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Relate ChurchYour Life's Direction | Pastor John Eaton | A Journey to Meaning | 7/27/2025Are You Growing Spiritually or Just Coasting?
Are you becoming more like Christ, or just going through the motions? In this powerful and honest message, we explore one of life’s most important questions: What direction is your life really headed?
✅ Are you spiritually stronger than you were a year ago?
✅ Are your relationships deeper, or more surface-level?
✅ Are you truly pursuing a mature relationship with God — or just casually dating Him?
Drawing from Hebrews 12:11, 1 Timothy 4:8-10, and Matthew 25, this message challenges believers to move beyond comfort and into commitment. Discover how childli...2025-07-2739 minRelate ChurchMaking Your Life Stable | Pastor John Eaton | A Journey to Meaning | 7/20/2025Are you tired of the ups and downs in life? Feeling like your foundation is always shaking?
In today’s message, we conclude our Journey to Meaning series by focusing on something we all need — STABILITY.
✅ Real friendships
✅ Financial strength
✅ Health and stamina
✅ Purpose-driven living
✅ A solid spiritual foundation
Pastor John Eaton brings a timely word about what it means to build your life on the unshakable foundation of God’s Kingdom — a life that isn’t blown around by circumstances, drama, or empty pursuits.
Key Topics Covered in This Message:...2025-07-2048 minRelate ChurchThe Voice | Relate Church | Guest Speaker Harvie Neatherlin | 7/13/2025"The Gentle Whisper: Hearing God's Voice in a Noisy World" | 1 Kings 19:1–18 Sermon
In this powerful sermon, we explore one of the most profound moments in Scripture—when the prophet Elijah encounters God not in the wind, the earthquake, or the fire... but in a gentle whisper.
What voice are YOU listening to?
Is it the voice of distraction, fear, ambition—or the quiet voice of the Father?
Text: 1 Kings 19:1–18
Learn how to:
Discern Divine Dialogue in your daily life
Distinguish Distractions that drown out God's voice
Dedica...2025-07-1351 minRelate ChurchComparing Yourself with Christ | Pastor John Eaton | A Journey to Meaning | 7/06/2025Are you tired of feeling like you don’t measure up? In this powerful and honest sermon, we explore the dangers of comparison—how it robs us of joy, distorts our identity, and distracts us from our true calling.
We reflect on the final words of Steve Jobs, the lives of biblical figures like Cain, Rachel, and the prodigal son, and most importantly, we focus on Jesus—the only true standard for our lives.
Learn why comparing yourself to others will always leave you empty
Discover the peace that comes from embracing your identity in Chris...2025-07-0639 minRelate ChurchSowing with Meaning | Pastor John Eaton | A Journey to Meaning | 6/29/2025In this powerful message, we dive into the principle of sowing with meaning and how the measures we are willing to sow will determine the depth of meaning we reap in our lives. It's easy to chase instant success, but true significance requires sacrifice, perseverance, and a heart dedicated to sowing good seeds—even in the toughest of places.
Join us as we explore:
The law of sowing: Little sowing = Little meaning, Big sowing = Big meaning
Biblical examples of meaningful lives: Moses, Esther, Paul, and David
What it really means to li...2025-06-2949 minRelate ChurchMeaning by Being Peacemakers | Pastor John Eaton | A Journey to Meaning | 6/22/2025What does it really mean to live a meaningful life?
In today’s message, “A Journey to Meaning: Meaning by Being Peacemakers,” we explore Jesus’ powerful words:
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.” (Matt. 5:9)
Being a peacemaker isn’t about being passive, cheesy, or politically correct. It’s about living with real strength, the kind that comes from love and immortality. True peacemakers believe they are eternal beings, and that belief gives them the courage to sacrifice, to stand up for others, and to live boldly in the face of fear and...2025-06-2240 minRelate ChurchMaking Meaningful Sacrifices | Pastor John Eaton | A Journey to Meaning | 6/15/2025Your life is defined by the sacrifices you make—or refuse to make. In this special Father’s Day message, we explore how the right sacrifices shape your marriage, family, faith, health, and future. Learn from the story of Cain and Abel, and discover why some people never move forward—not because they aren’t trying, but because they’re sacrificing the wrong things.
What are you trading your future for?
Are you holding back your best?
Is fear stopping your faith?
Whether you're a dad, a husband, or simply someone looking to grow, this...2025-06-1546 minRelate ChurchIntroduction | Pastor John Eaton | A Journey to Meaning | 6/08/2025What’s the point of it all? Ever asked that question? In this first message of our new sermon series, A Journey to Meaning, we explore the raw, honest words of King Solomon in Ecclesiastes:
“Meaningless! Everything is meaningless…”
Solomon had it all—wisdom, wealth, power, pleasure—and yet still found life empty without one essential thing.
Join us as we unpack what truly gives life purpose. Whether you're successful and still feeling empty, or struggling to find direction, this message will help you take a powerful step toward a life of true meaning root...2025-06-0838 minRelate ChurchThese Were the Mighty | Pastor John Eaton | Sermon | 6/01/2025Have you ever stopped to think… when the history of this church is written in Heaven—what will be by your name?
Not your title.
Not your status.
But your sacrifice, your faith, your obedience.
In this message, we look at the story of David and his Mighty Men—not just as a history lesson, but as a spiritual challenge for today. These were broken, outcast, ordinary people… who became legends in the Kingdom because they chose to follow the right king—even before he wore the crown.
Just like them, we’re being cal...2025-06-0140 minRelate ChurchLoyal Without Excuse | Pastor John Eaton | Loyalty - A Quality God Loves | 5/25/2025In today’s powerful and challenging message, we explore the difference between manipulated service and true, loving commitment to God and His Kingdom. This sermon invites you to ask the hard questions:
- What are you really committed to?
