Actionable Faith: Stepping Out When Your Faith Is Not Perfect
September 20, 2026 • Pastor Rodger Frievalt
Drawing from the Great Commission in Matthew 28, Pastor Roger challenges believers to move beyond the idea that faith must be flawless before God can use them. Using the example of the eleven disciples who worshiped Jesus while still doubting, he argues that God does not require perfect faith but rather obedient, responsive, actionable faith. The sermon weaves together personal testimony, biblical narrative, and pastoral encouragement to demonstrate that God calls ordinary, doubting people to extraordinary purposes. The message emphasizes that discipling nations requires personal transformation through the renewing of the mind, a willingness to follow the Holy Spirit even when it is inconvenient or costly, and the courage to take the next step even when the full picture is unclear.
Starving Unbelief: Faith, Relationship, and the Authority You Already Have
September 13, 2026 • Pastor Rodger Frievalt
Drawing from Mark 9 and the account of the disciples failing to cast out a demon, the pastor explores why believers who genuinely trust in Christ and know their authority still hit ceilings in their faith. The central argument is that the obstacle is not a lack of God-given authority but the presence of unbelief that must be actively starved out. Using Matthew 17's parallel account, the pastor clarifies that "this kind" which comes out only through prayer and fasting refers to unbelief itself, not merely demonic resistance. Prayer and fasting are not tools to impress or manipulate the spiritual realm but disciplines that increase a believer's awareness of the closeness with God they already possess and the authority they have already been given. The sermon also emphasizes that actionable faith, like actually sitting in a chair rather than simply admiring it, is the only faith that produces results. Forgiveness, renewing the mind, guarding against negative spiritual influences, and building deep, honest relationships within the body of Christ are all presented as essential components of a life that consistently walks in kingdom authority.
Walking in Authority: Fruitfulness, Order, and the Ceiling of Dominion
September 6, 2026 • Pastor Rodger Frievalt
Drawing from Genesis 1 and Mark 9, this sermon explores the believer's God-given authority and the conditions necessary to walk in it fully. Every person is created in the image and likeness of God, and through Jesus — the second Adam — the blessing forfeited by the first Adam has been restored. However, walking in that authority requires personal fruitfulness and order. Using the account of the disciples who failed to cast out a demon, the pastor challenges believers to examine the condition of their personal "garden" — the state of their heart, prayer life, and relationship with God — recognizing that there is a ceiling to one's spiritual authority that can only be raised through prayer, fasting, and intentional alignment with God. The sermon concludes with a communion reflection, reminding believers that the covenant they have entered through Christ is unbreakable, and that Jesus was broken so they could be made whole.
Created for Blessing: Walking in Your Divine Assignment
August 30, 2026 • Pastor Rodger Frievalt
What if the very first words God ever spoke to humanity were not a set of rules or warnings, but a declaration of blessing and purpose? That is exactly what we discover when we return to the opening pages of Genesis. God created us in His image and likeness, and before He gave us any assignment, He blessed us. This message takes us back to that foundational moment and asks a bold question: are we actually living in the fullness of what God intended for us from the very beginning? We explore the concept of the garden as more than just a location. It is a picture of the life God designed for each of us, a place where divine order and abundant life work together to produce fruitfulness. Just like a garden that needs both tending and life-giving soil to bear fruit, our own lives require us to steward what God has given us. The blessing was never meant to make us comfortable and passive. It was given so we could fulfill a divine mandate: be fruitful, multiply, and take dominion. This message challenges us to examine the gardens of our own lives, our relationships, our finances, our faith, and ask honestly where we need to invite more of God's order and life. The good news is that Jesus took the curse so that we could walk fully in the blessing God intended from the very start.
Strengthened in the Lord: Pursuing Restoration and Walking in the Power of the Spirit
August 23, 2026 • Pastor Rodger Frievalt
Drawing from 1 Samuel 30, this sermon uses the account of David at Ziklag as a framework for understanding how believers can respond to devastating loss and apparent defeat. When David and his men returned to find their city burned and their families taken captive, David chose to strengthen himself in the Lord rather than collapse under pressure or blame. The pastor uses this narrative to encourage believers to pursue full restoration of everything the enemy has stolen, trusting not in human strength or strategy but in the word and Spirit of God. The sermon also draws a strong contrast between the Old and New Covenants, emphasizing that New Testament believers have access to greater resources than even David did, including the indwelling Holy Spirit, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and the ability to pray in tongues. The spoken word of God is presented as the vehicle through which the Spirit of God moves and creation is sustained, calling believers to decree and declare Scripture over their circumstances with boldness and faith.
