Restoring a Repentant Adulterer

If a man wants to be married but is too young to pursue it, how can he keep his desires in the right place? Pastor John offers five weapons for the fight. 

Sorrow and joy are not just sequential emotional states: first sorrow, then joy. Miraculously, we can experience overflowing joy in the midst of deep sorrow. 

How can we delight in the good work we do while keeping our work in its proper place? Pastor John situates daily work within God’s larger purposes. 

Leaving a church is a very common experience for people today for a number of reasons. Sometimes leaving is the result of work-relocation, church planting, or a new life stage. Sometimes leaving is the result of false teaching, sinful leaders, compromise, or other difficult situa ... Show More

I want to talk about something that is tough, but super important - forgiveness, reconciliation, and repentance.  For years, I struggled with what others expected me to do versus what God told me. It was a constant battle because these opinions came from people I deeply respected ... Show More

“Admit your faults to one another and pray for each other so that you may be healed” (James 5:16 TLB). The first step of forgiveness is admitting your guilt. In this message, Pastor Rick shares how to take the next step of forgiveness—by accepting responsibility for your sin. 

If you look at the particulars Christian teachings, the particulars don’t look that different from many other ethical systems. The difference is that Christianity is never interested in moral behavior simply as moral behavior. In every instance, putting on the new self means to r ... Show More

  What is forgiveness? What does forgiveness mean? If I forgive my husband for something, what does that look like, biblically? It may mean canceling a debt. Or, does it mean you don’t talk about it anymore and you continue like everything is fine? That isn’t biblical. It isn’t a ... Show More

We know the Church is on the move, restoring things that have been lost in preparation for Jesus’ return. BUT…we can’t see where we are going if we don’t know where we’ve been. We can’t know what must be restored if we aren’t aware of what was lost. In this message, Pastor David ... Show More

After he broke his promise to Jesus, Peter wept bitterly. Peter was an absolutely broken man in the profoundest possible way, and yet within weeks he was poised as the leader of a new movement, about to become one of the most influential leaders in the history of the world. What ... Show More