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Love God • Love One AnotherCelebrating Ministry Together - Hope 4 KidsGlory to God and thanks to Messiah for our ministry together! "But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 3:13-15) No matter what our age, background, history or whatever God's best days for us are ahead. The best is yet to come! Celebrating 50 years of providing dignity, health, joy & love through Hope 4 Kids International #Hope4Kids #messiahyl2023-12-0317 min
Love God • Love One AnotherMessiah - Who Is Jesus?Jesus asked the disciples, "Who do you say that I am?" Does their answer then, "You are the Messiah" apply now and have relevance for us today? For certain, Jesus was the promised deliverer of the Jewish nation prophesied in the Hebrew Bible. Jesus is also a personal delivery of love and care—a message (and action) to show how God so dearly loves you. #WhoLovesMe #HopeOfTheWorld #messiahyl2021-04-2520 min
Love God • Love One AnotherDrive Thru - Passion Story2021 | Eight Station Drive Thru - Passion Story featuring Messiah Fine Arts Ministry (MFAM) with narration by Pastors Bob Mooney and Jay Egenes2021-03-3121 min
Love God • Love One AnotherJoy Comes in the Morning - Connect with JoyFor everything there is a season...weeping tears of joy and weeping tears of a clown (when there's no one around). The Lord meets us in our pit. God journeys with us through long nights. If joy seems distant; take heart, the morning is coming. #MorningJoy #messiahyl2020-08-1520 min
Love God • Love One AnotherJoy of the Lord is My Strength - Connect to JoyHow do we fight forgetting? And, especially, how do we not lose sight of what God has done? Nehemiah reminded the Jewish people, then, that God gives long-lasting hope, especially through tough times. As Bible reading and study can educate us, it can also lead us to understand the gifts we've received and help us appreciate God's joyful provision. The joy of the Lord is my strength. #ConnectToJoy #messiahyl2020-08-0921 min
Love God • Love One AnotherJoy in Relationships - Connect to JoyWhat makes us human? Is it our desire to achieve? According to our creator, what makes us human is our relationships...connections created for our joy. We are made in the image of our creator whose nature is love; we are called to serve the world—losing ourselves in build loving relationships. #JesusOthersYourself #JoyInRelationships #messiahyl2020-08-0219 min
Love God • Love One AnotherJoy Unspeakable - Connect to JoyLooking at the Christmas story off-season gives time to ponder other perspectives including the season of the world that Jesus was born into. It was not a Hallmark movie moment. It was filled with violence, swirling political injustice, and social unrest. God's promise of hope was born (and lived among us) in a messy world. God is with us always..right where we are! Unspeakable joy comes to us, especially in darkness. #ChristmasInJuly #messiahyl2020-07-2615 min
Love God • Love One AnotherHope Does Not Disappoint - Choose HopeCOVID has changed our days...these are not normal times. Likely you've already lived through other crisis: shattered dreams, pain, death, disappointment. God's love (and faith in it) can overcome all hopelessness. Are you open to becoming more than what you have been in darker times? #HopeDoesNotDisappoint #messiahyl2020-07-1916 min
Love God • Love One AnotherHope for the Future - Choose HopeWait for it...wait (a lifetime) for it! There's no immediate, quick escape from troubles. Prosperity is certain, but not on the basis of your faith or actions; rather, on the promise of God's shalom to us through every unrest, struggle, and pain. #LivingInContext #PatientTrust #messiahyl2020-07-1019 min
Love God • Love One AnotherHope in Unfailing Love - Choose HopeHappiness might seem like an individual striving; however, the pursuit of happiness is really an obligation to thrive in community. It is our natural tendency (and a false security) to put our hope in something we create: family, finances, government, or leadership. What is important to us is the target of those that don't align with us. It is the Lord who is our strength and shield! We find security and safe keeping as we put our hope in God. #UnfailingLove #messiahyl2020-07-0515 min
Love God • Love One AnotherHope in God's Word - Choose HopeWe are held together by hope; and hope prevails. Our comfort and our suffering are held together in God's Word. When we study God's statues and commands we find words of faithful promise and confident assurance. Despite any circumstances, we can say, "Your promise preserves my life, I put my hope in your Word." #HopeInGodsWord #messiahyl2020-06-2811 min
Love God • Love One AnotherLove Always Hopes - Choose HopeIncreasing anxiety might be a description of the day; however, don’t be downhearted. Keep your mind on things above. Choose something new, deeper, and certain…choose hope. Our Heavenly Father offers each of us strength to endure. Jesus left his place in heaven to come alongside us: “I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” #ChooseHope #ConnectToJoy #messiahyl2020-06-2117 min
Love God • Love One AnotherThe Bread of Life - I AMWe can experience God in many ways today: in nature, through other people, in scripture, and in worship (just to name a few). Being connected to God was a forever plan started at creation and extended beyond mankind's fall...through Jesus, who is our Bread of Life. Jesus came to satisfy our physical and spiritual hungers. He is God's bridge over our sin, connection to a life-giving eternal relationship, and source of infinite love to us and all humankind. #BreadForAll #messiahyl2020-06-0719 min
Love God • Love One AnotherThe Vine - I AMThe serious virus we fight today has been among us well before we were aware of it. Our sin virus has plagued our life and relationships since birth...we inherently put our self-interests first. (It is like we can't resist touching what we've been instructed not to touch). Who is in charge of your life? You? or God? If you're all wrapped up in yourself, it's easy to be messed up (alone in your virus). Abide in Jesus, grow in faith, and get well with others. #VirusAntidote. #BackToTheGym #messiahyl2020-05-3026 min
