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Exodus 3:13-15 "Names of God"
October 16, 2022 22:16 - 46.5 MBMessage: Exodus 3:13-15 "Names of God" God revealed his sacred, divine Name to Moses and the Israelites as He called them to follow Him into the wilderness. This is the Name everyone was careful not to speak in vain. God is known by many other Names as well, which reveal His nature and Who is is for us in so many different circumstances. What is God's Name for you in this season of your life?
2 Peter 3:8-9 “Sayings of Saints: Mary of Egypt”
October 02, 2022 21:57 - 28.1 MBMessage: 2 Peter 3:8-9 “Sayings of Saints: Mary of Egypt” “Blessed is God who cares for the salvation of all Souls” In this message we’ll look at God’s heart for all humanity. God does not like how our sin destroys one another, but He love us endlessly. We can cultivate our attitudes to be the same as God’s, who does not desire that any should perish, but truly desires the healing and restoration of even our enemies. There is great freedom in overcoming love with hate.
Psalm 42:1-8 “Sayings of Saints: Augustine of Hippo”
September 27, 2022 14:24 - 35.3 MBMessage: Psalm 42:1-8 “Sayings of Saints: Augustine of Hippo” “Our heart is restless until it finds its rest in You” We are often unsatisfied in life because we are looking for life in all the wrong places, or we are needing life to be some certain way. The cure for finding fullness of life is to find ourselves in God. In God we already have everything we need, including unconditional love and meaning.
Romans 8:12-17 “Sayings of Saints: St. Benedict”
September 19, 2022 00:36 - 42.8 MBMessage: Romans 8:12-17 “Sayings of Saints: St. Benedict” St. Benedict encourages us to “Listen and attend with the ear of your Heart” We are often searching outside ourselves for God’s wisdom and direction. But God is often speaking to us in a more personal, inner way. He shows up in many ways throughout any given day. He usually speaks to us more about ourselves and our own inner thoughts than He does about other people or external situations. He is always calling us toward Christlikeness...
Psalm 139:1-12 “Sayings of Saints: Amma Theodora”
September 06, 2022 01:51 - 43.6 MBMessage: Psalm 139:1-12 “Sayings of Saints: Amma Theodora” Amma Theodora tells the story of a monk who thought if he left his monastery he would leave all his troubles and struggles behind, but he discovers this is not the case. There was something he was not considering. Amma Theodora’s word to us is “Wherever you go, there you are.” In this message we discover that we cannot run from our own issues and there is usually more to be learned by ‘staying’ than ‘leaving.’ Not only can we not o...
Luke 5:15-16 “Sayings of Saints: Abba Moses”
August 21, 2022 19:44 - 51.2 MBMessage: Luke 5:15-16 “Sayings of Saints: Abba Moses” As we begin this new series, “Sayings of Saints”, we start off with the Desert Father Abba Moses, who lived in Egypt between 330AD – 405AD. Abba Moses instructs followers of Jesus saying, “Go, sit in your cell, and your cell will teach you everything.” The “cell” was the monks place of silence and solitude, where he or she would be confronted by the inner life, which would direct their conversation with God. For the Christian who des...
Genesis 50:15-21 “God’s Hidden Hand”
August 14, 2022 23:24 - 42.8 MBMessage: Genesis 50:15-21 “God’s Hidden Hand” In this final message from our Genesis series we’re encouraged to let God be God. Since we don’t have to play God, we don’t need to teach anyone any lessons or put anyone in their place. We can also trust that God’s Hidden Hand is at work redeeming even the broken actions and places of this world. We can trust our lives to Him, especially when our lives aren’t going as we had hoped or planned.
Genesis 48:12-20 “Less is More”
August 08, 2022 01:47 - 48.9 MBMessage: Genesis 48:12-20 “Less is More” Time and again in Scripture we see God lift up and even favor the unlikely and those who otherwise would have no position or status in society. There is little he can do for those who only seek their own benefit and advancement. But those who were at a disadvantage are more ready to realize their dependence on God. Even more, if they don’t become conceited, they will seek to lift up the underdog themselves. In this way God has always meant for huma...
Genesis 47:1-12 “Seasons of Life"
July 31, 2022 22:21 - 38.9 MBMessage: Genesis 47:1-12 “Seasons of Life" After discovering that Joseph is alive and ruling under Pharoah in Egypt, Jacob moves the whole family to this foreign land to survive the famine. Little do they know this move will last 400yrs for his descendants. But like other seasons of his life, this season also serves a purpose. We each have different seasons of life to go through, and each season serves a purpose. What are some of the seasons you’ve been through and how have they shaped ...