- Are your commitments driven by love—or by guilt, pressure, or habit?
- Are you carrying the cross that Jesus personally assigned to you?
Drawing from Luke 14:16–27, we hear the parable of the Great Banquet, where Jesus exposes the excuses people make to avoid responding to God’s invitation. Whether it’s relationships, success, o...2025-05-2542 minRelate ChurchLoyalty is Being Routinely Good | Pastor John Eaton | Loyalty - A Quality God Loves | 5/18/2025In this sermon, we explore how God’s gift of routine and predictability shapes our lives, relationships, and spiritual journeys. Drawing inspiration from the story of Daniel in the lion’s den, we discuss the importance of faithfulness, consistency, and loyalty in building strong foundations for our families, communities, and personal growth.
Key takeaways
The significance of routine in providing stability and order in our lives.
How living a life of faithfulness and predictability can positively impact those around us.
Lessons from Daniel's unwavering commitment to his daily practices, even in the fac...2025-05-1842 minRelate ChurchLiving with Joy | Pastor John Eaton | Mothers Day | 5/11/2025This is a deeply thoughtful and inspiring reflection on Living with Joy, and you’ve beautifully woven together personal experience, Scripture, and practical spiritual insight. It offers a powerful challenge to choose joy, not as a denial of reality, but as a deeply rooted act of faith and alignment with God’s purpose. A few key themes stand out strongly:
1. Joy as a Command, Not Just a Feeling
You’ve made a compelling case that joy isn’t just a mood we stumble into, but a spiritual discipline. Repeated Scriptural commands—“Rejoice in the Lord always,” “Be glad,” “Shout...2025-05-1140 minRelate ChurchWhen to be Loyal | Pastor John Eaton | Loyalty—A Quality God Loves | 5/04/2025In this life-changing sermon, we explore what it means to honor the position God appoints — even when the person in that position seems unworthy.
From David’s loyalty to Saul, to Jacob’s impatience with God’s promise, to Absalom’s rebellion against his father David — this message dives deep into the tension between loyalty to people and loyalty to God’s mission.
What you’ll learn:
Why David refused to take shortcuts to the throne
How Jacob’s manipulation cost him years of peace
The danger of misplaced loyalty in relatio...2025-05-0448 minRelate ChurchContentment| Pastor John Eaton | Loyalty—A Quality God Loves | 4/27/2025Loyalty is one of the qualities that moves the heart of God. In a culture where commitment is rare and leaving is easy, God is still looking for people who stay faithful—to Him, to their calling, and to the people He’s placed in their lives.
In this message, we explore what true loyalty looks like through powerful stories from Scripture: Eve in the Garden, Judas and Jesus, the prophet in 1 Kings 13, and the nation of Israel demanding a king. Each moment reveals what happens when we stay loyal—and what happens when we don’t.
If...2025-04-2742 minRelate ChurchEaster Sunday | Pastor John Eaton | Loyalty—A Quality God Loves | 4/20/2025This powerful Easter Sunday message from Pastor John takes us deep into the Garden of Gethsemane, where Jesus prepared His heart for the cross—and where loyalty and betrayal collided.
In a world that often values convenience over commitment, loyalty is a rare but essential virtue. Through the story of Judas’s betrayal, Peter’s denial, and ultimately, Jesus’s unwavering faithfulness, Pastor John challenges us to reflect on our own loyalty—especially to God, to truth, and to the people and responsibilities He has entrusted to us.
We’re reminded that God keeps a record—not o...2025-04-2046 minRelate ChurchLaura Ashley Kolbert - Ordination | Pastor John Eaton | Ordination Service | 4/13/2025Today marks a powerful and sacred moment in the life of our church family, as we witness Laura Ashley Kolbert—one of our own—officially step into her calling as a Minister of the Word.
Through Scripture, reflection, and heartfelt commissioning, this service celebrates Laura Ashley’s years of faithful service, biblical training, and unwavering commitment to Christ and His Church. Drawing from Ephesians 4, 1 Samuel 16, and the pastoral charge in 2 Timothy 4, the message highlights how God chooses and equips leaders not based on appearance, but by the condition of their heart.
We honor Laura Ashley’s journe...2025-04-1337 minRelate ChurchIntroduction | Pastor John Eaton | Loyalty - A Quality God Loves | 4/6/2025In this powerful sermon, we dive deep into one of the most important qualities that God cherishes—loyalty. Loyalty isn't just about being committed when everything is going well, but staying true through trials, disappointments, and tests of faith. God calls us to embody true loyalty, but it can also be easily exploited when misused for the wrong purposes.
We explore how loyalty can be tested in everyday situations—whether in our friendships, churches, families, or workplaces. Often, God tests our loyalty, and it's essential to understand what it looks like and how it reflects our love for...2025-04-0645 minRelate ChurchAppearing with Hands Full | Pastor John Eaton | Thriving with God | 3/30/2025In today’s sermon, we dive deep into the concept of Appearing Full-Handed in our relationships with God and others. Life and love thrive on two key principles: Responsibility and Generosity. These principles not only sustain relationships but make them vibrant and fulfilling.
