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Have you ever had a dream that turned into a nightmare? Have your circumstances challenged your faith? Consider Joseph, who had a dream turned nightmare. His brothers fake his death and sell him into slavery. He’s falsely accused and wrongly imprisoned. For thirteen years, things go from bad to worse but Joseph never loses faith in the end of the story. 50:20 vision is seeing past your circumstances. It’s discerning what’s really happening when what’s happening is happening. It’s discerning the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God. Joseph exemplifies, LONG VISION. What is it? It’s dreaming generationally. It’s doing what we do for the third and fourth generation.

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Long Vision
Ontem
Long Vision
Have you ever had a dream that turned into a nightmare? Have your circumstances challenged your faith? Consider Joseph, who had a dream turned nightmare. His brothers fake his death and sell him into slavery. He’s falsely accused and wrongly imprisoned. For thirteen years, things go from bad to worse but Joseph never loses faith in the end of the story. 50:20 vision is seeing past your circumstances. It’s discerning what’s really happening when what’s happening is happening. It’s discerning the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God. Joseph exemplifies, LONG VISION. What is it? It’s dreaming generationally. It’s doing what we do for the third and fourth generation.
Playing The Long Game
12-01-2025
Playing The Long Game
We think right here, right now. God is thinking nations and generations. We think what God does for us is for us, and it is. But it’s never just for it. It’s always for the third and fourth generation. Legacy is not what you accomplish. Legacy is what others accomplish because of you.
The Not So Secret Secret to Transformation
05-01-2025
The Not So Secret Secret to Transformation
Most of us are educated way beyond the level of our obedience already. We don’t need to know more. We need to do more with what we know. The good news? It’s never too late to be who you might have been. You are one decision away from a totally different life. Change is hard, but it is possible. How? Forgive reality for what it is. Ground yourself in God’s word. And keep putting it on the altar. Put what on the altar? Everything.
The Christmas Response
22-12-2024
The Christmas Response
Do you ever feel out of place, not good enough, or not worthy of God? Good news: God chooses the lowly, the humble, the desperate, the hungry, the seeker to reveal his grace. All of us will have thoughts this season of whether to journey towards Christ, or allow life to get the best of us. Pastor Joel's encouragement for us is to follow the example of the magi on their journey to Christ during a series of events we would come to know as the Christmas story. They chose to worship Christ despite their challenging circumstances and so should we. What will be your Christmas response this season?
What is Your Song?
15-12-2024
What is Your Song?
The shepherds echoed the song of the angels throughout Bethlehem, giving proclamation and adoration for all they had seen and heard. As we navigate the joys and disappointments, the gifts and the losses, and the anticipations and frustrations of the Advent season, let us look and listen for where God is breaking into the reality of our existence. How do we sing the song of the angels to our world?
Carpe Wonder
08-12-2024
Carpe Wonder
Are you a mere spectator to life? Are you settling for the status quo? In Genesis, we see God inviting Abraham to go beyond the confines of his tent, look up at the stars and count them to consider the magnitude of God's promise to him. In our modern world, where we often feel overwhelmed and insulated, stepping out into nature and meditating on the vastness of creation, can recalibrate our spirits and remind us of God's greatness. Pastor Mark encourages us to embrace a mindset of curiosity and seek not only the miracles of daily life but also a profound relationship with our Creator.
You Go Swimmer
01-12-2024
You Go Swimmer
Bill Bryson says "We are just a collection of inert components, the same stuff you would find in a pile of DIRT." How does dirt write poems, produce films, make music, design rockets, engineer software, practice medicine, choreograph ballets or patent inventions? The short answer is Genesis 2:7. Genesis 2:7 credits the Lord God as the One who created us, designed us, and animated us. Listen as Pastor Mark explores the miraculous components of LIFE in God's creation.
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
24-11-2024
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
You are not a cosmic accident, the result of random chance. You are God’s workmanship. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. You are the image of God, the apple of God’s eye. You were made a little lower than the angels and crowned with glory. Don’t let anyone label you who didn’t make you!