Genesis 37:1-11 “Dreams and Where they Lead Us”
July 25, 2022 01:11 - 57 MBMessage: Genesis 37:1-11 “Dreams and Where they Lead Us” Joseph has his dream of his brothers and parents bowing down to him and they resent him. The fact that Joseph had a special coat given to him by his father means Jacob had big dreams for him. When Joseph receives the dream telling him that his disgruntled brothers will one day bow down to him, he is excited for the change. But the fulfillment of God’s vision for Joseph will not come easily or as expected. The path to ascension will ...
Genesis 35:1-15 “Looking Back, Moving Forward”
July 17, 2022 22:29 - 37.4 MBMessage: Genesis 35:1-15 “Looking Back, Moving Forward” After Jacob returns home, he makes it a point to return to Bethel, where he first encountered God. There he looks back over his life journey and remembers how God has faithfully brought him through. This gives him the courage to move forward in the direction God is currently calling him.
Luke 15 (the Prodigal Son)
July 17, 2022 22:27 - 81.3 MBScripture passage: Luke 15 (the ProdigalSon) This Independence Day weekend, we will look at the story of two brothers… both of whom were more interested in the inheritance of the father more than a relationship with him. Maybe you identify with the prodigal… the one who wandered off, the one who made bad choices, the one who knows he screwed up, the one who is filled with regret. Or maybe you identify with the older brother… the one who always stayed home, always tried to keep your ...
Genesis 32:22-31 “Wrestles with God”
July 11, 2022 01:24 - 38.2 MBMessage: Genesis 32:22-31 “Wrestles with God” In this passage, Jacob wrestles with a stranger through the darkness of the night. The struggle ends up being a blessing, though he’ll always walk with a limp. Our lives too can be characterized as a struggle through a dark night, but also a wrestling with God. To wrestle with God is to be forever changed.
Genesis 28:10-22 “The House of God”
June 27, 2022 00:24 - 49.9 MBMessage: Genesis 28:10-22 “The House of God” While Jacob is on a long journey, he makes a startling discovery. He has an encounter with God and believes himself to have found The House of God, the place where Heaven and Earth overlap. But the real revelation is much deeper than that. The House of God is never far from any one of us.
Matthew 4:18-22 “Called”
June 20, 2022 02:17 - 60.2 MBMessage: Matthew 4:18-22 “Called” This Father’s Day we are also celebrating the completion and graduating Discipleship/Confirmation Class. In this message we will look at Jesus’ calling of his first disciples and how He calls each of us to leave behind something else and follow Him.
John 16:5-16 “Intertwined”
June 12, 2022 22:03 - 39.9 MBMessage: John 16:5-16 “Intertwined” On this Trinity Sunday we’ll talk about how God exists in eternal relationship. God is not some distant, detached being, but is eternally personal and engaged. From the Love of the Trinity overflows the outpouring of humanity. Human beings are by nature relational beings. Our greatest wounds and greatest joys are experienced within the context of relationships. In this way, we are like the God who Created us.
Isaiah 7:14, 9:6-7“Birthing and Co-Creation”
June 05, 2022 21:50 - 48 MBMessage: Isaiah 7:14, 9:6-7“Birthing and Co-Creation” In this message, we will talk about how each of us is called to birth the divine vision in and through our lives. In this way, we are ‘co-creators’ with God. This birthing includes our own spiritual formation and the personal ministry God does through us.
Duet 5:15, Luke 5:15 “Remembering Rightly”
May 30, 2022 01:37 - 36.3 MBMessage: Duet 5:15, Luke 5:15 “Remembering Rightly” In this message, we take a look at what it means to Remember Rightly. There is a Redemptive way of Remembering, that looks not only at the hurt we’ve suffered, but at the Restoration God brought and brings about for us.
Luke 1:39-56 “Birthing the Holy: Incubation”
May 15, 2022 22:36 - 61.9 MBMessage: Luke 1:39-56 “Birthing the Holy: Incubation” After the Annunciation came the Incubation period, where God’s Call on Mary’s life began to form within her. In the same way, so much of our life is actually the development of God’s Call on our lives maturing within and through us.
