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Following the Holy Spirit

Galatians: Rescued & Recruited - Week 4 In the midst of our daily routines and distractions, it's easy to forget that we are engaged in a spiritual battle. Just as wars rage across the globe, a war wages within each of us—a battle between our spirit and our flesh. However, in today's passage from Galatians, Paul offers us a solution to this internal conflict: Letting the Holy Spirit Guide Our Lives Galatians 5:16 presents us with a powerful directive: "Let the Holy Spirit guide your lives...

Live In Freedom

Galatians: Rescued & Recruited - Week 3 Living in Freedom: Finding Balance in Faith Are you the type of person who tends to lean towards extremes? Do you find yourself diving headfirst into whatever you believe in, whether it's assertiveness, exercise, or saving money? While passion and dedication are admirable qualities, when taken to the extreme, they can often lead to unhealthy outcomes. Avoiding Extremes in Theology The same principle applies to theology. Over the years, I've come to...

Saved By Faith

Galatians: Rescued & Recruited - Week 2   New, Life, Gillette, Church, Bible, Mike, Wilson, Wyoming, Grace, Salvation, GalatiansDespite the trials and tribulations many of us face, it's crucial to remember that joy is a choice. While it's okay to grieve and struggle, we mustn't allow ourselves to remain stuck in negativity. Instead, we must actively choose joy, celebrating the good things that God is doing in our lives. The Gospel: Good News Indeed Galatians‬ ‭2‬:‭17-20‬ 17 But suppose ...

On A Team

Galatians - Rescued & Recruited - Week 1 Joining the Team: Discovering Your Purpose Welcome to the kickoff of our new teaching series, "Galatians: Rescued and Recruited." Today, we dive into the profound message of this ancient letter and explore what it means to be part of a team. But first, let's unpack the backstory. Meet the Author: The Apostle Paul The book of Galatians is a letter penned by none other than the Apostle Paul, a towering figure in the early Christian movement. Paul, f...

Easter 2024 - He Paid Your Fine

Easter 2024 Discovering the Path to Eternal Life Easter is more than just a holiday; it's the story of Jesus bridging the gap between Earth and Heaven. He walked among us, performed miracles, taught profound truths, faced crucifixion, conquered death, and ascended to Heaven. Today, I aim to address the most crucial question anyone can ask: What is the Way to Heaven? In a world that often preaches self-belief, the path to Heaven isn't found in ourselves. Belief in God is the key. Despite ...

Serve Faithfully

Shut Your Pie Hole - Week 5 Serve Faithfully We're reaching the final installment of our series, "Shut Your Pie Hole." Who's ready to move on from that phrase? Throughout this series, we've been examining a pie chart to help us navigate our journey with Jesus. Each week, we've explored different aspects of our faith, from community to generosity, faith growth, and worship. Today, we delve into a crucial component of our walk with Christ: serving faithfully. 1 Peter 4:7-11 7 The end of t...

Worship Enthusiastically

Shut Your Pie Hole - Week 4 Worship Enthusiastically In our journey of spiritual growth, we encounter two types of habits: vices and virtues. Vices, such as isolation and anger, hinder our progress, while virtues, like generosity and study, propel us forward. Today, we delve into an action that can either be a vice or a virtue: worship. Understanding Worship as a Habit True worship transcends fleeting emotions; it perseveres even when circumstances are bleak. It's easy to praise when lif...

Grow Consistently

Shut Your Pie Hole - Week 3 Grow Consistently Welcome, everyone, to another impactful week of our teaching series, "Shut Your Pie Hole." Today, we delve into the theme of "Growing Consistently." But before we proceed, let me pose a question for reflection: On a scale of 0 to 5, how spiritually mature do you perceive yourself to be? Now, let's clarify something fundamental: spiritual maturity isn't merely about knowledge acquisition; it's about the application of that knowledge through lov...

Share Generously

Shut Your Pie Hole - Week 2 Share Generously Welcome to the second week of our "Shut Your Pie Hole" series! We're glad you're here. Now, let's dive into today's message on sharing generously. Before we delve into the topic, let's address the elephant in the room: the title. "Shut Your Pie Hole" might raise a few eyebrows, especially if you're a pie enthusiast like me. Growing up, pies were a staple in my household, thanks to my mom's incredible baking skills. From pumpkin to blueberry to ...

