Are you rich? Most of us don't feel that way but by global standards, we're far more wealthy than we feel.  Yet there's a distinct difference between being rich and being blessed. Being blessed is having God's supernatural power working on and in your life. 

In this message, Pastor Skyler wraps up our Causality series by discussing the Parable of the Sower from Mark 4. How do you move from being rich to being blessed? You hear the Word of God and put it into practice. Everything you have is from the Lord. When you trust in God's design, then God pours out his blessing.

We're all running, but too often we don't know where we're going. There's too much fronting--pretending--but lack of awareness of what we're searching for.

All of us are searching for something. We begin to ask ourselves some of the big questions: Why am I here? Is there a God?

The last five online purchases you made were probably less about necessity and more about convenience. We live in the most comfortable time in history. But does it make us content? 

Galatians 5 tells us the "fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control." Just imagine how different things would be if our lives were filled with these qualities.... Our marriages. Relationships with family and friends. Our country.

In this series, Pastor Skyler reminds us we cannot will our way--on our own--to be more like God. We can't chant our way to enduring peace or white-knuckle our way to unwavering patience. A lasting experience of the fruit of the Spirit comes from this simple picture in John 15: Jesus is the vine, we are the branches. What your heart craves is not found in other people or circumstances. The answer? Stay connected to Jesus and do what the Bible says.

With this message we begin our new series entitled Causality. It's about the relationship between cause and effect. There is a relationship between what we do and what happens as a result. We live in a when/then world, but we also serve a when/then God. Join us for this message as Pastor Skyler shares from Ephesians 2 and Matthew 7, helping us understand that when we build our life on the rock, God helps us have an unshakable life. 

It is so tempting to see wealth as our deliverer. In the moment of the trial of temptation of wealth, what do we do? Pastor Carlos points us to James 1, where we see that, in the midst of trials, we can praise God anyway out of faith--a faith that can withstand the challenges of life. 

Is it possible for us--as individuals and as a church--to live our lives in such a way as to move the heart of God to action?

In this message from Mark 2, Pastor Skyler shares that if you are wanting to help others make a comeback, we must be aware of what Jesus is already up to. What if we shifted our perspective--from telling God in the morning what our plans are, to asking God what He's in the process of doing. We do that by being connected to God--"remaining in Him".  We also have to be aware of the needs of others. We're too apt to have our eyes on ourselves. Who in your life needs you to have faith and action so they can get to Jesus? Faith is often best expressed in actions. One of the greatest ways we get to preach the gospel is how we practice it. Finally, we must remain committed to the process--to refuse to give up when things don't turn out the way we wanted. Outcomes are God's responsibility, not ours. You don't have to fully understand God in order to fully trust Him. 

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Many of us have scar stories. We can point to a scar, say, above our eye and recount exactly what happened on that day years ago. We can remember details, imprinted on our memories despite how long it's been since it happened.

Scar stories are one thing. But live long enough and we get other scars--often emotional scars. We tend to remember the bad, more than the good, especially when things are not going well. There's a soundtrack that runs in our mind, often played and replayed, telling us it won't get better.