“Birthing the Holy” (Part 2) Luke 1:26-38
May 08, 2022 19:40 - 53.1 MBMessage: “Birthing the Holy” (Part 1) Luke 1:26-38 This Mother’s Day we begin a two part series, learning from Mary’s relationship with God. In this first part, we’ll be looking at Mary’s acceptance of God’s call and the work God was doing inside of her. Her life is a pattern for the life we’re called to have with God.
Mark 16:1-8 “Becoming Human Again”
May 01, 2022 21:44 - 48.6 MBMessage: Mark 16:1-8 “Becoming Human Again” On this third Sunday of Easter we reflect on the significance of Christ becoming human and what Jesus’ fully human experience means for our fully human experience.
Luke 24:13-35 “Tombs to Talks”
April 25, 2022 01:25 - 75.1 MBMessage: Luke 24:13-35 “Tombs to Talks” On this second Sunday of Easter, we look at the place of the Empty Tomb in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre to the Talk on the Road to Emmaus. The tomb is found empty and soon after Jesus appears to two disciples on a road going toward the village of Emmaus. Jesus continues to appear to us on the many roads of our lives, speaking life and hope.
John 12: 12-19 “Palms”
April 11, 2022 13:29 - 51.5 MBMessage: John 12: 12-19 “Palms” On this Palm Sunday, Jesus makes a grand entrance as he comes riding into Jerusalem. His entrance is filled with meaning and understood properly, it is at odds with what the crowd wanted and expected. Even the disciples didn't understand the implications until after Jesus' resurrection. In the same way, our understanding and image of God continues to grow and be redefined as we grow in our relationship with Him. What are the old images of God that weren't ac...
The Book of Esther: More Than a Story: Esther
April 05, 2022 00:54 - 94.8 MBMore Than aStory: Esther Text: The Book of Esther Main idea: God is always writing a story in this world… often in unseen and unlikely ways. We join His greater story as we courageously live into the role he has written for us with integrity and grace.
The Book of Ruth: More Than a Story: Ruth
April 05, 2022 00:52 - 87.3 MBMore Than a Story: Ruth Text: The Book of Ruth Main idea: The story of Ruth is the story of ALL of God’s people. It speaks to an extravagant and beautiful redemption that invites those who are far away to join the story of God’s family.
Genesis 25:19-34 “The Gift”
March 20, 2022 20:06 - 54.9 MBMessage: Genesis 25:19-34 “The Gift” Esau was given a divine gift in being the firstborn of the family. Unfortunately, his lesser pursuits gained his total devotion. In this way, Esau despised his birthright. Jacob, on the other, desperately wanted this gift for himself. What he didn’t realize is that even his desire for it was because God has already called him to it. In the end, the birthright isn’t what mattered most. Instead, it was the desire of one’s heart and what one pursues that m...
Genesis 22:1-14 “Giving Up, Holding On”
March 13, 2022 21:40 - 51.1 MBMessage: Genesis 22:1-14 “Giving Up, Holding On” During lent people often choose to ‘give up’ something for time. In our passage this week, Abraham is asked to give up the ‘Son of Promise.’ It doesn’t make sense, since through Isaac Abraham was to have descendants as numerous as the stars. God never intended to sacrifice Isaac, but He did intend for Abraham to decide what was most central to his life, The Promise or his life with God? What does relationship with God mean to us? Do we love...
Genesis 21:1-21 “Tears and Laughter”
March 06, 2022 21:34 - 46.6 MBMessage: Genesis 21:1-21 “Tears and Laughter” In Genesis 21, the long-awaited Promise of a son is fulfilled, “at the very time God had promised him.” At the same time Sarah’s tears are being turned into laughter, Hagar’s laughter is turned into tears. But she too is given a Promise, though it too will take an extended time to come about. In this chapter we experience the reality of life’s tears and hardships, but also the hope of God’s Promise, that will one day turn our tears into laughter
Genesis 20 "Faith of the Faithless"
February 28, 2022 01:38 - 50.6 MBMessage: Genesis 20 "Faith of the Faithless" Today's passage challenges our assumptions. Abraham, a man of faith, lacks it, while a faithless man follows God's lead. God is at work in the lives of unbelievers, while sometimes we might miss his work in our own lives. Today's reading invites us to remember that we may not be as faith filled as we think we are and others may not be as faithless. Our Faith is not 'us vs them' but 'One God for one and all.' John Calvin calls this 'Prevenient G...
