Audio Messages

Health care reform is a huge debate and crisis for many people in our country right now, but a more persistent social crisis is the spiritual health of our homes and children. In this message, Pastor John teaches on God’s prescription for a healthy home.

God gives parents the responsibility and privilege of being the first ones to introduce Him to their children through worship. In this message, Pastor John talks about the joy of parenting in the pew.

Scripture commands joyful singing as an act of worship over 200 times. In this message, Pastor John teaches where our joy and gladness come from.

What do you think God thinks about when He has nothing to think about? While God never has nothing to do, and He has plenty to think about, one thing the Bible tells us is that God is concerned about those who have lost their way and He rejoices when they are found.

You and I will likely spend more time as a healthy older adult than any other season of life. Most of our culture is focused on the earlier seasons of life, and yet most of our time will be lived as “senior citizens.” Does it make sense to be prepared for it and understand it from a Biblical perspective? In this last message on the story of Joshua, Pastor John approaches our last navigation checkpoint: How can I make the most of all the years God will give me?

In this passage, Jesus gets to the root cause of sin and separation from God and our failure to worship. Our external actions and the words we say and the way we feel are ultimately rooted in the human heart. And when the heart is corrupted, it is far from the heart’s Creator. To worship properly what we need is a heart transformed by hope – by King Jesus.

For the next three weeks we’re going to be thinking about how and why to embark on a spiritual Journey with Jesus, how to enjoy the Journey, and how to develop endurance for the Journey. In Luke 15, Jesus told three parables to drive home the point that “lost people matter to God."

There’s something that stirs in a man when he watches William Wallace, Aragorn, Maximus, “Dirty Harry” Callahan, Luke Skywalker, or Rocky Balboa do their stuff. It’s what John Eldredge describes as a man’s deep-down desire for “a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.” What stirs within us is the memory of battles and adventures and rescues that we have lived out. Or what stirs within us is a thirst for what we wish we were like.

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.