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Parables // The Pharisee and the Tax Collector Mar 12, 2023

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This morning Pastor Dylan taught on the parable of The Pharisee and the Tax Collector found in Luke 18 in which both men go into the temple to pray and the Pharisee uses his prayer to elevate his righteous actions while condemning the shortcomings of others. The problem wasn’t his behavior but that he believed that he could be justified by his behavior. We can easily fall into this self-righteous trap of comparison by thinking that we are better than other Christians because of what we do for God or the way we live our lives, but we must humble ourselves, stop relying on ourselves for justification, and admit that we need Jesus to transform our lives and restore us to who God made us to be.

Parables // The Barren Tree Mar 05, 2023

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Every single one of us is like the fruitless fig tree in the parable from Luke 13 that deserves to be cut down. We have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, but that's not the end of the story. In this parable, the caretaker is committed to making this tree fruitful. That's Jesus! He is doing all the work in order to create the conditions in us through which we would come to repentance. Our job as the tree is to simply cooperate with what the caretaker is doing so that we may bear fruit.

Parables // The Wheat and The Weeds Feb 26, 2023

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We have an enemy who loves to sow division, discouragement, duplicity, and distraction in an effort to sabotage the work of King Jesus in the world and in our lives. In this parable, Jesus is warning us of that and telling us it's not our job to worry about the tares. One day the farmer is going to take care of the tares. Our job is to mature and multiply, and trust that the farmer knows what He's doing.

Worship Service // February 19, 2023 Feb 19, 2023

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This morning the Holy Spirit was moving in powerful ways during worship, so we decided to lean into that and follow His lead.

Parables // The Workers in the Vineyard Feb 12, 2023

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The parable of the workers in the vineyard found in Matthew 20 is not actually about the workers or the vineyard, it is about a gift that you’ve been given by an extravagantly generous God in heaven, who kept seeking out the one’s that no one else wanted. The brokenhearted, the beaten-down, the overlooked, the forgotten.

This story tells us that life is not fair, and thank God it’s not because when we deserved justice, God gave us mercy. When we deserved dismissal and rejection, He chose us and welcomed us in. He pursued us, He came down to invite us into His vineyard – to give us a place to belong, a purpose in life, and a home in heaven where we will be with Him for all of eternity. It is a gift that we could not earn, and do not deserve.

Parables // New Wine in Old Wineskins Feb 05, 2023

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In Mark 2, Jesus is saying that you wouldn't use an old piece of cloth to patch a garment or put new wine into old wineskins. Similarly, we can't just patch God onto our lives. We can't combine our way of life and God's way – we have to be totally transformed. We cannot receive the gospel of grace and remain the way that we are! We need a whole new wineskin, we need to be reborn, and we need to be “refilled” with the Spirit of God.

Parables // The Persistent Widow Jan 29, 2023

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Sometimes when we pray God says "yes." Other times, God says "no." And then there are those times when God says, "not yet" – those are the times that we're tempted to stop asking, seeking, and knocking. We live in a world of immediate gratification, and we’ve forgotten how to persist.

It’s in the “not yet” where we find out if we really trust God, His character, and His timing.

Is there something you’ve stopped praying for because you’ve lost sight of God’s purpose in it? Something you'd spent so long begging God for and it still hasn’t happened, and what began as a fervent prayer just began to fizzle out? Well today, God wants to breathe new life into those little embers, and reignite that fire. He wants to give you hope to begin again, to pray again, and not quit. He is a good, gracious, and just judge, and you can trust Him even when the answer is "no" or "not yet."

Parables // The Unforgiving Servant Jan 22, 2023

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This morning Pastor Rob taught on the parable of the unforgiving servant in Matthew 18 who was forgiven an enormous debt that he could never repay and then turns around and demands repayment of a much less significant debt from another man who owed him.

Jesus uses this illustration because the reality is, we are all the first servant in the parable who owes a debt that cannot be paid. It's a picture of the sin that Jesus paid for us. Some of us refuse to forgive because we just don't feel like it or because we want the person to know how much they've harmed us, but some of us are unwilling to forgive others because we have forgotten how much we have been forgiven.

The danger is if we do not forgive from our heart, and we hold onto bitterness, resentment, and grudges, we are the one who pays the price for it. We will experience the torment of being consumed by the thing or the person we are refusing to forgive.

Parables // The Two Builders Jan 15, 2023

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At the end of Matthew 7, Jesus tells a parable of two builders – one who built his house on the rock, and one who built his house on the sand. Jesus says in verse 24 "Everyone then who hears these words of Mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock." He's saying we have two options here...if we obey His commands and put His teachings into practice, we're wise. And if we don’t, we're a fool.
The modern Christian is not suffering from a lack of information, but a lack of application. See, you could show up to church for your entire lifetime, binge all the sermons you want, and complete every bible reading plan, but that is not going to do a single thing in you, for you, or through you unless you put His words into practice!
God’s invitation to us is to become active in our cooperation with Him as we live as people of the kingdom in a foreign land.

Prayer & Fasting Jan 08, 2023

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Fasting is not just self-denial, it’s self-denial for spiritual investment. You’re fasting in order to develop greater levels of intimacy, dependence, communion, and communication with God.

This is why biblical fasting is always intimately linked with the practice of prayer.

In today’s message Pastor Rob outlines what fasting is, 7 benefits of fasting, and different types of fasting in preparation for our church-wide 21-day fast starting on Tuesday, January 10.

Do you want to increase your faith this year? Do you want to see God work miracles in and through your life? Do you need guidance from Him for this next season? Fast and Pray with expectancy that God will speak to you.

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