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ARISE:Life Messages

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Equipping, empowering and releasing people into their kingdom destiny.

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Getting God's Perspective 2

April 14, 2024 19:40 - 45 minutes - 24 MB

We all have a stories in our lives that we tell ourselves to make sense of the difficulties, tragedies and betrayals we all face! But often times those stories of blame & shame, drive us to isolate more and more from the very relationships that would bring us life! Join us as we follow one very broken family as God brings something beautiful out of the garbage of their lives! (Genesis 12-37 - April 14, 2024)  

Getting God's Perspective - 1

April 08, 2024 12:27 - 35 minutes - 17.5 MB

When we face disappointment or loss, we automatically pull back, and immediately begin to tell ourselves a story to make sense of the pain, but if we fail to grieve that loss, we will find ourselves living in a smaller and smaller place, further and further from the life of abundance God has for us! So join us as we begin our journey to get God's perspective and His breakthrough where we need it most! (April 7, 2024)

Easter - 2024

March 31, 2024 22:01 - 35 minutes - 17.4 MB

Jesus' Death & Resurrection have opened up a whole new Kingdom to ALL who believe. But...what if we're not seeing the benefits of that Kingdom in our own lives? What does that mean? Join us as we dig into the Gospel together! (John 3:16 - March 31, 2024)

What's in Your Hand? 6

March 24, 2024 17:00 - 38 minutes - 20.1 MB

Love only happens in the context of covenant. But covenant Love has no guarantees...except death! 😮 How can we live...AND Love? Join us as we follow Ruth & Naomi to Abraham and Moses and all the way to Jesus' entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday and discover how to Love! (Ruth - March 25, 2024)

What's in Your Hand? 5

March 18, 2024 01:03 - 29 minutes - 15.9 MB

So what do you do when the people you've partnered with in destiny, manipulate you, use you, or devalue you? How do you "keep you love on"? How do you keep showing up and keep your heart able to love? Join us as we continue to follow Ruth & Naomi together! (Ruth 3 - March 17, 2024)

What's in Your Hand? 4

March 11, 2024 01:51 - 50 minutes - 26.8 MB

A life of survival ends up meaning we don't even survive! But a life of courage, trust and obedience will lead us out into a place better than we could have asked or imagined! Join us as we watch Naomi and Ruth navigate the path back from survival to thriving! (Ruth 3 - March 10, 2024)

What's in Your Hand? 3

March 03, 2024 22:36 - 47 minutes - 24 MB

There's nothing worse than having to come back in failure to a place you left! But sometimes that exactly what we need to do to get the new start we long for! Join us as we continue our journey with Naomi and Ruth! (Ruth 2 - March 3, 2024)

What's in Your Hand? 2

February 25, 2024 22:42 - 43 minutes - 23 MB

We were made for more, but each of us have a series of moments in our lives when things went bad...and we end us saying something like Naomi probably said, "I didn't have a choice!" But we serve a creative God who redeems our lives from the pit of the choices of others and even of ourselves, and makes something beautiful of us in the process! (Ruth 1 - February 25, 2024)

What's in Your Hand?

February 19, 2024 21:00 - 50 minutes - 26.5 MB

Whenever God calls us to do something, it is only natural that we look at what we have, and discover it to be simply NOT enough for the situation, whatever it is! But that's EXACTLY what everyone in the Bible faced as well! So join us on a journey as we discover how God transforms "not enough" into "more than enough!" (Mark 6 & 8 - February 18, 2024)

Dreaming with God - 7

February 11, 2024 22:09 - 43 minutes - 22.3 MB

Each of us is a dream that God has wrapped us around! But those dreams don't exist in a vacuum or for our own sake, but rather they are always in the context God's people and the greater plan! Join us as we finish our epic of Gideon, to see how his story played out!  (Judges 8 - January 11, 2024)

Dreaming with God - 6

February 04, 2024 22:30 - 36 minutes - 19.2 MB

What does it mean to be challenged by God and to step up into who He has made you and me to be...and do? Join us in our final look at the life of Gideon and the encouragement his life is to us all!  (Judges 6 - February 4, 2024)

Dreaming with God - 5

January 29, 2024 15:17 - 43 minutes - 23.1 MB

When God calls us to do something, it WILL be something we cannot do on our own...and it WILL be done through a series of steps and obediences we could never have predicted! Join us as we watch Gideon in Judges 7 walk the very same walk we all must walk into what God has called us to do!

