06-15-25

Comfort is killing our courage. The book of Nehemiah describes a massive transition that he went through from the comfort of the palace into the thick of the challenges of rebuilding. Nehemiah left the complacent yet lush culture of being an assistant to the King of Persia and went to a desolate city in ruins, all because he wept over what God put in his heart. The church finds itself in a similar season of shedding security to rise up and build our city. Renewal of our city comes out of the burden of revival in our hearts. We must leave the comforts that have led us to be dormant and stoke the fire of God again to hear His agenda for our city. We are called to use both of our hands—battling with one hand, building with the other. Let’s gather together and discover how we can lay bricks and pick up our swords for the good of our city.

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Fill the city with Jesus. This is the vision not just for our church, but for our people. The city is not just a physical location, but a collection of our family members, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances. How can you bring Jesus to your city?

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#fillthecitywithjesus

06-08-25

During this Baptism Weekend we’re looking at Acts 8, which tells the story of an unexpected encounter between Philip, an Ethiopian diplomat, and the Holy Spirit. To this point in the diplomat’s life, he’s never been welcomed into the inner circles of worship. But during this life-changing chariot ride, he learns that there is nothing about him that disqualifies him from relationship with Jesus, and after he commits himself to Jesus, he is joyfully baptized as an outward declaration of an inward transformation. This is one of the beautiful things about baptism: the only requirement for water baptism is faith in Jesus.

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Fill the city with Jesus. This is the vision not just for our church, but for our people. The city is not just a physical location, but a collection of our family members, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances. How can you bring Jesus to your city?

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#fillthecitywithjesus

06-01-25

In the fast-paced, calendar-driven world in which we live, it is imperative that Jesus’ followers intentionally leverage creative ways and means to engage our cities. And sometimes the creativity required is simply a “reset”—a “back to the basics” mentality that boldly declares that there is no law against loving our families, neighbors, co-workers, employers, and employees well with the consistent, clear-eyed vision that this is what Jesus calls us to do. Soon enough, we’ll be able to cast the seed of the Gospel; but cultivating the hard soil of the soul with prayer and love is a necessary first step.

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Fill the city with Jesus. This is the vision not just for our church, but for our people. The city is not just a physical location, but a collection of our family members, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances. How can you bring Jesus to your city?

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#fillthecitywithjesus

05-25-25

Revival is in the air. It’s not only being talked about, we are seeing it across the nation. A desire and genuine hunger for the things of God in people’s lives are being stirred up. This revival that’s coming, which we are seeing glimpses of, is unlike what we have encountered before. It’s not characterized by mass gatherings but by decentralized, scattered pockets showing up in cities, not stadiums. Jesus had a strategy for carrying revival–discipleship. The question is, where will this revival take place? The answer? In cities, not auditoriums. This isn’t a new plan, but the original plan restored. This week, we will talk about where revival is taking place, so we don’t miss this next great move of God.

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Fill the city with Jesus. This is the vision not just for our church, but for our people. The city is not just a physical location, but a collection of our family members, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances. How can you bring Jesus to your city?

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#fillthecitywithjesus

05-18-25

This week, Pastor Ben Goodman emphasizes the critical importance of understanding our identity and purpose and that God’s answers to the fundamental questions of “Who am I?” and “Why am I here?” are paramount. As we walk through Scripture, examining God’s relationship with humanity, we see that God created us for good works, owns us, and that He is absolutely singular: an all-wise God who provides guidance through His word. And the most amazing thing of all? He loves us as a father. This is transformational. Will you step into that love and follow Him?

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Fill the city with Jesus. This is the vision not just for our church, but for our people. The city is not just a physical location, but a collection of our family members, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances. How can you bring Jesus to your city?

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#fillthecitywithjesus

05-11-25

Daniel says the people who know their God will be strong and carry out great exploits. We say that we are all called to do great exploits by living out our destiny, but our destiny is not realized until we know our identity. We cannot live out our identity or our destiny until our hearts are healed. Your heart is the filter through which all of life comes in and out. That’s why Solomon says to ‘guard it’ because what we hear, see, and experience comes in through our heart, and what we say and do goes out from our heart. If our hearts are a little broken, we will have a distorted life. The key to our identity and destiny is our heart being healed. We’ll explore a story from Scripture to learn how our hearts need to be healed.

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Fill the city with Jesus. This is the vision not just for our church, but for our people. The city is not just a physical location, but a collection of our family members, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances. How can you bring Jesus to your city?

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#fillthecitywithjesus

05-04-25

The renewal of 10 cities comes from revival in our hearts. We are continuing to explore what it looks like for us to do good works, great exploits. Instead of just focusing on the action, the doing, and the exploits in our city, we are focused on our foundation–our identity. What good is knowing our destiny and purpose without having the identity to carry it out? Jesus taught his disciples this lesson, and as his students, we must catch this, too. There is joy that comes with knowing who we are. This alone is what we should boast about, not what we do, not just our great exploits, but who we are, our identity in God.

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Fill the city with Jesus. This is the vision not just for our church, but for our people. The city is not just a physical location, but a collection of our family members, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances. How can you bring Jesus to your city?

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#fillthecitywithjesus

04-27-25

We have a city full of amazing people who hold the very image of God within them. Because these same human beings are so very familiar to us, we might just miss the depth of glory and beauty that is within them. The solution that God has been giving since Genesis is through identity. God gives us our identity in a few different ways: by speaking to us through His Word, through the community that we surround ourselves with, and through the stories in the Bible that we are drawn to. These are just a few of the ways we are reminded of who we are. Because identity reveals destiny and leading our city into its promised land is our destiny, we can’t talk about doing good works and doing great exploits without having a foundation of identity.

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Fill the city with Jesus. This is the vision not just for our church, but for our people. The city is not just a physical location, but a collection of our family members, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances. How can you bring Jesus to your city?

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