The CIRCLE MAKER Session #10: Connecting & Dis-Connecting In Prayer

Ever wondered why you aren’t receiving a “breakthrough” in some area of your prayer life?  Or just feel that your prayers are lacking something?  You may need to both improve your connection in the right way and also disconnect from the world at the same time.  Jesus shares the solution to accomplishing both through prayer and fasting in this lesson.

The CIRCLE MAKER Session #10: Connecting & Dis-Connecting In Prayer

Ever wondered why you aren’t receiving a “breakthrough” in some area of your prayer life?  Or just feel that your prayers are lacking something?  You may need to both improve your connection in the right way and also disconnect from the world at the same time.  Jesus shares the solution to accomplishing both through prayer and fasting in this lesson.

The CIRCLE MAKER Session #9: Be Careful What You Pray For

Sometimes, the most gracious answer God can give to our prayers (even well-meaning ones) is to NOT answer them!  We’ll examine the importance of praying circles around things that are God’s will, not just ours.

The CIRCLE MAKER Session #8: What Does It Mean To Pray “In Jesus’ Name”?

It’s not some “magic” phraseology that mysteriously works in our prayer life, but it is the true “secret” to praying for results; but it is important that we understand what Jesus meant when He gave us the authorization to use His Name with the Father in our requests.

The CIRCLE MAKER Session #7: Why Doesn’t God Answer My Prayer?

There may be no question that frustrates and even angers God’s children more than when Heaven seems silent to our prayers we pray.  We’ll look at six reasons why it sometimes seems that our prayers go unanswered by God.

The CIRCLE MAKER Session #6: Praying Circles Around Your Family

There is perhaps no more important area to draw your “prayer circles” around than the area of your family.  We apply a prayer of the Apostle Paul to draw six things we should pray for our family (all generations).

The CIRCLE MAKER Session #5: The Power of Praying Through

Have you ever found yourself “waiting” on God for an answer to your most earnest prayers?  We’ll look at five reasons why God sometimes (oftentimes!) delays His answer to us.

The CIRCLE MAKER Session #4: Praying Long & Hard

Most of us are not very effective at praying for anything persistently over a period of time (praying long) or even making great and bold petitions (praying hard).  Jesus offers some encouragement as He teaches us (His disciples) how we should pray…

 

The CIRCLE MAKER Session #3: Don’t Stop at Six

The conquest of the heavily fortified stronghold of Jericho by Joshua & the children of Israel gives us a powerful illustration of how we are to “pray circles” around strongholds, challenges and dreams in our lives.

The CIRCLE MAKER Session #2: When God Shows UP & Shows OFF

We examine how God prepared Israel to “draw prayer circles” around the city of Jericho in preparation for their overwhelming victory as they began their conquest of the Promised Land.

The CIRCLE MAKER Session #1: Prayer Principles

We launch our new Fall series (based on the best-selling book by Mark Batterson) that looks at how to breathe fresh energy into our prayer life and make us (and it!) more effective.

The Power of Perseverance

Father/son ministry team Seth & Jacob Buckley share a powerful presentation on the urgent need for the men (and women) of God’s Church to step up and help in the development and discipleship of young men, even and especially at elementary school ages.  You eyes will be opened to many principles and truths, all that challenge us to step up and assist in these areas with young people in our sphere of influence.

ONE AT A TIME-Session 11      Breakfast In Galilee

Everyone is familiar with the “Last Supper”; but have you ever looked at the “Last Breakfast”?  Jesus did something incredibly important for one of his disciples (and ALL of US!) that morning.

ONE AT A TIME-Session 10      Empty the Jar

What is it that elicits an extreme response from us to the love and forgiveness of Jesus?  It is when we find ourselves at a place of brokenness over our sin.  In this session, we examine just such an experience in one of the one at a time encounters Jesus had with a woman in His day.

ONE AT A TIME-Session 9      Desperado(s)

It’s when we get “desperate” for God that He shows up strongest in our lives; just ask two very desperate people who met Jesus one-on-one in the same day.

Nothing is too difficult for Jesus…from commanding a paralyzed man to walk, all the way up to making a person lost in their sin…forgiven! 

ONE AT A TIME-Session 7      One Thing Lacking

One day Jesus was approached by a “man who had everything”…but he found that he was lacking the one thing most crucial.  The real question for each of us is…what is the “one thing” for us? 

