We can only scratch the surface of understanding God’s love, and other characteristics of God, through our own understanding. God is so much more than we can see and understand, and that includes the depth of His love. When we look at Christmas, we see Him punching through the darkness of this world to bring His love and strength to us.

We can only scratch the surface of understanding God’s love, and other characteristics of God, through our own understanding. God is so much more than we can see and understand, and that includes the depth of His love. When we look at Christmas, we see Him punching through the darkness of this world to bring His love and strength to us.

If you attend church chances are you’ve heard a Christmas message about Jesus being the “Prince of Peace” and have seen Christmas cards that say, “Peace on Earth.” But maybe you’ve been confused because as you read through the book of Luke or Matthew you run into the verse where Jesus says, “Do you think I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I have come to divide people against each other!” (Luke 12:51)

Pastor Ryan wrapped up the series, The Journey of Generosity today with a message on how to experience generosity. The journey has taken us from the generosity of God to the heart of our generosity, to prioritizing giving so we can be generous and today we learned that our generosity is a joyous experience that yields eternal dividends.

Join Pastor Ryan and others as we read through the book of Luke this December to celebrate the birth, life, sacrifice, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Using a journal or notebook write the chapter of each day at the top and begin to write down scripture verses, words, and messages that stick out or speak to you!

A Family Devotional for Thanksgiving

Gratitude increases your spiritual vision. Daily thanking God for His provision increases our ability to see His faithfulness. We’ll quickly discover that God's provisions and blessings have always been there, our hearts just needed to catch up…

Pastor Ryan took us forward on the journey of generosity with a simple reminder to make giving a priority. The Bible gives us principles for giving that have been practiced for centuries in the Christian church. The first fruits principle says to give to God first before using any of your income on yourself, expenses, or savings...

Pastor Ryan continued our series and brought up a core focus of stewarding our finances, our hearts. Who would have thought that our hearts would play a major role in how we manage, spend, and give of our finances. We know that a heart changed by Jesus is going to live like Jesus. We learned we have to guard our hearts or else…

Pastor Ryan began our new series The Journey of Generosity in one of the most generous times of the year. As Pastor Ryan said, generosity isn’t a destination, it’s a journey. We learned today that God is very generous. We get our generosity from God. Generosity is admired and celebrated in the days and life of Jesus. God’s greatest expression of generosity was in the giving of His Son for our salvation.

Pastor Ryan concluded the Building Bridges series by challenging us to rethink and adapt how we’ve looked at church. We were encouraged to think more like a missionary church instead of a stationary church. We learned that over 2000 years ago

What do you do when you come across a person who thinks, holds beliefs, votes, and advocates for things differently than you? How do you have a respectful and beneficial conversation, even if you disagree? Is it possible to disagree without burning bridges... even walking away on good terms? Yes, I do believe it is possible! Here are some tips for having respectful conversations with people…

Pastor Ryan was joined by Dorothy Wood and they opened up today’s message with the point that this Building Bridges series was inspired by the opportunity to help people see Jesus, the Christian faith, and His followers in a new way. Pastor Ryan said he has spent a lot of time helping people who have damaged views and misconceptions of the church, both valid, but both needing to be addressed. If we are careful to be wise around non-Christians…

In this series so far we’ve learned how important it is to build bridges. This week Pastor Ryan started to break down how we build bridges and even shared a powerful video testimony to show us a method we can use. Between last week’s story in John 4 and today’s scripture, we see Jesus was successful at building bridges by doing the following:

Pastor Ryan unpacked portions of John 4 showing us the intentionality and the purposeful love Jesus had for the people of Samaria. We learned that historical and cultural barriers can be broken down if were willing to stop avoiding and start embracing people different than us. Jesus shocked the Samaritan woman and his own disciples through this encounter at the local well in Samaria. Jesus built a bridge by going through Samaria and caring for one woman.

Pastor Ryan starting building further into the series by showing us how we are called to build bridges too. We learned from John 1 that God uses people to build bridges or point and show the way to Jesus. Last week we learned Jesus is the bridge to God, this week we learned we are like bridges to Jesus. Some of us may not feel all that worthy...