Sometimes we just want to feel sorry for ourselves. Our circumstances are hard, we didn’t get the promotion, another unexpected bill, someone treats us badly, or we are just really dreading doing the thing we know we should be doing.

The books of 1st and 2nd Timothy are chocked full of encouraging pep talks aimed precisely at those of us who feel this kind of weight and discouragement. This week, we are reminded to remember the WHY behind this whole life of Christian Faith.

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This Sunday we reflect on God’s call to live with confidence and courage in the gifts He has entrusted to us. Instead of a traditional sermon, our service will weave together scripture reading, reflection, testimony, and prayer—inviting each of us to see how God’s Spirit of power, love, and self-discipline is at work in our lives. Join us for a time of worship that lifts up God’s faithfulness and encourages us to embody His hope in the unique ways we are gifted.

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We live in a world where ideas and beliefs are valuable commodities and our loyalties and attention are being pulled in many directions. 

In 1st Timothy chapter 4, Paul urges Timothy—and us—to discern carefully when we are being pulled in directions that do not align with Christ. Additionally we are encouraged to train ourselves in faithfulness to the life and teaching of Jesus and to live in such a way that everything we say and do points back to Jesus.

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There is no question that the cultural, political, and spiritual environment in which we currently live is tense and complicated, and speaking directly into this angst, scripture provides a frustratingly simple solution. It gives us a method, an action, a prescription that not only leads to common peace, but produces lives that are marked by quiet godliness and dignity.

If you want to step off the treadmill of outrage and retaliation all around us, Paul says, “Pray.” Learning to stop, to lament, to resist striking back, and instead to redirect all that energy into prayer — even prayer for our enemies is the prescription to peace.

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This Sunday we begin a new series called Great Hope from 1 & 2 Timothy. In his first letter, Paul writes to his younger friend and ministry partner, reminding him that God’s mercy is greater than failure, and His Kingdom is built on trust. Paul himself was once “the worst of sinners,” yet Christ entrusted him with the gospel, overcame his past, and turned his story into a testimony of grace. In the same way, we are invited to take heart: God’s mercy meets us where we are and empowers us to live and share His Great Hope.

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John Wimber once said that Faith is spelled R-I-S-K, and nowhere is that more true than in our finances. In 2 Corinthians 9, Paul reminds us that generosity isn’t a matter of waiting until life feels secure, but of planting the seeds we already hold in our hands. 

This week we explore the practical side of giving: when to begin, where to give, and how much . Along the way we’ll discover that generosity is not ultimately about money but about trust—an architecture of the heart built in community, where open hands lead to open hearts and the joy of giving overflows.

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Jesus warns that bigger barns and fuller accounts cannot save us, because what we keep we eventually lose, and what we freely give away is what we end up keeping. 

Today we’ll remind ourselves of the freedom that comes by living generously. Then we will learn about how the early church lived this out and ask ourselves how our own daily practices of generosity can lead us into a life of true freedom, contentment, and satisfaction.

And maybe, just maybe, as God’s people respond to this call, the world can become a little better, safer, satisfied, and provided for along the way.

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In Luke 12, Jesus reminds us that all we have belongs to God. This week we’ll explore what it means to live not as owners but as caretakers—entrusted with God’s abundance to do good and to bless others. Stewardship is a way of life that teaches us to breathe in God’s generosity and breathe out blessing.

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When we live generously through our giving, we participate in God’s very nature of abundance, life, and joy. Today, we turn to the next theme in Jesus’ teaching on generosity where we are warned to guard our hearts against greed. 

We live in the most affluent generation in human history, yet so many of us are wracked by fear, worry, greed, and unsatisfied desire, all of which become fuel for greed.

“Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed because life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.” Luke 12:15

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As Americans, we live in a nation that was founded on three ideals: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—and yet, ironically we are one of the unhappiest nations in the world. It turns out that many of the things that we think will make us happy, actually don’t. And “the good life” we’re all searching for is often found in the places we least expect.

Acts 20:35 recorded one of the things that Jesus’s disciples likely heard him say over and over again, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” 

If you take an objective look at the empirical evidence, it’s clear that our American, western formula of “more money = more happiness” is simply not true. Instead, it really seems that Jesus’s formula of “more generosity = more happiness” is the pathway to a happy life.

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