What would you do to ensure you could have the best possible life right now? What’s it worth to you? This week Pastor Derrick shares how there’s a flaw in the 7-step approach to finding a good life. Listen as we discover how we already have access to our best life now.
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It’s a matter of identity. We put a lot of weight into identity and how we see ourselves. But the fact of the matter is, a lot of our identity is determined by things that really don’t matter. This week Pastor Derrick wraps up his Counter Culture sermon series by answering an identity question: How do I know that I’m a Christian?
The Christian church needs to wake up to the challenges it’s facing in the world today. It’s not all roses and candy. We’re called to live differently than society. But for some reason, we find ourselves just floating down the lazy river of culture. This week Pastor Derrick shares about the value of marriage and how God designed marriage for a specific purpose.
In a day and age riddled with personal agenda and opinion, it’s easy to miss the point. Our culture would have us believe that life is a matter of choice or decision. But where else in our life is anything a real matter of choice? Listen this week as Pastor Derrick shares why life matters, and for that matter…whose life matters.
Today Pastor Derrick discusses a topic that we’ve all had a problem with at one point. Listen as we learn about the negative effects of stress and the counter cultural way to live in the face of stress.
We all know what we do. We know where to go and what to do in most every situation. The problem is we rarely know WHY we do what we do. Listen as Pastor Derrick gets real about worship and why we do it.
Pastor Derrick just returned from the National Youth Gathering with several of our youth. This week he shares their experience and reminds us that In Christ Alone we are rooted and built up for the life God has in store for us.
With violence and atrocity all around how are we as followers of Jesus to respond? What are we to say? How are we to act? What are we to do? Listen as Pastor Derrick shares how we can learn from Jesus how best to respond in times of violence.
Have you ever done the trust fall? You know the fall where you face away from someone and then fall backward trusting that they’ll be there to catch you? If you’ve ever done this you know that it is way harder than you think at first. I remember doing this one time and thinking that I’d be able to do this with no problem. I knew the guys behind me, and I was confident that they’d catch me. But when it came down to actually falling blindly into their arms, I just couldn’t do it. Continue reading
No one likes to talk about the cost especially when you’re trying to gather followers to do something new. But Jesus tells us right away – even before we begin to follow we know the cost. In this first message in our Discipleship 101 series, listen as Pastor Derrick shares the cost of following Christ.