Love God • Love One AnotherThe Way, The Truth, and The Life - I AMFeeling lost these days? Have you been wondering what’s next? Where you need to go (or what you need to do) may not be so much a physical place or action; rather, it may be a new relationship to life—a new view. Jesus made this statement: “I AM the way, the truth, and the life.” Reorient your understanding of that statement from “THE way” (exclusive) to “the WAY” (how). It is consolation (not judgement), hope (not factoids), and directions (not mystery);. #HolyGPS #messiahyl2020-05-2416 min
Love God • Love One AnotherThe Resurrection - I AMIn fearful moments and times of grief we wonder, "Where are you God and why haven't you shown up?" If only you had been here, this wouldn't have happened. How then, and still today, Jesus comforts the Mary and Martha cries within us. May our faith increase as unforeseen situations swirl. God knows our needs and comes to us. #FaithBeyondCircumstances #HopeBeyondFear #messiahyl2020-05-1620 min
Love God • Love One AnotherThe Good Shepherd - I AMReflecting on motherhood may elicit a complicated state of mind. For some it may be blissful, for others it may be painful...for most, it is both. The pattern and model for what we received from our mothers and, more importantly, what we need need in relationships "to be loved by a caring person" stems from a connection Jesus modeled when he described our lives as shepherd led. Jesus, our Good Shepherd, finds us in our need; He cares, protects, nurtures, and restores us to wholeness. There is no place in the heart of God for whereabouts unknown. #ShepherdLed...2020-05-0920 min
Love God • Love One AnotherThe Light of the World - I AMDarkness has its moments: dark rooms, dark emotions, dark times. But darkness can be overcome! A candle, a flashlight, a beam of light from your phone will cast out darkness from physical spaces. But what brings light to worries, fears, desires—expectations you can't meet right now (yours or someone else's)? Jesus was sent into the world to be the remedy for dark conditions. Jesus said "I am the light of the world" and I am the brightness you especially need today. #IAMTheLight #messiahyl2020-05-0219 min
Love God • Love One AnotherThe Gate - I AMBaaaa Baaaa. We are more like sheep than you might think: 1) we are followers, 2) we remember faces, 3) we find safety in numbers, 4) we rarely walk in a straight line, and 5) we have trouble finding a half-open gate without help. “COVID-19 time” is a good time to listen to your Shepherd, Jesus, when he calls… #IAMTheGate #messiahyl2020-04-2524 min
Love God • Love One AnotherHe is Risen - Now What?Is Easter only a promise for an eternal future in heaven? A risen Jesus is the basis for all Christian hope because it means God can do anything. All authority in heaven and on earth was given to Jesus. His parting words were a commission with a promise. "Go and make disciples...and I will be with you ALWAYS!" Our mood, approval, security, and sufficiency doesn't depend on us; we serve a BIG God and we don't need to fix things on our own. He is Risen! Now what? Remember, I am with you always! #ChooseHope #ConnectToJoy That's what...2020-04-1824 min
Love God • Love One AnotherHope Has A Name - EasterThings don’t always go as planned. For sure, this Easter is unlike any other. More broadly, the life you’re living may not be the life you planned. Every life story begins dark, but there is a turnaround moment for each of us. There is more to life than we experience today. God is ever strong, wise, and loving. God did something eternally significant for you. We don’t have to settle because: Hope has a name—that name is Jesus! #Easter2020 #HopeHasAName #messiahyl2020-04-1223 min
Calvary Chapel Yorba Linda PodcastsCCYL - 04/05/2020 - Sunday Morning - "Palm Sunday 2020"How is the timing in your life right now? Timing is crucial. Palm Sunday is something Jesus times perfectly, 173,880 days in advance… to the day! Join us virtually this Sunday, Palm Sunday @calvarychapelyorbalinda to learn the meaning of Palm Sunday.*From www.calvarychapelyorbalinda.com or from our church app, click on the CCYLtv logo at 8:30am or anytime after. You can also go directly to YouTube and search Calvary Chapel Yorba Linda TV.After the 8:30am service the video will be archived and available to watch anytime.*We will not celebrate Communion this Sunday because we will...2020-04-0500 min
Love God • Love One AnotherHosanna to the Son of David - Against All OddsThis may be the Lentiest Lent we have ever Lented; we have given up more than we ever planned this year. Yet, it may also become the most Holy Week we have ever experienced. As Jesus entered Jerusalem prophetically, the "whole city was in turmoil"...oddly, this is not much different than our lives right now. "Hosanna!...save us we beseech you, Son of David, our King." When you've got more than you can handle, God will help you handle it. Cast your cares on Jesus. #Hosanna #messiahyl2020-04-0511 min
Love God • Love One AnotherBelieving the Miracle Maker - Against All OddsMiracles were performed by Jesus so that we might come to believe in him. The record of many wondrous signs in the Bible are both subjective and objective evidence of God’s power. Miracles fulfilled prophesy and created physical evidence for those seeing them, then…and us, today, reading about them. Miracles today, perhaps not flashy or immediate, are the gift of God’s presence in every darkness. God has shown over and over that dark moments precede light and new life. #MiraclesInDarkTimes #messiahyl2020-03-2818 min
Love God • Love One AnotherFrom Our House to YoursEven though we're physically apart, we continue to worship together...and God is with us in this moment. What is the good coming out of these challenging times? Could it be teachable moments, time with family, time to remember what we are grateful for? We have accessibility to suffering that leads us to a place of deeper love for one another and wholehearted trust in God. #NeverApart #messiahyl2020-03-2119 min
Love God • Love One AnotherFear to JoyFrom the perspective of God's grace, tools to move from fear to joy. #FearToJoy #messiahyl2020-03-1616 min
