Audio Messages

In the first message in this series, we saw that God made a promise in the Garden of Eden to send a Savior to rescue us from our bondage to sin and Satan. In this message, Pastor John explains how God fulfilled His promise to provide us with His presence forever.

God's plan and design is for you to mature in your faith and in your character. He does that through His Spirit in sanctification. But it's not passive. We must practice certain habits on the path to maturity. In this final message on the seven habits of faithful communities, Pastor John describes the power of habits.

God made us for Himself and to find our satisfaction in Him. But because of sin, our worship has been turned upside-down so that we pursue idols for our satisfaction and happiness. This is a common problem for us all. In this message, Pastor John shows from Scripture how God's presence is the greatest present of all.

Becoming a Christian can be like coming downstairs on Christmas morning and seeing a beautifully decorated tree stuffed with presents under its branches. You’ve already received eternal life and know that you will receive many other good gifts from God. But how disappointing would it be if, as you opened those presents, you found that all the packages were empty? For many of us, daily Christian living seems empty because there is no sense of God’s presence in our lives. We long to please God and live in a way that honors Jesus, but how can we when we don’t understand His will? In these verses, we learn how we can enjoy God’s perfectly pleasing presence!

Powerful prayer is founded on God's character.

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.