Connect Regularly

Welcome to the "Shut Your Pie Hole" series! Curious about the name? Well, it's all about examining our spiritual habits and identifying areas where we can improve. Just like a pie with its slices, we'll assess various spiritual disciplines to help you grow. But first, let's take a closer look at what this series entails. Discover Your Personal Spiritual Agenda (PSA): Our journey begins with the PSA Pie. Each slice represents a different spiritual discipline, and we're here to help you iden...

Communication

We're delving into the vital aspect of communication within marriage, exploring how biblical principles can enhance our relational dynamics. Did you know that regular church attendance can reduce the risk of divorce by almost 50%? This statistic underscores the efficacy of God's wisdom in fostering healthier marriages. Foundations of Communication: Before we proceed, it's crucial to emphasize God's unconditional love, even in the context of divorce. While divorce is a painful reality for m...

Trust

Fix your Marriage - Week 2 Welcome to our ongoing series, "Fix Your Marriage." Today, we dive into the cornerstone of any successful marriage: trust. Without trust, no marriage can truly flourish. When two individuals commit to marriage, they intertwine their lives and pledge to share everything. They say, "I put my trust in you," promising honesty and transparency regardless of the challenges they face. Foundations of Trust: Scripture urges us to confess our sins to each other (James 5:1...

Dissatisfaction

Our theme verse, Ephesians 5:31-33, sets the stage: "A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one. This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband." Learning from the Good Almost everyone has encountered the impact of divorce, either personally or through someone close. This series is not just ab...

Grace, Hope, and Holy Living

Grace, Hope, and Holy Living The essence of Christian living is beautifully encapsulated by the interplay of grace, hope, and holy living. Peter, drawing from his personal encounters with Jesus, expounds on the transformative power of God's grace leading to hope and culminating in a life marked by holiness. Peter, a firsthand witness to Jesus' grace, emphasizes its foundational role in our spiritual journey. Grace, defined as an undeserved merit or blessing, forms the starting point of our...

The Good Stuff

Romans 12:1-2 (The Message) 12 1-2 So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from y...

What is Grace?

There is no formula to start a relationship with God. Did you know there’s not just one way to teach someone the gospel message? When you read the New Testament, you’re constantly reading different prescriptions for salvation. In one place it says believe and you’ll be saved. In another place, it says to believe and be baptized. Another place says repent and believe. Another verse says we’re saved by faith. Jesus told one guy he needed to sell everything he had and give it to the poor to be...

Buckets Leak

All of us are like a bucket with holes. When we give our lives to God, we're filled with passion and excitement about our relationship with God, but faster than we want it to Passion fades. When we're in a relationship the honeymoon faze is the best..."it's so cute how she holds her coffee with 2 hands and sips it...then we're married 2 years, and ..."could you PLEASE STOP slurping your coffee!" This happens in our relationships with God. So, what do we do? We have to go back for more. In...

Celebrate Recovery

Christmas Eve 2023

The manger Jesus was born in wasn’t pretty. God's Son deserved a castle, but his beginning was humble. But why? Why was Jesus laid in a manger? Luke 2:7 [Mary] laid [Jesus] in a manger, because there was no lodging available for them. Because there was no room for Him in the house, so He was born among the sheep. They went home for the holiday and their family didn't prepare them room. - Do you know this song? Joy to the world, the Lord is come Let Earth receive her King Let every heart...

How is Life Made New?

We've all found ourselves stuck in life. Either we developed a habit that's beyond a New Year's resolution fix. Or we got a divorce or had a moral failure or we just feel purposeless, & we want something new. How? Faith We believe that when we put our faith in Jesus He makes our lives new. He will lead us on a journey of becoming the people He created us to be. It'll be rocky. There will be setbacks, but He will continually renew us. ‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭11‬:‭1‬ ‭NIV‬‬ Now faith is confidence in...

