The key to safeguarding your faith is to choose to rejoice in the Lord! [Tweet “The key to safeguarding your faith is to choose to rejoice in the Lord!”] Philippians 3:1 says Whatever happens, my dear brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord . I never get tired of telling you these things, and I do…
This past Sunday at Element Church we continued our sermon series called “CON-Tentment: The lie about having more.” No matter how much we say it or how much we believe it, more is never the answer for enough. This week we asked the question, “What are the practices of containment?” We said, “Content…
This last Sunday at Element Church we started a brand new series called “CON-Tentment: The lie about having more.” So often in our lives we say things like, “If I just had that or if I just had more, then I’d have enough. Then I’d be content.” But more is never the answer to enough, because there’s…
Today we celebrate and commemorate the life and impact that Martin Luther King Jr. had on our nation and around the world. While the day is officially set to mark Dr. King’s birthday, it is really more about honoring the progress he helped bring into racial equality and the inspiration he gave to so…
What you do is not as important as why you do it! That’s what we heard on Sunday at Element Church from Michael Jr. On the first Sunday back in the New Year for us, we wanted to share a message on “purpose” from Michael Jr. recorded at LifeChurch in Oklahoma City, OK. In this message Michael uses hi…
Tomorrow night we will head to our New Years party’s or hang out with family and friends as we ring in the new year. If I’m lucky, I’ll make it all the way to midnight, we will see. This is the time of year where we all make new resolutions. We establish some goals. We set milestones that we want to…
The quality isn’t great and the acting is REALLY bad but this is the 12th anniversary of Jeff and Ben’s Old Fashioned Family Christmas. I’ve posted this on my blog every year for the past 9 years so why stop now. (You might say “stop” because this is so bad, but you don’t write my blog) We made this…
This past week at Element Church we walked through week #4 our Christmas sermon series called “My Advent: What does it mean for me?” In this series we are going back to our Christian roots, lighting a candle in the Advent wreath each week and talking about what Advent truly means for me. But we don’…
This past Sunday at Element Church we continued our sermon series called “My Advent”. In this series we’ve been asking the question, “What does Advent mean for me?” This week we talked about joy. We said, “ Happiness is based on my circumstances but joy can be rooted in my heart. ” I preached from P…
This past week at Element Church we continued our Christmas sermon series called “My Advent: What does it mean for me?” In this series we are going back to our Christian roots, lighting a candle in the Advent wreath each week and talking about what Advent truly means for me. But we don’t want to lea…
This coming Sunday, December 11th, is our annual year end offering called the “So That” offering here at Element Church . The So That offering is born out of John 3:16 which tells us, “For God so loved the world He gave His only Son Jesus, so that anyone who believes in Him shall have eternal life.”…
This past Sunday at Element Church we continued our Christmas sermon series called “My Advent.” We’re talking about what Advent means for me (and you). This last week I preached from Matthew 2:1-12 and asked the question, “What are the dangers of being close to Jesus?” In this passage is the story o…
