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We can so easily have a gospel that is a white-washed tomb. Knowing Jesus in light of his full sacrifice is where we overcome.

In John 3, we see Nicodemus experience the wonder of the work of the blood for us. So much that he has a hard time believing it. Will we believe it?

The thief on the cross leads us in a startling approach to Jesus: in Jesus' and his own lowest moment, he requests of a favor of Jesus. What deep joy the thief must have felt, and then upon his entrance into heaven. God wants liberated disciples to go out from the church.

Jesus says his flesh is true food and his blood true drink. We can have eternal, or perpetual life, simply by experiencing this. Let us not be a people who think this is only for the forgiveness of sins!

The previous system of needing to cleaned and re-cleaned and only the High Priest entering the Holy of Holies was blown up when Jesus gave up his life. Now we are temples (1 Cor. 3:16) and we don't need a place to worship God (John 4). We may now draw near, because we are already accepted by God.

The blood of Jesus has covered a multitude of sins and wrongs in our world, and God has invited us into the place of travailing prayer with Jesus to live in it. Through our cries and longings, God gives us his heart, and our voices cry out to him in it.

Our sin has been cast away, and we no longer own it. Jesus tricked the enemy into killing him, that our blood is no longer required for the bill that needed paid - Jesus paid for it, and more. We now have so much more than we think we have, but especially the cleansing of sin.

Many of us have the challenge of moving the knowledge of Jesus uniting us into right relationship with God from our head to our hearts. When our minds have any qualifying thing for us to be acceptable to God, we are not trusting in the blood of Jesus that has made us right. Instead, quit making your salvation about yourself and approach Him via the blood, not anything I can account for.

All of us can have a deeper revelation of it. It began in the Garden of Eden and continues all throughout Scripture as an undercurrent: sin leads to death, and everything points to the blood of Jesus. His blood is meant to be experienced by us.

When the Lord frees us from sin, the power of that sin is weakened, but through spiritual warfare, the enemy will not go down without a fight. We can then walk alongside Jesus for freedom, no longer trying to walk a tightrope of obedience.

The endless cycle of following the rules and failing is an exhausting reality that God frees us from. Instead of that, we have been given liberty and freedom in the Spirit to not be driven by shame or glory, but rather connection to Him.

Jesus' obedience to the Father unto death gave us not only the way to be obedience, but the ability to do it, through His righteousness. Obedience by anything else other than His righteousness is simply right vs. wrong. Instead, the love of God draws us to obedience.

Obedience is often thought of in terms of right vs wrong, or doing the exact thing that God tells us. But Pastor Nick kicks off our series on obedience with an encouragement to view obedience from God's perspective: by His righteousness given to us, we now get to walk alongside Him in covenant.

Upon reflection of what the Lord has done for us and led us in in 2024, Pastor Nick gives us a word of encouragement and direction for the new year.

The third week of Advent brings us to God loving the world that He must enter into it. The early church so manifested love that it drew the poor and sick in. Christmas is a wonderful season to reflect on God's movement towards us and not based on how we're doing personally.

Jesus was "the man of sorrows" yet the source of joy and poured forth the "oil of gladness." Joy isn't just a deep contentment, but a true happiness that overflows from the reality of God. We often contend with God for His joy to come, but He has already placed His Spirit inside of us that is greater than any trial on this Earth. While we will experience the pains and sufferings of our world, our joy is not attached to it.

We see the examples set by Simeon and Anna of what it looks like to live in the middle of the promise, waiting for what the Lord has promised. Despite the middle ground of longing for more, they displayed supernatural contentment, and then get rewarded by seeing Jesus as the promised Messiah. Pastor Nick asks us if we would be content waiting our whole life to see the promise, even if it doesn't look like what we expect.

Pastor Nick encourages our church with a timely word on following and surrendering to His Spirit. There's only so far we can go with our minds, or even, by simply reading the Bible. But through the Holy Spirit, we get lead into the truth of the Spirit. We don't control the process, we only control our surrender.