Rooted

My mom has a green thumb. My wife and I will kill a plant then right before we throw it away, Mom says, "Wait, I can save it." She'll find a piece of the plant that is alive, she'll replant it, and it will grow. I believe something a little controversial. I believe God has a green thumb. If God puts His seed in you, it WILL grow. If you will let it, it will change you. He will plant it. He will water it, and He will make it grow. The apostle Paul said, I planted the seed, Apollos watered ...

That Changes Things

Christmas is all about things becoming new…or being made new, transformed, and changed because of the story of Christmas.  And that started all the way back in the original story of Christmas for everyone involved.  Let's look into that story, into the beginning of the story, before the shepherds in the fields and the wise men get involved. Luke 1:26-38 26 God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a village in Galilee, 27 to a virgin named Mary. She was engaged to be married to a man named ...

Gratitude

Five Paths to a Grateful Heart: Learn to be grateful for imperfect gifts: Body, Spouse, Kids, Job. There is nothing in your life that is perfect. Learn gratitude in times of anxiety and frustration Learn to express openly and honestly. Devote yourself to worshiping God regularly. Develop the discipline of noticing. Luke 17:11-19 Ten Healed of Leprosy 11 As Jesus continued on toward Jerusalem, he reached the border between Galilee and Samaria. 12 As he entered a village there, ten me...

Father Wounds

Good Good Father - Week 4 We're talking about dads today so I wanted to start by looking at some of the great American dads of our time. ...Maybe they aren't the greatest fathers. This is going to be a little heavier than usual so I wanted to start off on a light-hearted note. We're talking about father wounds. Some people call them daddy issues or father complexes, but the truth is, that our fathers affected all of us on a deep level. Most of this message is for people who have very deep...

Remembering to say Thanks

ood Good Father - Week 3 With the help of Psalm 103, David is going to help us to better celebrate Thanksgiving.  Help us to better acknowledge God in this week that we sometimes focus too much on good food, good football, and good Black Friday bargains! Not saying that those things can’t be part of this fun week that is in front of us…but David kinda thinks we should keep the most important thing in front of us, so that those other things can become even better. David is going to help u...

6 Attributes of A Good Father | Good Good Father - Week 2

The other day, I asked my dad for advice about parenting, and this is what he said: To parent you gotta be a Father like God, a judge like Judy, a psychologist like Dobson, a teacher and tent maker like Paul, a coach like Andy Reid, a provider like Joseph, a healer like Jesus, a comforter like the Holy Spirit, an entertainer like Petra. In other words, parenting is hard. The good news is we have the perfect example to follow. God is the perfect father. So I think we can learn a lot about ...

Perfect Love | Good Good Father - Week 1

Good Good Father - Week 1 We're starting a series today called Good, Good Father, and we are talking about my favorite metaphor of God. God is our Father, our perfect Heavenly Father. And we're not just asking is God our Father. We're asking is God a good Father? The question the world is asking about God is: Is God good? In order for God to be good He has to be perfectly just and perfectly loving. Being just or being loving isn't enough. You have to be both. But most people are asking fr...

Faithful, Righteous, Prostitute? | Generous IRL - Week 4

Have you ever felt unqualified, unworthy, or unloved? Ever been in a place in life where you truly felt like a fish out of water? The funny thing is, some, or maybe many of you, feel that way. As we talk this month about being Generous IRL many of us think, yeah, right…like God could do anything with this. I am out of place,  Surely not me. But you know as I have searched the Scriptures, and read some of the amazing stories of some of those amazing people whom God raised up to do extraordin...

Servant Leadership | Generous IRL - Week 3

Leadership will change you. It's kinda like how you learn more by teaching. Why? Because leadership changes you. Leaders have to go out on a limb. They take risks, and those risks either have good or bad consequences. Leadership requires sacrifice. Over the years we've developed a distinct culture at New Life and we sat down to identify the things that make us distinct. We came up with an acronym: We are the B.R.I.D.E. The acronym is fitting because the Church is the bride of Christ. T...

Why Get Baptized? | Generous IRL - Week 2

Let’s focus on the IRL part of the series. Today we’re talking about Baptism. Baptism is how we demonstrate God’s grace and His generosity in real life. We’re taking His incredible sacrifice, His incredible gift, and we demonstrate it, in real life. Why do we do it? Well, it’s what I say to my sons all the time: because Dad said so. God told us to get baptized and I’ve got one goal today, to make sure every Christian adult has been baptized. Have you been baptized? One day in Jerusalem, P...

