Close Enough to be HurtLuke 23 Tim Nay Part of Closer - A Study in Luke June 9, 2024 Then the whole company of them arose and brought him before Pilate. 2 And they began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.” 3 And Pilate asked him, …

Beginning with the story of the woman caught in adultery in John chapter 8, Pastor Fran unpacks today how religion always defaults to shallow and judgmental places, but that Jesus is interested in something radically different, not retributive punishment, but restoration of our very humanity.بقلم Pastor Fran Leeman

Just as soldiers fight to preserve our freedom in the natural, God has fought and won our victory. He preserves our freedom.بقلم Pastor JoeDon Calhoun

Just as soldiers fight to preserve our freedom in the natural, God has fought and won our victory. He preserves our freedom.بقلم Pastor JoeDon Calhoun

In this sermon about hope, Pastor Fran recalls the Holy Spirit experiences he had, from feeling God's presence to weird interactions with strangers. With Christ in us, our restoration is daily with new changes and new victories.بقلم Pastor Fran Leeman

Closer in My Weakness Luke 22 Mike Maglish Part of Closer - A Study in Luke June 2, 2024 41 And he withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, and knelt down and prayed, 42 saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.” 43 And there appeared to him an angel from heaven, strengthening him.…

| Rev. Jeff Zimmerman | Sometimes God is silent in our storms, but He is never absent. God is not a man. We can absolutely trust Him!بقلم Pastor JoeDon Calhoun

| Rev. Jeff Zimmerman | Sometimes God is silent in our storms, but He is never absent. God is not a man. We can absolutely trust Him!بقلم Pastor JoeDon Calhoun

Closer to our Redemption Luke 21 Tim Nay Part of Closer - A Study in Luke May 26, 2024 Basic Rules of Interpretation: Who wrote it? Who did he write it to? What was happening at the time it was written? What did it mean to whom it was said? What applies to me today? Can it be understood literally? Does the Bible interpret itself? And while some wer…

We live in a time of great questioning about the soul of Christian faith. In this message Pastor Fran unpacks how Jesus engaged fully with our humanity rather than steering us back into a narrow religious framework for life.بقلم Pastor Fran Leeman

It's for you! (Part 2)بقلم Pastor JoeDon Calhoun

It's for you! (Part 2)بقلم Pastor JoeDon Calhoun

In this sermon, Pastor Fran talks about how Jesus is more than the modern Christian package which he illustrates by distinguishing the difference between Christ, the Church and Christianity. He then encourages an honest and self reflective journey of the heart towards restoration and towards the life of freedom and wholeness.…

Close Enough to Question Luke 20 Tim Nay Part of Closer - A Study in Luke May 19, 2024 One day, as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes with the elders came up and said to him, “Tell us by what authority you do these things, or who it is that gave you this authority.” He answered th…

You will receive supernatural power from God when you receive the Holy Ghost. It's for you!بقلم Pastor JoeDon Calhoun

You will receive supernatural power from God when you receive the Holy Ghost. It's for you!بقلم Pastor JoeDon Calhoun

These days more people are getting honest about the variety of things found in the Bible, and it's causing some people to abandon it. Today Pastor Fran unpacks some things we've been taught about the Bible, and how Jesus spoke about it in a way that allows us to accept the Bible as it is, love it even more, and let it point us to the finding of rea…

CLOSER in WORSHIP Luke 19:28-48 Mike Maglish Part of Closer - A Study in Luke May 12, 2024 CLOSER in WORSHIP Luke 19:28-48 Mike Maglish And when he had said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. When he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount that is called Olivet, he sent two of the disciples, saying, “Go into the village…

We have a choice to accept the gift of His Spirit which is the power to overcome sin. God's plan + our surrender results in deliverance.بقلم Pastor JoeDon Calhoun

We have a choice to accept the gift of His Spirit which is the power to overcome sin. God's plan + our surrender results in deliverance.بقلم Pastor JoeDon Calhoun

In this sermon, Pastor Fran talks about why he is still a Christian - even with the past events of questionable church credibility. When we come out into the deep with Jesus, our faith can remain unshaken - no matter the past or present hurt of churches who have lost the plot.بقلم Pastor Fran Leeman

Closer in Desperation Luke 18 Part of Closer - A Study in Luke May 2, 2024 Title: Closer In Desperation Text: Luke 18 Speaker: Mike Maglish Desperate (of a person): And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. 2 He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. 3 A…

Intercessory prayer is something every believer is called to. God has promised that the prayers of the righteous will be effective.بقلم Pastor JoeDon Calhoun

Intercessory prayer is something every believer is called to. God has promised that the prayers of the righteous will be effective.بقلم Pastor JoeDon Calhoun

