When we become believers in Jesus Christ, Jesus not only plants his Holy Spirit within us but grafts onto us all the buds necessary to produce all the fruit of his Holy Spirit. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. These fruit are contrary to the fruits of our sinful nature or the works of our flesh. This is to our Father’s glory, that we bear much fruit, showing ourselves to be Jesus’ disciples

One day of the year on Pentecost, we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit. But then we don’t hear much more about it. Shouldn’t the third person of our Triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit get more play than that? Over the next couple of weeks were are going to hear more about this Advocate, Helper, and Friend that Jesus promised to leave with us in his physical absence.  

This has been such a rich journey on learning how to pray over the past several months. For it we used several resources, one of which was Pete Greig’s book How to Pray, a Simple Guide for Normal People. Pete is the founder of the International 24/7 Prayer Movement and encourages us to “Keep it Simple. Keep it Real. And to Keep it Up! Today’s sermon recaps all the things we learned along the way.  

Scripture is very clear that our battle is not against our fellow humans, but against the spiritual forces of evil at work in our world.  This is a message that must be preached to our very polarized political culture in America today.  How we engage in this warfare is not by using the enemy’s tactics, but with God’s weapons of love, peace, and prayer.  We must begin to see each other as fellow humans created in the same image of G

Rarely today do we hear the words “I am sorry” or “I was wrong” from our leaders. It seems that people would much rather not admit to any short coming or would prefer to rewrite their story entirely. But God’s Word tells us that none of us live in right relationship with God all the time. As Jesus taught his disciples to pray, he taught them the importance of confessing their sins, asking for forgiveness, and then forgiving the

How to Hear from God Have you ever wondered what it would be like if God spoke directly to us as God did in the Bible? Well, God does speak. It’s just that our hearts and lives are often not tuned into the frequencies that project God’s voice best. To hear God more in prayer, we need to stop and listen for the still small voice through which God speaks. As fall begins, we are returning to the topic of prayer and how can we hear God in our hurr

The Book of Proverbs contains wisdom that has been passed down through the ages. It contains practical and moral teachings about life, suffering, wealth, work and relationships. These are general guiding principles, not promises of God. Proverbs 3:5-8 are some of my favorites and remind me to not forge ahead of God with my own plans, but stop ask God for wisdom, trusting that God will lead me through life, step by step.  

Every year about this time, session begins creating the budget for next year’s ministry needs.  As we do so, there are two ways one could look at it. One is that there is never enough resource to do ALL  that we want to do. Or two, God always provides not just enough, but even more than we could ever need. That was the message this past week, by our guest preacher, the Rev. Kelly Dickson of the Shalom Collective. As Jesus fed the 5,000, he asked the disciples w

Scripture is clear that we are saved by faith in Jesus Christ alone. Not by our good works. But then the Bible also says that our good works serve to authentic that a person’s faith is real. So how do these two dance together in a person’s faith life? That’s what we explore today as we confront some difficult situations in our country and world today.

The Psalms were written by David as poems that the Jewish people turned into worship songs. They encourage us to bring our full selves before God and to trust that He will be our strength in good times or in bad. This is not something we can do on our own, but with the help of the Holy Spirit, all things are possible.