Genesis 20 1-12 “Seaso"sIt's Time to Get Real"Genesis 45 "It's Time to Get Real"
February 28, 2022 01:38 - 50.6 MBMessage: Genesis 20 "Faith of the Faithless" Today's passage challenges our assumptions. Abraham, a man of faith, lacks it, while a faithless man follows God's lead. God is at work in the lives of unbelievers, while sometimes we might miss his work in our own lives. Today's reading invites us to remember that we may not be as faith filled as we think we are and others may not be as faithless. Our Faith is not 'us vs them' but 'One God for one and all.' John Calvin calls this 'Prevenient G...
Genesis 45 1-12 “Seaso"It""s Time to Get RealGenesis 20 e Faithless"
February 28, 2022 01:38 - 50.6 MBMessage: Genesis 20 "Faith of the Faithless" Today's passage challenges our assumptions. Abraham, a man of faith, lacks it, while a faithless man follows God's lead. God is at work in the lives of unbelievers, while sometimes we might miss his work in our own lives. Today's reading invites us to remember that we may not be as faith filled as we think we are and others may not be as faithless. Our Faith is not 'us vs them' but 'One God for one and all.' John Calvin calls this 'Prevenient G...
Genesis 20 1-12 “Seaso"sIt's Time to Get Real"Genesis 45 "
February 28, 2022 01:36 - 49.5 MBMessage: Genesis 45 "It's Time to Get Real" Pastor Stan Hagemeyer
Genesis 45 "It's Time to Get Real"
February 28, 2022 01:36 - 49.5 MBMessage: Genesis 45 "It's Time to Get Real" Pastor Stan Hagemeyer
Genesis 45 1-12 “Seaso"It""s Time to Get RealGenesis 20 e Faithless"""Faith of the Faithless"
February 28, 2022 01:36 - 49.5 MBMessage: Genesis 45 "It's Time to Get Real" Pastor Stan Hagemeyer
Genesis 18 & 19 “Don’t Look Back”
February 13, 2022 23:19 - 69 MBMessage: Genesis 18 & 19 “Don’t Look Back” When the cries of the oppressed in Sodom and Gomorrah go unheard and unheeded, God steps in to deal with the injustice. The innocent are sought out to liberate, but some find it difficult to leave the old ways behind. This is a story about the justice of God and the self-destructiveness of sin. It is a call to consider what we are ultimately living for and seeking in this life.
Genesis 18 “The Visitor”
February 06, 2022 21:04 - 70.8 MBMessage: Genesis 18 “The Visitor” While Abraham is at home in Hebron, near the Oaks of Mamre, three visitors make an appearance. Abraham is quick to offer middle eastern hospitality. He seems to realize that these visitors are more than mere strangers. He finds himself playing host to God. Paul tells us to offer hospitality to the stranger, because we may be entertaining angels unaware. Jesus takes the call to care even further.
Genesis 17:1-8, 17-22 “Covenant Strong”
January 30, 2022 22:25 - 55.3 MBMessage: Genesis 17:1-8, 17-22 “Covenant Strong” God establishes an everlasting Covenant with Abram. God changes Abram’s name to Abraham, signifying that Covenant Relationship changes us. The change will be a process. The process requires our focus, that we might be intentional about following the practices of the Covenant. While we may deviate from the practices of the Covenant, a lifelong focus continues to bring us back to it and produces transformation in us and through us.
Genesis 16 ‘The God Who Sees Me”
January 24, 2022 00:44Message: Genesis 16 ‘The God Who Sees Me” In this message we will discover that our working out of what we think is God’s calling on our lives involves some guess work. We don’t always get it right, but maybe that’s part of the plan. We don’t always see God clearly, but God always sees us. This is a good thing, because God knows us better than we know ourselves and his plan is to prosper us and not to harm us. -Themes: Journey, Trust, Learning/Growing
Genesis 15:7-21 “The Struggle is Part of the Promise”
January 16, 2022 22:29Message: Genesis 15:7-21 “The Struggle is Part of the Promise” We want God to part of our lives because we want better lives. With God, life is better. But better does not necessarily mean free of struggles or even ‘easier.’ As revealed in God’s Promise to Abraham, his descendants would go through great struggles as part of the Promise. Struggles will be part of our life journey. God promises to be with us and ultimately bring us successfully through these struggles. The success includes ...