Strengthening Yourself in the Lord: Recovery, Restoration, and the Grace of God
August 16, 2026 • Pastor Rodger Frievalt
What happens when we come home to find everything we love has been taken? The story of David at Ziklag in 1 Samuel 30 gives us a striking and deeply human picture of that moment. David and his men return to find their city burned and their families gone, carried off by the enemy. The grief is overwhelming, and the instinct of those around David is to find someone to blame. But David does something radically different: he strengthens himself in the Lord. This message invites us to examine our own lives honestly. How often have we gone off to fight what we believed were the right battles, only to return and find that something precious had slipped away while we were gone? Rather than pointing fingers or collapsing under the weight of regret, we are called to the same posture David took. Seek God first. Inquire of Him. Let His presence be the source of our strength before we take another step. The promise woven through this story is one of full recovery. Not partial. Not almost. Everything. And that promise is alive for us today, in our relationships, our health, our families, and our futures.
Running the Race with Endurance: Choosing Trust Over Pride
August 9, 2026 • Pastor Rodger Frievalt
What do we do when life does not go the way we expected? When loss hits without warning and grief threatens to pull us under, we face a defining choice: will we allow mourning to consume us, or will we reach for the comfort that God promises? This message walks us through that tension honestly and practically. Drawing from the contrast between Jacob and Joseph in the Old Testament, we see how two men in the same family responded to hardship in completely opposite ways. Jacob chose inconsolable grief and watched the blessing of God slow to a halt in his life. Joseph, no matter what was taken from him, kept his eyes fixed on God and remained in a posture of thankfulness. The lesson is not that grief is wrong. It is that grief was never meant to be a permanent address. Philippians 4 gives us a direct promise: when we bring our burdens to God with thanksgiving rather than despair, a peace that exceeds our ability to reason or explain becomes available to us. That kind of peace is not something we manufacture. It is something we receive when we stop demanding that God make sense to us and start trusting that He is good all the time, even when we cannot trace His hand. This message is an invitation to choose the Comforter, to let the peace of God guard our hearts, and to discover that faith is not the absence of questions but the decision to trust the One who holds all the answers.
Seated in Heavenly Places: Walking the Walk from Where God Already Has You
August 2, 2026 • Pastor Rodger Frievalt
What if the starting point of our faith journey is not at the bottom of a long climb, but already seated at the highest place imaginable? Ephesians chapter 2 opens with a sobering picture of where we all began -- dead in trespasses, following the course of a broken world, with nothing to commend us. But then come two of the most powerful words in all of Scripture: 'But God.' Divine intervention changes everything. God, rich in mercy and motivated by love, made us alive together with Christ and seated us in heavenly places. This is not a destination we are working toward -- it is the position we already occupy as believers. The message challenges us to stop striving to reach what God has already freely given. Our identity, our righteousness, our access to the power of heaven -- these are not rewards to be earned but gifts already placed in our hands. When we truly absorb this truth, everything changes. The way we pray, the way we believe for healing, the way we face hardship -- all of it is transformed when we remember that we are not climbing up to God but are already seated with him. This is the foundation from which we are called to walk in the good works God prepared in advance for each of us.
Saved and Set Free: Making Jesus Not Just Savior but Lord
July 26, 2026 • Pastor Rodger Frievalt
What does it really mean to make Jesus not just Savior but Lord? That question sits at the heart of this message, and the answer cuts deeper than most of us expect. There is a profound difference between accepting forgiveness and actually surrendering control of our lives. We can be genuinely saved and yet remain completely stuck, still shaped by the world's patterns of thinking, still operating as the kings and queens of our own stories. Romans 12:2 reminds us that transformation comes through the renewing of our mind, not just a one-time decision. The message draws a vivid picture of what an unrenewed life looks like even inside a believing heart, and then shows us the turning point: a genuine reckoning with the reality that God's love is not contingent on our performance. When that truth becomes more than a doctrine and becomes a lived experience, everything begins to change. Our relationships, our fears, our insecurities, they all look different when we are anchored in the unshakeable reality that the Creator of the universe is personally and completely for us.
Dead Men Walking: Living from Your New Identity in Christ
July 19, 2026 • Pastor Rodger Frievalt
What does it truly mean to be dead and alive at the same time? That is the striking paradox at the heart of this message, drawn from Romans 6. Scripture tells us that when we placed our faith in Christ, our old sin nature was co-crucified with him, buried, and raised to new life. This is not poetic language meant to inspire us on a good day. It is a declaration of spiritual reality that changes everything about how we live. The message challenges us to stop treating our identity as something we are still working toward and start living from the truth that we are already new creations, already seated in heavenly places, already set free from the mastery of sin. The question is not whether this is true. The question is whether we actually believe it deeply enough to let it reshape our daily choices, our responses under pressure, and the way we see ourselves when we fail. This is an invitation to move from head knowledge into lived conviction, and it starts by asking the Holy Spirit to make the word of God more real to us than our circumstances.