Love God • Love One AnotherWhy Did Jesus Come? - Against All OddsJesus came to the world to model justice and servanthood. This might seem distant and unrelated as the world's people quarantine to slow a pandemic spread of the Covid-19 virus. However, we can turn fear to joy, and anxiousness to confidence under God's grace—using that gift to calm our restless heart and then, in turn, radiate hope and joy to others. I am not just a me, I am a we. I am not just an individual, I am a community. #FearToJoy #messiahyl2020-03-1616 min
Love God • Love One AnotherThe Messiah on the Run - Against All OddsThe quaint Christmas story has some unlikely tragedy. After Herod heard from the Magi there was a new born King, the response was evil retaliation (genocide, anguish, exile)—causing a season of refugee migration for Jesus. Against all odds, young Jesus was guided through the expatriation experience. Not unlike the current world's turmoil, God then, and God still, provides refuge and hope. Empowered by God's love, we extend love to our refugee neighbor. #refugeeme #messiahyl2020-03-0832 min
Love God • Love One AnotherThe Cradle and the Cross - Against All OddsShould we pray to the baby Jesus, to the bearded Jesus, or to the risen Jesus? The answer is, "Well, yes." It is all these forms of Jesus that bring meaning and substance for our faith—in our various states of need and "messupidness." From the cradle to the cross, the Messiah was foretold and fulfilled many prophesies that were against all odds...but he certainly was born, lived, died, and rose (all of this) for us. #CradleToCross #messiahyl2020-03-0217 min
Love God • Love One AnotherAgainst All Odds - Series IntroWhat are the odds of your winning the lottery, getting struck by lightning, or being bitten by a shark? All are very remote! And yet the odds of one person fulfilling every prophecy told in advance, are even greater than those aforementioned odds combined! At the end of your life, in retrospect, it will be clear a curated journey transpired....and the 1:1 odds of it all having been divinely known by God. Let's look at what it takes to be with a God that satisfies promises and prophesies against all odds. #luckybeyonddoubt #againstallodds #messiahyl2020-02-2321 min
Love God • Love One AnotherOur Lives Bear WitnessIs there a litmus test to being a Christian? How much must we do to be a "good Christian"? The answer is we probably need to do less and follow Jesus more. We are not saved by our actions...yet, our attitudes and behaviors bear witness to our relationship to Jesus. We are created in this image: a God of love. God alone has taken the action to restore the divide between us. What God created, God loves. What God loves, God loves forever. #pastdo:justbe #bearwitness #messiahyl2020-02-1624 min
Love God • Love One AnotherWho Are You?WHO are you? Who ARE you? Who are YOU? It's not just what you do, what you love, or the context of your interpersonal relationships. What defined who we are is understanding our God-given purpose...a community of salt and light; salt to give flavor and light to reflect God's love. #WhoAreYou #SaltLightLoving #messiahyl2020-02-0921 min
Love God • Love One AnotherBe Kind - Souper BowlWhen times are turbulent and faithfulness is a stretch, God speaks to us...oh, my people what have I done for you? May I remind you, I sent you kindness! In the midst of challenging weeks, we hang on these words of God. My eyes are on you...you are loved! In response, what does the Lord ask of us, mere mortals: do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with your God! #DoJustice #LoveKindness #WalkHumbly #messiahyl2020-02-0223 min
Love God • Love One AnotherFinancial - PrioritiesMoving from comfort to trust is the starting point of faith. Like a hermit crab we need to be open to growing out of our comfortable shell. What are the ways we can embracing a better and more holistic life? Consider the healthy habits of accounting, budget, saving, contentment, and generosity...each based on living under God's overflowing love. #livegenerously #messiahyl2020-01-2626 min
Love God • Love One AnotherFitness - PrioritiesHow can you serve well if your own care is neglected? Everyone needs assistance, but some self-love and self-care is also required. Life is a maintenance endeavor and spiritual, mental, and physical fitness are a part of it. We are created in God's image and having a heart for God includes loving the body he has given you...in whatever form and stage of life you inhabit it. Could you improve in a small way to enhance your appreciation for your self? #selfcare #messiahyl2020-01-1928 min
Love God • Love One AnotherFaith - PrioritiesDoes doubt have a place in faith? Perhaps surprisingly, Yes! Unanswered questions in our circumstances are opportunity to seek answers and embrace mystery larger than ourselves. Fear and doubt are part of our life, but no our foundation. The opposite side of the same coin is courage and faith. Jesus came to earth to show and say, "I love you...fear not!" #DoNotBeAfraid #messiahyl2020-01-1225 min
Love God • Love One AnotherFamily - PrioritiesWhen we love someone, the best thing we can offer is our presence. How can we love if we are not actually present? Unplug from devices and be present by listening and talking with others. #PrioritizePresence #messiahyl2020-01-0625 min
Love God • Love One AnotherThe New Year is Coming - New Year'sOn the cusp of a new year...and at the doorway of a brand new decade, what is your outlook? Do you need a "do over"? a mulligan perhaps? God's grace provides a fresh start opportunity for you! Lament your losses, but lift your eyes to look at the future with God's 20:20 vision. You belong to him! #HappyNewYear #messiahyl2019-12-2923 min
Love God • Love One AnotherChristmas Eve - The Thrill of Hope!We all have a deep longing to belong. Sometime in the silence of this Christmas we hope you will discover that you are the first one picked tonight—the very one that God pursues. God's only Son, Jesus, was given for you! The gap between our restless heart and our home is not a place but a person. We find completeness when we move closer to a God hug...to feel at home. #HomeForChristmas #messiahyl2019-12-2519 min
