LCBC Church Messages

It's easy to assume we have to get our lives together before God can do anything with them. It’s exactly backwards — and it’s the reason the greater transformation he’s offering keeps staying just out of reach.

Most of us don’t opt out of the greater things God has for us because we’re unwilling. We opt out because we’ve added up everything we’re not — and decided we didn’t make the cut.

What keeps most people from the greater things God has for them isn’t the hard season they’re in. It’s the decision they make in the middle of one — and most of us make it without ever noticing.

It’s been a while since you did anything that actually required God. There’s a reason for that — and the greater things he has for your life are on the other side of open hands.

This weekend we celebrate 40 years of LCBC — looking back at the defining moments that shaped us, and ahead to what God could do next. We talk about the one thing we refuse to change after four decades: a relentless focus on reaching just one more.

Is the way you criticize slowly wearing down your relationships? Jesus never said not to correct anyone. He showed us there's a right way and a wrong way to do it. Discover how to help people change in a way that builds them up, and see others the way God sees you.

Deception rarely announces itself. It shows up as a half truth, a story retold to make us look better, or something we've never brought up and never plan to. It doesn't end a relationship in a day — it just quietly makes healing impossible. Here's three ways it slips in, and what it takes to bring it back into the light.

Being offended is inevitable—but living offended is a choice. Hold onto it long enough and it eventually hardens into something that poisons the relationships we care about most. We're looking at how that happens, and how to set ourselves free from it before it costs us someone we love.

Not every relationship ends in a fight. Some just quietly drift — and one day you look up and wonder how you got here. This is the alarm worth paying attention to. And it's not too late to go first. 

The temptation you swore off. The shame that keeps circling back. The voice at 2am that says you'll never change. Trying harder is a losing battle. Prayer is the key to victory — and it's simpler than you think.