Episodes
Jan. 12, 2025
The Spirit’s Nature
Reese LeRoy | We continue our series on the Holy Spirit with a focus on the Spirit’s nature. We need to be familiar with the Holy Spirit’s nature and character so that we can better recognize Him and His activity in our lives and in the world around us.
Jan. 5, 2025
An Invitation to Intimacy and Partnership
Reese LeRoy | We begin the New Year with a new series on the Holy Spirit. The third person of the Trinity is a person, not a thing, who desires intimate relationship and interactive partnership with us. In this teaching, our focus is on Jesus’ words from John 14 and 16 where he describes the work of the Holy Spirit and why it is advantageous for the Holy Spirit to come to us.
Dec. 29, 2024
Prayer & Prophetic Insight in Our Waiting
Reese LeRoy | We conclude our Advent and Christmas message series with the story of Simeon and Anna who demonstrate a right and beautiful posture for waiting. Their examples remind us that even in our waiting, God is at work, and He invites us to draw near to Him so that we can experience His goodness and faithfulness.
Dec. 22, 2024
All You Need Is Love
Mary-Margaret LeRoy | Knowing the love of God isn’t enough. We must experience his love. When we do, it’s transformative peace overflows and we share his love. We are light in darkness.
Dec. 15, 2024
Joy in the Passionate Pursuit of the King’s Presence
Reese LeRoy | On this third Sunday of Advent, we focus on Matthew 2 and the account of the Magi’s visit to the newborn King. In this ancient story, we find practical parallels on how God’s love fills us with joy as we seek Him and His purposes for our lives today.
Dec. 8, 2024
Incomprehensible Peace in Uncompromising Obedience
Dan Gaudinier | On the second week of Advent, we look at God’s gift of Peace. In the life of Joseph, Jesus’ earthly father, we see a man who was able to find incomprehensible peace in uncompromising obedience. The illusive search for peace in the frenetic pace of our anxiety riddled modern society finds its fulfillment in Jesus, the Prince of Peace.
Dec. 1, 2024
Hope in God’s Love and a Place in His Story
Reese LeRoy | On this first Sunday of Advent, we focus our attention on how God’s wondrous love gives us hope and invites us to be a part of His divine story. Through the story of Rahab, we see how making the choice to participate in God’s story gives us hope and meaning for every season of life.
Nov. 24, 2024
A Call to Unity…A Call to Praise!
Reese LeRoy | We conclude this message series with the last two chapters in the Psalms of Ascent. Psalm 133 encourages us to live in unity with one another and then describes the benefits of doing so – anointing and refreshing. Psalm 134 reminds us that the journey of discipleship that begins with a life of repentance leads to a life of never-ending praise.
Nov. 17, 2024
Biblical Memory for a Hope-Filled Future
Reese LeRoy | Psalm 132 celebrates simple obedience as the daily response of faith that leads to a promised hope in God’s kingdom purposes for our lives and for the world around us.
Nov. 10, 2024
Waiting
Mary-Margaret LeRoy | Waiting FOR God is different than waiting ON God. His call to wait for him is his invitation to a time of healing and repair.
Nov. 3, 2024
Persevering Pilgrims
Reese LeRoy | Psalm 129 reminds us that we can persevere and endure hardships because our righteous God is committed to us!
Oct. 27, 2024
We Journey as a Family
Jim Wenzel | Psalm 128 reminds us that the Lord blesses us through our families and unites us as His Church.
Oct. 20, 2024
Work at Its Best
Reese LeRoy | We continue our series on the Psalms of Ascent with a focus on Psalm 127, a wisdom psalm that gives us a warning about the wrong way to work and provides us an example of work that is done to the glory of God.
Oct. 13, 2024
Experiencing Joy from Our Suffering
Sam Sahyouni | Psalm 126 reminds us that even in the midst of our suffering God is working behind the scenes to redeem our hardships with joy.
Oct. 6, 2024
Hope Requires Action/Help With Our Hardships
Robin Trafford/Reese LeRoy | Todays duel message covers Psalms 123 & 124.
Sept. 22, 2024
Glad for the Presence of God
Reese LeRoy | Psalm 122 is the song of a person who decides to go to church and worship God. This passage shows us how the habit of worship in church gives us a structure for life, nurtures our relationship with God, and centers us on His ways.
Sept. 15, 2024
Life Preserver
Jeff Brooks | In this series on the Psalms of Ascent, we focus on God’s promise in Psalm 121 to help us and to never leave us alone on our journey. In the passage we are reminded that God calls us, God leads us, God provides for us, and God preserves us!
Sept. 8, 2024
A Song for Truth and Peace
Reese LeRoy | The Psalms of Ascent (Psalms 120-134) express deep longing for and sheer delight in the presence of God. These prayers and worship songs remind us of who God is, who we are in Him, and where He is leading us. Psalm 120 is an invitation to invite God into our distress. It also reminds us that God desires that we be instruments of His truth and peace even in the midst of deception and conflict.
Sept. 1, 2024
Unreasonable Generosity
Sam Sahyouni | The standard of generosity that Jesus sets for us is unreasonable. Let’s let the example of Jesus challenge us to move from being reasonably generous to unreasonably generous.
Aug. 25, 2024
Grace and Faith with Planning and Practice
Reese LeRoy | In His perfect love, God invites and encourages us to trust Him with the finances He has entrusted to us. This requires equal measures of grace and faith combined with careful planning and faithful practice.
Aug. 18, 2024
Eyes on the Eternal
Reese LeRoy | Kingdom generosity invites us to deposit our treasures with an eternal mindset, rather than one that is temporal and fleeting. We consider Jesus words’ from Matthew 6 and Luke 12 where he invites us to trust God by giving generously from what He has entrusted to us.
Aug. 11, 2024
Everything Belongs to God!
Reese LeRoy | Participating in the generosity of God’s kingdom requires us to live with the understanding that everything belongs to God. Our time, talent, and treasures are not so much given to us as they are entrusted to us. God is the owner, and we are His managers and stewards.
Aug. 4, 2024
The Standard of Our King
Reese LeRoy | In this new message series, we consider how God has set the standard for generosity in His kingdom – a model He invites His children to follow. In the ultimate expression of His generosity, God loved us by giving us His Son Jesus!
July 28, 2024
First of All, Love God!
Reese LeRoy | In Mark 12, Jesus is asked by a Jewish scribe which command in the Jewish law was most important. Jesus makes it clear that there is one command that is more important than all others – to love God. God is love, He alone is worthy of our wholehearted love, and loving Him most produces in us the healthiest love for self and for others.