The Holy Spirit is knowable and gives us small promptings we can call “spiritual forensics.” Jesus connected with people over shared meals, deep conversations, and the exchange of stories—illustrating how divine guidance works in everyday moments. Guest Ivan Filby gives us some practical wisdom to begin prophesying in everyday moments. Join us as we pay close attention to God's subtle movements in our lives, encouraging an attitude of listening and spiritual awareness.

Joe Biddle goes through the differences of repentance and confession and how confession brings us into right alignment with Jesus, while repentance is a major turning of our sin. Confession is a gift of intimacy from the Lord.

Since Jesus has overcome, crushing the head of the serpent, the bruises of the heel from the serpent no longer have the right to stay. Elder Henrik Soderstrom leads us through different types of prayer and intercession that Scripture models for us, and we have from some in our body who have felt called to intercede often.

In Luke 22 Jesus tells Peter how he's prayed for him - for his faith to not fail him and to strengthen his brothers. But we see Peter fail; why would Jesus' request seemingly not be answered? We may not have good answers, but we can dive into this story to see how God answers this prayer for greater things and to restore us.

Stepping into spiritual warfare is not preparation for battle, it is the battle. Pastor Nicholas Kerton-Johnson encourages us in our identity in Christ to be people who rely on the full power of God, and not a fake version of it. Power has been the downfall of man, but Jesus gives us power through surrender and humility.

Thomas Jefferson famously took out the miracles of Scripture, but what does that leave you with? A powerless “gospel” that doesn't change lives or hearts. Pastor Nicholas Kerton-Johnson encourages us to be adamant about the power of our prayers and what we're called to Christians. Ephesians 2:1-7, Mark 1:21-27, and Matthew 12:22-29

Pastor Nicholas Kerton-Johnson shares on the heart posture and effects of travailing prayer. We've seen great moves of God, not by creative programs, strategies, or great preaching, but by God's people crying out for more of Him.

What we believe about God affects how we prayContinuing our series on prayer, Joe Biddle teaches us how to incorporate scripture into our prayers. We walks us through the Lord's Prayer and highlights what Jesus was trying to accomplish with each line. We pray that as you listen to this sermon

Honest prayers are prayers of adoration because you are choosing to press inContinuing our series on prayer, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson encourages us to utilize intimacy within our intercession. He asks us to focus our hearts on the promises of the word of God, and reminds us that there is only one wrong way to pray. That is just saying the right words for those around you to hear. We pray that as you listen to this sermon you would be release to expose your heart to the Lord in the secret place.

He is our shield, our glory, and the lifter of our headsIn our new sermon series about prayer, worship pastor, Tyler Dresbach preaches about how Christ is the lifter of our heads. He walks through the story of Psalm 3 and challenges us to view Jesus as our ultimate salvation. We pray that as you listen to this sermon you would feel encouraged to trust the Lord with your heart and emotions.

It's time to be upset about what the spirit of fear has robbed from you.As we begin to wrap up our Fearless and Free, Pastor Nicholas Kerton Johnson asks us which we will gaze upon: the cloud of hopelessness fighting for our attention or the Light of Christ. He unpacks David's cry in Psalm 27 and dives into the opposite of fear being perfect love. We pray that as you listen to this sermon you would surrender your gaze to perfect love and remember that you are His.

Do not fear the fire This week, Pastor Nicholas Kerton-Johnson shares a message that weighed heavy on his heart. Starting with the story of Elijah and the prophets of Baal, he challenges us to become a sacrifice that attracts the presence of God. We pray that as you listen to this sermon, your heart would soften to the fire of God because the holy spirit is the promise of Jesus.

What environment will we create? what environment will we believe in?This week, Pastor Nicholas Kerton-Johnson unpacks to us the direction he feels like the Lord is calling us into as a church. He answers the quesiton - Why is service important. We serve because we have a king who modeled it for us. Service brings you greater authority. We pray that as you listen to this sermon you would be awakened to the biggness of God.

This week, Pastor Nicholas Kerton-Johnson compares two stories in the Bible. The first being the Transfiguration and the second being the boy who was delivered in Mark. From these two stories, he gives us two challenges. Will we celebrate the prescence of God? Will we surrender fully to Jesus? We pray that as you listen to this sermon, your heart is wooed deeper into relationship with the Holy Spirit.

