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Acts

What did God originally want His church to look like? This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson gives us an intro to our new series, Acts. His heart for this series is that we would look at this book like a ministry manual for how to live a spirit filled life. We pray that as you listen to this message your heart comes alive to the fact that the stories of Acts are not just for yesterday, but today.

God is Happy

For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Tyler Dresbach finishes off our Joy of the Lord series with a message titled God is Happy. Before we existed, the trinity spent their days delighting in joy with each other. That same delight is what Jesus died to bring us into. We pray that as you listen to this sermon, your heart is awakened to a God that is not just in a good mood, but also longs to pour His unbridled ...

The Joy of Service

Joy is a great indicator for whether or not we are operating out of the flesh or out of the Spirit. This week, co-pastor Cathy Kerton-Johnson leads us through the Joy of Service. She flips the script on the Joy of the Spirit. Challenging us to view them as encouraging indicators that we are walking in the Spirit, rather than a list of attributes to strive to produce out of our own strength.

The Joy of Intercession

What is the purpose of Intercession? Why is it our joy? This week, Dawn Biddle answers those questions. She starts by unpacking what the definition of intercession is and ends by challenging us to practice being a people of prayer.

The Joy of Worship

This week, worship pastor Tyler Dresbach speak on the Joy of Worship. He opens by unpacking John the Baptist’s response to Jesus’ ministry. John responded in Joy at the work of Jesus redeeming the bride. We pray that as you listen to this sermon you, like John feel more free to respond to the work of Jesus in joy.

The Joy of Jesus

Our second week in our series on Joy is focused on the Joy of Jesus. Jesus laid His life down for the Joy set before him, and His life is full of moments where he prayed to the Father that we would have joy and have it completely. As you listen to this sermon, we pray that your expectation for joy in your life is raised to the level that Jesus desired for you.

The Joy of the Lord is Our Strength

The Joy of the Lord is Our Strength! Cathy Kerton-Johnson kicks off our new series with a dive into Joy. Why does God encourage us to party after we repent? Because we are called to look at what He’s done instead of how we’ve failed! We pray that as you listen to this sermon it would become easy to remind yourself of the victory Jesus has given us and that joy would flow from that practice.

Fear

This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson continues our Sin series with a message on Fear. We pray that as you listen to this sermon you are encouraged and drawn closer to the heart of the Father.

Final Sin Sermon

Want to know how to not sin? Fall deeply in love with Jesus. Freedom from sin is only ever in grace. Not law, or performance. To close out our Sin series, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson reminds us that Jesus said “If you love me, keep my commandments.” Our love is what pulls us into his will. As we love him, we will follow him! We pray that as you listen to this sermon you fall more in love with Jesus and your need for Him.

Lust

We have an advocate with our Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. No other sin feels as obviously pervasive in our culture as the sin of Lust. This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson encourages us to set out eyes on Jesus and the victory He’s won for us.

Unforgiveness

When we forgive, the gospel is proclaimed. What is at stake when we do not forgive? This week Joe Biddle unpacks just that. There is no sin that can be committed against that is greater than the weight of the sin that Christ took to the cross for us. We pray that as you listen to this sermon, you feel emboldened to trust the process the Holy Spirit is leading you on when it comes to forgiveness in your own life.

The Devil

The devil is a legalist. When we sin, we give him a legal, real, place. This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnon explains why there are some sins we just can’t shake and how we can break these sins off at the root. The glory of the gospel is that strongholds are actually really easy to dismantle all we need to do is repent and submit.

Truth in Love

The word has to be our foundation for everything This week Nicholas Kerton-Johnson takes a look at the phrase “speak the truth in love.” Where have we become apathetic? Scared? Where have we adopted the world’s ways?

Flesh

The flesh is not neutral. Take it off life support. We continue our series on Sin with a message from Nicholas Kerton-Johnson on the Flesh. He points out the strong language that the Bible uses when it refers to the Flesh. Often times, we believe we can manage our sin when Christ died and rose so that our sin could be put to death.

A New Nature

God doesn't call us saved sinners. He calls us sons and daughters. This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson goes back to Genesis 1+2. He dives deep into the relationship of Adam and the Father in the garden so we can get a clear glimpse of how God responds to our sin.

Understanding Sin

Now, every sin is conquered, and we can be saved. This week, Joe Biddle walks us through Genesis 3 in his message “Understanding Sin.” What was the first sin? What should it mean to us that Christ has conquered sin. These are areas we explored this week as we learn how to delight in Jesus more fully.

