Thick Skin Tender Heart - Ps. Melissa Higginbottom

God created us individually and uniquely, with purpose for a purpose. We are an original design. Yet as we walk through life, different experiences can alter or modify us, and we can become less effective in what we were designed for and created to do. It’s time we allow the Holy Spirit to referbish and restore us to our Original Design.  

In this message, we dive into the story of Gideon and discover how God can use us even when we feel disqualified, afraid, or unprepared. Through the “Sword of the Lord,” we’re challenged to tear down idols, trust God through seasons of pruning, remember His faithfulness, and discover the power of prayer to bring breakthrough and victory.

Jesus Talks about and experienced the real life issue of offenses happening - even with church people ! This message talks about how to respond to those circumstances and people while still loving the church and those we get to build the kingdom with !Not hardening our heart, but also learning to not let them sink so deep to affect how we act!

In this message, Pastor Casey unpacks three distinct kinds of burdens the Bible names, and shows why some are meant to be shared in community and others are yours alone to carry. It's a message about laying aside what's crushing you, carrying what's actually yours, and finding out that in Christ, even personal responsibility can become ligh

In this message, we’re challenged to lift our eyes above confusion, distraction, and circumstances to see Jesus clearly as Lord, recognize His purposes for our lives, and embrace the strength and blessing He has for us. Discover what it means to see the church as a family on assignment, trust godly leadership, and keep our eyes on the harvest rather than allowing offense or uncertainty to pull us off course.

Sometimes God will change our circumstances and sometimes God will change our hearts. Jesus prayed one of the most powerful prayers that was ever prayed, "not my will but your will be done" Ps. Jenny unpacks how prayer is one of God's greatest tools He uses to conform us into the image of Christ and form us into Your-Will-Be-Done kind of Sons and Daughters.

We’re building a house that knows when to stand in worship, stand to fight, stand and wait, who to stand beside, and what to do when we fall: we stand back up. We’re building a house that STANDS.

We have more access to God's Word today than ever before. We can read it on our phones, listen to it in the car, highlight it, underline it, and even memorize it but the question is not simply, “Have I read the Word?” The question is, “Have I allowed the Word to change the way I live?” Because God didn't give us His Word just to fill our minds with information; He gave us His Word to transform our lives, to equip us for every good work, and to make us useful vessels.

Jesus commended nearly everything about the church at Ephesus - their work, their endurance, their discernment - and still said He had something against them: they had let go of the love they had at first. In Well Beloved, Alex Klott walks through Ephesians 5 to show that the problem was never what they were giving God, but where they were giving it from. Because you can do all the right things from the wrong place - and Scripture's tell isn't a sin list, it's fear.

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