Christ’s resurrection provides important details about what we can expect in the future, especially regarding Christ’s return and heaven. After Easter we’ll begin a two-week series that will help us understand what happens to us after we die and how Christ’s return will impact us.

One Week To Live 

Financial Crisis

The current economic downturn is the subject of newspaper headlines, internet blogs, and coffee shop conversations.  During the month of February it will also be the subject of our messages.  Actually, Jesus will be the subject.  But we’ll explore what it means to follow him during a “Financial Crisis.”  

 Following Jesus

 Following Jesus is something that every Christian is called to do. It's not a small task even in the religious parts of life -- church, Bible studies, family. But when it comes to following Jesus in the non-religious parts of life -- work, school, finances -- it becomes especially difficult. This November, we'll take a look at what it means to follow Jesus in the ordinary, routine parts of life. 

Over the next two months, we’ll be learning what it means to share Christ’s love in the 21st century in caring, non-threatening ways.  The thought of sharing your faith may cause you to break out in hives.  But take heart!  It’s not what you think.  It’s as easy as a walk across the room.  We’ll start with a look at the greatest walk across a room.

One of the most intriguing people in the Bible is King David. He was a man who knew great success and great failure. Yet he was called “a man after God’s own heart.” For the remainder of the summer we will be studying the early life of David to gain a better understanding of God’s heart.

If Jesus is risen and we embrace it as truth, we should change. Things should be different. But how do we live on the other side of the resurrection? For the next few Sundays, we will discover what it means to live a new, resurrection life.

Sin.  Now there’s a word that is not neutral.  It evokes images of street corner preachers who rail against it.  It reminds us of last weekend even though we’d prefer to forget.  We enjoy it immensely and suffer from it immensely.  Like cancer, it eats away at us and threatens our very lives.  But unlike cancer, there is a cure.  For two weeks leading up to Easter, we will be looking at sin in light of its cure. 

If God was only interested in our money, He would’ve set it up like the electric company – every month we would get an invoice. However, God is far more interested in our hearts and in a relationship with us. In this series we’ll take a look at why we’re so sensitive when we talk about money in church, and we’ll wrap up with a look at accountability and planned giving.

Prayer is one of the most widely practiced, but least understood activities that a person does. We pray, but often wonder whether our prayers are making any difference. Does God even hear? We'll tackle some of these questions in this series on prayer.

The Christmas season is a time of high expectations.  We anticipate shopping and gifts and time with family.  But if we’re serious about getting to the bottom of Christmas, then there are a few other things that we should expect as well.  Most of these things aren’t as benign as gifts under the tree or an apple pie.  Some of them are difficult, even painful.  Still, these things were part of Christmas when it first happened.  They belong to Christmas today also.  Come and find out what to expect this Christmas.

Jesus gave birth to an incredible movement - one that would sweep across the Roman Empire and eventually the world. It was a time full of intense fellowship, amazing miracles, and God's power. We may forget it in 2007, but that fellowship, those miracles, and God's power are just as available today as they were then. In order to experience that power, we need to reconnect with our "roots." For the next several weeks, that's what we'll be doing: reconnecting with our story in the book of Acts.

In the words of the classic Led Zeppelin song, “There are two paths you can go by.”  One of those paths is an attempt to live for yourself, to gain the American Dream, to live the high life of fun and pleasure.  The other path is the challenge to live beyond yourself, to make a difference in your corner of the world, to find real soul-satisfaction through simple acts of kindness and service.  These are the two paths.  Only one of them will lead you to what you’re after.  We’ll be exploring that path on Sundays in September and October.

They are the subject of much debate.  They cost a federal judge his job.  They are well-known, but not known well.  They are the Ten Commandments.  Starting July 1, they will be the topic of our summer messages.