Love God • Love One AnotherLuke's Story - The Thrill of Hope!Questions about the Christmas story poke us this time of year. Do we ever pretend to understand? Have you ever quietly wondered, "is it all real?" Angels? Wisemen following a star? Virgin birth? If your mind has ever taken you in irreligious uncomfortable directions, take note of today's message. There is something heartening about the account of the life of Jesus (even if the birth circumstances are right now hard to reason)...#LukesStory #messiahyl2019-12-2331 min
Love God • Love One AnotherYour Story - The Thrill of Hope!Is it possible have a greater love capacity than God? As law breakers we find ourselves outcast and mired in a debt/debtor relationship. Even so, we were sought out, adopted, and redeemed from our debt! Now we have the intimate embrace of a loving "daddy" and his Holy Spirit in our life. We are loved without condition; loved without bounds—fully, part of the family. Debt-free...that's our story. #LiveYourStory #messiahyl2019-12-1530 min
Love God • Love One AnotherHope4Kids Story - The Thrill of HopeHave you ever prayed to be more like Jesus? Maybe that aspiration was to be more moral or to sin less. Being more like Jesus actually looks more practical. Jesus loved the people that no one wanted. God's mercy for our shortcomings is ours, too. Because of the love we've received, we can extend mercy to others. May the power of Christ transform you daily into the generous person you were designed to be. Acknowledge God's love and experience the thrill of hope. #Hope4Kids #messiahyl2019-12-0838 min
Love God • Love One AnotherZechariah's Story - The Thrill of HopeIn seasons of waiting, what keeps us true to our faith? Why carry on? There are seasons in life when it feels like God is not near...not yet, not soon, not in sight, not sure. However, it is only perspective that obscures our view of the truth. Time is God's domain...and, the promise of "God with us" is certain in every moment of our life. In Zechariah's story we see an apparent lifelong patience and silence turned to joy! #SilenceIsNotAbsence #messiahyl2019-12-0127 min
Love God • Love One AnotherCommunity - Fear Not!Have we lost the ability to love (be loved) and like (be liked) by other people? Is our worldly partiality overwriting our unity? The church God envisions is the "assembled one," individuals gathered together—a community of people. As in the feeding the 5,000+, Jesus didn't ask "which team are you on? rather, "what is your need?" Living on God's terms, our role is to listen to the needs of others...and meet them. #LifeOnGodsTerm #ISeeTheCrowd #messiahyl2019-11-2432 min
Love God • Love One AnotherChallenge - Fear Not!What is our level of contentment in good situations...and bad situations? In your mind, are they the same threshold? What is your mindset of generosity...not enough to go around (scarcity) or the more you give, the more there is to give (abundance)? The art of living well is spending the coins we get wisely. We were created to be irrationally generous. Life is often reordered to draw us toward God. #generousinallthings #messiahyl2019-11-1730 min
Love God • Love One AnotherConsecrated - Fear Not!Touched by the lives of those that serve, we pause to give appreciation to our Veterans and Chaplains! We see you...and we thank you! Receiving the peace of God and strength for the day faithful people serve. Always moving close to those in need Jesus whispers "fear not, peace be to you, and do not be afraid!" In harm's way, we pray: "Run, Jesus, Run! to me...and to those who serve! #Veterans #Chaplains #messiahyl2019-11-1033 min
Love God • Love One AnotherCapacity - Fear Not!Have you ever been surprised by what comes from tiny things? From little seeds come gigantic trees! From a few fish and scraps of bread, God makes miracles! Everything in creation is designed to be more. As we trust in Gods' vision of what could be in ourselves, in others, and in our circumstances, we unlock and God’s unlimited capacity. We are designed to be the tiny seeds of great generosity. #bolo #messiahyl2019-11-0331 min
Love God • Love One AnotherReformation - InfluencerYou can't buy what God wants to give you for free. Forgiveness, peace, and saving grace are yours...but it isn't once-and-done! We are a reforming people and we are still a reforming church. Our current "Jesus movement" opportunity is coming to know the authentic Jesus of Nazareth (not a culturally convenient Jesus) then becoming an influencer—loving God and loving one another. #gamechanger #messiahyl2019-10-2728 min
Love God • Love One AnotherBearing Fruit - InfluencerWhy is it we can easily recommend a favorite movie that moves us, but shy from telling people about God? Perhaps we feel "God conversations" are too deep or too wide a subject. The Holy Spirit has gifted you in your uniqueness to tell your story of God's love; all we need to be is open to sharing what God is doing for you. Pray that God will bring an an opportunity to be asked this week by someone how God loves you. #bearingfruit #messiahyl2019-10-2020 min
Love God • Love One AnotherLight of the World - InfluencerDo we have the power to influence others? We do...and that power actually comes from God. What are our opportunities for shining light into the lives of others? These could be large and small..some even today. Let's be the reason someone loves Jesus, not the reason they hate Christians. May we always seek to bring forth grace, forgiveness, kindness, and hope, drawing on your strength, Lord, to be an influencer—a light—to all the world. #LightUp #messiahyl2019-10-1334 min
Love God • Love One AnotherWho Will be a Witness for My Lord? - WitnessWhat is your reality view? From what media source or perspective do you get it? As we acknowledge and appreciate the depth of God's love we see how monumental Jesus' personal sacrifice was for us and how insignificant our own trophies and accomplishments really are. If you are looking through the Christian lens...nothing except Jesus Christ, and him crucified...you don't need to worry about your status or reputation in the world. #SeeingThroughNewLenses #messiahyl2019-10-0620 min
