Episodes

  • This is Church: "How God Builds His Church: Prayer"

    This is Church: "How God Builds His Church: Prayer"
    Sep 16 2024

    September 15, 2024

    Associate Pastor Justin Brunenkant

    (There were intermittent audio issues with this recording. Sorry for the inconvenience.)

    Colossians 4:1-6

    Daniel 6:10

    Luke 18:1-8

    Matthew 7:11

    (NKJV)
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    43 mins
  • This is Church: "How God Builds His Church: Healthy Relationships"

    This is Church: "How God Builds His Church: Healthy Relationships"
    Sep 9 2024

    September 8, 2024

    Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker

    “Denial of one's need for others is the most common type of defense against bonding. If people come from a situation, whether growing up or later in life, where good, safe relationships were not available to them, they learn to deny that they even want them. Why want what you can't have? They slowly get rid of their awareness of the need.” -Henry Cloud SUBMIT and LOVE Colossians 3:18-19 Colossians 2:14-15 "Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honor should decline." -G.K. Chesterton “Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.” -Wm. Paul Young OBEY and RESPECT Colossians 3:20-21 "Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be." -David Blye "The soul is healed by being with children". -Fyodor Dostoevsky LISTEN and SERVE Colossians 3:22-25 1 Corinthians 7:12-16 ReplyForward

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    44 mins
  • This is Church: "How God Builds His Church: Unity and Love"

    This is Church: "How God Builds His Church: Unity and Love"
    Sep 2 2024

    September 1, 2024

    Associate Pastor Louise Waller

    (Technical difficulties at the beginning caused low audio.)

    Colossians 3:12-17

    Unity and Love are REQUIRED

    No worship without loving community

    John 13:34-35

    (Song: They’ll Know We are Christians by Our Love)

    No New Life in Christ without loving community

    ‘In the Name of Christ’

    Loving community is The Glory of God

    Psalm 133

    They are Worth it

    "It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you say it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one of other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another; all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilization itself – these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit – immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses." C.S. Lewis

    (NIV)
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    32 mins
  • This Is Church: "How God Builds His Church: New Life"

    This Is Church: "How God Builds His Church: New Life"
    Aug 26 2024

    August 25, 2024

    Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker

    Colossians 2:14-15 “Both God’s love and God’s wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the old covenant to the new, from the Old Testament to the New. These themes barrel along through redemptive history, unresolved, until they come to a resounding climax — at the cross. Do you wish to see God’s love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God’s wrath? Look at the cross.” -DA Carson “Learn to know Christ and Him crucified. Learn to sing to Him, and say, ‘Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am Your sin. You have taken upon Yourself what is mine and given me what is Yours. You have become what You were not so that I might become what I was not.’” -Martin Luther Galatians 6:14 1 Corinthians 1:18 "Nothing on earth has greater potential to change lives and carry out His kingdom work in your community, than your local church.There’s nothing like the local church when it’s working right. Its beauty is indescribable. Its power is breathtaking. Its potential is unlimited. No other organization on earth is like the church. Nothing even comes close." -Bill Hybells "The life function of [the local church] is to love the God who created it – to care for others out of obedience to Christ, to heal those who hurt, to take away fear, to restore community, to belong to one another, to proclaim the Good News while living it out. The church is the invisible made visible." -Chuck Colson KEEP LOOKING UP Colossians 3:1 "Jesus came to announce to us that an identity based on success, popularity and power is a false identity- an illusion! Loudly and clearly he says: 'You are not what the world makes you; but you are children of God." -Henri Nouwen "Child of God, you cost Christ too much for him to forget you." -Charles Spurgeon Psalm 71: 1-3 (The Message Paraphrase) KEEP YOUR HEAD UP Colossians 3:2-11 "If you are a child of God, you don’t lose your status if you have a bad week." -Timothy Keller Philippians 3:12-16 (NET) ReplyForward

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    32 mins
  • This is Church; "How God Builds His Church: In Reality"

    This is Church; "How God Builds His Church: In Reality"
    Aug 19 2024

    August 18, 2024

    Associate Pastor Justin Brunenkant

    Colossians 2:20-23

    Matthew 19:14

    2 Corinthians 5:17

    Matthew 5:17

    (NKJV)
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    5 mins
  • The is Church: "How God Builds His Church: In Worship"

