Nothing To Work With
Nothing To Work With
God wants to do something powerful in your life. Even when you think God has nothing to work with He isn’t limited. In fact, in Isaiah God told the prophet that he was the kind of God that could make rivers on the plateaus, increase the pools of water in the valleys and plant trees in the desert. God doesn’t have limitations on what he can do in your life but He does invite you to plant and sow in the seasons that feel dry and barren so that He can bring to life the things that have died or have not even come to exist yet. God wants to take your life and cause things to grow, but you have to be willing to plant if you want to see His harvest.
WDCX Radio Interview with Andrew Plett
WDCX Radio Interview with Andrew Plett
Out of the blue, WDCX Radio in Buffalo, NY contacted pastor Andrew and asked if he’d be willing to share the story of what God’s done in his life and in the life of the church. Here is that radio interview from Nov 7, 2018.
Revival Nights #3 - Fall 2018
Revival Nights #3 - Fall 2018
A lot of us may have heard of the Old Testament story of Samuel when he was a little boy serving in the temple, how God called to him one night. But have you ever stopped to think about how odd it is that Samuel, who literally grew up inside the temple, surrounded by religious practice and following every ritual of God, didn’t know what the voice of God sounded like when He spoke to him.
Revival Nights #2 - Fall 2018
Revival Nights #2 - Fall 2018
What does it take for you to come alive? God not only wants to work powerfully in and through us but he’s inviting us to partner with him in speaking to the dry bones and commanding them to come alive. It was in the garden that God invited Adam and Eve to carry and extend His authority and dominion over the earth.
Revival Nights #1 - Fall 2018
Revival Nights #1 - Fall 2018
Randy Friesen brings us back to God’s original design for us in the garden and talks about the starting place for revival in our lives.
The Steps To Revival
The Steps To Revival
Special guest Randy Friesen is the President of a global church-planting and mission organization called multiply. In this message Randy talks about the steps we need to walk through in order to experience spiritual revival and fruitfulness in our lives.
I Can't Help Myself
I Can't Help Myself
I Can’t Help Myself. That can either mean those things in your life when you get around them, that you can’t control yourself with, or it can mean that we come to the realization that we can’t help ourselves. In Acts 12 Peter was in chains and awaiting death the next day, yet he was sleeping. How in the world does that happen? Because of two things. Surrender to the purposes of God and the kind of dependence on God that realized he couldn’t help himself anyway. God is calling you to a life of surrender and dependence on Him.
I'm Dead To Me
I'm Dead To Me
How does Peter go from telling Jesus he’d die for Him, and later while trying to defend Jesus from his captors, cutting off the ear of someone who was there to arrest Jesus – to 44 years later asleep in a prison cell chained to two guards the night before he was to be executed? How do you go from feeling like you need to conquer the world by exerting your voice or strength to being at peace with whatever life bring your way? In Peter’s life, we see that real spiritual maturity is measured in depth of surrender and expressed in obedience, not in hype or overconfidence. Spiritual maturity isn’t measured in how many bible verses you can quote, it is measured in how you die to yourself.
In The Meantime
In The Meantime
Have you ever had one of those moments when you thought things were just about to go the right way? One of those moments when you felt like you had just dodged a bullet only to have something totally unrelated go haywire in your life? In Acts 12 we have one of those moments. Luke starts the chapter with the words “In the meantime” which means while all this other stuff was already going on, there’s another thing to add to the story. In this case, although Peter had dodged a bullet in one area of his life, he was about to experience fierce opposition in another that could even cost him his life. Acts 12 is Luke’s way of stopping to let us know that all the power and might of this world is nothing compared to the power and might of God if we would just earnestly seek Him in prayer. This is the story of how prayer can change the course of nations even.
The Proximity Effect
The Proximity Effect
The lives of the disciples weren’t transformed because of their scholastic study. In Acts 4:13 we read why they were transformed, because they “had been with Jesus.” As a church we are charting a course for the future and everything is hinged on one thing, the presence of Jesus. We believe that Jesus is the most attractional and transformational force on earth, and that if we get serious about walking into His presence we will experience the same proximity effect that the disciples did.