Share Jesus | Generous IRL - Week 1

How old were you when you started to learn about sharing? Maybe you learned about it because you were asked to share, and you did not want to share.  Maybe you shared something with someone and you loved the feeling of being appreciated. I want us to jump into one of my favorite stories because even though these people lived way before Jesus ever walked the earth, they share a great picture of how to share Jesus or the attributes of Jesus with people who need some Jesus in their lives.  We...

The Fig Leaf Cover Up | Kingdom Freedom - Week 5

At some point in your life you have delt with fear, guilt, shame and condemnation. Let's see how Adam and Eve dealt with them in Genesis 3:6-7 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise,[a] she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves ...

Does the Bible Condone Slavery? | Kingdom Freedom - Week 4

We're in the 4th week of a series called Kingdom Freedom. We've been talking about how we can never truly be free unless we are set free by God. All other freedom is temporary, but Kingdom Freedom is eternal. If you are still a slave to sin, it doesn't matter how much to pretend to be free, you're not truly free. But I can't finish this series without addressing what the Bible says about slavery. There's this rumor spreading around the world that the Bible condones slavery, or that at least...

The Strength of God's Kingdom - Week 3

We're in a series called Kingdom Freedom, and we're focusing on the freedom that being a part of God's Kingdom gives us. What is the Kingdom of God? When you read the phrase Kingdom in Scripture, I think it would be helpful for us to replace the word kingdom with rule, reign, or dominion. God's Kingdom is everything that he rules over. So if you have a big view of God's power, then you think it's a great kingdom, but if you have a weak view of God, it's a weak kingdom. The strength of a k...

Freedom In The Church - Week 2 - Kick Off Sunday

There is one goal for this message and it's an invitation. I want all of us who call ourselves Christians to make a commitment to the Church. Recommit your life to the Church, prioritize it, to sacrifice for it. Why? Because without it, very few of us would have ever become Christians and those of us who did become Christians, wouldn't have stayed that way. My whole life I've heard people say, "Oh, church is old school. I don't need church to be a Christian." And there's a little truth in ...

Freedom Requires Sacrifice - Week 1

I want to tell you about a Navy Seal named Michael Monsoor. Michael was serving in Ramadi, Iraq. It was a terrible place then. There were loudspeakers all around the city with men yelling, "Kill the Americans!" and on September 29, 2006, Mike made the ultimate sacrifice for two of his friends. They were on a roof and a grenade bounced off Mike's chest. Mike could have escaped, but his friends couldn't. So, he threw himself on the grenade & absorbed the blast. He died. His friends survived. ...

What is wrong with teens? | 1 John - Week 4

How would the average adult describe a teenager? In most cases the description is usually negative and if you ask teens what they think adults would describe them as it is usually negative. In fact, for the last 20 years, Nick Rasse has been asking his high school class this question and these are the top responses. Stupid Lazy disrespectful don't care about anything We all know words hurt and if we constantly hear negative things, it produces negative results. For example, If we say 5...

Who is the anti-christ? | 1 John - Week 3

I grew up terrified of the antichrist. The dispensational church I grew up in taught us that there's an evil antichrist who's going to control the world and kill all the Christians he can. He'll cut your head off if you say you're a Christian, and if you deny Christ so that you don't get your head cut off, you go to Hell. We were terrified of the antichrist, and because we were so scared of him, we found him everywhere. Every president that we didn't agree with, was the antichrist. Every fam...

It's All About Love | 1 John - Week 2

Love is a theme that runs throughout the book.  John talks about what we shouldn’t love, how we are loved, how we know what love is, and how we should act accordingly. And as John jumps into this theme in the early part of the book…he makes it clear that this is NOT something new.  7 Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment for you; rather it is an old one you have had from the very beginning. This old commandment—to love one another—is the same message you heard before. 1 John 2...

God Is The Light | 1 John - Week 1

Jesus said, Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. (Matthew 11:28) We're going through the book of 1 John and there's a theme in the beginning of 1 John about God being the light in a dark world.