ONE AT A TIME-Session 6      Marriage On the Rocks

Jesus meets a woman who has made a lot of bad choices, and is now facing the consequences of those choices.  As only He can, He delivers her from the penalty and judgment to a fresh start.

ONE AT A TIME-Session 5      Jerusalem Pool Party

When Jesus encounters a man who has been crippled for almost 4 decades, he seems to ask an unnecessary and possibly even hurtful question; but Jesus never asks anything unnecessary or hurtful. 

ONE AT A TIME-Session 4  A Sinful Dinner Party

We continue our study in the one-on-one encounters Jesus had with people as recorded in the Gospels.  This week’s study looks at how such an encounter literally changed the entire direction of a man’s life, and in turn, affected the lives of all those around him.

 

FATHER’S DAY LESSON

Today is Father’s Day, and while we had planned for a father/son team to lead our class today; both are sick this morning.  So Chuck pinch-hits (at the last minute) with a look at the Five C’s of Fatherhood that really apply to us all.

ONE AT A TIME-Session 2  The Most Important Conversation In the History of the World

We continue our study in the one-on-one encounters Jesus had with people as recorded in the Gospels.  This week, we look at a conversation Jesus had one night with a deeply religious man and what it means for us today.

We begin our summer series today as we introduce the concept of the 'one at a time' life and ministry of Jesus.

Shaken, Not Forsaken #10: Two Last Tests

Joseph’s story ends with two final “tests”, which may well have been the hardest ones he faced.

Shaken, Not Forsaken #9: Keep Your Appointments

The “prison life” of Joseph gives us a great illustration of God’s chain of development as reflected in Romans 5; see how trials and tribulations can ultimately lead us to hope.

Shaken, Not Forsaken #8: How To Handle a Temptation

Joseph gives us six steps on how to handle it when you’re tempted.  These are not “easy steps”; but they provide us a guide on what to do when temptation comes our way.

Joseph’s life was not only marked by his dreams; but also by numerous starts and stops, setbacks and comebacks.  In this session we look at what “the pit stop” (at the hands of his brothers) taught him.

Shaken, Not Forsaken #6: Livin’ the Dream?

We begin the second half of our series by turning our focus to lessons we can learn from the life of Joseph, the 11^th son of Jacob; starting with the importance of a dream…

Seth Buckley joins us with a special message for Easter from the Book of John.

We wrap up the first part of our Spring series, with a look at when Jacob journey’s back to Bethel, and the final years of his life.  There are rich lessons for us there from God’s Word!

Jacob always walked with a limp after his encounter with God at Peniel; and you may have a limp or a scar that you carry the rest of your life as well.  With God, brokenness always proceeds breakthrough!

Anne Graham Lotz calls the events recorded in Genesis 32, the “most significant encounter with God recorded in Scripture”.  We begin our look at the night Jacob wrestled with God in this week’s session

It reads like a Hallmark movie (only far more interesting!)…Jacob gets caught in a love triangle and web of deception; but it offers great lessons for each of us today.

This is the initial study in a new series that looks at the life of two key figures from the Old Testament.We'll examine how Jacob and his son Joseph were both shaken by their circumstances and choices many times in their lives , but they were never forsaken!

We conclude this series with a final session on how to put down your baggage…and never pick it up again! 

 

Many people struggle with a specific stronghold, often referred to as an “addiction”.  Something they have tried repeatedly, without success to try to put down and walk away from.  In today’s lesson, we deal with this type of baggage, and four ways to “check this baggage” once and for all. 

Do you find yourself plagued by fear, worry and anxiety?  It’s time to “check that baggage” and discover God’s remedy for our fears and worry. 

 

Many people, even Christians, often carry much baggage of guilt, shame and condemnation from their past. God has given us a new identity in Him and has given us great spiritual weapons with which to fight the stronghold of an unresolved past

Check Your Baggage #2: The Baggage of Unhealthy Relationships

We pick up with our second session in this series as we look at the effects “relational baggage” can have on both our horizontal relationships with others, and our vertical relationship with God.

This introductory session to our Winter series looks at what causes us to carry “baggage” in our lives, and how to deal with it through the truth of God’s Word.

Regardless of what awaits us in 2022, it can be the “best year ever” IF…we make our best year SPIRITUALLY.  In today’s lesson we’ll look at what it takes to make that happen for us personally.