Get Stirred Up, Stand Your Ground, and Live Souled Out
by Matt Hatton - Children's Pastor on February 4th, 2025
The commotion began to grow, the noise started to stir, a man that they had all walked by at the gate was now walking, jumping, and shouting praise to God! The actions of Peter and John, led to an opportunity to preach Christ. Repentance and belief filled the colonnade. Over five thousand had now come to faith in the risen Christ. In marched the disturbed religious leaders who felt threatened. So ... Read More
The Blueprint
by John Scally - Lead Pastor on February 3rd, 2025
How does a person lose weight? How does a team win a championship? How does a business grow their influence? How does a relationship stay connected? How does a Christian stay consistently committed to Christ? We are all looking for the “magic formula” or the “blueprint for success.” There is one emphatic characteristic of success...endurance.Success doesn’t happen overnight. It takes hard and comm... Read More
“Showing Up”: A Strategy for Consistency (Gather = Worship)
by John Scally - Lead Pastor on February 2nd, 2025
Main Point and Overview: Worship is a lifestyle. It is developed as your appetites are adjusted away from the world and to the Savior. For the 1st century church, they were facing a ton of pressure from all angles. The writer of Hebrews understood this, so he gave these young believers an intentional blueprint for success. He wanted them to realize that they should never go back to their past lif... Read More
Empty Claims Lead to Empty Results
by Christina Cain - Women's Ministry Director on February 1st, 2025
As I warm up my fingers and get ready to type, my eyes are fixed on the spot in the sky where the sun is straining to illuminate the day. The current temperature is 1 degree and there is a beautifully eerie haze with an occasional flash of snow dust swirling about. I feel like I’m in a scene from Frozen, which is a Disney favorite of several of my granddaughters. In the background, the chatter o... Read More
Make a Promise, Keep a Promise
by Brandon Robertson - Campus Director (GB) on January 31st, 2025
We all have been in a spot when a child asks the world's most famous question “Why”? Proceeded by once again “Why”? Which then triggers a whole rabbit train of whys and so on, to the point we don't have the answer they are looking for. In that moment we most likely throw out some crazy answer that then stops them from asking more questions!Ecclesiastes 5:2 “Do not be quick with your mouth, do not... Read More
The Mission of Jesus Christ
by Manning Brown - Operation's Pastor on January 30th, 2025
One of the more gratifying aspects of any job is having purpose. It is a motivator. For me, that was never truer than being in the military. The vast majority of the day-to-day was making sure we were ready for the next mission. There were exercises routinely, to make sure we knew how to do our job and how it applied to the mission. As a missileer every alert was the real deal. Our mission was to ... Read More