Love God • Love One AnotherMission, Values, and Vision - Prove It!What to do? How to do it? It really depends first,...on why? Our mission, values, and vision at Messiah are founded on what Jesus referred to as the greatest (and new) commandment: Love God and Love One Another. As we come to know the love of God that surrounds us, our purpose becomes clear. The most basic footwear of live is to love God most so we can love others best. #IKnowWhyIWearShoes #messiahyl2019-09-2931 min
Love God • Love One AnotherWhat Love Looks Like - Prove It!Do you ever feel a bit like Eeyore? "Days. Weeks. Months. Who knows?” An assurance of love is a gift God offers into this void...it's all we need: no more, no less. We have this gift to be ok, ourselves; yes, and we have a deeper responsibility, too, to be a light in the dark shadows of other's lives. Like Pooh and Piglet did, we can sit beside loneliness. Even Eeyore knows, “a little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference.” #LoveOneAnother #messiahyl2019-09-2223 min
Love God • Love One AnotherOur Obedience to God - Prove It!What is the Real Thing? It's more than Coca-Cola. It's knowing our eternal value and purpose! God provides healthy, safe, wholesome, and live-giving guidance for living. When we spend ourselves in gratitude for and obedience with God's plan...our purpose becomes clear, our opportunities apparent, and our fulfillment wildly abundant. #ObedienceIsFreedom #messiahyl2019-09-1525 min
Love God • Love One AnotherMy Life is My Witness - Prove It!How can we know God exists? How do we experience God? ...even develop an intimacy and friendship with God? The disciples who wrote the Bible's new testament gospels draw from a common personal experience with God. Jesus made a real difference in the lives of people as documented in eye-witness accounts. So it is also today, God is transforming us. His words are life. How might I better carry and present myself as a witness? #LetYourLightShine #messiahyl2019-09-0826 min
Love God • Love One AnotherSabbath - Resting in GodThe Sabbath is more than us resting. It's a renewing of our spirits, understanding our work, and family time. Work is important to us. A lot of the meaning of our life is our work. We work as if we are working for God. Our work should be honorable to God. What are we weary from? How do we find rest? Sabbath is not just Sunday. We can find Sabbath in little chunks throughout the week.2019-09-0128 min
Love God • Love One AnotherAppreciation - Live GenerouslyGiving more than you receive is a godly virtue. Our blessings and our freedom to live generously come from the provisions of God. Our ability to stand in the body of Christ comes from God accepting us into the family...a family joined under the bearable yolk of Christ—a yolk of love. Coming to know our precious acceptance as immigrants to God's family, we are emboldened and capable of accepting and appreciating others, too. #FreedomGives #Healing #messiahyl2019-08-2531 min
Love God • Love One AnotherHospitality - Live GenerouslyGenerous acts are twitches not tweets. In a disconcerting world we are called to be honest with our maker (not hiding) and generous to others (showing radical hospitality to those in need). "Where are you?" God knowingly asks. Woodstock once heralded unconditional love for everyone. Yet long before, God demonstrated in Jesus the desire, work, and suffering it takes to become "enthused"...to have "God in you." #TingedWithUnhingedJoy #messiahyl2019-08-2023 min
Love God • Love One AnotherPriorities and Capacity - Live GenerouslyWhy be limited by our own potential? Even our best efforts fall far short of our true capacity. We have God's guarantee of limitless capacity for spreading joy, bringing light, sharing provision, and living abundantly. The story of a little boy bringing a meager lunch of fish and bread to Jesus shows what God consecrates can become enough for all. #LimitlessCapacity #messiahyl2019-08-1133 min
Love God • Love One AnotherNow and Then - Live GenerouslyHow concerned are you about the future? When it comes to having enough, how much is enough? It depends on priority, of course. Godliness is a God focused, forward-thinking approach. Godliness and contentment are where peace comes from...not complacency, but joy from making eternal investments. All we have comes from God. My blessings and my generosity show my responsive heart. #EnoughIsEnough #messiahyl2019-08-0424 min
Love God • Love One AnotherBe a Disciple - We Are OneOur ability, intellect, and good looks, or lack thereof, are not a qualification for being a child of God. We are capable people and disciples solely on our relationship...a life of love, purpose, and belonging is ours despite human acceptance. We are fit and ordained for service with all our infirmities and diseases. #WhoGodLoves #messiahyl2019-07-2824 min
Love God • Love One AnotherWe All Need Jesus - We Are OneYou may be working harder than needed...if you're doing things to earn God's favor! You're already enough...just as you are. Striving to do what is right is our aim, but it doesn't bring more love. You are already loved, you are already accepted. There isn’t one person in this world that I want more than I want you. –God #WeAllNeedJesus #messiahyl2019-07-2116 min
Love God • Love One AnotherTower of Babel - We Are OneAn amazing race we are...and an amazing race we are in. The human race is one global family. It is smaller, more connected, and more integrated than ever before. We are all on one shared journey: a finite life together, a hope for peace, and the pursuit of lasting love. Language barriers are transcended by the unifying force which is love of God flowing down to us and then to others. #OneInTheSpirit #messiahyl2019-07-1432 min
Love God • Love One AnotherCreated In God's Image - We Are OneDo we strive to shape God into our image (what we expect and want)? How might we better reflect our creaturely status—to honor who God is and what God does? We were created male and female in God's image, and God said it was "VERY GOOD!" Humankind was established as the world's most valuable piece of creation with responsibility to be good stewards of everything else. We are image bearers of God love; extending our creator's embrace for the entire world. This is a divine and sacred task. #ImagoDei #messiahyl2019-07-0729 min
