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As we enter the Easter season, we want to prepare our hearts and minds, which we do through prayer and scripture reading! While we read through "21 Days to the Cross" we will deepen our understanding of the cross through scripture. At the same time, we want to build our intimacy with the Lord in our prayer time! Join Pastor Ben Kaempfer as he teaches on practical ways to grow in intimacy that Jesus taught in the Lord's Prayer!21 DAYS TO THE CROSS BOOK free download: https://linktr.ee/21daystothecross Send us a textSupport the show

Welcome to 21 Days to the Cross! To start each unit we will be releasing a podcast to help us better understand the context of what we are working through together. Enjoy!Send us a textSupport the show

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Starting next Monday, March 20th, we will be going through a devotional called "21 Days to the Cross." Check out why we made this devotional and why we believe it is so important for our church. Send us a textSupport the show

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How could a good God let so many bad things happen? This weeks passage, Romans 8:18-30, says God co-exists with suffering AND calls us into it. Join Pastor Ben Kaempfer as he teaches us how to live alongside the suffering on this side of eternity.Send us a textSupport the show

James Barnett, founder of Neighborly, is a part of our church family!As Christians we often focus on what we are turning from, but what are we doing for the Kingdom? How do we follow Jesus? We look like Christ! Open your heart to hear this message of how we are called to live, on this side of eternity. "Your obedience isn't defined just by what you don't do, but by what you do for the world God so loves." Send us a textSupport the show

We often say "this is what I'm struggling with" but we don't know how to struggle well and fight sin. Find out the sustainable way to put to death our flesh as Pastor Ben Kaempfer preaches out of Romans 8:12-17. Does your aspiration to be more like Jesus outweigh the mortification of your sin? Send us a textSupport the show

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We can easily feel distanced from God at times because we think he is disappointed in us. Join us this week as Pastor Ben Kaempfer unpacks Romans 8:1-4 and how we can practically live in freedom!"There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus!" Romans 8:1Send us a textSupport the show

Where are we going as a church? Join Pastor Ben Kaempfer as he shares what it would look like if we all individually took the call of living selflessly and joined together for the Kingdom of God!Send us a textSupport the show

Listen up if you are ready to lay down more and more self, and live more and more for the Kingdom! Each week we have built upon the fact that God is worth giving everything up for. This week Pastor Ben Kaempfer unpacks what this looks like! If you are truly following Jesus (not just a cultural Christian) you should never be asking if you should give or how much, but asking where you can give! Send us a textSupport the show

We long to become more and more selfless, and more like Jesus. Scripture says "Do nothing from selfish ambition" (Phil 2:3) but this feels impossible to accomplish with all of the other responsibilities we have in life. Join Pastor Ben Kaempfer as he teaches us how to live selflessly through Jesus!Send us a textSupport the show

Welcome to our new series Less Self  as we work to live more and more selflessly each day, and give Jesus full control of our lives! This is an individual call but a team effort that we want to do together as a church family! How do we even begin this journey?For more information on 21 Days with Jesus visit our website, app, or social media! You can find the digital copy of the booklet there!Send us a textSupport the show

When thinking and praying about a sermon to begin 2023 with, we were actually lead to a previous sermon given in 2019, it's from the vault! We believe the Lord has something to speak to each of us from this sermon on rest so lean in! Happy New Year church fam!Send us a textSupport the show

With every day comes more and more things to do, how will we ever break this cycle? God has designed the solution in the rhythm of creation! Join Dylan Nielander as he diagnoses  our societal problem of "busy sickness" and offers us the cure! We are praying over you, that you do not push back from all the ways Sabbath seems difficult or impossible, but lean into it! It will not be perfect, you may have to start with a few hours or half a day! But ANY effort is honoring to the Lord and how He created you to live!"You won't realize how much your unrest has effected you UNTIL you experience this true rest."Send us a textSupport the show

The holiday season tends to bring up an array of emotions around loss. Whether it's the loss of a loved one or family member, the loss of a dream, or just absence of a relationship, emotions can be heavy. Join Pastor Ben Kaempfer as he addresses this topic and teaches how to navigate through it from examples in Scripture.Send us a textSupport the show

Part of the holiday season is gathering with family and friends, which can involve strained relationships, bitterness, neglect, hurt, or even abuse. Join Ben Kaempfer as he walks us through how to remove this weight this holiday season!"Only if you have forgiven already can your motive be to correct the person for God's sake, for justice's sake, for the community's sake, and for the person's sake." -Tim KellerSend us a textSupport the show

The problem is we already live our lives with stress up to our neck so when life gets even busier in a season like the holidays, we drown! We have less and less time to work on our Spiritual life, we are trying to survive! Join Ben Kaempfer for our new series, this week teaching you how to practically conquer this season!Send us a textSupport the show

We work hard to build up things in our life to provide belonging, security or significance. But those "towers" only lead us to disappointment. Genesis 11:1-9John 17:20-23"the books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located in will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things - the beauty, the memory of our own past - are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself, they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshippers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited." - C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory1. Blame the idol itself2. Blame ourselves3. Blame the world4. Realize you were created for another worldSend us a textSupport the show