from Philippians 4:4-8
St. Augustine once asked, “What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!”
Prayer is a vital element to a life spent following Jesus; it is critical in our connection to the heart of God…and yet, for many, it is one of the most difficult of the spiritual disciplines to feel like we do well. Over the weeks to come we will consider the why behind prayer; we will look at ways we can pray more fruitfully, we will consider the prayer Jesus taught us to pray and much more…all with the purpose of drawing nearer to the Lord and experiencing the fullness of a fruitful life.
w/ Vern Collins
from James 1:5-7
St. Augustine once asked, “What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!”
Prayer is a vital element to a life spent following Jesus; it is critical in our connection to the heart of God…and yet, for many, it is one of the most difficult of the spiritual disciplines to feel like we do well. Over the weeks to come we will consider the why behind prayer; we will look at ways we can pray more fruitfully, we will consider the prayer Jesus taught us to pray and much more…all with the purpose of drawing nearer to the Lord and experiencing the fullness of a fruitful life.
w/ Ed Glaize
from 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24
St. Augustine once asked, “What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!”
Prayer is a vital element to a life spent following Jesus; it is critical in our connection to the heart of God…and yet, for many, it is one of the most difficult of the spiritual disciplines to feel like we do well. Over the weeks to come we will consider the why behind prayer; we will look at ways we can pray more fruitfully, we will consider the prayer Jesus taught us to pray and much more…all with the purpose of drawing nearer to the Lord and experiencing the fullness of a fruitful life.
w/ Vern Collins
from Romans 8:22-27
St. Augustine once asked, “What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!”
Prayer is a vital element to a life spent following Jesus; it is critical in our connection to the heart of God…and yet, for many, it is one of the most difficult of the spiritual disciplines to feel like we do well. Over the weeks to come we will consider the why behind prayer; we will look at ways we can pray more fruitfully, we will consider the prayer Jesus taught us to pray and much more…all with the purpose of drawing nearer to the Lord and experiencing the fullness of a fruitful life.
w/ Vern Collins
from Hebrews 4:14-16
St. Augustine once asked, “What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!”
Prayer is a vital element to a life spent following Jesus; it is critical in our connection to the heart of God…and yet, for many, it is one of the most difficult of the spiritual disciplines to feel like we do well. Over the weeks to come we will consider the why behind prayer; we will look at ways we can pray more fruitfully, we will consider the prayer Jesus taught us to pray and much more…all with the purpose of drawing nearer to the Lord and experiencing the fullness of a fruitful life.
w/ Eric Heistand
from John 15:1-17
St. Augustine once asked, “What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!”
Prayer is a vital element to a life spent following Jesus; it is critical in our connection to the heart of God…and yet, for many, it is one of the most difficult of the spiritual disciplines to feel like we do well. Over the weeks to come we will consider the why behind prayer; we will look at ways we can pray more fruitfully, we will consider the prayer Jesus taught us to pray and much more…all with the purpose of drawing nearer to the Lord and experiencing the fullness of a fruitful life.
w/ Vern Collins
Combined Worship Gathering
from Luke 2:22-38
What is the next faithful step that God is calling you to take? The next faithful thing God is calling you to do? A life spent simply taking that next faithful step and doing the next faithful thing…even though that life may feel ordinary, becomes the grounds in which God not only meets you and encourages you, but also becomes the means by which you become more sensitive to the things of God in order that you may be an encouragement to those around you.
w/ Vern Collins
from John 1:1-18
6:00pm Christmas Eve Worship Gathering
w/ Vern Collins
Advent week 4
John 1:14
“The purpose of our journey is not so much to dwell in ‘the place from which Christmas came,’ but to allow that place to dwell in us, to return to our own country with christened eyes, to look upon our everyday surroundings with a baptized imagination.” These words of G.K. Chesterton’s capture beautifully the purpose of our journey through the season of Advent. As we journey these for weeks through the opening of John’s Gospel, as we see Jesus through the eyes of His friend, may we not rush too quickly ahead to Christmas, rather may we allow the journey of Advent to prepare us, to stir in us hope…and to change us in our anticipation of Christ’s coming.
w/ Vern Collins
Advent week 3
from John 1:10-13
“The purpose of our journey is not so much to dwell in ‘the place from which Christmas came,’ but to allow that place to dwell in us, to return to our own country with christened eyes, to look upon our everyday surroundings with a baptized imagination.” These words of G.K. Chesterton’s capture beautifully the purpose of our journey through the season of Advent. As we journey these for weeks through the opening of John’s Gospel, as we see Jesus through the eyes of His friend, may we not rush too quickly ahead to Christmas, rather may we allow the journey of Advent to prepare us, to stir in us hope…and to change us in our anticipation of Christ’s coming.
w/ Vern Collins
Advent week 2 (Combined Worship Gathering-Christmas Cantata)
from John 1:4-9
“The purpose of our journey is not so much to dwell in ‘the place from which Christmas came,’ but to allow that place to dwell in us, to return to our own country with christened eyes, to look upon our everyday surroundings with a baptized imagination.” These words of G.K. Chesterton’s capture beautifully the purpose of our journey through the season of Advent. As we journey these for weeks through the opening of John’s Gospel, as we see Jesus through the eyes of His friend, may we not rush too quickly ahead to Christmas, rather may we allow the journey of Advent to prepare us, to stir in us hope…and to change us in our anticipation of Christ’s coming.