Drawing from Scripture, Pastor explores how God teaches us the importance of giving and living generously—whether in our relationship with Him or in the way we treat others. Through the teachings in Exodus, we learn that God desires us to approach Him with our best, to give not out of obligation, but out of l...2025-03-3037 minRelate ChurchThe Good Boss - God | Pastor John Eaton | Thriving with God | 3/23/2025In this teaching, we delve into the idea of The Good Boss – God, and how He is the ultimate employer who sees, values, and rewards His workers like no one else can. Drawing from personal experiences and biblical examples, including the powerful story of Ruth and Boaz, we discover that God offers justice, fairness, and eternal rewards for those who serve Him faithfully. Have you ever worked for a boss who didn’t appreciate you, or felt like your hard work went unnoticed? This sermon contrasts those painful experiences with the unmatched goodness of working for God, who rewards us b...2025-03-2342 minRelate ChurchHow to Receive His Favor | Pastor John Eaton | Thriving with God | 3/16/2025We look at Jesus’s first miracle at the wedding in Cana and uncover key principles to receiving favor:
- Invite Jesus into your life. Just like Jesus was invited to the wedding, you must welcome Him into your life and circumstances.
- Seek no glory but God’s. Favor is not about personal recognition but about serving God’s purpose.
- Believe that God cares and be persistent. Trust that God is good, and keep your faith in His ability to help you.
- Trust God’s way. Whether through a miracle or a differ...2025-03-1651 minRelate ChurchLet The Winds Blow | Pastor John Eaton | Thriving with God | 3/09/2025Life’s challenges are like the wind—shaping us, strengthening us, and making us unique. In this powerful message, we explore how God uses trials to grow us into “Oaks of Righteousness” (Isaiah 61:3). Just as trees develop strength through wind, we, too, become stronger through life’s storms.
When difficulties come, will you turn toward the light—toward God—or will you let hardships uproot you? Learn how to stay planted by the stream of living water (Jeremiah 17:7-8) and bear the good fruit God created you to produce (Matthew 12:33).
No storm is wasted. Every challenge can bring you clos...2025-03-0937 minRelate ChurchGod's Favor | Pastor John Eaton | Thriving with God | 3/02/2025How close are you planted to the stream of life? When you live in the desert, your needs, your desires, everything you want is different than when you live by the water. In the desert, you are just hoping to survive. Everyone and everything you see is about your survival. Hoping for a drop of rain. Hoping someone will come pour some water on you. But when you live by the stream, all is well. Even when bad storms come. Even when there is drought. All is well. By the stream, you get to produce leaves, and bear fruit...2025-03-0244 minRelate ChurchBuild a Home with Him | Pastor John Eaton | Thriving with God | 2/23/2025No matter who you are, where you’ve come from, what you’ve done, and who you’ve done it with, you belong with God in His home. But it is your choice to live with Him. Look at how God is building to know how to build your own home. If you will begin focusing on the home God is building, your life is going to be restored.
2025-02-2347 minRelate ChurchPlowing New Ground | Pastor John Eaton | Thriving with God | 2/16/2025Have you ever messed up something in a big way and wish you could go back and do it differently? What if today, if instead of messing up in a big way, you put your life together in a big way? What if you decided to thrive? What if you did something so great, so big, that your future you will always look back and remember this moment? It begins with you deciding to do level with yourself and God. What is the reality of where you are? What needs to be changed? What if you can change now? Wha...2025-02-1740 minRelate ChurchFishing Matters | Pastor John Eaton | Accommodating God | 2/9/2025“Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men” (Matthew 4:19 NKJV). Fishing isn’t always fun, Fishing isn’t always rewarding, and Fishing isn’t always safe. Telling people about Jesus is
your way to sanity. If you don’t have FISHING FEVER, it’s because you’ve never had a good fishing day. If you aren’t bonded to other followers of Jesus, you’ve never faced
danger for being one. Have you come to Christ, by your own choice? Love Matters, Words Matter, Soldiering Well Matters, Commitment Matters, What is Done in Secret Matters. What if you miss out o...2025-02-0948 minRelate ChurchWhat's Done in Secret Matters | Pastor John Eaton | Accommodating God | 2/2/2025What we do in secret matters to God. In this powerful message, we explore how our private actions, thoughts, and faithfulness shape our spiritual lives and determine the rewards we receive at the Judgment Seat of Christ. Through biblical examples like King David and Uriah, and Jesus’ teachings in Matthew 6, we see how God honors those who give, pray, and worship in secret. Are you living for His approval or the applause of others? Watch this message and be encouraged to cultivate a heart that seeks God in the unseen moments of life! #Faith #JudgmentSeatOfChrist #LivingForGod
2025-02-0241 minRelate ChurchCommitment Matters| Pastor John Eaton | Accommodating God | 1/26/2025GOD IS ONLY INTERESTED IN A CLOSED RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU. Jesus is saying that based on your level of commitment to Him, you will be given reward at the Judgment
Seat of Christ. Jesus is saying that not being committed to Him can result in you going to The Great White Throne Judgment and being judged among the
hypocrites. Can God be gentle on your mind? Only if you are committed to Him.
2025-01-2641 minRelate ChurchSoldiering Well Matters| Pastor John Eaton | Accommodating God | 1/19/2025Whether you want to be in a spiritual war or not doesn’t matter; you are in it. With the strength God gives you, be ready to suffer with me for the sake of the Good News. God uses bad things in God’s people to bring good things. He begins with: Endurance: “Endure suffering along with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. Dedicate Yourself: Soldiers don’t get tied up in the affairs of civilian life. Aim to Please God: Don’t do these things…for then they cannot please the officer who enlisted them.
2025-01-1947 minRelate ChurchWords Matter | Pastor John Eaton | Accommodating God | 1/12/2025We will face what is called The Judgment Seat of Christ. Jesus said that the things we say will be important on the day of judgment. God isn’t going to pull your words out of context and use them against you. God isn’t interested in us becoming the word police on each other. Not only do the words you say matter, but the words you should have said and didn’t matter too.
Your silence can be just as damaging or more than being the perpetrator. Taking the words of Jesus Himself to heart is a good p...2025-01-1246 minRelate ChurchLove Matters | Pastor John Eaton | Accommodating God | 01/05/2054Have you come to Christ, by your own choice? What will matter in that moment when you stand before Him? LOVE Matters -- Your job from now to the end of this life is to learn and practice the way of LOVE.
