to have to give up everything and to be sure there was plenty Nicodemus

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Stories from Within: Preston Goff

July 9, 2023

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Radical Encounters with Jesus: Talitha Koum

July 2, 2023

July 2nd, 2023 | Mark 5:21-43 | Suzy Bates "Our prayer today shouldn't be Lord, increase our faith, but Lord increase our awareness of what faith already looks like in our lives."

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Radical Encounters w/Jesus: Woman Touching the Edge of His Robe

June 25, 2023

June 25th, 2023 | Mark 5:21-34 | Christy Penley Jesus didn’t come to just make people “better”. He came to make people “closer”.

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Stories from Within | David Hewett

June 18, 2023

Guest Speaker: David Hewett | June 18th, 2023 The God we serve lives through us and intends to make himself known through all generations?

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Radical Encounters | Widow’s offering

June 11, 2023

June 11th,2023 | Mark 11 | Jonathan Cleveland You are freed from any obligatory giving and you should have a God inspired giving strategy.

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Radical Encounters with Jesus | Commander of the Lord’s Army

June 4, 2023

June 4th, 2023 | Joshua 5:13-15 | Suzy Bates Ideology is driven by fear. Spirituality is driven by unity.

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