Messages

Messages

Come Lord Jesus

We wrap up our Favorite Bible Verse series with the one from Pastor Ryan: “He who testifies to these things says, Yes, I am coming soon. Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.” (Revelation 22:20), the very last words Jesus speaks in Scripture. When life feels heavy, the same arguments on repeat, one thing after another breaking down, the waiting that never seems to end, this verse gives me permission to hand it over to God instead of trying to fix it all…

Dr. Larry Hirschy

Our elders were each asked to share a favorite Bible verse — and in this message, one of our elders unpacks his: 2 Timothy 1:12, “For I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.” He shares why this verse has anchored him through doubt, anxiety, and hard seasons of life, tracing his own journey of faith — from accepting Christ at age eight,…

Who am I Trying to Please?

This week’s message looks at Galatians 1:10 and what it means to live as a servant of God rather than a people-pleaser. We explore three situations where the pressure to please people shows up, plus three questions to ask when discerning God’s direction for your life. Who are you trying to please?

Youth Mission Trip Edition

This week, our youth share memories from their mission trip to Indianapolis, Indiana, where they served alongside YouthWorks at food pantries, community gardens, and clothing distribution centers. Each student reflects on how their experience connects to their favorite verse— and what it looks like to be made to matter, made to mirror, made for each other, and made for mission.

Welcome Home

What does the end of the road actually look like? This final message of The Journey Home walks through the complete picture of what God has been doing in every human life — from condemnation, through salvation and sanctification, all the way to glorification. The destination isn’t just heaven. It’s home. And the hope of what’s waiting there is what carries us through the hardest miles of the journey.

Stay in lane

We all know the feeling — you’re driving down the road, and suddenly your car drifts. That’s exactly what sin looks like in the Christian life. In this week’s message from our series The Journey Home, Pastor Ryan unpacks the honest struggle every believer faces: knowing what’s right and still veering off course. Drawing from Romans 6–8, he tackles the three ways we try to handle sin on our own — minimizing it, hiding it, and making amends — and why…

U – Turn

In this week’s message from The Journey Home series, Pastor Ryan digs into one of the most misunderstood words in the Christian faith — repentance. It’s not just feeling bad when you get caught, and it’s definitely not trying harder through willpower and self-improvement. True biblical repentance, or metanoia in the Greek, means a complete 180-degree shift in how you see everything — God, yourself, and the world around you. And here’s the part that changes everything: you can’t do…

Dead End

Just like carbon monoxide — odorless, colorless, and silently deadly — sin causes damage you don’t see coming until it’s too late. In this message, Pastor Ryan walks through five real consequences of sin straight from Scripture: it separates us from God, it enslaves us in patterns we can’t break on our own, it places us under God’s righteous wrath, it leaves us spiritually dead — unable to fix ourselves no matter how hard we try — and perhaps most dangerously, it deceives usinto thinking none of…

Wrong Way

🛣️ Life is a highway — but what happens when we’re heading the wrong way? In this message we tackle one of the most misunderstood topics in the Christian faith — sin. Using the hilarious scene from Planes, Trains & Automobiles, it paints a picture of how sin blinds us to the fact that we’re going the wrong direction — and how we often don’t even realize it until years later. You’ll discover what the Bible really means by sin…

The God Of Life

We spend a lot of time and money trying to hold onto life — but have you ever stopped to ask where life actually comes from? This Mother’s Day, we trace the thread of life through the pages of Scripture: from the moment God breathed life into the first human being, to the holy calling of motherhood, to the eternal life Jesus makes available to every one of us.