Dreaming with God - 4

January 21, 2024 20:55 - 39 minutes - 22.6 MB

Our dream lies within the Dream God has - not just for us - but for the whole world!

Dreaming with God - 3

January 15, 2024 15:51 - 57 minutes - 30.8 MB

If we're to dream with God, we have to understand that even the dreams we have are part of His own larger dream! Join us as we allow ourselves to become vulnerable to God's heart for the world!

Dreaming with God - 2

January 08, 2024 18:20 - 1 hour - 33.7 MB

Join us as we continue to lean into all God has for us in this new year together! (Judges 6 - January 7, 2024)

Dreaming with God

January 01, 2024 16:57 - 48 minutes - 25.8 MB

As we lean into a new year, how do partner with God to see the changes in this new year and not just a repeat of the last one? Join us as we follow Gideon in the Bible as God takes a fear-ridden bad farmer and reveals a mighty hero and deliverer of his entire nation, and discover how He can do the same with us!  (Judges 6 - December 31, 2023)

Preparing the Way of the Lord - 3

December 18, 2023 01:36 - 34 minutes - 18.2 MB

Each of us is called to prepare the way for God to encounter those in our lives and in our world with His Love this Christmas! Join us as we wrestle with what that might mean for each of us!

Preparing the Way of the Lord - 2

December 10, 2023 19:37 - 48 minutes - 26.2 MB

Each of us, when we say "Yes" to Jesus, to His life for ours and to His promises for a purpose and a hope, are joining in this incredible momentous journey preparing the world for an encounter with God! But what if that journey looks different than we thought? Join us as we unpack what it means to walk with the Lord and each other in this season! (Genesis 12, 17, 18 - December 10, 2023)

Preparing the Way of the Lord - 1

December 03, 2023 18:26 - 47 minutes - 26 MB

Jesus truly is the desire of our hearts, so join us in preparing our hearts to receive our King!

Giving Thanks

November 27, 2023 15:58 - 20 minutes - 10.5 MB

What does it mean to be grateful? Join as we discover how gratitude opens us to receive all that God has for us!

God’s Answer for Exhaustion - 15

November 19, 2023 20:43 - 40 minutes - 22.1 MB

Nothing exhausts us more quickly than when our expectations fail. We want to throw in the towel, blame others, blame ourselves, and just quit! But in this life we will have trouble, we will have failed expectations, even if we follow Jesus! So...how do we stay engaged and stay hoping when so much fails? Join us as we lean in to Jesus to discover the Author and Finisher of our Hope! (Luke 7, Romans 8 - November 19, 2023)

God’s Answer for Exhaustion - 14

November 12, 2023 19:42 - 51 minutes - 27.8 MB

One of the biggest sources of exhaustion is when we are unable to receive what God wants to give us or tell us...because we've rejected how He's sending it to us! Join us as we discover how not to miss what God is sending us!

God’s Answer for Exhaustion - 13

November 05, 2023 19:43 - 40 minutes - 20.5 MB

Our own need for control is what actually usually keeps us from being able to receive the very things we're trying to control...and generally exhausts us! Join us as we discover together how to let go and allow God to work in our lives! (November 5, 2023)  

God’s Answer for Exhaustion - 12

October 29, 2023 20:42 - 36 minutes - 19.5 MB

God wants a relationship with you and with me! But what is most exhausting is when we're trying to manipulate God to care...when He already does! Join us as we discover what real warfare is all about! (Genesis 33 - October 29, 2023)

