Breaking Free: It’s a New Day
The word "new" fills Scripture with the understanding of the synonymousness of God's grace and power that is constantly bringing freshness to our lives. We need to avoid spiritual staleness and not allow our faith to become moldy. In this final message of the "Breaking Free" series, Pastor Chris encourages us from Isaiah 52:1 & 2, with five things that God is saying on how we can avoid the attitude of "oldness" and shake off the "weight...which so easily ensnares us".
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- Aug 29, 2021Breaking Free: It’s a New Day
Breaking Free: It’s a New DayThe word "new" fills Scripture with the understanding of the synonymousness of God's grace and power that is constantly bringing freshness to our lives. We need to avoid spiritual staleness and not allow our faith to become moldy. In this final message of the "Breaking Free" series, Pastor Chris encourages us from Isaiah 52:1 & 2, with five things that God is saying on how we can avoid the attitude of "oldness" and shake off the "weight...which so easily ensnares us".
- Aug 22, 2021Breaking Free From Shame
Breaking Free From ShameShame--that acute sense of failure, unworthiness, embarrassment, the emotional residue of sin. It can be overwhelming. In this message, Pastor Chris gives us hope from 1 John 3:19 & 20 and reminds us that Jesus came and gave His life to set us free from the residue of sin. And that there is deliverance from the shame of the past.
- Aug 15, 2021Breaking Free From Poverty
Breaking Free From PovertyJesus came to liberate all of us from the bondage of poverty--spiritual, emotional, social, and financial poverty. According to Luke 4:16 - 19, Jesus came to make us whole, completely free, not just save us from hell fire. Pastor Chris shows us that the spirit of prosperity begins with generosity and a trust in God as our Provider. And he reminds us that the reason for God's blessing on our lives is so that we can be a blessing to those around us.
- Aug 8, 2021Breaking Free From Strongholds
Breaking Free From StrongholdsThe faith life we live is a spiritual war; we are in a fight with a real enemy. Paul tells us to "fight the good fight of faith". If we are to fight and be victorious, we must learn to demolish strongholds. In this message, Pastor Chris references 2 Corinthians 10:3 - 5 and shows us five way in which we can demolish strongholds and live a victorious, though not necessarily easy, life.
- Aug 1, 2021Breaking Free From the Mundane
Breaking Free From the MundaneWe are living in an hour when people are needing and actively searching for divine direction, even if it does not come from God. Therefore, there is greater need than ever before for believers in the Church to move into the realms of the gifts. In this message, Pastor Chris, in referencing Revelation 2 and 3, urges us to have ears to hear what Spirit is saying, so that we can be the desperately needed prophetic voices, speaking God's life and wisdom into a lost and hurting world.
- Jul 25, 2021Breaking Free From Generational Curses
Breaking Free From Generational CursesIs it inevitable that we are cursed because of what someone in our family did in a previous generation? Is it possible to rise above familial or even national disfunction? In this uplifting message, Pastor Chris shows that we do not have to be bound by where we came from or by what someone else did in another time and place. Where we start does not determine where we end because of Jesus Christ and who we are in Him.
- Jul 18, 2021Breaking Free From Fear
Breaking Free From FearEveryone encounters moments in their life when fear comes and tries to take over. Pastor Chris reminds us of the powerful verse in 2 Timothy 1:7 that we can memorize and use to combat this. He also enumerates, from the parable in Matthew 25:14 - 30, what fear does and how we can overcome it to be effective for God's Kingdom.*Editor's Note: The volume may need to be turned up more than normal as there was a hardware malfunction that resulted in a lower grade recording.
- Jul 11, 2021Breaking Free From Bondage
Breaking Free From BondageLife without liberty is truly not worth living. But there are times in which we find ourselves in bondage, whether it be spiritually, emotionally, or physically. Jesus Christ came to bring us salvation, which means deliverance and freedom. In this message, Pastor Chris looks at three people from the account in Luke 13:10 - 17 and points out each one's response toward a certain bondage. He reminds us that as Believers, our mission in this world is to empower people toward freedom as Jesus demonstrated.
- Jun 27, 2021God Brought Us Out To Bring Us In
God Brought Us Out To Bring Us InIn this message, Pastor Chris looks at the passage in Deuteronomy 6, focusing on verse 23, to look at God's purpose for redeeming us. We begin to grasp some things from the experience of the Israelites in the desert of how God takes us out of the negative and brings us into the positive, in order that we might possess His promises. We must remember though that, along the way, what happens in us is of far more importance that what happens to us.