If God is love, then God is saying it is LOVE that we wrestle with.Love isn’t the attitude or feeling; love is the motive behind the action.
Love is doing for others what I would hope someone would do for me. Love is doing what is right, no matter how difficult it is to m...2025-01-0546 minRelate ChurchAccommodating God Introduction | Pastor John Eaton | Accommodating God | 12/29/2024What if you passionately started doing something, thinking you were really doing something God would appreciate, only to find out that it really wasn’t something He wanted?
This is really what the entire Bible is full of—stories of people living their lives thinking they were doing things that impressed God, that God didn’t even care about.
What is God looking for? That’s the big question of life. What does He like and what doesn’t He like. He is communicating what He wants you to be doing to accommodate for Him.
2024-12-2944 minRelate ChurchFrom Fear to Faith | Pastor John Eaton | The Heart of Christmas | 12/22/2024There are two doorways at the threshold of fear. One is faith, and the other is failure. If it is important enough for you to be afraid of it—then it is important enough for God to lead you through it. How do you turn your fear into faith? One way: Love.
2024-12-2239 minRelate ChurchIt’s All About Love | Pastor John Eaton | The Heart of Christmas | 12/15/2024“God is with us” is all about love. God is with us could have been about power, an ego trip, a celestial experiment. God says the only way you’ll spend eternity with Me is if you love Me.The test of where you live for eternity isn’t does God love you, it’s do you love God? Do You Worship Him When Life Goes Bad, Obey His commands and love doing it, Choose to Love People? God doesn’t just call us to stop hurting others, His call is to start loving.
2024-12-1533 minRelate ChurchHope | Pastor John Eaton | The Heart of Christmas | 12/08/2024Hope is one of the essentials of life. Because we know we need hope, we fall for false hope. God’s Presence is with You, God’s Purpose is on You, God’s Place is Prepared for You. God is the source – the source of hope.
2024-12-0839 minRelate ChurchIntroduction | Pastor John Eaton | The Heart of Christmas | 12/01/2024God, the biggest target in the Universe and beyond, could have come with His protection surrounding Him. The Heart of Christmas begins here: God gave. God saved. God gave…so believers could have. God came to “save” every individual who would be “saved.”
2024-12-0138 minRelate ChurchThankfulness - The Key to Happiness | Pastor John Eaton | Thanksgiving 2024 | 11/24/2024The key to happiness is not found in what others can do for you. You enter into happiness with the key words, “Thank you.” Being thankful opens up all the doors in your life to be happy and realize you are blessed by God. A life of gratitude to God changed everything!
2024-11-2438 minRelate ChurchGod's Limited Love | Pastor John Eaton | Feeling Good About Life | 11/17/2024One of the greatest “love blockers” in our lives is the lack of believing that someone actually loves you. Insecurity can cause you to start backing away in a manipulative way. Insecurity causes us to jump to conclusions. Insecurity can cause you to be controlling. Insecurity can cause you to be cutting. Insecurity is self-fulfilled prophecy of broken relationships. God and others are only able to love me as much as I believe they love me.
2024-11-1749 minRelate ChurchMy Life’s Direction | Pastor John Eaton | Feeling Good About Life | 11/10/2024Are you gradually getting better, or worse? What direction am I headed in life? The ultimate goal in life is to have a mature relationship with God.
2024-11-1039 minRelate ChurchCitizen's Arrest! | Pastor John Eaton | Feeling Good About Life | 11/03/2024When you judge someone, you are only setting the standard for the judgment on you. When you judge someone, you have forgotten to guard yourself. All God has ever asked us to do is remind people that it is Him that we are accountable to. Our time as Christians is more useful if we spend our time and energy on finding things that we can do—not on things each other shouldn’t be doing.
2024-11-0345 minRelate ChurchSoul Food | Pastor John Eaton | Feeling Good About Life | 10/27/2024Kindness to others is nourishment to your own soul. It’s easy for us to look at people’s problems as burdens rather than opportunities. Your soul is nourished because your own kindness!
2024-10-2732 minRelate ChurchGod Feels Good About His Life | Pastor John Eaton | Feeling Good About Life | 10/20/2024The path to truly feeling good about life is not an easy path. The path to truly feeling good about your life is not natural to you. The path to truly feeling good about your life is not instant. The path to truly feeling good about your life will not be accepted by everyone—and is often misunderstood. Are you ready to go on this journey with us?
2024-10-2039 minRelate ChurchThey Softened their Hearts | Pastor John Eaton | The Acts of the Apostles | 10/13/2024Hard hearts are blind to truth and will even make up lies to get what they want. Paul was on trial for sharing the gospel. The Jews hearts were hardened, they continued to bring charges against Paul. When you face the storms of life you will either harden your heart more or soften your heart.
2024-10-1341 minRelate ChurchThey Told Their Story | Pastor John Eaton | The Acts of the Apostles | 10/06/2024God heard the story Paul told in Jerusalem and He wanted him to tell it in Rome. God loves your story. God loves how you came to Christ. God loves the intricate details of what it took for you to find salvation in Him. He loves to hear what you have to say.
2024-10-0641 minRelate ChurchThey Didn't Dilute | Pastor John Eaton | The Acts of the Apostles | 9/29/2024Paul challenged them, warned them, not to dilute the message. When we water down, dilute the message, tell people that they can live however they want, living for themselves, and still get to go to heaven, there is no love.
2024-09-2947 minRelate ChurchMissions Service | Dale Van Steenis | Guest Speaker | 9/22/2024Guest speaker Dale Van Steenis shares the impact that Relate Church has on international missionary work.