God’s Answer for Exhaustion - 11

October 22, 2023 18:10 - 46 minutes - 24.9 MB

The thing that exhausts us the most is having to go it on our own! Why because we simply cannot trust God to be good enough, powerful enough or to love us enough to meet us in our need! Join us as we dig into who God really is! (October 22, 2023)

God’s Answer for Exhaustion - 10

October 15, 2023 21:08 - 36 minutes - 19.8 MB

Living in fear is the ultimate source of exhaustion! And a life of suffering loss wires us to look for threats everywhere! How can we get free from this cycle of terror? Join us as we discover that he or she who the Son sets free is free indeed! (October 15, 2023)

God’s Answer for Exhaustion - 9

October 08, 2023 19:20 - 39 minutes - 21.1 MB

Nothing wipes us out more than feeling like can't live up to what we've experienced in the presence of God or that we feel like we cannot live with God outside of a worship experience. Join us today as we unpack how we can live from glorious encounter to glorious encounter through the gift of obedience! (Acts 8, James 1 - October 8, 2023)

God’s Answer for Exhaustion - 8

October 01, 2023 18:20 - 22 minutes - 12 MB

How do we have hope when we face crisis or tragedy? How do we lean in? How do we not pull back? Join us as we get practical for how we partner with God in the scariest moments of life so that pain isn't permanent and fear final! (Mark 4 - October 1, 2023) 

God’s Answer for Exhaustion - 7

September 25, 2023 17:59 - 1 hour - 34.1 MB

Nothing exhausts us more quickly than unanswered questions! But...what we do with them will determine whether we live in an ever shrinking or ever expanding world of God's possibilities! Join us as we invite God to challenge our answers together! (John 11 - September 24, 2023)

God’s Answer for Exhaustion - 6

September 17, 2023 18:57 - 25 minutes - 13.4 MB

If we have been giving all our labor what does not satisfy us, join us as we lean in and learn from God and receive what will truly fill and satisfy our souls! (2 Kings 5, Song of Songs 2:14-16 - September 17, 2023)

God’s Answer for Exhaustion - 5

September 11, 2023 14:01 - 41 minutes - 22.2 MB

Disappointment takes us out! It leaves us exhausted and empty and just makes us want to lie down and quit. But how are we to hope, when our expectations so regularly fail us? Join us as we lean in and discover how to truly hope in God! (Isaiah 40:27-31, Romans 4 & 8, Proverbs 13:12 - September 10, 2023)

God’s Answer for Exhaustion - 4

September 03, 2023 18:22 - 42 minutes - 22.1 MB

Lies and our inability to receive God's Truth, disconnect us from His grace and power for living, leaving us exhausted and worn out! But...if we'll allow His Truth to confront what we actually believe we can move out of despair into glorious hope! (John 21, Psalm 139 - September 3, 2023)

God’s Answer for Exhaustion - 3

August 27, 2023 18:17 - 36 minutes - 19.6 MB

Exhaustion is one of the key ways, we get taken out of the race! Join us as we tackle how to lean in when it threatens to derail us!

God’s Answer for Exhaustion 2

August 20, 2023 18:41 - 46 minutes - 24.1 MB

We're all in a race, but how can we know we'll get to the finish line or even to the next rest stop? Join us as we dive into God's secrets for endurance!  (Hebrews 12, Philippians 4, Romans 8 - August 20, 2023)

God’s Answer for Exhaustion - 2

August 20, 2023 18:41 - 46 minutes - 24.1 MB

We're all in a race, but how can we know we'll get to the finish line or even to the next rest stop? Join us as we dive into God's secrets for endurance!  (Hebrews 12, Philippians 4, Romans 8 - August 20, 2023)

God’s Answer for Exhaustion

August 13, 2023 18:34 - 42 minutes - 22.4 MB

If we follow God in this marathon of life, we WILL become exhausted and even despair, but thank God, that is exactly where He meets us! (1 Kings 19 - August 13, 2023)

God’s Answer to Exhaustion

August 13, 2023 18:34 - 42 minutes - 22.4 MB

If we follow God in this marathon of life, we WILL become exhausted and even despair, but thank God, that is exactly where He meets us! (1 Kings 19 - August 13, 2023)

