Honoring God by Leading People to Become Devoted Followers and Ministers of Jesus Christ
VBS: ROAR!
On June 18, get ready for an African adventure that engages the whole herd! Life is sometimes wild, but God is always good! Kids explore God’s goodness and celebrate a ferocious faith that powers them through this wild life.
Faith is like a roller-coaster safely bar: don’t want faith to fail us! We want faith through which we really, truly take hold of the promises of God. We want faith that leads us to experience peace and joy beyond our circumstances. We want faith in which we find and strength and wisdom greater than we possess. We want a faith that will stay strong until God gathers us to heaven or comes back to earth. We want a faith that won’t fail.
Mark 7:31- 8:10 “Christ came to make many groups one people.” Scott looks at a pair of miracles that were done by Jesus in not the most welcoming of places for Jews. In doing these miracles, Christ obliterated various social and cultural lines of division between Jews and Gentiles.
Mark 7:24-30 The best exercise you can do for leg strength and development is the squat. In this weeks message, Pastor Ritterbush compares how to build your faith much as squats will build your legs.
Mark 7:1-23 Associate Pastor of Worship Reid Gordon opens a new series as we continue in the book of Mark. The Pharisees, the primary religious group in Jesus’s time, were opposed to Him because He threatened their established system. Reid looks at questions that are raised by them and what their religious system fail to produce, as well as what Jesus wants besides your religious system.
Mark 6:45-56 How often have you wrestled with the divinity of Jesus? It is a question that scholars and everyday people struggle with. In this week’s message, Scott Ritterbush looks at the divinity of Jesus, how He came “Down From The Painting,” and what that means for people today.
Kingdom Men Rising is a documentary film exploring what it means to be a real man in the midst of cultural trends in which there is confusion about masculinity. The film wrestles honestly with the unique questions and circumstances men face today. Kingdom Men Rising takes a journey that challenges men to rise above what we have become to lives of no more sitting on the sidelines, no more passivity, and no more excuses.
