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We all go through times in life when we just can't seem to climb out of the pit. It may be a pit of depression, or of grief, anger, or bad habits. Many times we are in the pit because life has overwh…

What does it mean to be asleep spiritually? In Ephesians 5, Paul gives a warning with a promise to his fellow Christ-followers not to be asleep, but to “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and…

A memorial is something that keeps remembrance alive. Praise is a memorial. As much as it is us telling God how much we love Him, it also builds our faith by reminding us of all the things God has do…

Everyone has doubts about Jesus from time to time. Even His cousin, John the Baptist, the one who devoted his life to preparing the way for the Messiah, had doubts. And yet even though John doubted J…

Doubts themselves aren’t wrong, but they can easily lead us astray. Doubting God can lead us to distrust Him, to disobeying Him, and to our destruction. But if we examine those areas in our lives, ou…

Baptism is a public expression of the inward work that Christ has done in our hearts. But it represents much more than that. Listen to this message, "What Does Baptism Represent?" to learn what bapti…

One question that many ask is, "If God is real, especially if He’s loving, why would He allow so much evil, pain, and suffering?" This may be the most common question and most common critique of the …

As Christians we look to the Bible for answers. But how can we know that the Bible is trustworthy? In this message, Senior Pastor Jeff Maness shows why there is abundant evidence that we can fully tr…

How can you believe in God when you can’t prove He exists? That is the Big Question in this second message of Doubters Welcome. Senior Pastor Jeff Maness challenges us to ask if there is any evidence…

Everyone deals with doubt. Even the most faithful followers of Jesus experience doubt at some point in their life. How can Jesus be the only way to Heaven? What if the Bible can’t be trusted? Why is …

At the end of the Lord's Prayer Jesus says to pray, "And don’t let us yield to temptation, but rescue us from the evil one." Some translations add, "For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glo…

As we continue our study of The Lord's Prayer, we come to the verse that asks us to check our hearts, Matthew 6:12, "and forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us."

Living in relati…

In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus told us to ask the Father to, "Give us this day our daily bread." (Matthew 6:11) Just as in Exodus 16:15b-20 when God provided manna for the Israelites each day, just enou…

God does not want His children to go through suffering, but because of the broken world in which we live, we will likely all experience suffering of some kind at one point or another. What is importa…

In the Lord's Prayer we pray, "May your Kingdom come soon." What does this mean? Nineteenth century theologian Albert Barnes says in his commentary of Matthew, "The word 'kingdom' here means 'reign.'…

When we follow the model prayer that Jesus gave us, we find that our prayers to God are fueled by our praises of God. Watch this message, "Praise in Our Prayer", to see how we can fuel our prayers by…

The Lord's Prayer was not presented by Jesus as a mandate for how we should pray but as a model of what our prayers should look like. It's not a prescription to get what we want from God, but princip…

We all have weaknesses. They may be something we have a hard time saying no to, a chronic illness or deformity, how we feel about the way we look, or something else, but it's always something that em…

Grace is the unmerited gift of God’s favor and kindness, extended to us, through Jesus, for our forgiveness and salvation. But God’s grace does more than save us. It is meant to sustain us as well. I…

All of us either have walked through the valley, are walking through the valley, or will walk through the valley. Sometimes, it’s a valley of our own doing; sometimes it's a valley caused by circumst…