Love God • Love One AnotherTurned the World Upside Down - EmpoweredHow comfortable are you? Is stability and avoiding change an everyday goal? What if God wants us to go to Mars Hill? How does living into our faith spur us to equip ourselves to go out and turn this world upside down? When death becomes resurrection and life, the world is turned upside down. When grace is our gift, received and given, the world is turned upside down. #UpsideDown #YouWin #messiahyl2019-06-3029 min
Love God • Love One AnotherNo Longer Afraid - EmpoweredThings happen in the name of Jesus. While on earth, Jesus cast demons from a man into pigs; later Peter healed a crippled man and raised a young girl from the dead...all in Jesus name. Jesus is the cornerstone, the ebenezer (stone of help) on which we our saved. The wideness of God's love is beyond our comprehension. His name gives courage through times as tough as cancer. No longer afraid, I wanna be in the room where it happens. #SoHealed #messiahyl2019-06-2329 min
Love God • Love One AnotherEmpowered by the Spirit - EmpoweredWhat is the story that shapes your life and thinking? Is it all about gracious living? Follow your passion, chart your own course, follow your dreams...does that story give you the guidelines for success? The story of individualism affects and infects us all. The JESUS story is a story with the Spirit of the living God and losing yourself for the greater good...and find joy! #OpenHearts #MyJesusStory #messiahyl2019-06-1619 min
Love God • Love One AnotherHoly Spirit Here Now - EmpoweredTrue empowerment is the Holy Spirit's gift to followers of Jesus. The world drops challenging circumstances, foists negative attitudes, and creates distracting reasons to become de-motivated. Jesus knew that we needed help and today we celebrate the Holy Spirit come down to earth and to us at Pentecost. Pay attention...listen to God's Holy Spirit; it's going to get better. #onfire #spiritfilled #messiahyl2019-06-0925 min
Love God • Love One AnotherGreat Commission - EmpoweredBaptism is one of the "go do" commissions given by Jesus to his disciples and to us before he went up into heaven after his resurrection. Jesus' resurrection demonstrates God's desire and promise to be with us always. Challenging to believe; amazing when we do. God accepts us even when we have questions. His love is bigger than our doubts. You are greatly loved. #Immersed #messiahyl2019-06-0230 min
Love God • Love One AnotherGood But Not Perfect HeartHow do you mend a broken heart? Deceitful heart? Wounded heart? Mixed-bag heart? David had a heart after God's own heart...but David's was not a perfect heart. When my heart becomes mired in fog (even by my own doing), I need be reminded not how bad I am—I need to be reminded how much I am loved. In the prefect heart of God we find healing and hope. #OutOfTheFog #messiahyl2019-05-2636 min
Love God • Love One AnotherPeace - PromisesPeace in the world, and in our lives, can seem elusive. However, there is a promise of peace to survive abandonment, loss, differences, separation, conflict, and other forms of discord. A peace from God goes with us through tough times; surpassing our strength and understanding. Do not let your heart be troubled—breathe in peace, breathe out love. #WorryLess #BreathePeace #messiahyl2019-05-1930 min
Love God • Love One AnotherUnconditional Love - PromisesThe sacrificial love of mothers on earth is a reflection of God's unconditional love. God's grace is our greatest hope. We are all bonded together in the spirit of ubuntu "I am because we are." We are gathered as God's children under the reckless (foolishly unbounded) love of God—an endearing motherly love that endlessly pursues us. #GodsLoveMothersMe #messiahyl2019-05-1236 min
Love God • Love One AnotherWith You Always - PromisesIs there anyone out there? Does anyone care? God says, even in deep waters, dark valleys, and overwhelming difficulty—I am with you always. Today, being strong and courageous is seemingly harder to do. Yet, we must venture beyond shallow water to be fully alive and fulfilling our God-given purpose...we need to be "walking wet." With God's promise, we can be strong and courageous in the face of every fear. We reaffirm our faith today: proclaiming, serving, and striving with great courage to do what is right in the sight of God. #NoRegrets #IAmWithYouAlways #messiahyl2019-05-0526 min
Love God • Love One AnotherYou Are Forgiven - PromisesWhere do you want God to be when you sin? Far away? or near? In the face of bad choices which are causing me and others pain, what is God's heart? In the midst of epic fails, God gives second chances. God's heart yearns for us; God wants to pick us up. Jesus turns toward us with love and encouragement...just ask the denying disciple, Peter. God offers embracing forgiveness and transforming power. #Aching4Forgiveness #PromiseKept #messiahyl2019-04-2929 min
Love God • Love One AnotherLiving Hope - EasterComeback stories are memorable and inspirational...we admire and study them in business, sports, and entertainment. The greatest comeback story of the world is Jesus rising from the dead! We thought the game was over; instead hope was delivered, and celebration ensued. In the year of the improbable, the impossible can happen. This is your comeback moment; the power of Jesus is your living hope. #GreatestComeback #HappyEaster #messiahyl2019-04-2124 min
Love God • Love One AnotherPalm SundayLook! Who is that coming? See the crowds! They're shouting and lining up in parade lines. Who is this guest of honor? Is it Leonardo? Matthew? Robert? Brad? Hugh? Bradley? George? Oh, how we celebrate celebrity! Jesus arrives to a joyous reception for a week of eternal destiny—a week twisted by our shallow and fickle expectations. What kind of house are we? #Welcome #CleanMe #messiahyl2019-04-1531 min
