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40 Days of Community

40 Days of Community

Our church is excited to come together this September for a 40 Days of Community church wide study! We will kickoff this event on Sept 17th, so be sure to join a Community Group if you haven't already. We invite the whole church to participate in this study and...

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Join Us For 40 Days Of Prayer

Join Us For 40 Days Of Prayer

Life doesn’t always go as planned. At some point, you’ll face impossible obstacles and barriers — situations that make you think there’s no way this is going to work out. But God wants to help you handle uncertainty when it comes your way. He is ready and willing to...

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Life After Easter

Life After Easter

Every year we partake in the same holy rituals of Lent and Easter. We spend forty days preparing our hearts and quieting our minds for the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. We fast and meditate on our depravity, our inability to save ourselves. And then Easter...

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Life After Easter

My Sheep Hear My Voice

There is a somewhat obscure Christian book trilogy for kids called Tales of the Kingdom by David and Karen Mains. The whole story is an extended allegory of the broken world we live in and the true king’s plan to one day redeem his people. At the center of the...

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The Heart of the Gospel

The Heart of the Gospel

A couple of weeks ago, our family brought home a puppy. He’s a wrinkly little hound dog who wants to spend all day licking your ears and biting your clothes and generally making a very cute nuisance of himself. We adore him. But we have also picked up on the reason...

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Christmas Special Events & Services

Christmas Special Events & Services

It's the most wonderful time of the year! We are so excited to welcome you in as we celebrate the coming of our Lord and Savior this Christmas season. We hope you will join us for our Sunday Services as well as the special events that we have planned to help make this...

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Truly Becoming Disciples

Truly Becoming Disciples

We read in Psalm 1:1-2, “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.” Those who meditate on the...

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The Depth of Holy Week

The Depth of Holy Week

And now we find ourselves at the beginning of another Holy Week. There are many daily and weekly liturgical rhythms that allow us to remember the work of Christ, but at Holy Week we find new depth and meaning in the contemplation of the gospel. On Palm Sunday we...

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Spend Yourself

Spend Yourself

During this season of Lent you may have been participating in some of the church’s ancient rhythms and traditions by praying, fasting, or giving up something that you love. Others take something up, such as gratitude journaling or other beneficial spiritual practices....

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Whatever We Give, Jesus Blesses and Multiplies

Whatever We Give, Jesus Blesses and Multiplies

To paraphrase the author David Foster Wallace, there is no such thing as not worshipping; the only choice we get is what to worship, the classic obvious examples being power or money, although most of us worship ourselves most of the time. But, as Wallace says, a...

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