“After I Do…Growing in Your Relationship with Jesus Christ: Pray, Pray, and Pray Some More” encourages us to enter into a life of pray. I offer you 4 (and in a way 5) tips to help you develop a consistent and strong prayer life that will help you deepen your relationship with Jesus Christ.

“After I Do…Growing in Your Relationship with Jesus Christ: Carry Your Cross” continues our exploration of what happens after we become a Christian. Becoming a Christian does not mean that we do not face difficulties, troubles, or problems. In fact, Jesus, and his followers, warn us over and over that we can expect struggles because of our faith. But the good news is we do not face these times alone.

“After I Do…Growing in Your Relationship with Jesus Christ: Confessing Your Sins” helps us thing through what happens after you accept Christ as your Lord and Savior. How do you grow closer with him? How do you strengthen your faith? How do you move from simply professing your faith to living your faith in your day to day life? Those are some of the questions this series will try and answer over the next several weeks.

“After I Do…Growing in Your Relationship with Jesus Christ: Confessing Your Sins” helps us thing through what happens after you accept Christ as your Lord and Savior. How do you grow closer with him? How do you strengthen your faith? How do you move from simply professing your faith to living your faith in your day to day life? Those are some of the questions this series will try and answer over the next several weeks.

“Worship Matters: 6 Tips to Help You Participate in Worship” offers you ideas on how to take part in worship, whether or not you have a formal role. True worship involves more than simply showing up and sitting in a pew or chair…it involves taking an active role in the liturgy and various elements of a service of worship.

“Worship Matters: 4 Tips to Help You Prepare for Worship” offers you some suggestions in how to prepare your heart and mind to worship God. As the most visible and regular thing we do as a church we ought to place such value on worship that we want to do more than just show up…these tips will help you begin your worship long before you step into the sanctuary.

“Setting Spiritual Goals: 5 Tips to Help You Grow in Your Walk of Faith” helps you to welcome the new year by examining your spiritual life and taking intentional steps to grow in your faith. These 5 tips will help you set specific goals to nurture your faith.

As we begin 2018, I want to encourage you to examine your spiritual life and set some goals. In this video I offer some tips to help you set some spiritual goals to enable you to grow in your faith and commitment to Jesus Christ.

May you have a Merry Christmas!  Celebrate all that God has done, is doing, and will do, in Jesus Christ…Emmanuel…God with us!

“Merry Christmas”…our Advent journey has come to an end as we awake this day to celebrate the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ. The angels announced it as “good news of great joy” and indeed it was…and is! Let us celebrate Christmas today as we gather with family…but may we live as a Christmas people who have received their long awaited Messiah.

“Advent: A Season of Joy and Love” examines the focus of weeks 3 and 4 of Advent. Jesus didn’t come to make us happy, he came to fill us with joy…and he came to demonstrate the depth of God’s love for all of humanity.

“Advent: A Season of Peace” continues our exploration of the season of Advent. During the second week of Advent we explore how Jesus is the peace that is needed within a broken world and within broken lives.