Sin

Will Kingdom Life be a place where He is adored? This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson kicks off this new sermon series on sin. He starts by explaining that it is time we bring Jesus back into the focus of the church and realize that He is the only one who could have carried the weight of all of our sin. We pray that as you listen to this that you would be brought deeper into the revelation of why Jesus died for you.

Gifts of the Spirit: Commissioning

Teach me what it means to be your friend, God In our final week of our Gifts of the Spirit series, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson reminds us that every time we operate in the gifts it must come from the Spirit, in love, for the glory of God.

Miracles Pt. 2

God's movements are crazy. Let's just accept that go after them Week two of diving into the Gift of Miracles! This week Nicholas Kerton-Johnson challenges us to believe God at face value. We pray that as you listen to this sermon you would become more expectant of the Lord wanting to move through you.

Miracles

What if God is more excited about miracles than we are? Back to our Gifts of the Spirit series! This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson challenges us to examine how our hearts respond to the idea of miracles today. We pray that as you listen to this sermon your heart would be awakened to the possibilities that come with the power of the Holy Spirit living inside us.

Jesus - Isaiah 16

“The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”). This week, we focus our attention to Jesus in the midst of the Christmas season. We pray that as you listen you are drawn closer to the Father through the knowledge of the Son.

Gift of Faith

We cannot strive after the gift of faith, but we can cultivate it. What is the difference between the faith of every believer and the gift of faith? This week Nicholas dives into the supernatural gift of faith that flows in the moment and partners with God. We pray that as you listen to this sermon your expectation for God to move would rise and that you would respond on your knees as you get to know Him more intimately.

Healing

God defines Himself as a few things - one of them is "I am the God who heals you" This week, Matt Orvis dives deep into the scriptures to help us meditate on what healing meant to Jesus and how he operated in it. Jesus became like us in the way that he had the same experience of life as us. He set aside his Godliness, completely depending on the Holy Spirit in His ministry. Healing isn't about just trying to go out and pray for people. It's about knowing God more in a way where we are more ...

Words of Wisdom

Wisdom is more than just the Proverbs, and it's more than intelligence, experience, or age. This week we continue our spiritual gifts series with the gift of words of wisdom. Nicholas points out that Solomon asked for wisdom and got it, but he's also a man that failed. He had a gift from God but he didn't have THE gift, the Spirit. God will also give wisdom in how to act appropriately in certain circumstances. Will we follow His Spirit even if it doesn't make sense?

Prophecy

Paul tells us to especially desire prophecy because it's the first open door to transformation in people. This week, Cathy Kerton-Johnson speaks to us about the gift of Prophecy. She highlights the fact that spiritual gifts are about God wanting to bring life out of what is dying. Prophecy is speaking out of a sense of the Holy Spirit speaking - in the speaking there is power. We pray that as you listen to this sermon you'll begin to sense gaps in people and places, ask the Lord questions, ...

The How of Discernment

The gifts are given in love and need to be used in love. We are only ever focused on what God is doing. This week, Nicholas opens with some instruction on how the gift of discernment tends to operate. After that, he invited Cathy and Amanda up to share what the gift of discernment looks like in their lives.

Tongues Part 2

The Gift of Discernment

The church needs to bring the reality of the spiritual or the world will. This week, Nicholas highlights the gift of discernment, because the enemy is still active, and God still wants to set people free. Any general will tell you that intel is central. Discernment is the Lord’s central intelligence agency. We pray that as you listen to this message you would be awakened to the fact that you don’t have to be afraid of the spiritual realm but that he equips us for every good work!

Tongues and Interpretation of Tongues

Spiritual Gifts

A People of Thankfullness

“Thanksgiving is an antidote to unforgiveness and offense” Nicholas Kerton-Johnson opens up this week about his journey with thankfulness. He highlights thankfullness as not only what ushers us into the presence of God, but also as an act of spiritual warefare. We pray that as you listen to this sermon your heart would respond with thankfullness for all He has done for you.

Childlikeness

“All is for His glory” This week, Henrik Soderstrom speaks on the Father’s Heart and Childlikeness. He asks the question, what if we respond to The Father with the same trust that our earthly children respond to their earthly parents?

