Messages by Ryan Lenerz
The Journey Home: 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…
The Journey Home: 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.
Called To Serve: Faith Thru Action
Two out of three Americans say they believe in Jesus. But belief without action isn’t saving faith — James calls it dead. In this final message of our Called to Serve series, we walk through James 2:14–26 and ask the honest question: if someone followed your calendar and your checkbook for the last year, would they find evidence of a living faith? James doesn’t ask what you believe about the poor. He asks what you did the last time you saw one.…
Called To Serve: The Vulnerable
In this powerful message from James 1:26-27, we learn that growing in faith isn’t just about what happens inside the church walls — it’s proven by how we serve others in the world around us. James challenges us to move beyond just talking about our faith and actually put it into action by caring for those who cannot care for themselves. God has always had a special heart for orphans and widows — those who have no provider, no protector,…
Called To Serve: The Untouchable
Who is God calling you to serve? In Luke 5, Jesus stops for a man with leprosy — someone no one else would go near. He didn’t have to. But he chose to serve anyway. We are called to do the same. To show up for the people on the outside. To serve even when it’s uncomfortable. This message looks at who the “untouchables” are in our world today, and what it looks like to show up for them with…
Called To Serve: The Stranger
What does the kingdom of God actually look like in practice? Three days before the cross, Jesus answered that question — and the answer might surprise you. In this message from Matthew 25, we dig into the parable of the sheep and the goats and discover that how we treat those in need is more significant than we ever imagined. Jesus makes an incredible claim: every act of service done for the least of these is done directly for Him.…
Easter Morning
What would you do if your favorite show ended on a cliffhanger with no next episode? That’s exactly how Mark’s Gospel ends the Easter story — and he did it on purpose. In this Easter message, we explore Mark 16:1-8, the most unusual resurrection account in the Bible. No tidy ending. No appearance of the risen Jesus. Just an empty tomb, a frightened group of women, and a challenge left for you to wrestle with. We’ll uncover why Mark deliberately left the story…
Thursday: The Last Supper
On Maundy Thursday — the final night before the cross — Jesus packed more love into a few hours than most of us show in a lifetime. He washed His disciples’ feet, predicted His own betrayal, taught them about what was coming, and then broke bread and poured wine and said: remember me. In this message we walk through the full story of the Last Supper using all four Gospels, uncovering what Jesus was really doing and why it still…
Wednesday: Judas Agrees To Betray
What would you do with your mom’s diamond ring — bury it, keep it, or sell it? That question opens up one of history’s most haunting betrayals: Judas Iscariot. In this message, we explore what really drove Judas to betray Jesus, why it matters more than we’d like to admit, and the uncomfortable truth that we’re more like Judas than we think. But there’s also the story of Peter — another betrayer with a very different ending. Two disciples. Two betrayals.…