Love God • Love One AnotherGoing - Red Letter ChallengeHow big is your comfort zone for serving? giving? forgiving? witnessing? Does your zone get significantly smaller when there's a moment to share your faith with words? We can learn to share organically as we realize it is not necessary to be Bible literate, we just need to express our experiences with God as we would recommend a favorite movie, restaurant, or service. Lord, make us passionate about what we love. Move us to love Jesus that much and share with others what God has done in our life. #going #redletterchallenge #messiahyl2019-04-0734 min
Love God • Love One AnotherGiving - Red Letter ChallengeGenerosity is the way we demonstrate the state of our hearts and mind. For God so loved the world that he GAVE. Giving, like breathing, is essential to our life's energy flow. We take it in and we expend it out. We can learn to expand our capacity to give when we also take time to connect with Jesus, spend time in retreat, in one-on-one time with our source of giving. Let's not get hangry while Jesus is standing ready to feed us miraculously. #Giving #RedLetterChallenge #messiahyl2019-03-3135 min
Love God • Love One AnotherServing - Red Letter ChallengeHow's your customer service? Did you realize Christians are in the business of customer service? Is the experience that we deliver match the expressions and expectations of our life in Jesus? Our actions should be positive expressions of our best self...reflecting the joy that comes from grace received. Our lives should proclaim that good news (and we should only occasionally use words). #CustomerServing #RedLetterChallenge #messiahyl.2019-03-2433 min
Love God • Love One AnotherForgiving - Red Letter ChallengeAre you an overpacker? Have you missed the humanity of any moment for the sake of the stuff you're managing? Despite our social facade, internal turmoil below the surface belies our messy life. Forgiveness and grace are the freedom from all chains and shame. Jesus died on a cross to give us a free life...it is finished. Cushions lifted; junk removed (full stop). #RedLetterChallenge #Forgiving #messiahyl2019-03-1733 min
Love God • Love One AnotherBeing - Red Letter ChallengeWhat must a branch do to stay connected to its life giving vine? It just has to remain connected! Remain in me, Jesus asks. The essence of BEING with God can be enhanced by bible reading, prayer, worship, fasting, and resting. The question for us isn't having enough time, but setting higher priorities. Check where your life's power cable connects and plug into BEING with God. #Being #RedLetterChallenge #messiahyl2019-03-1135 min
Love God • Love One AnotherLife Changing Experience - Red Letter ChristianA hearer and a doer are not necessarily the same. There is a positive difference in results and impact when these aspects are joined. Interactions with Christians should be an experience of joy and uplift. That would be the response if we were more like Christ in our doing...representing Jesus well by acting on His teachings not just hearing them. The next 40 days is a challenge opportunity to live out the red letters of Jesus (in the Bible) to be a better representation of who God is in our world. #RedLetterChallenge #messiahyl2019-03-0328 min
Love God • Love One AnotherLove Is Not IrritableTraffic, phone hold, car repair fiascos...these might be situations for becoming irritable. They are also moments when our responses demonstrate that by our love, everyone will know we are Christians...Christ followers. May this be our aim. #HospitalityRules #messiahyl2019-02-2433 min
Love God • Love One AnotherLove Is Not RudeRudeness is a choice we make. Social media has encouraged many to believe "If I think it, I can post it." Improper behavior is not excused by anonymity or ego for the sake of humor, arrogance, pride, selfishness, or even honesty. Telling "a truth" without considering how it will be received is not speaking with love. Gentleness, kindness, and care are always required. #BeGolden #messiahyl2019-02-1829 min
Love God • Love One AnotherLove Is Not EnviousAvoid poison envy; comparison kills joy. When we keep score and covet what what others have, we diminish the blessings that God has given us uniquely. Reflect on your relationship to God and his grace for you. In doing so, your sense of satisfaction will move to deeper love, without envy. #LoveNotEnvy #messiahyl2019-02-1033 min
Love God • Love One AnotherLove is KindMean is easy, nice is soft, but kindness?...that requires courage and action! As God shows first, we are not built to operate from fear but from love. It is possible to shape shift our response to others because of our exposure to, and experience with, God's love. We are called to have faith, hope and, above all else...love. Break from the huddle today and show kindness this week. #SouperBowl #KindnessRipples #messiahyl2019-02-0332 min
Love God • Love One AnotherRestored - RebootWords of restoration and hope are close to each of us. You say, God, that I am loved...I am enough, even in my worst condition. No matter what I've done, how badly I've messed things up, how far I feel from you. God repeats his miracle of restoration and says, don't forget who you are and whose you are, in me, today. #YouSay #messiahyl2019-01-2735 min
Love God • Love One AnotherRenewed - RebootHeart—more than just a human blood pump; the heart is the center of our being…the soul, the gut of our lives, and the marker of who we are. Loving God with “all our heart” is a pathway we can journey. It doesn’t require perfection, just a reliance on the renewable transformation that comes with pardoning love from above. #CleanHeart #Messiahyl2019-01-2025 min
Love God • Love One AnotherRefocused - RebootWould you leap before you knew how you might land? Is it a show of faith to leap without a net? Without knowing an exact outcome in a situation, can you still have faith? What faith does it take to travel life’s easy roads? What does it take to have faith in a fiery place? Faith is not measured in quarts; and it’s not a reflection how strongly we believe God can create outcomes according to our expectations. Faith is letting God be God…and trusting God with every outcome, no matter the situation or circumstance. #LeapOfFaith #Messia...2019-01-1324 min