    The is Church: "How God Builds His Church: In Worship"
    Aug 19 2024

    August 11, 2024

    Associate Pastor Eric Burch

    Ephesians 4:4-6 NET

    We have been Freed from the Law

    Colossians 2:16

    Mark 7:18-19

    Romans 7:4-6

    We are a Priesthood in Christ

    Colossians 2:17

    1 Peter 2:9-10

    Romans 10:1-3

    So, Serve in All Humility

    Colossians 2:18

    Proverbs 16:18-19

    Colossians 3:16

    John 3:11-12

    For Your Sake and the Sake of the Body

    Colossians 2:19

    Revelation 2:13-16

    Romans 12:3-5

    We have been freed from the law and we now belong to the priesthood of Christ so serve in all humility for your sake and the sake of the body.
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    5 mins
  • This is Church: "How God Builds His Church: The Cross"

    This is Church: "How God Builds His Church: The Cross"
    Aug 19 2024

    August 4, 2024

    Associate Pastor Eric Burch

    As You Received, So Live

    Colossians 2:6-7

    Colossians 2:5

    Ephesians 4:4-6

    Ephesians 4:13-14

    Guard Your Mind and Heart

    Colossians 2:8

    Romans 12:2

    Proverbs 3:5-6

    Accept the Fullness of Christ

    Colossians 2:9-10

    Colossians 1:27-28

    Enjoy the Fellowship of Christ

    Colossians 2:11-12

    John 15:4-5

    Celebrate Your Freedom Through Christ and the Cross

    Colossians 2:13

    Colossians 2:14-15

    Romans 6:21–23

    (NET)
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    5 mins
  • This is Church: "How God Builds His Church: in Ministry"

    This is Church: "How God Builds His Church: in Ministry"
    Aug 19 2024

    July 28, 2024

    Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker

    "Ministry is giving when you feel like keeping, praying for others when you need to be prayed for, feeding others when your own soul is hungry, living truth before people even when you can't see results, hurting with other people even when your own hurt can't be spoken, keeping your word even when it is not convenient, it is being faithful when your flesh wants to run away." -John Holt “Ministry means the ongoing attempt to put one’s own search for God, with all the moments of pain and joy, despair and hope, at the disposal of those who want to join this search but do not know how.” -Henri Nouwen “I would like to encourage you to stop thinking of what you're doing as ministry. Start realizing that your ministry is how much of a tip you leave when you eat in a restaurant; when you leave a hotel room whether you leave it all messed up or not; whether you flush your own toilet or not. Your ministry is the way that you love people. And you love people when you write something that is encouraging to them, something challenging. You love people when you call your wife and say, 'I'm going to be late for dinner,' instead of letting her burn the meal. You love people when maybe you cook a meal for your wife sometime, because you know she's really tired. Loving people - being respectful toward them." -Rich Mullens Ministry TRANSFORMS lives Colossians 1:21-25 Isaiah 53:6 “Men will allow God to be everywhere but on his throne. They will allow him to be in his workshop to fashion worlds and make stars. They will allow Him to be in His almonry to dispense His alms and bestow his bounties. they will allow Him to sustain the earth and bear up the pillars thereof, or light the lamps of heaven, or rule the waves of the ever-moving ocean; but when God ascends His throne, His creatures then gnash their teeth." -Charles Spurgeon “What is sin? It is the glory of God not honored. The holiness of God not reverenced.The greatness of God not admired.The power of God not praised.The truth of God not sought.The wisdom of God not esteemed. The beauty of God not treasured. The goodness of God not savored.The faithfulness of God not trusted. The commandments of God not obeyed. The justice of God not respected. The wrath of God not feared. The grace of God not cherished. The presence of God not prized. The person of God not loved. That is sin.” -John Piper God wants everyone to know their lives can be TRANSFORMED Colossians 1:26-2:5 2 Peter 3:9 "We must school and train ourselves to deal personally with the unconverted. We must not excuse ourselves, but force ourselves to the irksome task until it becomes easy." -Charles Spurgeon “Personal ministry is not about always knowing what to say. It is not about fixing everything in sight that is broken. Personal ministry is about connecting people with Christ so that they are able to think as he would have them think, desire what he says is best, and do what he calls them to do even if their circumstances never get "fixed." It involves exposing hurt, lost, and confused people to God's glory, so that they give up their pursuit of their own glory and live for his.” -Paul David Tripp “We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.” -Peter Kreeft (NET)

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    5 mins