In the final week of our Hope Rising series, Lead Pastor Jeff Krajewski reminds us that as we seek to live as resident aliens, we must remember that our adversary is not flesh and blood.
We are being hunted, like a lion’s prey; we must be encouraged that as we resist, brothers and sisters around the world are as well.
Key verse: 1 Peter 5:8
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This weekend, we're excited to welcome Dr. Dennis Edwards as guest preacher. Dr. Edwards' work has guided our study of 1 Peter and in our eighth message in our Hope Rising series, he'll explore wisdom and humility as Peter describes it in chapter five, verse five.
Key verse: 1 Peter 5:5
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It's easy to get caught up in the day-to-day and the here and now. But the Christian perspective offers a wider, longer view than just one day, one year, or even one lifetime.
In the seventh installment of our Hope Rising series, lead pastor Jeff Krajewski explores the hope offered by Jesus as not only for this life — but for what God has for us beyond history.
Key verse: 1Peter 4:7
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Christians are called to show their faith by how they love. Are our marriages and families and singleness glimpses of heaven? Would anyone ask us about our hope based on our relationships?
Associate pastor for youth and families Jeff Reichanadter reflects on the notion that Christian love between husbands, wives, and community should provoke our neighbors to ask... “Why?”
Key verse: 1Peter 3:15
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In week five of our summer series, Hope Rising, associate pastor Hazel Owens reflects on enduring hardship as a holy, alien behavior — and a witness to our neighbors.
Key text: 1Peter 2:11-12;19
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The more connected we are as a church family, the more obvious and powerful the body of Christ becomes. The Enemy wants to divide us and isolate us in order to disempower our witness... and it’s working.
The Church is where God is beginning to make all things new: To dwell on earth, making us holy and showing His goodness with all nations. We need one another in our pursuit of Christ-likeness.
Key verse: 1Peter 2:5
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In our day, it is possible to call ourselves Christian without having to become like Jesus. Though it may be difficult, we can and must resist going back to our old ways of life--not just for our own sake, but for the sake of the world.
Lead pastor Jeff Krajewski explores what it looks like to look different from the empire, and where our hope comes from.
Key text: 1Peter 1:14-16
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In the second message in our summer series, Hope Rising, lead pastor Jeff Krajewski wrestles with the idea that following in the way of Jesus is a way that brings on sacrifice. While we may work to avoid pain, we can rejoice the suffering we experience is forming us in the likeness of Jesus.
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As God’s people, like Peter’s readers, we are recipients of a new identity, scattered into a pagan society, and called to live in new ways as evidence of a world being made new.
We are always tempted to accommodate to the dominant story of the culture or reject the true story out of fear. Hoping in what we can see is no hope at all.
In the first message in our summer series, Hope Rising, lead pastor Jeff Krajewski digs in to what it means to be filled with Christian hope — and how Peter’s letter is as powerful and important to us today as it was for the early church two millennia ago.
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Hope Rising Series 2020
In the final week of our Hope Rising series, Lead Pastor Jeff Krajewski reminds us that as we seek to live as resident aliens, we must remember that our adversary is not flesh and blood.
We are being hunted, like a lion’s prey; we must be encouraged that as we resist, brothers and sisters around the world are as well.
Key verse: 1 Peter 5:8
This weekend, we're excited to welcome Dr. Dennis Edwards as guest preacher. Dr. Edwards' work has guided our study of 1 Peter and in our eighth message in our Hope Rising series, he'll explore wisdom and humility as Peter describes it in chapter five, verse five.
Key verse: 1 Peter 5:5
It's easy to get caught up in the day-to-day and the here and now. But the Christian perspective offers a wider, longer view than just one day, one year, or even one lifetime.
In the seventh installment of our Hope Rising series, lead pastor Jeff Krajewski explores the hope offered by Jesus as not only for this life — but for what God has for us beyond history.
Key verse: 1Peter 4:7
The more connected we are as a church family, the more obvious and powerful the body of Christ becomes. The Enemy wants to divide us and isolate us in order to disempower our witness... and it’s working.
The Church is where God is beginning to make all things new: To dwell on earth, making us holy and showing His goodness with all nations. We need one another in our pursuit of Christ-likeness.
Key verse: 1Peter 2:5
The more connected we are as a church family, the more obvious and powerful the body of Christ becomes. The Enemy wants to divide us and isolate us in order to disempower our witness... and it’s working.
The Church is where God is beginning to make all things new: To dwell on earth, making us holy and showing His goodness with all nations. We need one another in our pursuit of Christ-likeness.
Key verse: 1Peter 2:5
The more connected we are as a church family, the more obvious and powerful the body of Christ becomes. The Enemy wants to divide us and isolate us in order to disempower our witness... and it’s working.
The Church is where God is beginning to make all things new: To dwell on earth, making us holy and showing His goodness with all nations. We need one another in our pursuit of Christ-likeness.
Key verse: 1Peter 2:5
In our day, it is possible to call ourselves Christian without having to become like Jesus. Though it may be difficult, we can and must resist going back to our old ways of life--not just for our own sake, but for the sake of the world.
Lead pastor Jeff Krajewski explores what it looks like to look different from the empire, and where our hope comes from.
Key text: 1Peter 1:14-16
In the second message in our summer series, Hope Rising, lead pastor Jeff Krajewski wrestles with the idea that following in the way of Jesus is a way that brings on sacrifice. While we may work to avoid pain, we can rejoice the suffering we experience is forming us in the likeness of Jesus.
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- 1.Hope Rising Week 9 / Remember the Real Enemy / Jeff Krajewski / August 16, 2020
08/16/20 - 2.Hope Rising Week 8 / The Wisdom of Humility and Submission / Dr. Dennis Edwards / August, 9, 2020
08/09/20 - 3.Hope Rising Week 7 / Keeping the End in Mind / Jeff Krajewski / August 2, 2020
08/02/20 - 4.Hope Rising Week 6 / The Witness of Love / Jeff Reichanadter / July 26, 2020
07/26/20 - 5.Hope Rising Week 5 / The Witness of Holiness and Suffering / Hazel Owens / July 19, 2020
07/19/20 - 6.Hope Rising Week 4 / Church is Not Optional / Jeff Krajewski / July 5, 2020
07/07/20 - 7.Hope Rising Week 3 / Holiness Counts / Jeff Krajewski / June 28, 2020
06/29/20 - 8.Hope Rising Week 2 / Jeff Krajewski / June 21, 2020
06/22/20 - 9.Hope Rising Week 1 / Hope-Filled Aliens / Jeff Krajewski / June 14, 2020
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