Description:Today we take a look at why anyone would want to follow Jesus. This recording is from the church picnic, so the quality is not as good as normal. We had some of the children acting out the Bible stories, so you will have to imagine them doing that as you listen.

Description:Today we look at the difficulty of the endurace races, the reality of disqualification, and our challenge to follow Jesus with perseverance.

Description:As we chase after Jesus, the truth is that the race we run is a team race. Today we look at the good news of teamwork.

Description:There is an intense amount of training that goes into every olympic athlete. Today we talk about how spiritual training helps us in our walk following Jesus.

Description:We are going to spend a few weeks looking at our spiritual journey as an athletic, olympic event. Today we begin by taking a look at our goals.

Description:We have an enemy, and today we look at how to stand up to him.

Description:There is an end to our time, and it is coming soon. Peter helps us know how we should live.

Description:There are a couple of difficult passages in chapter 3 of 1 Petter that we look at today, but the main point is in one little word that doesn't seem to belong.

Description:As a special people, how are we to live in a world that doesn't get Christianity, and sometimes even persecutes believers? Today we look at how Peter teaches us to live in a world that doesn't understand.

Description:We begin a new series on the letter of 1 Peter by looking at Peter's challenge to put our trust in Jesus into action.

Description:On this Father's Day, we look at some of the "bright ideas" in the Bible. These bright ideas give us some hope with our mission.

Description:We would love to have a perfect family, but that family doesn't exist. Today we talk about what we should aim for instead of perfection.

Description:Today we talk about the most energetic monkeys in our family circuses: the kids.

Description:We are all somebody's children. Today we look at how children relate to their parents, using the story of Noah (with a little Superman thrown in).

Description:Today we focus on the pillar of the family: the relationship between husband and wife. This one actually gets controversial, but we endeavor to stay Biblical.

Description:We begin our series about following God in your circus of a family by looking at the first family, and what they can teach us about what a family is ideally like.

Description:For Mother's Day we are talking about heirlooms and keepsakes passed down from on generation to the next, focusing on the greatest heirloom of all.

Description:A lame man, a bell-ringer, and things that are too easily ignored leads us today to our mission we have in the life after Easter

Description:After Easter, we belong to a team. Thanks to the work of Jesus in bringing His followers into His family, we now belong to a team the Scripture calls the "body of Christ".

Description:In the life after the reality of Easter there is a strength and a power to those who follow after Jesus.

Description:In the reality of life after Easter, we find that there is rest. But this rest is different than what we expect, and much better.

Description:Today we begin looking at living in the reality of life after Easter. We start by discovering that life after Easter is real life.

Description:For Easter, we look at the pictures God showed us through the Passover meal. These ancient meals and foods hold great truths for us today.

Description:As we conclude the Galatians series, we look at the Apostle Paul's final instructions on living the life of the Spirit.

Description:Today we see the wonderful full free life to be found in Christ, as the Apostle Paul continues teaching us about the gospel in Galatians chapter 5.The cow video Pastor Paul mentions can be found here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUZ1YLhIAg8Part-way through, the sound changes because Pastor Paul switched microphones. Don't worry, that's how it is supposed to sound.

Description:There is a huge difference between a slave and an heir. The Apostle Paul uses those differences to paint a picture for us of the freedom we have in Christ.

Description:Let's spend some time looking at the fact that the Apostle Paul uses the word "cursed" a couple of times in this chapter. We will discover that it is part of a wonderful truth.

Description:Today in the book of Galatians we look at the time Paul told Peter to shape up. Why he confronted Peter teaches us wonderful things about the Gospel and how we should live.

Description:We begin a new series on the book of Galatians by looking at Paul's warning about false gospels. Plus, some fun trivia about Valentine's Day.

Description:Perhaps the most unpopular part of the Lord's prayer, today we talk about the power and necessity of forgiveness.

Description:Jesus talks about bread, and to help us understand His teaching, Pastor Paul talks about vending machines as we continue our study of the Lord's Prayer.

Description:What do we pray when we say "Your Kingdom come, Your will be done"?

Description:As we begin a new series on prayer, we look to the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6 and see the great news of the one that we are praying to.

Description:There is nothing more solid we can put our hope in than in Jesus Christ.

Description:There is a new hope for our lives, better than the hope of New Year's resolutions.

Description:When Jesus arrived, He brought with him a new era of hope. Today we look at the word "Messiah", and the hope for a king.

Description:This was a short message at the end of a fun impromptu Christmas play we did at church on Sunday morning.

Description:To close out this Self Portrait series, we look at two portraits: the Army, and the Family

Description:Being compared to a building is not necessarily flattering, but as we will see today, when the church is compared to a building it is a beautiful thing.

Description:We, as believers, are all part of the body of Christ. It is a beautiful metaphor of how we relate and work together.

Description:The Scriptures use the picture of bride and groom to speak of the church and Jesus. Today we take a look at that picture and the awesome truth it shows us.

Description:In this series we take a look at some of the images the Bible uses for the church. But to start, we are going to look a the significance of a single word: "assembly".

Description:Let's celebrate our awesome church family!

Description:To conclude the book of Romans, we take a peek at the Apostle Paul's goals, and we can learn a lot from them.

Description:It is not always easy living in close proximity to others, especially when you disagree. Let's see how we as believers should live together when we don't see eye to eye.

Description:The book of Romans has a lot of practical advice for believers, and here we come to Paul's teaching to the church in Rome about how to relate to authorities. We will see what that means for us as believers.

Description:The Apostle Paul begins to speak of very practical things here in this chapter, and we discover that the life of the believer is a life of sacrificial worship.

Description:We return to Romans to look at the Apostle Paul's rabbit trail starting in chapter 9, and discover some important truths about the good news for the world around us.

Description:Our final look in this series, we see what the currency of the Kingdom of God is, and how we can live debt-free.

Description:Today we look at two parables of Jesus about the Kingdom of God that have the same point through different pictures. One is about weeding, and another about fishing, but they both show us the great separation coming for the Kingdom.