Genesis 14:17-24
January 09, 2022 20:48 - 35.4 MBMessage: Genesis 14:17-24 When Lot was captured, Abram set out to rescue him from his enemies. In so doing, he happened to help out some of the local kings. When Melchizedek, king and high priest of Salem, offers him his due reward of the land he liberated, Abram declines it. Abram could have owned a large portion of the Promised Land after conquering the foreign enemy kings. But he chooses to trust in God’s Time and Way and apparently this isn’t it. In the same way, we are called to place ...
Mark 1:35-39 “Take the First Step”
January 02, 2022 22:10 - 26.2 MBMessage: Mark 1:35-39 "Take the First Step" New Years Message: Where do I want to go? What is something that I want to begin or pick up again?
Philippians 2:5-11 “Like Us”
December 27, 2021 01:09 - 19.6 MBMessage: Philippians 2:5-11 “Like Us” God loves humanity so much that He becomes like us. This is the amazing gift God offers to the world, revealed through Christ and the Christian faith. When we celebrate Christmas, we are celebrating how God demonstrated His amazing love and became human in order to save humanity from itself. The other side of this truth is captured well by St. Athanasius in the 4th century AD when he declared that “God became like us so that we might become like Him.”...
Luke 2:41-52 “Living & Learning”
December 20, 2021 01:32 - 33.4 MBMessage: Luke 2:41-52 “Living & Learning” This life had something to teach the Son of God. Jesus spent his first 30 years mainly in a small town, growing and learning about life. Life is about living and learning. We get to take part in deciding how the lessons will shape us.
John 1:1-5, 10-14; Luke 2:4-7 “In the World”
December 13, 2021 15:12 - 28.2 MBMessage: John 1:1-5, 10-14; Luke 2:4-7 “In the World” -In the beginning, God created the world, making order out of chaos. In Christ, God came into the world, entering our chaos as a human being and living among us. In the same way, Christ enters into each of our lives. He enters into our chaos with us.
Romans 12:17-19 “Leave Room for God”
November 29, 2021 16:02 - 37.1 MBMessage: Romans 12:17-19 “Leave Room for God” We’re called to live at peace with others, in as much as it is possible on our part. Sometimes, it just doesn’t seem possible and the healthiest thing we can do is create a safe distance between us and another person. What God doesn’t want you to do is repay evil for evil. There may come a point when it is best to leave a relationship and entrust the other person to God. Even in doing this, you can want God’s very best for them. You can contin...
James 1:19-20 “Those People”
November 21, 2021 22:49 - 32.6 MBMessage: James 1:19-20 “Those People” Due to the growing divisiveness of our society, we are all coming into contact with increasingly opinionated and aggressive people. They may be neighbors, co-workers, social media contacts, or even family members. In this message we will explore how we let go of bitterness and act in kindness and compassion. It is an intentional move toward building others up in place of tearing down. It is the practice of encountering others with the same Grace with wh...
Deuteronomy 2 & Joshua 4 “Remembering the Wilderness”
November 21, 2021 22:44 - 22.8 MBMessage: Deuteronomy 2 & Joshua 4 “Remembering the Wilderness” What, in the Western mindset, should have taken Israel only a couple of weeks, took forty years. The goal of Israel’s sojourn in the wilderness wasn’t reaching the Promised Land so much as it was the transformation that took place on the journey. This was the Function of the Wilderness. Rebekah Joy writes, “God does not seem overly concerned with us reaching our desired destination as quickly as possible. The roundabout way, ...
James 1:19-20 “Unoffended”
November 15, 2021 00:30Message: James 1:19-20 “Unoffended” In a culture increasingly divided politically and socially, Christians are not immune from becoming ever more easily offended. News, social media, and personal conversation is focusing more and more on our differences rather than what we have in common. This is to be expected between members of secular political parties, but as followers of Jesus Christ, we’re called to engage others differently. It begins with learning how not to be so easily offended....
Matthew 4:1-11 "The Rhythms of Becoming"
October 31, 2021 22:25 - 41.8 MBMessage: Matthew 4:1-11 "The Rhythms of Becoming" Many of the wilderness experiences mentioned in the bible are drawn out of 40 year or 40 day experiences. The idea is that our change and transformation takes a drawn out period of time. Jesus not only underwent 40 days in the wilderness, but he also made it a habit to withdraw to 'wilderness/deserted places' to spend time with God. This means that as a human being, Jesus developed healthy spiritual life rhythms as he grew in his life with...