2024-09-2241 minRelate ChurchThey were a Threat to the World | Pastor John Eaton | The Acts of the Apostles | 9/15/2024In Acts Chapter 19 Paul is in Ephesus wanting to take the stage at the Great Theater.
The crowd in the Great Theater gets threatened in their security of their idol that they worship.
The church was deemed a threat to the world by not using their product anymore.
2024-09-1532 minRelate ChurchThey Used the Name of Jesus | Pastor John Eaton | The Acts of the Apostles | 9/8/2024To use the Name of Jesus, to invoke the Name of Jesus for power, it takes having a relationship with Him. But I have used the Name of Jesus, and nothing happened. Why? Well, there are times that even Jesus either couldn’t, or just didn’t heal people.
2024-09-0839 minRelate ChurchThey were a Team | Pastor John Eaton | The Acts of the Apostles | 9/1/2024Jesus called individuals to be on His team. To be useful on the team, they had to give themselves over to Him, they had to accept each other, and their former way of wrong thinking, wrong living, all of it had to be laid down. To be useful on the team, they had to do what Jesus was doing.
2024-09-0139 minRelate ChurchThey Hinged Everything on the Resurrection | Pastor John Eaton | The Acts of the Apostles | 8/25/2024In Acts 17 Paul is in Athens and encounters a city full of idols.
He sees a culture of people who want to believe, people who hope to believe, people who are trying to worship,
but have no idea who the living God is. Paul debates with Epicurean and Stoic philosophers over Jesus and His Resurrection.
2024-08-2545 minRelate ChurchThey Followed the Holy Spirit, and they Made New Family Wherever they Went | Pastor John Eaton | The Acts of the Apostles | 8/18/2024The true church of Jesus, the true Body of Christ, will welcome all who are believers in Jesus.
The True Body of Christ, you will feel right at home no matter what your financial situation is,
no matter what color your skin is, you don’t even have to have a membership card.
You can travel a thousand miles and walk into a True Body of Christ church and feel like you are home.
2024-08-1841 minRelate ChurchThey Became All Things to All People – Under Christ’s Law of Love | Pastor John Eaton | The Acts of the Apostles | 8/11/2024When someone comes to Christ it’s about a relationship of love. An individual relationship.
Which means that some things you do may not be offensive to God for you to do them, but they would be for me.
The principle here is so important to how we live our daily lives as believers.
You live under Christ’s law of LOVE.
2024-08-1150 minRelate ChurchThey Had Disagreements, They Lightened the Load | Pastor John Eaton | The Acts of the Apostles | 8/04/2024God has called us to live lives of love. And when you live a life of love, you never have to worry about the law. This is the life of the New Covenant.
2024-08-0447 minRelate ChurchThey Shook the Dust off their Feet, They Tore their Clothes | Pastor John Eaton | The Acts of the Apostles | 7/28/2024Have you ever heard the saying, “Shake the Dust off your feet?” It comes from Jesus. In three of the 4 Gospels, Matthew 10:14, Luke 9:5, and Mark 6:11, it is recorded that Jesus told the disciples that if anyone rejected them and wouldn’t listen to them, to shake the dust off their feet when they leave that house or town.
Jesus gave us freedom to walk away from people who reject Him, knowing they did their part.
God knows that you can only say so much, that you can only do so much, and so long as you have done y...2024-07-2836 minRelate ChurchThey Prophesied, they saw Angels and God’s Judgment | Pastor John Eaton | The Acts of the Apostles | 7/21/2024The interaction of the heavenly realms in the New Churches was very real. Although it wasn’t an everyday occurrence, it is something the believers experienced on God-willing occasions.
I wonder how many times you have been protected by an angel and don’t even know it.
I wonder how different your life would be had it not been for God’s army watching out for you.
I have to wonder how many times your life was over, but God….
2024-07-2140 minRelate ChurchThey Shared Jesus | Pastor John Eaton | The Acts of the Apostles | 7/14/2024God’s plan was to save the world. It was always His plan. And most likely this is the part of God’s plan that most caused the Jews to reject the Messiah. God gave hints throughout the Old Testament that this was His plan.
The priests and religious leaders and scholars wanted only Israel to be God's. They wanted to be the special and chosen. They didn’t want the entire world to be joined to God.
And the idea that God would allow others to join Him was appalling.
God’s plan from the very beg...2024-07-1439 minRelate ChurchThey Got in a Groove | Pastor John Eaton | The Acts of the Apostles | 7/7/2024You know what it is to get into a groove? When you know what you are doing, why you are doing it, and have the resources and freedom to do it. When you are immersed in a way of doing something and it is working very well, performing successfully.
“Things calmed down,” after Paul quit hunting them down and persecuting them. They were able to get in a groove of living their lives in a way that was good and productive.
And here are some key things that tell us how they were in the groove:
They...2024-07-0742 minRelate ChurchThey Repented, They Forgave | Pastor John Eaton | The Acts of the Apostles | 6/30/2024God gave Saul direction, a path to take. The first sign that you have truly repented is that you will be willing to walk that path.
When you have wronged someone, there is always a path for you to take to make it right. For some wrongs it will take years to walk that path. For more minor wrongs, it can be as simple as flipping a light switch.
And know this: just because you walk that path of repentance doesn’t mean that you will always have an opportunity to be back in their life. But it...2024-06-3043 minRelate ChurchThey Scattered and Teleported | Pastor John Eaton | The Acts of the Apostles | 6/23/24One of God’s tools to spread His invitation to the world has been to cause, or allow something bad to happen that makes His people scatter.
God will, at times, allow tragedy in your life. But if you will trust Him long enough, He will bring good from it.
God knows that sometimes the only way we get up and go is if our comfort has got up and went.
