Sunrise Community Church

In Joshua 2, we find a foreign prostitute named Rahab who is the first non-family member (non-Jew) to get picked up, come along for the ride, and become part of God's family.What ignites her faith? What can we learn so that we might be prepared when we encounter someone in our everyday life who, like her, is primed to take a step of faith?

God's Mission is a 'get' to and He's a Coach who 'gets' you.Find out in Joshua 1 how the supreme life Coach exhorts and motivates people to join in and last on a God-sized Mission.

Setting the backdrop for our New Series - Joshua & Generation Next.The opportunities and temptations that accompany being Salt & Light during a time of blessing.

Part 2 of How the BIble was Built.

At some point you or at least someone you love have loooked at their Bible and asked: Why these books (and not others)?Part one of a two part series begins to answer this question by examining the production, distribution, and quality management of the 27 books of the New Testament.

What do fire, a sword, and a hammer (of destruction) all have in common? Each describes the Bible. Which is why perhaps the Bible should come with at least a couple of warning labels before people open its contents.

At Sunrise, we've given many messages regarding how to love for Jesus in the midst of everyday life, but not how to love Jesus while you're on vacation. This is that sermon. When you are stripped away from busy-ness, various demands on your time, and the dailyness of life, something comes to the surface...and it ain't necessarily good.Strangely though, God doesn't want to do away with it but rather re-direct it. Pastor Ryan explains how.

Every parent's favorite Bible verse: "Children Obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord."Pastor Ryan gives children 4 reasons why they should want to obey their parents. He uses a children's book, a Wii Remote, and a Squirt Bottle to make his points in this message geared especially for children, youth & teens.

At a critical time in Jesus' life, his father shows up.Pastor Ryan gives us 6 Lessons we can learn from this example of fatherhood done well.

A Father's Day Special.

From II Corinthians 5:18-21, Pastor Ryan shows how to share good news using something available nearly anywhere we might share it - Napkins.

Pastor Ryan shares from Colossians 4:2-6.

The second associate pastor candidate whom we invited to visit shares how this truth in Scripture has played out in his own life - God making His power perfect in weakness. Daniel Sjogren and his wife, Nicole, are from the Chicago, Illinois area, where Daniel currently serves with the Greater Chicago Military Outreach (connecting military veterans and their families with local churches).

The first associate pastoral candidate whom we invited to visit us shares his passion for discipleship in a familiy context. Rich McLaughlin (and his wife, April) have been in full time ministry for twenty years. He has been an associate pastor of Family Ministries, a missionary to Japan, and has a desire to see teams working together as they use their gifts. The McLaughlins have 3 teenage girls.

The Bible seems pretty clear: God likes work.Did you know there's a way you can do everything your boss says but not actually work for him? In fact, it's God's ideal strategy for doing good & lasting work.Pastor O explains how from Colossians 3:22-4:1

So one of the easiest places to fall into a secret, 2nd life of self-indulgence is in one's own home. Paul, thus, encourages us to fight against this by living Christ in our marriages.In preaching Colossians 3:18-19, Pastor O proposes a grander purpose in marriage that not only affects those married but also those who are single and those whose marriages are 'on the rocks'...even the whole world.

Why do some people teetering or even indulging in a second life only break out of it when they hit bottom and get caught while a select few manage to break free of it before they ruin their own lives and the lives of those around them?The Apostle Paul equips us to break free and to stay free by Living Christ with His Church -- as described in Colossians 3:15-17.