The Good and Beautiful Community: The Hopeful Community (Peter Benedict)

What marathon are you running right now? What hill do you need to climb? No matter what you are dealing with in your life, God sees you and has hope for you. Our hope is that Jesus is alive! God isn’t removed from us. God has come down among us, and lived with us so that we will KNOW what God is like. One of our Pastors, Peter Benedict, talked about the hope we have in Jesus and how we can be a community of hope. To watch Pete’s message, click on one of the buttons below. You can also listen to Pete’s message below.

The Good and Beautiful Community: The Hopeful Community

Peter Benedict

The Good and Beautiful Community: The Peculiar Community (Justin Law)

Are you peculiar? Have you ever witnessed a follower of Jesus being peculiar in a good way? As we enter into the first message of our The Good and Beautiful Community sermon series, one of our Pastors, Justin Law, showed us how Jesus gathers changed individuals together and makes us a part of a "peculiar community". He showed us how we are called to be a group of people who have become different than the world around us, different in a good way. To watch Justin’s message, you can click on one of the two buttons below. You can also listen to Justin’s message below.

The Good and Beautiful Community: The Peculiar Community

Justin Law

The Good and Beautiful Life: Living in the Kingdom Day by Day (Peter Benedict)

As we end our series on The Good and Beautiful Life, Peter Benedict, one of our Pastors, guided us through the final verses of the Sermon on the Mount. We learned three warnings that Jesus gave us and how we can stand strong, like a house built on solid rock. You can watch Pete’s message by clicking one of the two buttons below. You can also listen to Pete’s message below.

We invite you to join us next Sunday as we start preaching through the last book in this series, The Good and Beautiful Community.

The Good and Beautiful Life: Living in the Kingdom Day by Day

Peter Benedict

The Good and Beautiful Life: Learning to Live Without Judging Others (Peter Benedict)

The Good and Beautiful Life, by James Bryan Smith, defines judgement as “making a negative evaluation of someone without standing in solidarity with them”. When have you experienced being judged? Where do you struggle with judging others? How does Jesus encourage us to not judge others? Pete talked through these topics in his sermon on Sunday. To watch Pete’s message, click on one of the two buttons below. You can also listen to Pete’s message below.

The Good and Beautiful Life: Learning to Live Without Judgement

Peter Benedict

The Good and Beautiful Life: Learning to Live Without Worry (Barbara Pelletier)

Matthew 6:27 says, "Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?" On Sunday, one of our Lay Pastors, Barbara Pelletier, led us in the next topic of our The Good and Beautiful Life sermon series: learning to live without worry. She talked about what worry is, what Jesus says about it, how it affects us, and what we can do about it. To watch Barbara’s message, click on one of the two buttons below. You can also listen to Barbara’s message below.

The Good and Beautiful Life: Learning to Live Without Worry

Barbara Pelletier

The Good and Beautiful Life: Learning to Live Without Greed (Peter Benedict)

What is the connection between happiness and learning to live without greed? What does Jesus tell us about living without greed? One of our Pastors, Peter Benedict, answers these questions and shares encouragement and love from God as we learn to living without greed. To watch Pete’s message, click on one of the two buttons below. You can also listen to Pete’s message below.

The Good and Beautiful Life: Learning to Live Without Greed

Peter Benedict

The Good and Beautiful Life: Learning to Live Without Vainglory (Jeremiah Berg)

We returned to our The Good and Beautiful Life sermon series on Sunday with one of our Lay Pastors, Jeremiah Berg, leading us in how to live without vainglory or pride. Jeremiah showed us that if we allow our pride to determine how we view ourselves, or how we treat others, or how we see other people, we will lose sight of who God made us to be. To watch Jeremiah's message, click on one of the two buttons below.

Living in the Tension: Love, Race, and Politics (Peter Benedict)

We finish off our Living in the Tension sermon series by talking about immigration. The Bible clearly shows that God calls us the love the foreigner among us, so how are we to show that love to the immigrants we meet? Pete answered this question and showed us where in the Bible God calls us to love the immigrant in his message on Sunday, September 27. To watch Pete’s sermon, click on one of the two buttons below. You can also listen to Pete’s message below.

Living In The Tension: Love, Race, and Politics

Peter Benedict

Living in the Tension: Love, Race, and Politics (Justin Law)

No one can deny that we are in a very tense election season right now. So, how can we live in that tension and still display God’s Kingdom here on earth? One of our Pastors, Justin Law, answered that question during his message on Sunday.

Due to technical difficulties, we were only able to record the audio for this sermon. You can find that audio below.

