Description:We call them "Celebration Sundays" - and they are fun FUN days where we welcome into membership those who are seeking to join. Often, folks are also seeing to be Baptized - and such is the case on this particular Sunday. GOOD STUFF! Watch - rejoice - celebrate with us what God has done, AND CONTINUES TO DO!!!

Description:Craig Golden joined us this Sunday morning. He is the State Representative for the Empire State Fellowship of churches.

Description:Developing Friends, Linking Them To The Lord & The Church

Description:Jesus, the Friend of Sinners (Connecting With the Culture)

Description:A group of young people from a church were asked to serve at Camp BaYouCa by providing the music for a Winter Teen Retreat. In the process of prepping for that "The Imperfections" were created. They returned on Saturday, and Sunday morning they led, as way of sharing with our church family the ministry that they'd had at Camp BaYouCa. For more on the camp go to www.BaYouCa.com

Description:GodGroup

Description:Trust His HeartPray BIG His Will

Description:Unfortunately - we often spend our life & our prayers... wrapped up in "Red Cup" stuff. May God help us to catch a bigger vision... pray a bigger prayer... live a bigger life.

Description:Sometimes we pray and PRAY and PRAY... ad nauseam... about small, petty things... and we never ACT ON what God has called us to. So... *What should I pray for? and *What should I just go & DO?

Description:Ever get discouraged? Ever feel like you are all alone... hindered in your walk with God because of what OTHERS are or are not doing? You might not think in those moments to turn to the book of Revelation for help - but its relevent - so join us in turning to it here in this message.

Description:"Amish Baptist" is a term Pastor Mark coined to describe a danger he see's where we at times lock ourselves into doing things "just cuz we like it" - often times making "preferential decisions" to the detriment, confusion & exclusion of the culture we are commanded by God to reach. What he presents in this message is controversial. It's certainly gotten a lot of people talking... and we'd like to hear from some more. Let us know - what do you think about what he says? And more importantly than what he has to say - what do you see the Bible saying on this? Is what he's saying... what God is saying? If not, then toss it! :-) If it is indeed what God says however... well, then we must respond to it accordingly.

Description:Possibly, Our #1 Obstacle Is...

Description:Ok, so my FIRST question is... what exactly is the point of Nehemiah 8?Second though is the "silly talk" I keep hearing on pulpits "expounded on" / being "proof texted" from Nehemiah 8.REALLY!?!Sadly... yes.Listen to this message though - laugh along with us... as we take a quick trip through Neh.8 - discovering together what it says. FUN STUFF!!!

Description:God's way... often involves seeing things NOW as they WILL BE. But, that is hard! So... how do we navigate it - you know... here & now - in the life "in-between?"

Description:We call "Good Friday" Good Friday... but, there wasn't much Good about it! It was actually pretty horrible by all the typical measurements we use to describe "good" in our normal day-to-day life. But, when I stop & think about it... I can identify with that sort of Friday - as it sums up well many of the times I’ve experienced in my own life. So... how did Jesus get through it? How did He deal with that dark valley? And... is there anything I can learn from Him in the way He handled that hour - that can help me in mine?

Description:"Moms" and their daily decision making in light of Proverbs 31 and Proverbs 3

Description:A fascinating & humorous look at Numbers 22 - 24... setting up part two (next weeks message) which sadly, is anything but funny.

Description:Some years... Fathers Day is tough. If this has been a tough one (tough year even maybe) for you... then this message is for you.

Description:NY State just passed legislation legalizing gay marriage. You would think by the reactions of many "church goers" this past week... that they think this legislation either ushers in the end of the world... OR... that God has somehow fallen off the throne. Not true! As a matter of fact... Christ modeled a response in this for us years ago! We're just... well, a little slow to "get it." Still confused? Or, maybe just curious? Check out this video.

Description:I "rock" - as I'm pretty awesome! Therefore, I deserve to have YOU pay attention to my RIGHTS! Or... at least till I bump into 1 Cor. 9 - and then I at least have to slow down and ask some serious questions!

Description:Wrapping up our Missions / Evangelism series in Growth Groups (our small group system) we chose today to focus in that direction with the morning service as well.

Description:There has been much interest in this message since Pastor Mark first preached a 4 part series on the subject a couple years ago. Recently we had the opportunity to get a higher quality video recording of it being taught in a 1 hour workshop format. What we have here on the site is a lower quality version of it, as not everyone has high speed internet so we dumb it down a bit here to speed up load times for them. If you are intersted in a copy of this message on DVD (higher resolution) for use in Sunday School, Small Groups, Young Adults class - whatever! :-) ...please write Pastor Mark through the contacts page here on our site & we can make that happen for you (cost of a simple DVD & packaging / mailer must be charged I'm sorry - but demand has been too high for us to foot the bill for all of these).

Description:If nothing else, you'll enjoy the opening illustration in this message! :-) Listen through all of the message though... and you may even be challenged by what you hear... and even find yourself thinking a bit. Imagine that... THINKING in church!?! :-) Go figure! But yeah, we actually encourage that here.

Description:The 180 video referenced in this message can be viewed for free online in its entirety here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y2KsU_dhwI

Description:The intro stuff is important, but FYI, the Tebow prayer specifically addressed right after the intro stuff / just after the 5 minute mark, through to the approx the 10 minute mark... and spoken of throughout the message in reference to the teachings of Matthew 6. So, IS "Tebow" style prayers... sinful? Listen in - take a look with us as Pastor Mark unpackes this section of Matthew 6.

Description:Part 3 of our series - check out the prior 2 videos for an even better context on this message.

Description:FYI - this is our first upload of a video using our wonderful interpretor! Yes, we've got some camera angles overlapping, etc, etc - things yet to work out - but we are excited to have her join us. Know of anyone who'd appreciate seeing these, feel free to pass on the link to this page - as Lord willing, there will be many more to come!