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Enlisted for Life -Living a Meaningful Life- 7/3/2022

As good soldiers of Christ we need to look at every area of our lives and get it together to the best of our ability. Our finances. Our health. Our homes. Our emotions. Our schedules. Some of us are letting everyone and everything run our lives so much that we have zero time to do anything for God. 
What is keeping you from being a good soldier for Christ? When the church needs your gifts, your talents, your abilities to help, to teach, to facilitate, to clean, to welcome guests, to reach the lost, whatever---what keeps you from doing it?

Meaningful Sacrifices -Living a Meaningful Life- 6/26/2022

The reason people aren’t where they want to be in life could very well be, and mostly is because that they aren’t making the right sacrifices in life.
If you make sacrifices to have a healthy relationship with God, healthy body, a healthy marriage, a healthy church, a healthy family, a healthy financial situation -- all of those things are going to work out.

Spiritual Fathers -Father’s Day 2022- 6/19/2022

God wants us to be fathers. God wants good people to make more good people. I don’t mean to diminish being an earthly father at all. 
But I want to challenge you today to take a step into another kind of fatherhood. 
This kind of fatherhood can’t happen accidentally. It can’t happen without intention. It’s called being a Spiritual Father.

Guest Speaker Dale VanSteenis | 6-12-22

Pastor Dale VanSteenis guest speaks- providing an update on success in mission's abroad and a message on what Jesus really did on the Cross.

Meaningful Measures -Living a Meaningful Life- 6/5/2022

What you are willing to do, the measures you are willing to go through, determines the measure of meaning in your life.
Our flesh wants big meaning from minimal measures. It would be great if suddenly today, you could say something that changes the world. But it doesn’t work that way. To influence the world with lasting-meaning, you have to have a story. You have to have a history of preparation, or a serious sacrifice of some sort, or a story of great perseverance.
Meaningful measures yield great meaning to your life.

Meaning by Being Peacemakers -Living a Meaningful Life- 5/29/2022

When you think of a peacemaker, what do you envision?
It seems to give the picture of someone blowing bubbles at everyone, or a person always being positive and encouraging, saying the right thing with a big cheesy smile.
Jesus said this, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God” (Matt. 5:9 NIV).
He also made this statement about us when we are in heaven: “they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection” (Luke 20:36 ESV).
Jesus was saying that His peacemakers in heaven cannot die anymore! And because we cannot die for eternity, Peacemakers are powerful, strong, have nothing to fear but God, kind of people. We may be able to die here, but not there!

Introduction -Living a Meaningful Life- 5/22/2022

There is one reason, and only one reason to live: To love God and people.
There is one way to live a meaningful life: To do everything in love.
Throughout his writings, Solomon says that the only thing he really enjoyed along the way was friends, and work. Those two things made life bearable.
And that’s what we see when we look around us. People in the world, just getting by. They have a few friends, and they have their work. Day after day after day, the same people, and work. This keeps the world going. 
But God invites us to so much more than all of that! God invites us to meaningfulness. God invites us to purpose. Doing everything in love fills your life with passion. 

Conclusion -Growing to Spiritual Maturity- 5/15/2022

Here was the challenge as we came into this year: 
This world is entirely about growing to maturity in a relationship with God and others— Growing to be like Jesus.
For people to grow to maturity in a relationship with God and others.

Hope in Jesus -Mother’s Day 2022- 5/8/2022

We live in a world that is full of reasons not to trust anyone, and not to hope anyone. 
The biggest question of your life is, will you put your hope in Jesus?
You need to know that God really isn’t interested in people who worship Him, serve Him, and hope in Him because He is nice to them or because He does things the way they want Him to. 
Jesus is looking for people whose HOPE is in Him even when it seems He can’t be trusted.

Live Forever--Now -Growing to Spiritual Maturity- 5/1/2022

God built you to last forever. His economy isn’t dependent on you breaking down. In fact, it’s just the opposite. 
God wants you to last forever. God wants you to join Him for eternity. And God has made a way for you to shine now and forever!