Often, God’s plan gets set in motion with pain. You can’t just look at your life and see the pain. Look back and see th...2024-06-2337 minRelate ChurchThey were Spiritual Fathers | Pastor John Eaton | 6/16/24God wants us to be fathers. God wants good people to make more good people. I don’t mean to diminish being an earthly father at all. But I want to challenge you today to take a step into another kind of fatherhood. This kind of fatherhood can’t happen accidentally. It can’t happen without intention. God wants us to be Spiritual Fathers.
The most important men in the Bible weren’t human fathers, they were Spiritual Fathers.
2024-06-1645 minRelate ChurchThey Loved and were Liked | Pastor John Eaton | The Acts of the Apostles | 6/9/24One of the most important parts of Christianity is “the meeting together.”
Being with fellow believers, growing, learning, supporting, loving one another, worshipping together, validating God’s presence in each other’s lives, all of it has always been highly important in the Kingdom of God.
The early church was full of commitment and love towards one another. They met together all the time. They prayed together. They worshiped together.
2024-06-0945 minRelate ChurchThey Feared God | Pastor John Eaton | The Acts of the Apostles | 6/2/24Walking this life together in the church, it’s all too easy to let our guards down and forget how serious what we are doing. Yes, God wants us to enjoy each other, to relax in His grace, but there are lines that we don’t dare cross.
And as the early church experienced, God is very aware of what His people are doing and how we are functioning together.
God is Truth. And when you go against Him, you are going to hit Truth.
Satan’s words and thoughts will always cause you to be braver...2024-06-0246 minRelate ChurchThey did Good Things | Pastor John Eaton | The Acts of the Apostles | 5/26/24When life and death is on the line, you need to know God is…. A genuine, true, real, experience with God.
The apostles knew their lives were on the line. There weren’t arguments over petty differences. They weren’t talking behind each other’s backs. They weren’t divided over their differences in opinion.
They prayed and people were healed.
They preached, went to prison, and people were saved.
They prayed and God’s presence and power were revealed.
2024-05-2640 minRelate ChurchThey Devoted Themselves | Pastor John Eaton | The Acts of the Apostles | 5/19/24If you want to change your life, this is the recipe. This is how.
If you are tired of a bad marriage, this is how to make it good. If you struggle with sin, change your devotion.
If you struggle with an addiction, shift your affections and life’s dedication from that to God and His people.
2024-05-1942 minRelate ChurchWoman of Wisdom | Pastor John Eaton | Mother’s Day 2024 | 5/12/24Your life, up to now, if you have lived, really lived; if you have tried, really tried; if you have given yourself a chance to go after something that is difficult; your life has had trouble, upsetting, painful and sometimes even disturbing experiences.
The Bible is full of stories about women, some great women, and some not so great women. There were so many things for the women in the Bible to overcome. I hope you are reading about them to be encouraged and strengthened.
2024-05-1240 minRelate ChurchHappy Birthday Church! | Pastor John Eaton | The Acts of the Apostles | 5/5/24When Jesus left, He confirmed that the promise His Father had made would come to them, that He would send the Holy Spirit to comfort and empower His people.
God’s ways are so huge, we can’t even begin to wrap our heads around what He has done.
2024-05-0550 minRelate ChurchPraying Like Jesus | Guest Speaker Harvey Neatherlin | 4/28/24Have you ever thought about your prayer life? Have you ever examined it and wished that you could be better at communicating with God? Have you ever just felt like there were times when your prayers were just hitting the ceiling and bouncing right back down? What if we could just learn to pray like Jesus?
2024-04-2850 minRelate ChurchWhich Way, God? | Pastor John Eaton | The Acts of the Apostles | 4/21/24God’s direction in your life: do you really want it? If God were to come and take over your life and live it out exactly the way He wants to, what would that look like?
What changes would He make? What decisions would He make?
2024-04-2147 minRelate ChurchGive yourself over to ACTS OF GOD | Pastor John Eaton | The Acts of the Apostles | 4/14/24God is looking for people who will take risk.
God is looking for people who won’t just read about adventure, but live one.
God is looking for people who will take what He gave them and invest it. Do something with it. Your talent. Your money. Your love. Your very breath! He’s not looking for “play-it-safe” people.
2024-04-1445 minRelate ChurchBeing True | Pastor John Eaton | Faithfully | 4/7/24Being True in this context has to do with being dedicated, constant, loyal, devoted, no matter what happens.
There are two times your Trueness gets tested in your faith:
1. When things are bad.
2. When things finally go your way.
We talk a lot about what we do when things go bad. When things do finally go your way, BE TRUE.
2024-04-0746 minRelate ChurchIt’s Because He is Good - Easter 2024 | Pastor John Eaton | 3/31/24Our culture is continually telling us that we must find ways to feel like we deserve, to feel like we are great and powerful.
The truth is, you can survive a self-help seminar, you can survive walking on hot coals, being boiled alive, and walk out of that seminar weekend feeling like you are the most powerful person in the world, ready to grab life by the tail and tell it where to go, but suddenly you simply fall and your leg is severely broken and you are in bed for 6 months.
God teaches us something completely di...2024-03-3137 minRelate ChurchDrag Your Feet | Pastor John Eaton | 3/24/24There are times in your relationships that you don’t need to run, you don’t need to jog, you don’t even need to walk, you need to Drag Your Feet.
Jesus riding into town on a donkey is one of the funniest stories in the history of mankind.
He wasn’t coming to rule. He was coming to relate.
Jesus wasn’t coming to look powerful. Instead, He used His power to heal people, to help people. He could have used His power and authority for so many other things. Instead, He helped people with their...2024-03-2430 minRelate ChurchBe Firm | Pastor John Eaton | Faithfully | 3/17/24Being firm, resolved, set, made-up in your mind, makes you faithful.
