Messages on Spiritual Growth
Pastor Ryan Lenerz
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.
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.
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…
Losing Jesus
Imagine being entrusted to babysit a very important person’s child… and then losing that child… for days. That’s what happened to Joseph and Mary when Jesus was twelve years old. The story almost sounds unimaginable, yet each of us can easily experience this tragedy in our own lives when we slowly lose our fervor for Jesus, and just like the church at Ephesus, lose our first love.
God Sends Help
What if the most underused resource in your Christian life is the one Jesus said was essential? In this message, we’re exploring why Jesus was so insistent about sending the Holy Spirit—and it goes way beyond speaking in tongues or warm fuzzy feelings. Whether you grew up in a church that emphasized the Spirit or one that barely mentioned Him, most Christians today are missing out on what Jesus actually promised: daily access to God’s presence AND supernatural power to…