Messages on Obedience
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…
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.…
Rise Up and Follow Jesus
Discover what Jesus actually called us to do – and it might surprise you. Many Christians focus on being good or completing programs, but Jesus had a different invitation entirely. This message explores the crucial difference between following Jesus from a distance versus true discipleship and what it really means to take up your cross daily.Learn about the two main ways we fall short as followers of Christ and how to avoid these common mistakes. Whether you’re falling behind Jesus…
Joseph: You Are Not The Father
What if the Christmas story you’ve imagined—all calm, all bright, silent and serene—was actually more chaotic than you thought? This December, we’re diving into the messy reality of Mary and Joseph’s unplanned journey into parenthood. Forget the picture-perfect nativity scenes: this young couple faced scandal, shame, and a crisis that could have destroyed everything. Joseph woke up one morning to discover his fiancée was pregnant, and he knew it wasn’t his child. The law gave him every right to publicly…