Where is your hope found? Has your hope shifted to something that could potentially disappear, break or wash away? Paul warns Timothy to be careful not to let people place their hope in things that eventually will go away. Listen this week as Pastor Derrick shares where our hope should be found.
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Do you have proper margin in your life? How closely do you live to the edges of your ability? Margin is the gap that exists between what you have and what you need. How closely do you live to the margins in your life? Listen as Pastor Derrick shares how margin is what allows us to better find Jesus in the everyday.
This Sunday we start a new series at Living Word Galena titled Be Rich. This series is all about looking at our lives with a different set of lenses. This series isn’t only about finances, although admittedly there is a financial aspect to our being rich. We’re also looking at time and energy and reflection. How do you spend your life? That’s the real question we’re addressing over the next several weeks. Continue reading
In this week’s message we dive into Deuteronomy 4:1-10 and discover an astounding truth about success! God revealed to Moses his formula for a successful life. How do you define success? How do you achieve that success?
This week Pastor Derrick takes us on a journey of self-discovery to check out hearts when it comes to success and re-align priorities so that our definition of success matches the life we’re supposed to be living.
*We had a minor technical difficulty a few minutes into the message so you’ll notice a fairly abrupt change in sentences. We only lost a couple of sentences and did our best to blend these together as seamlessly as possible. Thanks for your understanding.
Who doesn’t want to be successful? Some of you will put on your humble pants and step onto your soapbox, start wagging your finger and pointing out how this idea of successful living isn’t appropriate for a follower of Christ. Put the finger away. Calm down. Listen up. I know this sounds a little self-serving and even completely contrary to what you would normally expect to read from a pastor, but hear me out. This week at Living Word Galena we’re talking how to be successful. Continue reading
Jonah ran from God, repented in the belly of a fish and was restored by God. But why? It’s all about his relentless love. What does it mean for God’s love to be relentless? In this week’s message listen as Pastor Derrick shares the why behind the mission statement of Living Word and what it means to be a part of the greatest love story this world has ever seen.
After Jonah ran from God, repented for running away, God restored him back to his former status again. This week Pastor Derrick shares how God restores us even when we aren’t worthy.
When we run far enough from God there’s only one way back. For Jonah it came in the belly of a fish. But for us it happens through something we call repentance. This week Pastor Derrick shares the importance of repentance and what it means. We’ll also discuss what happened to Jonah in the belly of that fish and why God did what he did with Jonah.
This week’s message covers chapter one of Jonah in our series Finding Jesus in Jonah. We look at how Jonah ran away from God’s plan but Jesus ran toward God’s plan. Jesus ran in that we might run up to the Father. Before listening it might be helpful to read Jonah 1 to get the story fresh in your head.
We had some minor audio issues that caused about 45 seconds of this week’s message to be lost. Pastor Derrick asked what would you do if God asked you to go tell some evil people they did wrong? Jonah ran away. Would you run to correct them or go in the opposite direction?
Listen this week and see if you can find Jesus in Jonah!
When we see clouds we see constant reminders of the love of God for us. Listen this week as Pastor Derrick shares the importance of the covenant God made with Noah and what it means for us today.