In this episode, we answer a listener question by talking about Jesus and the Next Generation. The question was, “How do we teach our children to love Jesus and not just the Church or it’s programs?” We share three principles to keep in mind for us to help lead the next generation to love and follow…
In this episode, we talk about our wishes for humans in 2023. Things we wish we could all get better at doing. 1. Conversation instead of condemnation 2. Unity without uniformity John 17:20-23 20 “I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me through their me…
New Year’s Resolutions are really about refocusing your priorities. That’s what Sabrina, and I just took a day to do last week, and it’s part of what we talk about in Episode 033 of the Naked Party Time Podcast. It might be 2022 already, but it’s never too late to take some time, sit down, and revie…
In Episode 033 of the Naked Party Time Podcast, Sabrina and I talked about planning for the new year. One of the steps in living out that plan is to re-order your life around your new goals. If you don’t do this step of re-ordering your life, you don’t have goals; you have wishes. You hope these thi…
In Episode 033 of The Naked Party Time Podcast, Sabrina and I talk about how you can be intentional with a plan to get the most out of the coming year. If you aren’t intentional about where you’re going in life, then you’ll just end up going wherever life takes you. Benjamin Franklin said, “If you f…
We’ve been talking about doing this episode for quite a while now but other topics or life situations kept getting in the way, but we are finally here. We are doing an episode on truth statements, destroying the lies that derail us. We’ve mentioned them a ton on different episodes, but we’ve never r…
In Episode 031, Sabrina and I talk about some principles that help you to wait well when you are waiting in your calling. Do you ever feel like God is preventing a dream from being fulfilled, or forcing you to wait on something you believe He called you to? In those moments, remember this, when it s…
In this episode, we continue our conversation about mental health and what we can learn from the Simone Biles situation. In Episode 028, we focused on those who are currently facing a mental health struggle of some kind. In this episode, we focus on those who are walking with someone or know someone…
In this episode, we start to tackle the subject we’ve been teasing about since we started the podcast…sexual intimacy. We’ve titled this episode, “Let’s talk about sex, baby!” If you know the song, you know! Sex is awesome! It is a good gift from God. But like every good gift, our enemy the devil wa…
Episode 020 of The Naked Partytime Podcast is live! In this episode, Jeff and Sabrina dive into the five levels of intimacy in relationships and marriage. If we don’t cultivate every area of intimacy in marriage, we’ll be in danger of being great roommates, but only average spouses. 20% of US coupl…
In this episode, we pick up where we left off last time talking about living our lives on mission. If your marriage is not focused on the right mission, then your mission will become only about your marriage. If you haven’t yet, make sure and listen to Episode 018 of the podcast. We start talking ab…
I am frustrated with today’s politics, so much so that I feel a bit politically homeless. I don’t fit in their camp and I don’t fit in their circle. Anyone else feel that way? “I’m a Christian who is theologically conservative & socially compassionate, too conservative for progressives & too progres…
In this episode, we start a conversation about living out a marriage that is on mission (And stuff for singles too) If your marriage is not focused on the right mission, then your mission will become only about your marriage. This affects single people too because as singles, you are also on missi…
What is Lent? I can tell you this; it’s more than pocket fuzz. In this kickoff episode of “The Naked Weekly,” I talk about the season of Lent, where it came from, why we do it, and some practical tips if you want to seek God during the Lenten season intentionally. The Naked Weekly will drop…
In Episode 016 I interview Pastor Fred Gallop. Fred is a Chaplain in the USAF who served on the Element Church pastoral team while stationed here in Cheyenne. In this episode, we get real and raw by diving into the conversation on race: Fred answers questions like, “Why do we need Black H…
In Episode #002 we start a four-part series of podcasts called “I don’t want to go back to normal, because normal wasn’t working.” Today we’re going to highlight six things total that we don’t want to go back to normal on, then in the next three podcasts, we’re going to cover two of the six things e…
Episode 001 of the Naked Party Time Podcast is ready to consume. In this podcast, Sabrina and I talk about “How we can come out of this season even stronger.” Today’s spotlight is on Hayley Laban, @hayleystorm16 on Instagram. Hayley did our amazing podcast artwork and is an incredible graphic artist…
Community Happenings (5) No, this is not a blog about women in leadership or whether women should be pastors, but my title did peak your interest didn’t it? (I’ll save a blog about that subject for another day) Here at Element Church we have a women’s group called “Leading Ladies” and they are doing…
That’s how I felt during a season in my life earlier this year in which I talked about on Sunday at Element Church . In this message we talked about how the Bible can read us. We said, “The Bible can’t just be something we read, it has to be something that reads us.” [Tweet “The Bible can’t just be…
Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian but if you are a Christian why would you not go to church? [Tweet “Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian but if you are why wouldn’t you go to church?”] We could talk ad nauseam about the necessity or lack there of of going to Church as a Christian…
This last Sunday at Element Church we had what we are believing to be an annual event called “Compassion Sunday.” Along with highlighting all the compassion based ministries, organizations and events that we partner with here at Element, we also challenged our church families to sponsor a child thro…
Sometimes God brings you to a place of trouble in order to reveal Himself as a God of Triumph! [Tweet “Sometimes God brings you to a place of trouble in order to reveal Himself as a God of Triumph! “] What trouble are you facing in life? If the answer is “none” then what trouble HAVE you faced in li…
No, I’m not talking about your odds of winning the lottery, but your odds in life? On Sunday, we finished our sermon series called “Mythbusters” here at Element Church . Our final myth was “God will never give you more than you can handle.” We said, “If we never faced more than we can handle we woul…
“Shut up” was one of those phrases growing up that we were NOT allowed to say, but how many times have I said that to God? In this message from this past Sunday at Element Church, we talked about the myth that we should “Let our conscience be our God.” We said, “The Word of God, not the way I feel,…
This past Sunday at Element Church we talked about the myth that “Christians shouldn’t judge.” We are in a series called “Mythbusters” and we are looking at 6 common statements many people believe that just aren’t true. In this message, I preached from Matthew 7:1-6 and we said that “Not only can we…
I’m so thankful I have never had to say that! If Pastor Derek (our current Executive Pastor) or Pastor Kody (our previous Executive Pastor) see this I hope I at least got them to open the blog! In the 8 1/2 years that Element Church has existed we have had an Executive Pastor for 7 of those years. P…
Hey Element Church ! This is Kim and she is this week’s Volunteer Of The Week! Kim serves in our Fusion Youth Ministry here at Element, and our youth pastor, Brendan, said this about Kim: “It’s easy to see when a volunteer fits perfectly in your ministry. Kim began serving in Fusion only a few month…
Prayer won’t always free us from the things that cause our fear but they can free us from our fear of those things! Typically when we pray, especially when we pray about things that are causing us fear, we pray for God to remove those things. We ask God to rescue us, heal us, protect us and change o…
Recently, I had the privilege of speaking outside of my normal place here at Element Church at a great church in another state. I preached a series of messages during a spiritual emphasis week this church was having and had a great time serving to and serving with the people there. On one of the nig…
