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Date: February 22, 2026 Text: Philippians 1:27-30; 4:14-20 Overview: Gospel community exists for gospel mission. The church doesn't exist for itself. United believers contend together for the faith, support the work of the gospel, and live in a way that points the world to Jesus. Community is both the display and delivery system of the Gospel.
Date: February 22, 2026 Text: Philippians 1:27-30; 4:14-20 Overview: Gospel community exists for gospel mission. The church doesn't exist for itself. United believers contend together for the faith, support the work of the gospel, and live in a way that points the world to Jesus. Community is both the display and delivery system of the Gospel.
Date: February 15, 2026 Text: Philippians 2:12-16; 3:17; 4:4-9 Overview: Healthy community is sustained through shared spiritual rhythms. Community doesn't drift toward health – it drifts toward chaos unless it's shaped by consistent, gospel-centered practices. Paul points to rhythms that anchor believers together in joy, peace, obedience, and example.
Date: February 15, 2026 Text: Philippians 2:12-16; 3:17; 4:4-9 Overview: Healthy community is sustained through shared spiritual rhythms. Community doesn't drift toward health – it drifts toward chaos unless it's shaped by consistent, gospel-centered practices. Paul points to rhythms that anchor believers together in joy, peace, obedience, and example.
Date: February 8, 2025 Text: Philippians 1:3-8; 2:1-4 Overview: Gospely humility restores what pride fractures. Paul shows us how deep affection, shared mission, and Christlike humility rebuild damaged community. Recovery doesn't begin with behavior change – it begins with hearts reshaped by Jesus.
Date: February 8, 2025 Text: Philippians 1:3-8; 2:1-4 Overview: Gospely humility restores what pride fractures. Paul shows us how deep affection, shared mission, and Christlike humility rebuild damaged community. Recovery doesn't begin with behavior change – it begins with hearts reshaped by Jesus.
Date: February 1, 2026 Text: Philippians 4:2-3 Overview: Even healthy churches experience relational fractures. Euodia and Syntyche loved Jesus – and still couldn't get along. This passage reminds us that conflict isn't a sign of failure; it's a reality in a fallen world. What matters is how we respond when unity is threatened.
Date: February 1, 2026 Text: Philippians 4:2-3 Overview: Even healthy churches experience relational fractures. Euodia and Syntyche loved Jesus – and still couldn't get along. This passage reminds us that conflict isn't a sign of failure; it's a reality in a fallen world. What matters is how we respond when unity is threatened.
Date: January 25, 2026 Text: Acts 16:11–34 Overview: God forms His people in relationship, not isolation. From Lydia to the jailer, Acts 16 shows the church being born in unexpected places among unlikely people—yet God knits them together through the saving work of Jesus. Community is not a church strategy; it's a divine design.
Date: January 18, 2026 Text: Matthew 4 / Luke 9 Following Jesus means aligning your life with His mission—whatever the cost.
Date: January 18, 2026 Text: Matthew 4 / Luke 9 Following Jesus means aligning your life with His mission—whatever the cost.
Date: January 11, 2026 Text: Acts 2:42-47 God never designed us to grow alone—deepening faith requires deepening relationships.
Date: January 11, 2026 Text: Acts 2:42-47 God never designed us to grow alone—deepening faith requires deepening relationships.
Date: January 4, 2026 Text: Philippians 1:9-11 A deepening relationship with God produces discernment, Christlike character, and a life that glorifies Him.
Date: January 4, 2026 Text: Philippians 1:9-11 A deepening relationship with God produces discernment, Christlike character, and a life that glorifies Him.
Passage: John 1:14 Date: December 28, 2025 Overview: “The Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” God didn't just visit—He moved in. Jesus makes God known and makes God near, not merely for a season but forever. Christmas is the beginning of a presence that will never end.
Passage: John 1:14 Date: December 28, 2025 Overview: “The Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” God didn't just visit—He moved in. Jesus makes God known and makes God near, not merely for a season but forever. Christmas is the beginning of a presence that will never end.