A Million Little Miracles
17-11-2024
A Million Little Miracles
“There are only two ways to live your life,” said Albert Einstein. “One is as if nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.” Which way are you living? Are you taking things for granted? Or are you taking things for gratitude? It’s time to rediscover a million little miracles that are hiding in plain sight. It’s time to rediscover the God of Miracles—the God who is bigger than big, closer than close, and gooder than good.
Can I Borrow Your Boat?
10-11-2024
Can I Borrow Your Boat?
Scripture says that you will know know a tree by its fruit. What would someone say about you based on the fruit of your life? Are you introducing people to the nature of Christ through your actions? It’s important that we surrender all we have and all we are to the will of God so that he may guide us in the way of righteousness. Bishop Harvey helps us understand what this looks like and how we are able to draw people closer to Jesus based on how we treat them.
The Mountain of the Lord's Temple
03-11-2024
The Mountain of the Lord's Temple
In life there are hierarchies of value, quality and power in many things such as sports, movies, politics, etc. In scripture we see how believers are a part of the mountain of the Lord's temple that will be exalted above all in the last days, with Christ as our high priest. Pastor Zeb reminds us of that which is inferior to the people in Christ, our adversary, the devil. While examining the tactics of the enemy, Pastor Zeb encourages us to always proclaim the power of God's spirit over all influences of darkness and live from a place of victory that was established by the blood of Jesus.
Where We Find God
27-10-2024
Where We Find God
Life can be a process of orientation, disorientation and reorientation. Our natural response is to resist disorientation but what happens when Jesus says things that break social, cultural and religious norms? The answer may surprise us. Pastor Steffen takes us through the gospels of Luke, Mark and Matthew to illustrate God's intentions when we find him in places that may be unfamiliar to us.
Here Am I
20-10-2024
Here Am I
The world has yet to see what God can do with one person wholly consecrated to Him. Why not you? Why not now? Our biggest problem is our small view of God. We think that our inability disqualifies us, but God doesn’t call the qualified. God qualifies the called. In the kingdom of God, availability is more important than ability. Join us as we journey through the book of Isaiah and learn how we become a people who says "Here Am I" when God asks who He should send to the nations.
Love Regardless
14-10-2024
Love Regardless
In a world where relationships are transactional and insincere, love is our primary currency for relationships, as followers of Christ. We are instructed to love our neighbors as ourself but how can we love those who offend us or are offended by us? Loving regardless is the simple answer but may be difficult to act out. In this message, Pastor Joel takes us through John, Romans and Ephesians to illustrate this point and teach us how to love even when it's hard.
Listen Well
06-10-2024
Listen Well
How can our political partisan biases impact how we treat our brothers and sisters in Christ? Pastor Eugene Cho, author of "Thou Shalt Not Be a Jerk" uses John 4:1-10, the story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman, as a template for how we should prioritize deepening our relationships with one another as followers of Jesus, amidst our culture's tendency toward polarization.
Ask Anything
29-09-2024
Ask Anything
Dr. Dick Foth invites us to question who we are and what it is God has called us to do for the Kingdom of Heaven. In a moment where political divides are at an all time high, we can make space for civil conversation and deeper unity by leaning into our calling, leading with peace and asking thoughtful questions.
Stand in the Gap
22-09-2024
Stand in the Gap
Jesus-followers are called to stand in the gap as peacemakers, grace givers, truth tellers, and tone setters. We can shift the atmosphere during a contentious political season with faith, hope, and love. And we have some VERY PRACTICAL TOOLS to help you do that. We hope this series INSPIRE AND EQUIP YOU to TAKE THE LEAD in making space for CIVIL CONVERSATION and DEEPER UNITY across political divides.
Fight the Good Fight
15-09-2024
Fight the Good Fight
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Canary in a Coal Mine
08-09-2024
Canary in a Coal Mine
Are you taking your cues from trending hashtags or political correctness? OR are you living a Spirit-led, Spirit-filled life? Learn how to do that as Pastor Mark opens up 2 Timothy 3.
The Potential of Pain
03-09-2024
The Potential of Pain
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