Why embrace suffering? What's at stake?This week, Tyler Dresbach unpacks for us the work of suffering. He asks us to examine how we, the church, have been handling suffering recently. How did Paul handle suffering? Why was it important for him to share it with the people he was discipling? He pray that as you listen to this sermon, you find a renewed purpose to your experience of suffering.

*Due to recording difficulties we can only post the last 20 min of this weeks message. We apologize for the inconvenience!You don't have what you want because you don't ask.This week, in celebration of Pentecost, Nicholas Kerton-johnson walks us through the beauty of the Holy Spirit being poured out. We look at the Pentecost passage, as well as the story of Jesus experiencing the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Then we go to James and meditate on how jealous the Lord is for the spirit that He has placed within us. We pray that as you listen to this sermon you would be drawn to give Jesus what He has asked for.

If I encounter the demonic I'm not running to the smartest person I know. I'm running to the person with the most intimacy with Jesus.This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson walks us through what spiritual warfare can look like for the believer. He starts by reminding us that the spiritual war is not a battle of two equals. Jesus has won. We pray that as you listen to this sermon there would be a peace in your heart and a drive to grow in intimacy and Jesus and authority.

Every miracle is the supernatural dominating the naturalThis week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson unpacks some of the fears we tend to carry towards the Holy Spirit. He starts by highlighting that the Holy Spirit is a person, not an "it." He are able to experience Him with our 5 senses. We pray that as you listen to this sermon you would be introduced to the Helper in a fresh, new, way.

Sometimes He calms the storm around us. Sometimes He calms the storm in us and walks with us through the storm around us.This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson speaks on the lesson of suffering. What do we do when we are faced with the filth of the world? When God calls us to surrender he calls us to fall into his presence. We pray that as your listen to this sermon you have the grace to surrender to the sovereignty of a loving Father.

In the light of Christ sin is irrelevantThis week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson unpacks a word the Lord has given our church for this season. He is inviting us to surrender to Him, ask for new wineskins, and bring the broken to Him. We pray that as you listen to this sermon you would be guided by the Holy Spirit into a deeper intimacy with Him.

The religious spirit will always produce shame and a powerless church.This week, we celebrate Palm Sunday and dive into the Religious Spirit. Pastor Nicholas Kerton Johnson highlights the fact that the religious leaders were not seeking the will of God. They were seeking control power and a system that benefits them. We pray that as you listen to this sermon the Holy Spirit convicts you of the righteousness given to you by the blood of Jesus.

If Jesus is our model, why aren't we comfortably sleeping while the world is freaking out?This week on our fearless and free series, Joe Biddle speaks to us about the fear of the Lord by unpacking the story of Jesus calming the seas. He points out that our level of fear is directly related to our level of faith. We fear God because He is altogether different than anything we have experienced. We pray that as you listen to this sermon your fear of God would grow so that your fear of this world can disappear.

We have a choice in what altar we build This week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson continues our series Fearless & Free. He walks us through the life of Moses. A man who started his journey with a life built on fears and lies, and ends his life known as the man who talked with God face to face. We pray that as you listen to this sermon, the Holy Spirit would highlight to you some lies in your altars He'd like to tear down.

There is so much life when you give up control, but it's hard to give up control when you doubt God's goodnessThis week, Nicholas Kerton-Johnson lays the groundwork for our upcoming sermon series Fearless and Free. He drives home the fact that we have a God who came to set us free. From the very begining, God's desire was intimacy and freedom. We pray that as you listen to this sermon, your heart would be awakened to the hope of living fearless and free.

Take note of the involvement of the Baker.This week, the sermon started out with a demonstration from Rachael about the process of making sourdough. Then, Nicholas shifted us to focus on wine and wineskin. We are hungry for a move of God at Kingdom Life, but when it comes, we want to be ready. We pray that as you listen to this sermon, you would ask the Lord if there is any old wineskin in you that He is asking you to shed for this next move of God.