What’s interesting about faithfulness is that What God says about faithfulness is so different than what we have embraced as a culture. Our culture is so bent on letting our feelings guide us when it comes to love and faithfulness.
o We are so afraid something better is going to come along.
o We have been trained in so many ways to think in terms of buyers remorse, that every commitment we make could have been better.
o And our decision to be fa...2024-03-1738 minRelate ChurchThe Blessing | Guest Speaker Harvey Neatherlin | 3/10/24How many of you came to church today hoping to receive a blessing?
In my 48 years of ministry, I’ve found that almost everyone in attendance came hoping to receive a blessing from God! Now, if you are one of those people, I have some good news for you. God wants to bless you! But, some of you need to understand a little more about blessings The Hebrew language uses the word BARUCH to mean BLESSING. Notably it’s a word that means to INCREASE.
So, when you and I ask God for a blessing we are saying...2024-03-1050 minRelate ChurchBe Steady | Pastor John Eaton | Faithfully | 3/3/24God takes no shortcuts…not even one. He does things perfect. He does things right.
God provides paths to freedom. Paths to healing. Paths to wealth. Paths to good relationships. A path to life.
Anything worth having is worth the steady path it takes to have it.
2024-03-0345 minRelate ChurchBeing Stable | Pastor John Eaton | Faithfully | 2/25/24How God operates in His relationships: He remains faithful even when we aren’t; and He shows Himself faithful to the faithful.
Don’t base your faithfulness on whether or not others are. Be the stable one.
And surround yourself with the faithful. Be faithful to the faithful. Show yourself to be stable to those who are faithful and stable in your life. Don’t let them down. Do whatever it takes to protect those relationships.
2024-02-2543 minRelate ChurchGod is Faithful | Pastor John Eaton | Faithfully | 2/18/24To be faithful, you have to start with faith. The Scripture tells us what faith is: “Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see” (Heb. 11:1 NIV).
Faith is knowing that something right and good is going to happen and doing something right and good because of that.
2024-02-1837 minRelate ChurchListen | Pastor John Eaton | Getting Your Mojo Back | 2/11/24You have the ability to listen to and understand properly what God is saying. You don’t have to live in the dark, like everything God has said is in code, too hard to understand.
There are times that people don’t want to hear what I am actually saying, trying to teach God’s principles, so they will not only not actually hear what I am saying, but they will make up words that I never said to justify their not listening. I know exactly what Jesus was talking about when He looked at the disciples and people...2024-02-1133 minRelate ChurchRemember You Love | Pastor John Eaton | Getting Your Mojo Back | 2/4/24To start this series, I want to talk with you about Remember You Love.
This is one of the things that God has a big problem with, people forget they love Him.
In Revelation, listen to what God said to His church: “But this is what I have against you: you do not love me now as you did at first” (Rev. 2:4 GNT).
2024-02-0426 minRelate ChurchCommit to God’s Mission | Pastor John Eaton | Making the Right Commitments | 1/28/24Like we talked about last week, God allows certain moments to get people where the need to be, for His Mission.
Your pain is a setup.
Even your failure is a setup.
God is always trying to reach people; it’s His Mission.
And God is always trying to recruit people to His Mission.
2024-01-2847 minRelate ChurchCommit to God’s PLAN | Making the Right Commitments | 1/21/24God does have a plan. And every one of us have a part in that plan. You have a part. And no matter how small or seemingly insignificant you may feel you are, your part makes a huge difference.
You may think you are being humble by staying back, shrinking to the background of life, staying out of sight, not putting yourself out there. But BECAUSE you were created by God to do His PLAN, your life won’t make sense until you begin doing it.
2024-01-2142 minRelate ChurchCommit Yourself to Love | Making the Right Commitments | 1/14/24Today I want to talk with you about committing yourself to love. Without God, there is no love.
God IS love. Love IS God. For anyone to say they have love for anything or anyone is to acknowledge God’s existence. Love does not exist without God.
2024-01-1443 minRelate ChurchThe Farmer, the Rancher, and the Henpecked Husband | Making the Right Commitments | 1/7/24It’s important for you to know that in God’s Kingdom, you can’t wait for someone to twist your arm to get you to make the commitments you really need to make.
You are going to have to do the work to love God and love us. God and nobody here is going to beg you, or talk you into it.
Here’s a question for you to answer as we get started in this new year:
Is your life committed to doing what you have chosen to love?
2024-01-0744 minRelate ChurchWANTING MORE IN ’24 | GUEST SPEAKER Harvie Neatherlin | 12/31/23This time of the year is a time when we get to put all of this past year’s success and failures behind us.
It’s a time when we get to start with a clean slate.
When you look at things through that lens, its like God is saying, “Take a deep breath, I’m giving you a fresh start”.
So right now, take a deep breath and say to yourself, “This is going to be my best year ever”.
Because no matter what this coming year throws at you, God has a formula for you to be succ2023-12-3149 minRelate ChurchMake Room for the Baby | Making Room for Jesus | 12/24/23God wanted to experience true love—so He became a baby.
The whole point of your entire existence is that God wants to know what it is to be loved by you. Do you care about Him? Do you care about what He likes and doesn’t like? What He wants and doesn’t want?
Or are you so caught up in your own desires, your own needs and wants? Demanding your own way?
2023-12-2442 minRelate ChurchWhen You’re Overwhelmed | Making Room for Jesus | 12/17/23“Lord, I am overwhelmed. Please come to my help” (Isaiah 38:14b).
Have you ever felt like Isaiah? What can you do when you are overwhelmed?
Here’s a little hint: Start by doing the exact opposite of what you feel like doing.
