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Pastor Jonathan Eckberg opens our new year with a special message, “Joyfully Enduring Together.” New Year’s resolutions offer a great way to challenge ourselves to improve. But why do most fail? They fail because change is hard and when things get hard it’s difficult to stick with them. Hebrews 12 shows us how God supplies us with the endurance to …
Pastor Ron Eckberg shares a special message as we close out 2019 together. In “The Story of Us” we see how no matter our circumstances and no matter our qualifications (or lack thereof), God’s grace and power are poised to work in and through us in the coming year. Our story is still yet to be finished!
Pastor Jonathan Eckberg concludes our 2019 Advent series, “Greater Gifts,” by discussing how Jesus’ birth brings the gift of peace. Peace is a grand ideal. Yet, when it comes to actually finding or having peace, it seems that it’s more of a wishful thought than an attainable goal. This week we see how Jesus brings peace not to some degree, …
Pastor Jonathan Eckberg continues to teach through our Advent 2019 series, “Greater Gifts,” on the best gifts of Christmas. As great as the Christmas season can be, most of us know that it can also be gut-wrenching, lonely, exhausting, and filled with every emotion under the sun. This week we’ll discuss how the JOY we know in the birth of …
Pastor Ron Eckberg continues our 2019 Advent series, “Greater Gifts,” by teaching on the gift of faith. Our celebration of Christmas centers on the manger and the birth of a baby. This child was, as the writer of Hebrews tells us, “the author and perfecter of our faith.” (Hebrews 12:2). Join us this week as we look at another of …
Pastor Jonathan Eckberg begins our 2019 Advent series, “Greater Gifts” by speaking of the gift of hope that is given in the birth of Jesus. Everybody loves Christmas presents. We love giving them and we love receiving them. But we must always remember that our presents are merely a reminder of the greatest gift – our Savior, Jesus Christ. By …
Pastor Jonathan Eckberg concludes our series in the book of Galatians with a message from Galatians 6 entitled, “Thank God”. Thanksgiving is a wonderful time to remember all the things we are, well… thankful for. As Paul concluded this letter, he shows us four blessings for which we can be grateful regardless of the situations we find consuming our lives.
Pastor Ron Eckberg leads us through the next section of our study in the book of Galatians, “The Real Thing.” In every minute of every day we face countless choices. The Apostle Paul presents us with our greatest minute-to-minute choice in Galatians 5:16-26, the choice to walk according to the Spirit of God or to follow our own fallen nature.
Pastor Jonathan Eckberg teaches Galatians 5:1-15 as we continue our study through the book of Galatians, “The Real Thing.” Paul has spent a great deal of time explaining the freedom we have through faith. This week he begins to shift his focus to what that liberated life looks like. In Galatians 5:1-15, we will hear the characteristics of a life …
Pastor Jonathan Eckberg continues our study through Galatians in a series called, “The Real Thing.” Over the last two weeks, we’ve heard Paul tell the Galatians how they’ve been adopted as children of God and how their former way of life should now hold no appeal to them. This week, in Galatians 4:21-31, he shows the implications of their new …