Demonstrating the Gospel Through Words of Knowledge and Supernatural Power
July 12, 2026 • Pastor Rodger Frievalt
This powerful message challenges us to move beyond passive belief into active, demonstrative faith. At its core, we're reminded that the gospel isn't merely a collection of words to be intellectually agreed upon—it's a supernatural demonstration of God's power meant to transform every area of our lives. The distinction between spiritual gifts and spiritual fruit becomes crystal clear: gifts are given instantly when we ask, while fruit grows over time through maturity. We don't need years of theological training to operate in God's power; we simply need to be willing vessels. The message explores the gift of words of knowledge, showing us how God reveals things we couldn't naturally know to minister to others. Through examples like Jesus knowing the Samaritan woman's history at the well, we see this isn't about showing off spiritual prowess but about demonstrating God's intimate knowledge and care for individuals. What's revolutionary here is the call to practice these gifts in everyday life—at the grocery store, the coffee shop, or wherever we find ourselves. We're encouraged to ask God for specific details about people who need prayer or encouragement, write them down, and then step out in faith when we encounter them. The emphasis on staying in step with the Spirit reminds us that our plans must remain flexible to God's leading, and that sometimes what we think we believe only becomes real when we speak it aloud and act on it.
Freedom Through Christ: Celebrating America's Christian Heritage and the Cross
July 5, 2026 • Pastor Rodger Frievalt
This powerful message connects the dots between our national freedom and our spiritual freedom in Christ, reminding us that true liberty has always flowed from a single source: Jesus Christ. We're challenged to see beyond the surface of historical events and recognize that America's founding wasn't just a political movement, but a divinely orchestrated opportunity for religious freedom. The founders drew heavily from Scripture, particularly Genesis 1:27 when declaring all men created equal, and Galatians 5:1 which warns us not to return to the yoke of slavery. But here's the profound truth we must grasp: while we celebrate 250 years of American independence, we're actually celebrating 2,000 years of freedom purchased at the cross. Every freedom we enjoy as Americans traces back to the New Covenant signed in Christ's blood. This isn't about conflating patriotism with faith, but about acknowledging the true source of all liberty. When the streams of freedom dry up around us, we must go upstream to find the source, and that source is always Jesus. Whether we're bound by addiction, poverty, broken relationships, or generational patterns, the same freedom that inspired a nation can break every chain in our personal lives. We're living in the third great awakening, a time of political turmoil but also unprecedented revival, and our calling is clear: continue declaring Jesus while we still have the freedom to do so, and recognize that our wholeness in every area flows from His brokenness on our behalf.
Becoming Disciples Through the Living Word: From Conversion to Transformation
June 28, 2026 • Pastor Rodger Frievalt
This powerful message takes us deep into what it truly means to be a disciple of Jesus Christ, not just a convert. Drawing from Hebrews 1:1-3, we're reminded that Jesus is the exact representation of God—the living Word made flesh. This means we must interpret all of Scripture through the lens of Christ, not the other way around. The teaching emphasizes that knowing God's Word isn't just about intellectual understanding; it's about abiding in it so deeply that we experience the freedom Jesus promised. When we hear children crying in church or encounter distractions, we're challenged to see these as signs of life rather than disruptions—a beautiful picture of what vibrant faith communities should look like. The message calls us beyond Sunday morning Christianity into a lifestyle of discipleship that includes studying Scripture, hearing God's voice, and stepping out in faith to minister to others. We're encouraged to see ourselves as sheep who hear the Shepherd's voice, equipped to pray for strangers, participate in supernatural treasure hunts, and witness God's power in everyday places like grocery stores and street corners. The core truth is this: the truth we know sets us free, and true discipleship means continually renewing our minds with God's Word so we can walk in the victory that's already ours in Christ.
Seeing the Father in the Son: The Cross, Condemnation, and the Goodness of God
June 21, 2026 • Pastor Rodger Frievalt
This powerful message challenges us to examine our image of God the Father and asks a crucial question: does our mental picture of the Father look like Jesus? Drawing from Hebrews 1:3, we're reminded that Jesus is the exact representation of God's being—not partial, not pretty good, but exact. This means if we see something in Jesus, we see it in the Father, and equally important, if we don't see it in Jesus, it's not in the Father either. Many of us carry distorted images of God shaped by our earthly experiences, viewing Jesus as our protective older brother while seeing the Father as distant, cold, or harsh. But this isn't biblical. The message explores the true nature of the atonement, contrasting popular theological views with what Scripture actually teaches. Rather than God pouring out wrath on His Son because He wanted to punish us, we see Jesus willingly taking the consequences of sin itself—the sickness, sorrow, shame, and death that sin produces. First Corinthians 2:8 reveals that if the devil had known what he was doing, he wouldn't have crucified the Lord of glory. This wasn't divine child abuse; this was Christus Victor—Christ winning our victory. When we pray 'Our Father' as Jesus taught, we must truly know who this Father is: not a sadistic punisher waiting for us to fail, but a good, loving Father who looks exactly like Jesus. This Father's Day, we're invited to reconcile our image of God with the truth of Scripture and step into the fullness of relationship with a Father who is only good, only loving, and only for us.