2023-12-1744 minRelate ChurchMaking Jesus Your Lord | Making Room for Jesus | 12/10/23It’s one thing to say Jesus is your Savior, but an entirely different thing to make Him your Lord.
Have you made room for Him to tell you what to do?
Have you made room for Him to guide you?
Have you made room for Jesus to give you His vision? His plans?
God made you because He needs you. With that comes purpose and meaning for your life. And as long as you are still breathing and have blood pumping in your veins, God still has need for you in this life that yo...2023-12-1041 minRelate ChurchFrom Fear to Faith | Making Room for Jesus | 12/3/23Fear is your opportunity for faith.
There are two doorways at the threshold of fear. One is failure, and the other is faith. You have a choice to make every time God brings you to the threshold of fear— “Am I going to walk in failure or faith?”
2023-12-0344 minRelate ChurchDiscipline Your Brain | Well with God | 11/26/23Intellectual wellness begins when a human recognizes that God is God, and I am not. Without THAT at the core of your thinking, everything else gets out of whack.
Proverbs 9:10, “The fear of the Lord is the BEGINNING of wisdom….” Without God, #1, at the core of your life, you will be scrambling to find what or who is #1. Nothing will make sense until you put Him in that place. And until you do, you’ll use and abuse His creation and your body, making yourself more and more hopeless, insecure, addicted, changing your God-given identity, and confused.
2023-11-2653 minRelate ChurchThink Thankful | Well with God | 11/19/23This one decision could change your entire life.
Thoughts of appreciation, cultivated over a period of time can be far reaching in changing everything in your life.
Your happiness. Your peace. Your ability to let go of negativity that keeps you stuck in your past. Your stress levels will go down. You’ll sleep better. You’ll have more creativity. Better relationships. Better health. This one decision can greatly improve everything in your life: Think Thankful.
2023-11-1944 minRelate ChurchYour Finances | Well with God | 11/12/23One of the most tangible ways to know where your heart is, is to look and see where you put your valuable resources.
Jesus talked about your treasure and heart going hand in hand: “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also,” (Matthew 6:21).
The context of this passage is Jesus saying that if you aren’t storing up treasures in heaven, your heart isn’t going to be set on heaven.
2023-11-1249 minRelate ChurchChoosing Contentment | Well with God | 11/5/23The key to balance in your life is to choose contentment.
And this quality of contentment, staying within the boundaries of good and not crossing over to indulgence, will not only make you Well with God physically, but it will make your life better in every area.
Contentment means you have accepted God and His ways as being enough.
2023-11-0536 minRelate ChurchSocial Wellness—Build Your Life-Support | Well with God | 10/29/23One of the most destructive things you can do in your life is to go it alone. We want to be autonomous; we want to be self-sufficient, self-made, independent, self-reliant, self-contained, self-supporting, self-financing…. But even the guy or woman that has a billion dollars stuffed in mattresses all over their home would need a support system.
You Need to Build Your Life-Support.
2023-10-2932 minRelate ChurchMental Wellness -- Be Intentional | Well with God | 10-22-23Your mental health is going to suffer greatly when you aren’t living out the life God intended you to live.
The key to this is looking at who He created you to be and see what He made you to do and intentionally live it.
God was intentional when He made you; AND you need to be intentional living out your life.
2023-10-2243 minRelate ChurchTake God at His Word | Well with God | 10/15/23One tangible decision you can make for your Spiritual health today is to Take God at His Word.
The old saying goes, If God said it, I believe it, and that settles it.
The person who lives by those words will grow to be very well with God.
2023-10-1546 minRelate ChurchGod Wants to Eat with You | 10/8/23All throughout Scripture, we find God involved with people eating. If you are paying attention as you read, you will see that eating with people is one of those parts of His character, what He desires, that is enjoyable for Him.
When you sit down and begin reading His word, you are dining at the table of God. And God begins to teach you, converse with you and enjoy a moment with you. God wants to eat with you.
2023-10-0838 minRelate ChurchHappy are the Persecuted | Happiness | 10/1/23Jesus was a realist and was very honest about the consequences of following Him.
He said if you follow Him, there are many people who aren't going to approve of your decision, they're not going to like it. If you live by these beatitudes we've been looking at now for eight weeks you can expect some people to be upset with you.
But He also said, "Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires; the Kingdom of heaven belongs to them!" (Matt. 5:10)
2023-10-0134 minRelate ChurchHappy are the Peacemakers | Happiness | 9/24/23Matthew 5:9 "Happy are the peacemakers, for they will be called the sons of God."
It doesn't say, "Happy are the peace lovers", everybody loves peace. Or, "Happy are the peaceable," those who never get disturbed by anything.
It says: Happy are those who make peace -- who actively seek to resolve conflict.
2023-09-2438 minRelate ChurchHappy are the Pure in Heart | Happiness | 9/17/23Because of the finished work on the cross, we no longer have to be afraid of sinning, You only need to be afraid of not loving.
God wants you to begin loving. Love your spouse. Love your husband. Love your wife. Love your children. Love your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself. Love your church family. Love your co-workers.
Because love will overcome sin.
2023-09-1736 minRelate ChurchHave Mercy | Happiness | 9/10/23Mercy is love in action—it’s tough, tender love.
It’s the tough, tender love that we see on the cross.
Jesus was taking a stand against our sinful nature and destructive lives—by giving His own, and tender by not destroying us in the process.
2023-09-1036 minRelate ChurchGet Satisfied | Happiness | 9/3/23A lot of people really don't know what they want in life. The Bible says we are spiritual beings and God made us to love Him and to know Him and be loved by Him. Nothing will take the place of that. There is no substitute.
You need to recognize what your real hunger is. Your hunger is your spiritual being and its hunger for God. The sooner you recognize that, the better.
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