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Messy Me

Pastor Chris Sommer

September 10, 2017

Ever get tired of acting like everything is fine? Ever wish you could find a group of people with whom you could be yourself? Ever hope to find some authentic people whose lives are just as messy as yours? In response to these questions, today Pastor Chris says, “Welcome to church.”

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Messy World

October 15, 2017

Hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, shootings, civil unrest, terrorism, the threat of nuclear war… and the list goes on and on. It is a messy world. It can be a scary world. Is there any worldly hope to be found? No, there is not. But there is hope... it’s just not of this world. Today Pastor Chris talks about the source of the Christian hope.

Messy Marriage

October 1, 2017

Life is messy. We live in a broken, dark, sin-filled world where tragedy, disease, disagreements, injustice, infighting, and ugliness are all around us. This is also true in our marriages. Today Pastor John (and Julie) will share the realities of marital messiness, and also shed some light on what each of us can do as we strive to affair-proof our marriages with the power of Christ.

Messy Parenting

September 24, 2017

How do you gauge whether or not someone is a good parent? Do you look at the children and how they behave? If so, is that the best way to measure good parenting? That would imply that the primary goal of parenting is to create well-behaved children and that parents can change their children’s behavior. Today Pastor Chris discusses how neither of those is necessarily true.