Close in Our Temptations Luke 17 Tim Nay Part of Closer - A Study in Luke April 28, 2024 1 And he said to his disciples, “Temptations to sin are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come! 2 It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little on…

| Rev. Joe Zirpoli | We expect God to meet us on our terms, check our boxes, but He is waiting for us to lay down our expectations and surrender to His will. This is our defining moment!بقلم Pastor JoeDon Calhoun

| Rev. Joe Zirpoli | We expect God to meet us on our terms, check our boxes, but He is waiting for us to lay down our expectations and surrender to His will. This is our defining moment!بقلم Pastor JoeDon Calhoun

| Rev. Joe Zirpoli |بقلم Pastor JoeDon Calhoun

| Rev. Joe Zirpoli |بقلم Pastor JoeDon Calhoun

In this sermon, Pastor Fran touches on how we as humans tend to make identities for ourselves and wear our failures that shroud us in so much darkness. Because of Jesus, our identity is recreated and we don't have to wear our failures. We cling to hope that God is restoring all things in due time.بقلم Pastor Fran Leeman

Eternity is Closer Than You Think Luke 16:1-13 Tim Nay Part of Closer - A Study in Luke April 21, 2024 Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— 14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little ti…

We must point ourselves and others to Jesus. He is the Way that leads to eternal life.بقلم Pastor JoeDon Calhoun

We must point ourselves and others to Jesus. He is the Way that leads to eternal life.بقلم Pastor JoeDon Calhoun

Closer To Sinners Luke 15 Mike Maglish Part of Closer - A Study in Luke April 14, 2024 Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. 2 And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.” —Luke 15:1-2 Jesus explains why he is close to sinners THE LOST SHEEP 3 So he told them thi…

In today's message, Pastor Fran explores what it means that we have become one with Christ in his death, and consequently one with him and his resurrection. He also touches on the fascinating way the early Christians spoke about how God tricked death and the devil by getting them to swallow Christ and bring him inside their walls... and that they n…

Jesus has promised that through Him, all things become new. The power of His Spirit can breathe new life into you today!بقلم Pastor JoeDon Calhoun

Jesus has promised that through Him, all things become new. The power of His Spirit can breathe new life into you today!بقلم Pastor JoeDon Calhoun

Although we see Jesus sacrifice as the ultimate sacrifice, we've been taught to understand it in the same terms as the whole archaic concept of sacrifice. But in this sermon, Pastor Fran debunks that and shows that the Cross exposes all our scapegoating of other people and calls for an end to that, and to the new way of love.…

Closer In Our Motives Luke 14 Mike Maglish Part of Closer - A Study in Luke April 7, 2024 Setting: Social Gathering With Religious People On The Sabbath One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully. —Luke 14:1 Religious people watch and wait 2 And behold, there was a man before him who…

It is possible to block out the important things with smaller, less important things. Every choice we make has eternal impact on our soul. Our soul is the most valuable thing we have.بقلم Pastor JoeDon Calhoun

It is possible to block out the important things with smaller, less important things. Every choice we make has eternal impact on our soul. Our soul is the most valuable thing we have.بقلم Pastor JoeDon Calhoun

In this Easter sermon, Pastor Fran explores how Jesus, when he appeared to the disciples, invited them out of the darkness of fear, grudges, and retribution, and into a new world where forgiveness, reconciliation, and love reign.بقلم Pastor Fran Leeman

The Gospel Romans 5:8 Tim Nay & DeAnna Coburn March 31, 2024 24 The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, 25 nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. 26 And he made from one man eve…

The story of the Resurrection is a story of Jesus rewriting our story of sin and shame. Through the power of His Spirit, we can be resurrected live eternally with Him.بقلم Pastor JoeDon Calhoun

The story of the Resurrection is a story of Jesus rewriting our story of sin and shame. Through the power of His Spirit, we can be resurrected live eternally with Him.بقلم Pastor JoeDon Calhoun

Close Enough to Meet Our Needs Luke 12:22-34 Tim Nay Part of Closer - A Study in Luke March 24, 2024 Close Enough to Meet Our Needs Luke 12:22-34; Philippians 4:4-9 Tim Nay *Overcoming an anxious heart: * And he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put…

In this message Pastor Fran talks about how we have tended to frame Jesus' death as a sacrifice of appeasement, and shows how the writer of the New Testament letter of Hebrews actually frames Jesus' sacrifice as the end of that whole way of thinking and as a better kind of sacrifice that is more transforming for us as human beings.…

When Jesus came as the Messiah, it wasn't the way the Jews imagined. He wasn't the hero they wanted, but He is the hero we all need.بقلم Pastor JoeDon Calhoun

When Jesus came as the Messiah, it wasn't the way the Jews imagined. He wasn't the hero they wanted, but He is the hero we all need.بقلم Pastor JoeDon Calhoun

In today's message Pastor Fran teaches how the Cross is God's judgment on the way we humans use coercive power and dominate one another, but far from being a judgment of wrath, it is an exposure by love, meant to lead us to an awakening to love.بقلم Pastor Fran Leeman