Love God • Love One AnotherAuld Lang Syne - RebootHave you ever experienced a stuck point? A spinning beachball icon or an hourglass wait cursor that keeps turning over and over? Does your life ever have that kind of a moment? What about yourself is stuck and needs a reboot? We are sacred temples—worthy of honor, attention, and respect. Let’s have a great new year…of body, mind, soul perspective! #Reboot #MakingChange #BreakingDishes #Messiahyl2019-01-0628 min
Love God • Love One AnotherWhy Give through Messiah? - 40 Days of GivingOur church’s receipt of gifts is not centered on this space or operating needs…our vision is to help other people’s lives become filled with grace, to bring healing and transformation, and to nurture your heart toward your loving Savior. Thank you for your powerful expression to become the image and likeness of God. May our table be open and welcoming through hearts of generosity. God loves us first and this is unconditional. We give responsively to love God back and to love one another joyfully! #JoyfullyGenerous2018-06-0433 min
Love God • Love One AnotherLiving Water - RestoredJesus offered living water to a woman at the well in Samaria…and to us today-everyone who is parched and thirsty. As we receive this life-giving refreshment, how and where can we share it with others? The need for restoration and water is great among people who for the sake of daily survival have to focus too much on basic, clean, water needs. In this message you'll hear Hillary Mallo a water project manager in Uganda with Water4Kids tell about the restorative power of clean water wells given by our Messiah community in Jesus' name.2018-04-1531 min
Love God • Love One AnotherPalm SundayDo you ever wish you or your life could be greater? Maybe we’ve all been striving to become someone else, too much. God made us to be who we are—uniquely. Appreciating the donkey’s role and experience in the Palm Sunday narrative we can discover our often-overlooked purpose in life. A common donkey was personally chosen by God to carry the Messiah. We have been chosen to do the very same thing.2018-03-2629 min
Love God • Love One AnotherA Future Filled With HopeWhat message does God give us at times of goodbye? As I prepare to say goodbye to Messiah this weekend, I've wondered what does it mean to show hospitality in goodbye? Messiah has taught me so much about hospitality, kindness and joy—and as I began my call here I had such a sense of the direction of the Holy Spirit. Now that the Spirit has sent us on divergent paths, how does Jesus remind us of a future filled with hope?2017-05-2228 min
Love God • Love One AnotherHow Easter Changes Our Church - He Is RisenHow does Easter change our church? Easter reminds us that the church is meant to look forward, into the future, with the hope and promise of new life. Sometimes people in the church wonder: who will lead when I am gone? Where is the next generation? This week at Messiah, we know the answer, as we celebrate 23 students completing Confirmation. Today— through their Faith Statements—our confirmation students will help preach the message, and remind us how Easter, and the hope our students bring, can change Messiah.2017-05-0823 min
Love God • Love One AnotherWhat We Do - Where Do I Fit?Today is the final week of our Where Do You FIT series. For the past three weeks, we've been talking about how we as individuals fit into the Body of Christ: the church. We've learned how we come together, how each person is important, and how to be present together in times of rejoicing and in times of suffering. This final week we'll put it into practice—asking ourselves as individuals and as a church: as the body of Christ: What do we DO? You'll learn action steps we take together as a church, and we'll be sharing examples of...2017-02-0530 minLove God • Love One AnotherOut of Many, One - Where Do I Fit?Last fall, many of you shared in Messiah's Fall Small Group and Message Series - Fit to be a Disciple. You learned about the skills and tools of being a disciple and follower of Jesus, and you learned that no matter who you are, where you're from, or how long you've been a Christian—you are FIT to be a disciple! Now as we begin 2017, we'll take those skills of discipleship and move them into Christian community. Where do you FIT? Where do I FIT? How can you work with others to follow Jesus and love God and one an...2017-01-1528 minLove God • Love One AnotherWhat Did You Get For Christmas?Happy New Year! Today we're continuing a tradition we started last year at Messiah. The first Sunday after Christmas, we'll take time to recount our year - to share moments of hope, joy, peace and love - and remember where the God of hope, peace, joy and love was present amidst it all. What did you get for Christmas this year? We hope today you see how richly Jesus blesses us all - and how he calls us into God's service. Feel free to join the conversation during worship!2017-01-0229 minLove God • Love One AnotherWater of Life - The Gifts of ChristmasSurprisingly, throughout the world, dignity, health, joy, and love are not universally a part of every child’s life. Messiah stands with Tom Eggum and his worldwide outreach to address these basic four pillars of hope—Hope4Kids. The power of prayer and willing people make miracles possible: education, nutrition, clean water wells, medical care, and safe structures for living and worship. These are fueled by short-term mission trips, generous donations, and monthly child sponsorships. May we share with Tom in this daily prayer: Loving God, thank you for your mercy and grace. Thank you for the cross and the...2016-12-0533 minLove God • Love One AnotherLive as a Disciple - FIT to be a DiscipleYou did it! We made it! This is Week 6, the final week of Messiah’s fall message and small group series: FIT to be a Disciple. This is the week we put it all together: we’ve trained our bodies, minds and spirits; we’ve teamed up with our families and neighbors—now we study and learn from Jesus how to live as disciples long after this series concludes: how to live as disciples each day of our everyday lives. We’ll talk about vocation and how it doesn’t just refer to religious sisters and priests. We'll share the 3 keys t...2016-11-0732 min