Audio Messages

What do you say when God messes up your plans? The Christmas story is about God invading earth and messing up the plans of some pretty good people. In this message, Pastor John looks at Joseph's story to help us see that when God messes up your plans, Jesus is enough.

God has never made anything without a purpose, and yet sometimes we feel incapable of fulfilling the purpose for which He made us. In this message, Pastor John looks at God's message to a young teenage girl named Mary. She might have felt too young and inexperienced to fulfill God's purpose, except that she believed Jesus was enough.

Christmas is a holiday that, according to statistics, makes 72% of the population cranky! Maybe that isn't quite true, but there are many things about the holiday season, and life in general, that cause many to feel inadequate, that their best efforts just aren't good enough. In this message, Pastor John explores three reasons why we can be hopeful that when our best isn't good enough, Jesus is enough.

Google and other online search engines process nearly 100,000 searches per second every day! Remarkably, upwards of 20% of all those searches are questions that have never been asked before. So, we're not just asking the same old questions, but new questions are coming up. In this message, Pastor John looks at the story of the magi's visit to Bethlehem to help us understand how to find the answers to life's most important question.

The world depends on standards of all sorts, like calendars, clocks, and tape measures. There is one other standard that is often ignored - the standard of Jesus Christ and His words. In this message, Pastor John talks about the objections to and implications of one of the most important things Jesus ever said.

Synopsis: The Christian life is very much like the life of the Israelites in their time between redemption from slavery in Egypt and coming into the Promised Land. Like them, this life is fragile and sometimes feels like we’re still in the wilderness, but we are on our way home. In this message, Pastor John shares how we can live a satisfying life through Jesus.

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.

Jesus has been believed on by presidents, kings, queens, and emperors. Poets, artists, musicians, and actors have believed. Jesus has been believed to be the God of the universe by a long string of scientists, lawyers and doctors; grandmothers and thieves. Who is Jesus? In this message, Pastor John gives 10 reasons why we should believe that Jesus was and is God, and what we should do about it.

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.

When Jesus has a hand in your life, everything changes.