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Great Faith - No Shrink Back

Join us as we continue with our Great Faith series. This week Pastor Neli draws examples from the past and reflects on the Book of Hebrews when he teaches us to not shrink back. The former days are nothing compared to where God has you. A lot of the ways we live right now are based on the decisions we have made. Some of the hardships we experience are consequences of the decisions we have made. Make the right decisions based on your circumstances in order to glorify God. Don’t shrink back but instead believe in God’s promises

For, “Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not delay; but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.” But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
- Hebrews 10:38-39 (ESV)

Great Faith - The Shape Of Things To Come

Join us today as we start the new year with a new series, Great Faith. Pastor Neli talks about how we can start the year on the right foundations by first asking the questions, “Where are we?” and “Where is God?”If we are going to be vessels of great faith we need to be comfortable in the hands of our God who stretches us, and molds us, and sculpts us into the shape of things to come. Will you choose to follow God no matter where His word directs you. Trust in the lord.

“Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.”
- Proverbs‬ ‭16:3‬ ‭(ESV‬‬)

Dug Down Deep - Wind Chasers

Join us as we conclude our Dug Down Deep series. This week Pastor Neli poses the question, "Are we living or are we breathing to death?". We all have the same 24 hours per day in life, but it's how we choose to use that time to find fulfillment that sets us apart from one another. Life is meant to be enjoyed. What's on the throne of your life that's fulfilling? Be fulfilled by God and not by the things of God.

Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun. So I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly. For what can the man do who comes after the king? Only what has already been done.
- Ecclesiastes 2:11-12 (ESV)

Dug Down Deep - The Unwanted Gift

Join us as we continue our Dug Down Deep Series. In this Christmas season, Pastor Neli speaks about The Unwanted Gift. The child Jesus Christ, the ultimate gift from God. A gift is something that is received. A gift is free and is thoughtful. A child speaks of dependency and vulnerability. It may not have been the gift the people at the time wanted, but certainly was the gift the people needed.

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
- Isaiah 9:6 (ESV)

Dug Down Deep - Leave Your 99

Join us as we continue our Dug Down Deep series. Today we have our Every Nation Campus Minister Mark Dellit speaking to us about the parable of the lost sheep. Have you ever thought about leaving your 99 to go after the one? Leave your issues, your problems, your fears, and your excuses at the door and dig down deep with God. We can dig down deep with God when we put others first, reach out to others, and have faith in the One who came after us when we were lost.

Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.
- Luke 15:7 (ESV)

Dug Down Deep - Stay With It

Join us as we continue with our Dug Down Deep Series. This week Pastor Neli talks about being consistency. To be consistent is to be like God. Too often we slip into the habit of convenience but how can we learn to be consistent when no one else is? Let us remain consistent, steadfast, and immovable in our conviction to follow God.

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
- 1 Corinthians 15:57-58 (ESV)

Dug Down Deep - The Waiting Room

Join us as we continue our Dug Down Deep series. This week Pastor Neli describes what it means to wait on The Lord. Like a tree, God has called us to live a life that is deeply rooted in his plans for us. But there are times we need to wait as it reveals your true motives. It builds patience, anticipation, intimacy, and dependency upon God as well as character transformation. How long are you willing to wait on God between his promise and his provision for you?

But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
- Isaiah 40:31 (ESV)

Dug Down Deep - Secrets of the Secret Place

Join us as we continue our Dug Down Deep series. This week Pastor Neli speaks to us about "The Secret Place". God wants us to come to the secret place where He is because that's where we can become fruitful. God will sometimes make it harder for us to find him in order that we "press in" to find him. If you don’t press into the presence of God in the secret place, other things will press you.

One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock. And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me, and I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing and make melody to the Lord.
- Psalm 27:4-6 (ESV)

Dug Down Deep - How To Follow God

Join us as we continue with our Dug Down Deep series. This week Pastor Neli speaks to us about how we can truly enjoy following God. God desires us to come close with a relationship with him. No matter what you’re going through there is a resonant joy in our spirits that know we can overcome any circumstance no matter what the weather of life may bring our way. If we expect God to show up we live in a place of enjoyment. Let us glorify God in all that we do and let's start enjoying Him.

As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us. For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.
- 2 Corinthians 7:9-10 (ESV)

Dug Down Deep - Never Adullamoment

Join us as we continue with our current series, Dug Down Deep. Henry Peterson talks about David's cry for help in the cave of Adullam. When you’re in a tight spot of trouble or isolation, who are the people that come looking for you? God answered David's prayers by sending his family and friends. Pray to God for righteous people to come around you. Let nothing take your focus away from focusing on God.

David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. And when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him. And everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, gathered to him. And he became commander over them. And there were with him about four hundred men.
- 1 Samuel 22:1-2 (ESV)