Why Should We Trust the Bible? | The Perfect Library - Week 3

The satan didn't tempt Adam and Eve to murder, steal, or tell a lie. He tempted them to question the Word of God. His tactics haven't changed. So, it is incredibly important that we can trust the Bible. We can't talk to the eyewitnesses of the events in the Bible, so we believe almost everything we believe because of the Bible. So can we trust the Bible? I say yes. Absolutely yes and I'd like to give you some reasons. Why should we trust the Bible? God wrote it. (2 Timothy 3:16) It Work...

How to read the Bible? | The Perfect Library - Week 2

What if I told you there's such a thing as a perfect library?... Well, there is. The Bible. I've been really intentional to tell people that the Bible is a Library, not a book. Why do I do that? Because that's what it is? What's the first thing you do when you walk into a library? You ask Which book should I read first? If the Bible is a book, you don't ask that. You just start reading in the beginning. If someone recommends a book to you, you don't say, where should I start reading? Thi...

The Whole Story | The Perfect Library - Week 1

In this message, Pastor Mike tells us the full story that is presented in the Bible. He starts at the beginning when God created the Heavens and the Earth and ends with the current church and what we are called to do. This is a great message to watch or listen to get a bird's eye view of the entire story. It is fascinating to see how all the stories are connected and tell a larger grand story of God.

Should We Evangelize? | Heaven & Hell - Week 5

A creation always has a creator. There's no such thing as an intelligent creation without an intelligent creator. So what is our job? Our job is to convince the world they've been lied to. It's our primary objective. It's our purpose. Billy Graham said, "I believe that one of the great problems in the church today is that we’re not really convinced that it is our responsibility to win people to Christ. We think it’s the responsibility of the evangelist or the pastor or the missionary. But...

What is Hell? | Heaven & Hell - Week 4

We will all die. Every minute 100 people die and on the way to death, God wakes us up with little deaths. Die to self. Die to sin, it's little deaths that help us seek God. He allows pain because it wakes us up. We're talking about Hell because we need fear to wake us up. If you jump out of a plane, why do you put a parachute on? Fear. Fear can be good, and if you're going to Hell, you should be afraid. Jesus talked about Hell more than anyone. He talked about Hell more than anyone in any re...

A House In Heaven | Heaven & Hell - Week 3

What is Heaven? | Heaven & Hell - Week 2

What is Heaven? People don’t look forward to Heaven enough. Therefore, Pastor Mike spoke about what we know about Heaven. A lot of us think it’s a 24/7 church service, so we don’t want to go there, but it’s so much better than that. Heaven will be a physical place. God is going to recreate the Heaven that exists today, and He’s going to recreate Earth, and those two places will make up the new Heaven and it won’t have a sea. Why? Many ancient cultures correlated the sea with evil spirits. ...

Who Gets Into Heaven | Heaven & Hell - Week 1

Heaven & Hell – Week 1 Who Gets Into Heaven 80% of Americans believe in an afterlife. Americans can’t agree on anything, but we agree on this. So you’d assume there’s a debate on every corner about how to get there. Nope. Most people are content to take what’s given to them. – So what about you? Are you a good person? To that question, almost everyone says, ‘I think so.’ Almost everyone. Why? Because we all think about the bad people in the news we choose to watch and in the movies, and ...

Sexual and Spiritual Intimacy | First Things First - Week 3

What is the most important thing in your relationship with your spouse? What is your relationship built on? Every relationship has a hierarchy of values. Here are four kinds of intimacy from least important to most important. Physical intimacy. It's the least important. Why? You've only got one body to give and there's only so long you can go. Your body is going to age, and get less & less attractive. Physical intimacy is very limited. Social intimacy. You can be social with more than on...

How God Protects Us | First Things First - Week 2

First Things First - Week 2 - How God Protects Us God doesn't always protect us physically, but when we put Him first, He gives us peace and eternal protection. I know that seems like a really simple idea, but the version of Christianity that is dominating America today is a very physically focus Christianity. It's all about God making my human life better. But Jesus said, I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. John 16:33 I think that's the mark of someone who knows ...