w/ Vern Collins
Advent week 1
from John 1:1-3
“The purpose of our journey is not so much to dwell in ‘the place from which Christmas came,’ but to allow that place to dwell in us, to return to our own country with christened eyes, to look upon our everyday surroundings with a baptized imagination.” These words of G.K. Chesterton’s capture beautifully the purpose of our journey through the season of Advent. As we journey these for weeks through the opening of John’s Gospel, as we see Jesus through the eyes of His friend, may we not rush too quickly ahead to Christmas, rather may we allow the journey of Advent to prepare us, to stir in us hope…and to change us in our anticipation of Christ’s coming.
w/ Vern Collins
from Matthew 7:24-29
Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 5-7, we know as The Sermon on the Mount…but it is so much more than just a collection of wisdom and challenge and instruction from Jesus. It is at the heart of it, an invitation from Jesus to consider that there is another way, that there is a better way. To be open to the possibility of a new way is to acknowledge that our old way of thinking and operating and prioritizing, just isn’t enough…the call to turn and walk in a new way is not a threat, rather it is an invitation!
As we journey through these 13 weeks considering some of what Jesus lifts up for us in this teaching, may you hear the invitation to walk more deeply in connection with the One Who makes a new way possible.
w/ Vern Collins
from Matthew 7:13-23
Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 5-7, we know as The Sermon on the Mount…but it is so much more than just a collection of wisdom and challenge and instruction from Jesus. It is at the heart of it, an invitation from Jesus to consider that there is another way, that there is a better way. To be open to the possibility of a new way is to acknowledge that our old way of thinking and operating and prioritizing, just isn’t enough…the call to turn and walk in a new way is not a threat, rather it is an invitation!
As we journey through these 13 weeks considering some of what Jesus lifts up for us in this teaching, may you hear the invitation to walk more deeply in connection with the One Who makes a new way possible.
w/ Vern Collins
from Matthew 7:7-12
Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 5-7, we know as The Sermon on the Mount…but it is so much more than just a collection of wisdom and challenge and instruction from Jesus. It is at the heart of it, an invitation from Jesus to consider that there is another way, that there is a better way. To be open to the possibility of a new way is to acknowledge that our old way of thinking and operating and prioritizing, just isn’t enough…the call to turn and walk in a new way is not a threat, rather it is an invitation!
As we journey through these 6 weeks considering some of what Jesus lifts up for us in this teaching, may you hear the invitation to walk more deeply in connection with the One Who makes a new way possible.
w/ Eric Heistand
from Matthew 6:22-24
Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 5-7, we know as The Sermon on the Mount…but it is so much more than just a collection of wisdom and challenge and instruction from Jesus. It is at the heart of it, an invitation from Jesus to consider that there is another way, that there is a better way. To be open to the possibility of a new way is to acknowledge that our old way of thinking and operating and prioritizing, just isn’t enough…the call to turn and walk in a new way is not a threat, rather it is an invitation!
As we journey through these 6 weeks considering some of what Jesus lifts up for us in this teaching, may you hear the invitation to walk more deeply in connection with the One Who makes a new way possible.
w/ Vern Collins
from Matthew 6:19-23
Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 5-7, we know as The Sermon on the Mount…but it is so much more than just a collection of wisdom and challenge and instruction from Jesus. It is at the heart of it, an invitation from Jesus to consider that there is another way, that there is a better way. To be open to the possibility of a new way is to acknowledge that our old way of thinking and operating and prioritizing, just isn’t enough…the call to turn and walk in a new way is not a threat, rather it is an invitation!
As we journey through these 6 weeks considering some of what Jesus lifts up for us in this teaching, may you hear the invitation to walk more deeply in connection with the One Who makes a new way possible.
w/ Vern Collins
from Matthew 7:1-6
Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 5-7, we know as The Sermon on the Mount…but it is so much more than just a collection of wisdom and challenge and instruction from Jesus. It is at the heart of it, an invitation from Jesus to consider that there is another way, that there is a better way. To be open to the possibility of a new way is to acknowledge that our old way of thinking and operating and prioritizing, just isn’t enough…the call to turn and walk in a new way is not a threat, rather it is an invitation!
As we journey through these 6 weeks considering some of what Jesus lifts up for us in this teaching, may you hear the invitation to walk more deeply in connection with the One Who makes a new way possible.
w/ Vern Collins
from Matthew 7:1-6
Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 5-7, we know as The Sermon on the Mount…but it is so much more than just a collection of wisdom and challenge and instruction from Jesus. It is at the heart of it, an invitation from Jesus to consider that there is another way, that there is a better way. To be open to the possibility of a new way is to acknowledge that our old way of thinking and operating and prioritizing, just isn’t enough…the call to turn and walk in a new way is not a threat, rather it is an invitation!
As we journey through these 6 weeks considering some of what Jesus lifts up for us in this teaching, may you hear the invitation to walk more deeply in connection with the One Who makes a new way possible.
w/ Ed Glaize
from Matthew 6:25-34
Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 5-7, we know as The Sermon on the Mount…but it is so much more than just a collection of wisdom and challenge and instruction from Jesus. It is at the heart of it, an invitation from Jesus to consider that there is another way, that there is a better way. To be open to the possibility of a new way is to acknowledge that our old way of thinking and operating and prioritizing, just isn’t enough…the call to turn and walk in a new way is not a threat, rather it is an invitation!
As we journey through these 6 weeks considering some of what Jesus lifts up for us in this teaching, may you hear the invitation to walk more deeply in connection with the One Who makes a new way possible.
w/ Vern Collins