- Jun 20, 2021The Contents of Conquest (Jericho Must Fall)
The Contents of Conquest (Jericho Must Fall)As we walk out our salvation, learning of and embracing the promises of God, we will encounter obstacles to those promises--walls that seem insurmountable. We see in Joshua 6 a battle plan for conquering those walls and seeing them fall. Pastor Chris highlights three points from this passage that will give us the tools to see the walls fall.
- Jun 13, 2021Facing Failure
Facing FailureThe road to success is lined with failings. And whether those failings are good or bad lies in the eyes of the beholder. We need to use our failures to become a better person, rather than a bitter person. In this message, Pastor Chris shows five points from John 21:1 - 17 that encourage us to not allow our failures to keep us down or tell us we are no longer wanted by God.
- Jun 6, 2021Simplicity
SimplicityHave we lost the real simplicity of our relationship with Jesus? It seems that when it comes to faith and our walk with God, we have overcomplicated it. Walking with the Lord and serving Him should be marked with joy and peace, not strife and turmoil. In this message, Pastor Chris highlights four simple and essential truths about serving Jesus from the passage found in Luke 10:38 - 42.
- May 30, 2021What To Do When You Feel Like Giving Up
What To Do When You Feel Like Giving UpWe are all going to have seasons, moments, situations when we find ourselves bummed out, wanting to give up. What do we do in those moments? In this message, Pastor Chris shows us from Luke 9:51 - 62 Jesus' model of persistence that we can emulate. He also reminds us of the importance of perseverance as seen in one of the most important affirmations of faith--Philippians 3:14.
- May 23, 2021Blessings in the Valley of Baca
Blessings in the Valley of BacaThe Christian pilgrimage is not always smooth sailing and every believer will walk their own Valley of Baca (Valley of Bitterness). Pastor Chris discusses three valleys that we all walk through at moments in our life and shows, from Psalm 84:1 - 7, that if we lean on God and find our strength in Him, He will make springs and pools in those valleys.
- May 16, 2021Your Body, God’s Temple
Your Body, God’s TempleIn order for our lives to make an impact on somebody else's life, we have to be charged up with Holy Spirit. We cannot give away what we do not have. In this encouraging message, Pastor Chris reminds us from 1 Corinthians 6:19 and 20 that we are now God's dwelling place and he makes three points as to how God is working with these temples of flesh.
- May 2, 2021The Oil of Anointing
The Oil of AnointingThere is a desperate demand in every believer's life for Holy Spirit's oil. We have to keep our lives full of that oil as we wait for Jesus' imminent return. As Pastor Chris teaches from Matthew 25:1 - 13, he points out several lessons that say something to each and every believer today. He reminds us that we must have more than "a form of godliness but denying its power. (2 Timothy 3:5)"
- Apr 25, 2021Do You Want to Get Well?
Do You Want to Get Well?Salvation is not just a "get-out-of-hell-free" card; salvation is just the beginning of all that Jesus accomplished on the cross. He wants us to be completely whole--body, soul AND spirit. Pastor Chris delves into this idea and expounds on Jesus' encounter with the sick man found in John 5:1 - 15. Pastor Chris lays out three points from that poignant question asked by Jesus, "Do you want to get well?"
- Apr 18, 2021The Wind of Holy Spirit
The Wind of Holy SpiritWind is powerful and can move things thought to be immovable. In his continuation of the series, "Let the Church Be the Church," Pastor Chris looks at the powerful force of Holy Spirit's wind, referencing Genesis 1:1, 2. He highlights that where ever the wind of Holy Spirit is moving, things of eternal consequence are going to happen and that God is intimately involved with His creation, as seen in these first two verses of the Bible.
- Apr 11, 2021Defeating the Killer Vines
Defeating the Killer VinesThe word "worry" comes from an old Anglo-Saxon word meaning "to choke". This is an appropriate definition as worry tends to strangle and suffocate us. In this message, Pastor Chris takes inspiration from his weeping cherry tree and Philippians 4:4 - 8 to remind us that if we do not allow Holy Spirit to prune us and clear out the strangling vines of worry in our life, we will be stifled, suffocated and eventually have a fruitless life.
- Apr 4, 2021Christ is Risen: So What?
Christ is Risen: So What?
The passion of the earliest believers who carried the Good News to their world did not come from frightened followers who seemingly knew of a skeleton. The resurrection of Jesus is an historic fact that even non-biblical historians never denied. Christ is risen! So what does that mean for us today? In this powerful Easter message, Pastor Chris lays out three points of application from Romans 6:1 - 4 and shows us how our lives can be empowered when applied.
The video referenced in this message is "Jericho" by Andrew Ripp (https://youtu.be/DANgNI6rqxI).
