What Matters

Walk Across the Room

Over the last four weeks our evening service has been exploring what it means to 'walk across the room' to share our faith with others.  Based on Bill Hybel's book of the same name, we've got really practical in discovering how we might tell others about Jesus in relevant ways.  Jon Morris summed up our four week series with this message.  Listen in...Download just_walk_across_the_room_part_4.mp3

Treasure

Chris Jordan (or Children and Families Pastor) preached at our Family Services this morning.  Our time together was marked by choirs, lots of kid's being involved and a lot of fun.  Our service theme was treasure - which Chris reflected on in his message.  Listen in... Download 29th_oct_06_10am.mp3

Time to Grow: Serve

Our second week in the series, we explored what it means to serve as God would have us.  Out of Romans 12, we discovered that we serve because we were first served and that our service pleases God.  Listen in...Download dfg.mp3

A Faithful Church

God has not called me to be nice, our church to be comfortable, nor successful.  God has called us to be faithful.

• Successful churches exist to please their members
• Faithful churches exist to glorify God
• Successful churches ask what they can do better to please their members
• Faithful churches ask what can we do to reach the lost with Jesus’ love – and then will do whatever it takes to do so
• Successful churches are constantly juggling competing priorities, demands and seemingly urgent needs – priorities, demands and needs that drift further away from the heart of the gospel as they seek to keep everybody happy.
• Faithful churches are constantly juggling competing priorities, demands and urgent needs – priorities, demands and needs that are ruthlessly addressed or discarded in the light of God’s primary call upon their life to be salt in a world that desperately needs God’s seasoning and light in a world enveloped in darkness at every corner
• Successful churches in the end burn out through ceaseless and unrelenting activity, fizzle out for lack of an inspiring cause or are vomited out for so drifting from the heart of God he can do no other
• Faithful churches make mistakes, repent, and are forgiven again and again by a faithful and forgiving God
• Successful churches, by God’s Grace, may be effective for a season
• Faithful churches, by God’s Grace, will be effective as long as God gives them breath, and their legacy will stand from generation to generation

Time to Grow: Weeping

We've started a six-week series exploring our church's vision and mission, including how we might participate in it.  Looking at Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, we began by wrestling with the concept that first of all it is a time for us to weep.  To weep for our city as Jesus wept for Jerusalem.  Listen in...Download time_to_grow_stu_cameron_8am.mp3

Flames of Heaven (Part 3)

The concluding message in a three-parter from our Youth and Young Adults Pastor, Jon Morris.  Listen in...Download flames_of_heaven_3_jon_morris.mp3

Mind your Manners

We've all been told to mind our manners, although it may have been many years ago for some of us!  Russ reflected on what it means to do so for the sake of the gospel.  Listen in...Download mind_your_manners_8am_russel.mp3

The Four Hearts

Russ, our Executive Pastor, spoke on the theme The Four Hearts.  Listen in ...Download df.mp3