Passage: Luke 1:46–55 Date: December 21, 2025 Overview: Mary's song erupts from a heart overwhelmed by God's mercy and power. Her joy isn't shallow; it's rooted in who God is and what He has done. Christmas invites us not just to celebrate the season, but to rejoice in the God who keeps His promises.
Passage: Luke 1:46–55 Date: December 21, 2025 Overview: Mary's song erupts from a heart overwhelmed by God's mercy and power. Her joy isn't shallow; it's rooted in who God is and what He has done. Christmas invites us not just to celebrate the season, but to rejoice in the God who keeps His promises.
Passage: Matthew 1:23 Date: December 14, 2025 Overview: Matthew anchors the birth of Jesus in Isaiah's prophecy to show that God steps into a broken world on purpose. Emmanuel doesn't stand at a distance—He enters our struggle to save us from our sins. Christmas isn't sentimental; it's God refusing to leave us in our mess.
Passage: Matthew 1:23 Date: December 14, 2025 Overview: Matthew anchors the birth of Jesus in Isaiah's prophecy to show that God steps into a broken world on purpose. Emmanuel doesn't stand at a distance—He enters our struggle to save us from our sins. Christmas isn't sentimental; it's God refusing to leave us in our mess.
Passage: Isaiah 7:14 Date: December 7, 2025 Overview: Waiting is one of the hardest things God asks His people to do, yet Christmas begins with a promise that took centuries to be fulfilled. God gives a sign—a virgin will conceive—reminding His people that He is present even when He feels silent. Emmanuel is God's declaration that we are never abandoned in the waiting.
Passage: Isaiah 7:14 Date: December 7, 2025 Overview: Waiting is one of the hardest things God asks His people to do, yet Christmas begins with a promise that took centuries to be fulfilled. God gives a sign—a virgin will conceive—reminding His people that He is present even when He feels silent. Emmanuel is God's declaration that we are never abandoned in the waiting.
Passage: Ephesians 6:10-24 Date: November 30, 2025 Overview: The strength to walk in a manner worth of our calling can only be done through the power and tools God provides.
Passage: Ephesians 6:10-24 Date: November 30, 2025 Overview: The strength to walk in a manner worth of our calling can only be done through the power and tools God provides.
Join us in the last installment of our Baptist Distinctives series.
Passage: Ephesians 5:15-6:9 Date: November 23, 2025 Overview: Paul called the Ephesians to walk in the Spirit through submission to God. Paul explains how Christian submission works in the church, in the family, and in the workplace.
Passage: Ephesians 5:15-6:9 Date: November 23, 2025 Overview: Paul called the Ephesians to walk in the Spirit through submission to God. Paul explains how Christian submission works in the church, in the family, and in the workplace.
Passage: Ephesians 5:1-14 Date: November 16, 2025Overview: Paul called the Ephesians to walk in love as imitators of God.
Passage: Ephesians 5:1-14 Date: November 16, 2025 Overview: Paul called the Ephesians to walk in love as imitators of God.
Join us as we trace the biblical foundation for testimony, explore its place in the gathered church, and consider how honest, Christ-centered stories encourage faith and mission.
Passage: Ephesians 4:17-32 Date: November 9, 2025 Overview: Paul admonished the Ephesian church to walk in a manner worthy of their calling by ongoing putting off and putting on.
Passage: Ephesians 4:17-32 Date: November 9, 2025 Overview: Paul admonished the Ephesian church to walk in a manner worthy of their calling by ongoing putting off and putting on.
Passage: Ephesians 4:1-16 Date: November 2, 2025 Overview: In this passage, Paul lays out the primary theme of the rest of the letter – walk in a manner worthy of your calling. Powerfully, as each of us walk in manner worthy, we'll be instep with the Spirit and, therefore, each other. This is unity!
Passage: Ephesians 4:1-16 Date: November 2, 2025 Overview: In this passage, Paul lays out the primary theme of the rest of the letter – walk in a manner worthy of your calling. Powerfully, as each of us walk in manner worthy, we'll be instep with the Spirit and, therefore, each other. This is unity!
