Experiencing the Difference
Knowledge alone can neither satisfy our hearts nor heal the broken places in our lives. God promises to create beauty from our brokenness, and witnessing that is a mighty experience! Hearing His voice, feeling His peace, encountering His power—these are ours to offer the world.
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Upping the “I” Factor in Your Life
God’s plan to give hope to the world involves you! Not your pastor. Not other people at your church. You! His work starts in each of us and depends on multiplication of the “I” factor.
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Finding Hope in our Humpty Dumpty World
“Humpty Dumpty” could be a parable for our broken world today. But there is hope! We are the local church, and God is calling on us to help put things back together again.
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Living in God-Confidence
Walking in God-confidence is rooted in humility that depends on God each day. It’s knowing that, by myself, I can do nothing, but as I surrender to Him, He can do all things through me!
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Walking Tall Talking Tall
We cannot walk tall on the outside if we talk small on the inside. We’re held back by the words we feed ourselves–messages about our own selves and even about God. But we can overcome insecurity and step into God-confidence by aligning our inner messages and external confessions ...Read More
Throwing Off Passivity
The word “confidence”’ literally means “with faith.” In pursuing the inheritance God wants to give us now, faith must be active not passive. If we’re going to walk tall and live with godly confidence, we cannot succumb to the allure of passivity.
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Developing a Winning Mindset
We will never be able to walk tall as long as we think small. We must renew our minds in accordance with the promises of God, believing in His possibilities rather than our limitations.
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Seeing Yourself through God’s eyes
As long as we’re subconsciously programmed by the lies we’ve believed about ourselves, we will live out of an “inferiority” mindset. But when our minds and hearts get reprogrammed with the truth God says about us, we will see ourselves through His eyes as the mighty warriors He ...Read More
The High Cost of Low Self-Esteem
There can be an extremely high price to pay if we live in the grip of low self-esteem. The Israelites wandered the wilderness for 40 years because they refused to believe God’s promise—totally missing out on what could have been theirs.
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August 2017: Peoria – 9am
Baptisms from the August 2017 services at the Peoria Campus
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