Free Indeed - 2

August 06, 2023 20:14 - 56 minutes - 31.1 MB

Join us as we step into the freedom Jesus called us to! (2 Corinthians 5:14-21 - August 6, 2023)

Free Indeed - 1

July 30, 2023 19:36 - 55 minutes - 29.6 MB

Jesus died to free us from the power of sin and death, but many of us still having once received it, struggle to receive it again when we stumble! Join us as we discover the Good News of the Gospel anew! (Hebrews 10 - July 30, 2023)

Rooted & Grounded - 18

July 23, 2023 19:09 - 56 minutes - 29.3 MB

There is one key really to living free. Free from fear, free from torment and living free to love! And most of all to live in Christ! Join us, as we together unpack this together! (Matthew 6 & 18 - July 23, 2023)

Rooted & Grounded - 17

July 16, 2023 18:32 - 50 minutes - 26.9 MB

Anxiety is crushing so many of us! Join us as we discover the path to freedom from it's death grip! (Matthew 5-6 - July 16, 2023)

Rooted & Grounded - 16

July 09, 2023 19:49 - 50 minutes - 27 MB

We are called to live by every Word that comes from the mouth of God. But how? Practically? How do live from God's voice today and relate it to God's voice in days gone past in the Bible? Join us as we dive into this today! (July 9, 2023)

Rooted & Grounded - 15

July 02, 2023 17:13 - 43 minutes - 23.8 MB

God has called us to enter into His rest, but when we rest, we tend to simply feel lazy or apathetic. So what does He mean, and how can we learn to rest in a world of insanity? Join us as we dig into the Scripture to learn how! (Exodus 20, Hebrews 4 - July 2, 2023)

Rooted & Grounded - 14

June 25, 2023 18:50 - 48 minutes - 26.6 MB

Each of us have very real needs! But if we're not careful, our needs can become idols that actually keep us from God and from receiving the very thing we need! Join us as we unpack the story of Elijah and discover for ourselves what is most important! (1 Kings 17-19 - June 25, 2023)

Rooted & Grounded - 13

June 18, 2023 19:38 - 36 minutes - 19.6 MB

Jesus gave us a mission to go out into all the world and make disciples of all nations, but even though the disciples had been with Jesus for 3 years, they still needed power - and so they were told to wait until the Holy Spirit came upon them to do what only He could do in and through them...and the same is true for us today! (1 Corinthians 13 - June 18, 2023)

Rooted & Grounded - 12

June 11, 2023 21:00 - 51 minutes - 28.2 MB

In this life in Christ, we will have trouble and difficulty, and there will be some hard days, but how we respond will determine whether we continue to grow and thrive are wither and pull back. Join us, as we discover how to live, like Jesus in this world! (Romans 5:1-6 - June 11, 2023)

The Sound & the Altar

June 04, 2023 18:54 - 44 minutes - 23 MB

Join us as we discover the power and the purpose of the voice God has placed in each of us!

Rooted & Grounded - 11

May 28, 2023 20:08 - 49 minutes - 27.6 MB

One of the things we love is that the Bible doesn't show us how perfect people lived, but how a perfectly Loving God worked in and through imperfect people, giving hope to us all! Join us as we watch the early church walk out Jesus' command to go and bring the Gospel to the world and learn how we can do the same!

Rooted & Grounded - 10

May 22, 2023 14:32 - 38 minutes - 20.7 MB

And we're not called to do this life alone, and scripture tells us he puts the lonely in family, but how do we do life together? Join us as we dig in to watch the early church in action! (Acts 2 - May 21, 2023)

Rooted & Grounded - 9

May 15, 2023 18:41 - 45 minutes - 23.6 MB

Mothering & Fathering are the best examples of what covenant love looks like! Join us as we explore what it means that God fathers & mothers us, while we also get healed from our own past parenting experiences! (Exodus 19-20 - May 14, 2023)

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