Forgiveness

“I want us to be a community where we do not let offense take root and we do not make place for unforgiveness.” This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson lays out his vision for our church to become a community where freedom feels tangible. One way we see that is through forgiveness. We forgive as we were forgiveness, just as we love as we have been loved.

The Holy Spirit

This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson spent some time reviewing what we’ve been talking about in this series, and exploring some revelations deeper.

Discernment

“God wants to reveal Himself to us.” Continuing our Abide/Activate series, Tyler Dresbach teaches us about the Gift of Discernment. He highlights the importance of us practicing the gift of discernment, the differences between discernment and intercession, and how we see discernment used in the bible. We pray that as you listen you would recognize discernment in your own life pointing you to the fact that He is the Lord.

Post Pentecostal People

This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson reminds us of our DNA as a church. We were founded on the belief that Holy Spirit is alive and moving. It is by the Holy Spirit that we are filled with the fruit of the Spirit and are reminded that we are children of God.

Holy Spirit as the Great Translator

This week, Cathy Kerton-Johnson introduces us to the Holy Spirit as the Great Translator. She uses her experience as someone who is living outside of their native country to teach us what it is like to live fully as a child of God in the Kingdom of Heaven. This, can only be done through the filling of the Holy Spirit.

Pentecost

Happy Pentecost! This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson preached about the event of Pentecost, and reminds us of how desperately we need the miracle of the Holy Spirit inside us.

Baptism and the Holy Spirit

This week we celebrated our church family with a baptism of Liesel Dresbach! Nicholas Kerton-Johnson took this opportunity to remind us of the joy of baptism and repentance as we prepare for Pentecost next week.

The Gifts of the Spirit (Prophecy and Words of Knowledge)

No one is disqualified. We are all on a journey of knowing and experiencing Christ more. This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson outlines what the gift of prophecy is, why it was given, and shares some of his favorite stories concerning prophecy.

The Character of the Holy Spirit

The spirit is the life that flows through the vine into us. *We apologize to the quality of this recording. Thank you for your grace while we make the most of our technical difficulties. This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson moves us into the Activate season of our Abide/Activate series. He reminds us of the character of the Holy Spirit and how valuable He is to our lives. He finishes by calling us to repent for any passivity, and scoffing we have participated in when it comes to the Spirit.

Pruning

This week, Nicholas Kerton Johnson walks us through horticulture 101 to explain why pruning is so important, and how the true gift of pruning is that He does it and we do not!

Fruit of Abiding

What is the fruit that your life can produce for those around you? This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson encourages us to think about what fruit we want to see developed in our lives and then abide in the love of Jesus and see that fruit produced.

Peace as a Product of Abiding

Peace is not passive, it is fitted for battle. This week, Jizelle Orvis talks to us about her process rediscovering biblical peace. She dives into the nature of Jesus as the Prince of Peace, how we can cultivate peace in our live, and how the Father wants us to respond to anxious thoughts.

Obedience while Abiding

Obedience is a passionate response to the love that He’s shown us. This week, we continue our journey through John 15 with Nicholas Kerton-Johnson. He explores how Jesus set himself before us as the perfect model for obedience. As children of God, we are called first to abide, and then to obey.

Surrender

He calls us first to fall in love…and then to obey. This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson continues this series on Abide/Activate by talking about surrender. He draws us deeper with reasons why surrender should be our response to Jesus, what we may need to surrender, and signs that we are not as surrendered as we think we are.

Hearing God Part 3

This week, Luke Anspach finishes his miniseries on hearing the Lord’s voice. He walks us through a few exercises on how we can uniquely hear God’s voice for ourselves, and give us steps to try when we are seeking to partner with what the Lord has spoken to us.

Abiding to Believe

We are being asked to focus on the promise. This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson continues our Abide/Activate sermon series. He dives deep into what it means to be grafted in the life of Christ.

Hearing God Part 2

Why do we actively seek God’s voice? In part two, Luke shares with us some easy ways to practice hearing God’s voice, promises to hold on to as we grow in listening, and casts vision for why this is so vital for our everyday life.

Hearing God Part 1

“Oh to abide in You, is to remain in Truth. We’re turning our ears to hear, the voice of the Father. We’re making out home in You, sinking down deep our roots. We’re planting our hope within the soil of Your heart.” This week, elder, Luke Anspach continues our series on Abiding and Activating. What does it mean to Abide? Connection. Luke takes time to walk us through the story of the Father restoring connection with us, and His desire to have a thriving relationship with us built on communi...