Audio Messages

A recent religious survey reported a growing number of Amerians are "Nones" - not commited to any particular relgiious system - many of them moving from being even nominal Christians. In this message that completes the not a fan series, Pastor John looks at a decision time in Jesus' ministry when fans walk away, but followers stay close and are sustained by Jesus' authoritative, life-giving words.

The story of Zacchaeus wonderfully illustrates the truth that salvation is available to anyone Jesus' invites. In this message, Pastor John looks at the characteristics of the Open Invitation

Facebook and Twitter and LinkedIn and all the other online social networks have created nearly a billion fans and followers of celebrities and politicians and athletes and companies – and even churches and pastors. In this message, Pastor John looks at the first followers of Jesus and asks, are you a fan of Jesus, or are you His follower?

What does it mean to be made for more? It does not mean you were made for more stuff, not more power, not more money not more possessions. You were not born primarily for these things. Pastor John Stillman takes a deeper look into Psalm 122 to answer the question what were we made for.

Jesus’ church has been blessed and built up by a long and wonderful practice of sharing words of encouragement, direction, and praise. In this message, Pastor John provides a message to the church on how to commend the good in others while praising the glory of God.

What's holding you back from following Jesus? In this message, Pastor John looks at the story of a man who had been told lots of things that, before that moment, at least in his mind, kept him from making that kind of commitment. But then he hears of how Jesus came to remove the barriers that had kept him from a relationship with God.

A recent study found that Christians are not all that different from non-Christians when it comes to navigating their lives with compassion, understanding, mercy, and forgiveness. In this message, Pastor John gives a hopeful plan for having hard conversations that navigate towards unity.

We live in very polarized times. We might want to ignore hard conversations or try the ways that make sense to the world, but our aim is to honor Christ. In this message, Pastor John shares a Biblical perspective on how to have hard conversations.

Life can be complicated, but Jesus knows what each of us needs. In this message, Pastor John looks at the miraculous feeding of 5,000 to see some lessons on how Jesus came to sort out our complications.