This message explores the Baptist belief in Individual Soul Liberty—the truth that every person is responsible before God to read His Word, respond to the gospel, and follow Christ by conviction, not coercion. Learn why this distinctive protects conscience, strengthens discipleship, and shapes how we live out our faith.
Passage: Ephesians 3:14-21 Date: October 26, 2025
Passage: Ephesians 3:14-21 Date: October 26, 2025
Passage: Ephesians 2:19–3:13Date: October 19, 2025Overview: The church isn't built by people for God—it's built by God for His people and His purpose. In Christ, strangers become citizens, outsiders become family, and broken sinners become living stones in God's dwelling place. The church is not a building but a people—joined together by grace, filled with the Spirit, and sent to display God's glory to the world. When we forget who built us, we drift from why we exist. But when we remember that Christ is the cornerstone, we see that belonging to His church means being shaped, joined, and used by Him for something eternal.
Passage: Ephesians 2:19-3:13Date: October 19th, 2025
Passage: Ephesians 2:11-18Date: October 12thOverview: When you do not reconcile, you don't see the person, you only see the problems. And our problems become a wall between us and others. And behind our wall of problems, we have no peace with one another. The only way to tear down the wall is repentance and faith one brick at a time.
Passage: Ephesians 2:11-18 Date: October 12, 2025 Overview: When you do not reconcile, you don't see the person, you only see the problems. And our problems become a wall between us and others. And behind our wall of problems, we have no peace with one another. The only way to tear down the wall is repentance and faith on brick at a time.
What does it mean that every believer is a priest before God? In this message, Canaan Elder Chuck Easter explores the Baptist conviction that all followers of Jesus have direct access to God through Christ without needing a human mediator. From prayer to service to ministry, discover how the priesthood of the believer shapes how we worship, serve, and live out our faith together as a church.
Passage: Ephesians 2:1-10 Date: October 5, 2025 Overview: For the Christian death is not where we are going to it is somewhere we are coming from. Because the tomb is empty our caskets will be, too. Jesus left the tomb behind and we can live our sins and our shame behind, too.
Passage: Ephesians 2:1-10 Date: October 5, 2025 Overview: For the Christian death is not where we are going to it is somewhere we are coming from. Because the tomb is empty our caskets will be, too. Jesus left the tomb behind and we can live our sins and our shame behind, too.
Who really leads the church? In this message, Pastor Daniel unpacks the Baptist distinctive of the autonomy of the local church; the belief that every local congregation governs itself under the lordship of Christ. Discover why this principle matters for church health, mission, and faithfulness to Scripture.
Passage: Ephesians 1:15-23 Date: September 28, 2025 Overview: Paul prays that the eyes of our hearts would be opened to truly see what we have inherited in Christ — not just eternal life, but relationship with the King and citizenship in His Kingdom. We aren't spiritual orphans scraping for scraps; we are sons and daughters with full rights to the riches of His grace. Being an heir doesn't mean sitting on what we've been given — it means stewarding it. When you know what's yours in Christ, you can give freely without fear of running out.
Passage: Ephesians 1:15-23 Date: September 28, 2025Paul prays that the eyes of our hearts would be opened to truly see what we have inherited in Christ — not just eternal life, but relationship with the King and citizenship in His Kingdom. We aren't spiritual orphans scraping for scraps; we are sons and daughters with full rights to the riches of His grace. Being an heir doesn't mean sitting on what we've been given — it means stewarding it. When you know what's yours in Christ, you can give freely without fear of running out.
Who has the final word in the life of the church and in your life? In this message, Pastor Daniel unpacks the Baptist conviction of biblical authority: that God's Word is our ultimate and sufficient guide for faith and practice. Learn why Baptists have always stood on Scripture alone, and how trusting the Bible shapes what we believe, how we worship, and how we live.
Passage: Ephesians 1:1-14 Date: September 21, 2025 Overview: Paul opened his letter to the Ephesians reminding them of all the blessings they have in Christ Jesus. God has blessed us so we can bless God and others.
Passage: Ephesians 1:1-14 Date: September 21, 2025 Overview: Paul opened his letter to the Ephesians reminding them of all the blessings they have in Christ Jesus. God has blessed us so we can bless God and others.
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