Living in the Tension: Love, Race, and Politics

Justin Law

Announcements (September 20, 2020)

Jeff Conner

Living in the Tension: Love, Race, and Politics (Cortney Heerwald)

We continued our sermon series, "Living in the Tension: Love, Race, and Politics", on Sunday. One of our Lay Pastors, Cortney Heerwald, led us in how Jesus is calling us to respond to those in need and how we can respond to topics surrounding race. To watch Cortney’s message, click one of the two buttons below.

Living in the Tension: Love, Race, and Politics (Peter Benedict)

On Sunday, September 6, we started a new sermon series called "Living in the Tension: Love, Race, and Politics". One of our Pastors, Peter Benedict, introduced this series and shared God's heart for diversity. Our hope with this series is that you will experience God’s love more deeply, and grow in loving God and loving people more deeply. To watch Pete’s message, click on one of the buttons below.

The Good and Beautiful Life: Learning to Love Our Enemies (Gay Narron)

On Sunday, one of our Pastors, Gay Narron, guided us in how to follow the invitation Jesus gave us to love well and to love our enemies. She guided us through questions like who is our neighbor and how we can love even when we disagree. To watch Gay’s message, click on one of the two buttons below.

The Good and Beautiful Life: Learning to Live Without Lying (Justin Law)

Studies have shown that lying is pretty prevalent in our society, so how do we learn to live without lying? One of our pastors, Justin Law, talked about lying in his message on Sunday and the freedom that can be found by living without lying. To watch Justin’s sermon, click on one of the two buttons below.

Note: There is a time during Justin's sermon where the video goes out, but the audio is still there. The video does return later.

The Good and Beautiful Life: Learning to Live Without Lust (Paul Mandell)

There are many narratives around sex and lust, but how does God see these topics? One of our lay pastors, Paul Mandell, guided us through what lust is, how God wants us to love, and how God can help us with our problems with lust. To watch Paul’s message, click one of the two buttons below.

The Good and Beautiful Life: Learning to Live Without Anger (Peter Benedict)

What makes you angry? How can we deal with our anger? On Sunday, one of our pastors, Peter Benedict, led us through verses from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount where Jesus talked about how anger affects us, how anger affects those around us, and how we should handle our anger. To watch Pete’s message, click on one of the two buttons below.

The Good and Beautiful Life: The Grand Invitation (Rolf Jacobson)

After learning about the Kingdom of God, we entered into learning more about one of Jesus' most famous sermons, The Beatitudes. While some may see this as a set of ways to be blessed, we learned (thanks to our guest preacher, Rolf Jacobson) that The Beatitudes are a calling for us to show more of God's love to everyone we meet and to help build a beautiful and inclusive community. To watch Rolf’s message, click on one of the two buttons below.

The Good and Beautiful Life: The Gospel Many People Have Never Heard (Barbara Pelletier)

The Good News of the gospel is that Jesus came to save us and that we have life eternal through him. This is the gospel that we as believers know and share with others. This is the good news that has saved us. But there is even more good news in the gospel! On Sunday, one of our lay pastors, Barbara Pelletier, shared with us more good news found in the gospel and about the goodness found in the Kingdom of God. To watch Barbara’s message, click on one of the two buttons below:

The Good and Beautiful Life (Peter Benedict)

Our previous sermon series, The Good and Beautiful God, was about discovering what false narratives we were believing about God and learning to love the God the Jesus knows. As we move into our new sermon series, The Good and Beautiful Life, we will explore false narratives about what we think a Christian life looks like and will discover the way that Jesus actually taught us how to live. Through the discovery of these truths, we will find out how good, beautiful, and joyful a life of following Christ can be. To watch Peter Benedict (one of our pastors) introduce this sermon series, click on one of the two buttons below.

The Good and Beautiful God: How to Make a Pickle (Peter Benedict)

Are you Martha or Mary? Do you hurry and fuss or are you present? On Sunday, one of our Pastors, Peter Benedict, used Luke 10:38-42 to show us how God wants us to live unhurried lives and to spend time at His feet. To watch Pete’s message, click on one of the two buttons below.

The Good and Beautiful God: God Transforms (Justin Law)

How do we experience real life change? The good news is that we don't have to struggle and fight to do it ourselves. Our God is the one who transforms us. He gives us a new identity. He makes us a new creation. He leads us into a new way of living life. One of our Pastors, Justin Law, talked more about this in his sermon on Sunday, July 5. To watch Justin’s message, click on one of the two buttons below.