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Today on Karl and Crew Mornings, we concluded our theme week: "God's Kids", and we discussed the Freedom we have in Christ as God's heirs.  The scripture reference was Galatians 4:4-7.  We addressed what it means to be adopted sons and daughters of God, and His heirs.  There is freedom in following Christ as well, so we asked, "What were you a slave to before Jesus set you free?".  Our guests included Pastor Scott Ziegler of The Bridge Community Church with campuses in Des Plaines, Mount Propsect, and Chicago; and, Pastor Dave Mudd of The Hope Collective Church (formerly Alpine Chapel) in LakeZurich.  Finally, take a listen to the Karl and Crew Showcast to hear some of the best moments from today. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There is a lie that humanity has been buying since the first pages of Scripture: that we can be like God and call the shots for our own lives. When we buy into this lie, we think of ourselves as the center of the universe and expect our families, society, and God himself to meet our demands. This is what John calls “the pride of life”. God loves us too much to let us ruin our lives by thinking this way. Check out the final part of Alpine Chapel’s discussion on 1 John 2:16 and what it means to move from a self-referenced life to a life filled with the joy and love of letting God have the ultimate say.

Today we had a guest speaker Pastor Michael Craft from Alpine Chapel in Telluride, CO.Support the show (https://rosemontbaptist.org/give/)

The way relationships start isn't always the way relationships stay. In order for things to grow, they have to change. Many people associate God's presence as being in one place and available to one person. While our relationship with God may have started with this way of thinking, God's desire has always been for the one to become the many. Check out Part Three of Alpine Chapel's series, "From Here to There" and listen as Spiritual Formation Pastor Alex Gowler talks about what it looks like to think about God's presence being available to many people in many places and what that means for us as individuals and as a collective.

Jesus spent much of his life around tables. Whether it was with his followers, those who were curious, or the ones society called "the wrong kind of people", Jesus knew that an invitation to the table was an invitation to relationship. It's the same invitation that God gives us today and that we can give to others. Check out Part Two of Alpine Chapel's series, "From Here to There" and listen as Lead Pastor Dave Mudd shares about the power of the table in all its messiness, honesty, and opportunity for transformation.

There's a famous line in Scripture that we seem to be getting backward. It instructs us to be "quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry." Instead, every one of us is tempted to be slow to listen, quick to talk back, and get angry in an instant. So what does it mean to listen, really? And why should we listen in the first place? Check out Part Four of Alpine Chapel's series, "Asking for a Friend", and listen as Prof. Jeremy Pettitt unpacks a powerful truth: you cannot truly love your neighbor unless you listen to them.

We all like it when God allows the good things in our life, but what about the difficult things? What about those weaknesses that slow us down, hold us up, and keep us from doing everything we feel like we should be doing? The apostle Paul wasn't afraid to ask God these questions or share what he learned with the church in Corith. While Paul didn't get the response he wanted, he did get a response that's helpful for us as we think about these question today. Check out Part Two of Alpine Chapel's series "Asking for a Friend" and listen as Lead Pastor Dave Mudd responds to a little question with big implications: what was Paul's "thorn in the flesh"?

There are only two types of desires that we experience in life: those that come from the Holy Spirit and those that don't. When we follow Jesus, the Holy Spirit gives us new desires that we still have the choice to act on or not. These Holy Spirit desires always take the shape of the answer to this question: what does love require? Check out Part Five of Alpine Chapel's series on Community DNA and listen as Lead Pastor Dave Mudd invites us to ask ourselves the question "what does love require?" until it's no longer a question: it's a way of life.

People grow best in environments where they can feel safe and be seen. The problem is that our experiences trusting people can make us feel anything but safe, so we hide from others and stunt our own growth as people. The family that Jesus invites us into is one where we aren't afraid to be seen because we know that we're safe. That's the power of community. Check out Part Three of Alpine Chapel's series about Community DNA and listen as Pastor Alex Gowler talks about the role of trust and transparency in helping us be who we are while becoming the people God created us to be.

Anytime you're going somewhere new or doing something you haven't done before, it's good to have a guide. Guides help you see things you wouldn't have seen otherwise and avoid obstacles that you never saw coming. But when it comes to life, too many people are living without the clear guide that God gives us in his word. The reasons are many but the outcome is the same: confusion and regret where God intended for clarity and peace. Check out Part Nine of Alpine Chapel's series, "Living Values", and hear Executive Pastor Chris Brown talk about why every follower of Jesus needs to have Scripture as their guide for better vision, better direction, a solid identity, and the comfort of God's promises.

There are times in our lives when we come across something so amazing that we can't help but respond in some way. Whether it's by celebrating what we've found or telling someone else about it, we make a big deal of the things that are a big deal to us. That's what worship is: celebrating and sharing what's most valuable in our lives. Check out Part Four of Alpine Chapel's series, "Living Values", and hear Lead Pastor Dave Mudd talk about how everyone worships something. For followers of Jesus, we live as a response to transferring all the value of our life to the only one who deserves it.

For followers of Jesus, becoming more like him involves a radical reorientation of our values. Things that we thought were important are challenged and our hearts change as we learn to value what God values. This doesn't happen by accident, though. It happens as we spend time with Jesus and allow him to help us unlearn our old way of life so that we can learn to live in God's Kingdom. Check out Part One of Alpine Chapel's new series, "Living Values", and listen as Lead Pastor Dave Mudd invites us to be challenged and changed in 2020 as we follow Jesus.

We all look at Thanksgiving a little differently but everyone wrestles with the same thing this time of year: gratitude. Whether it's busyness, entitlement, or familiarity, we all get distracted from our opportunities to be grateful. In the middle of the "Holiday Hustle", it's important to spend some time thinking about something that happened in the life of Jesus: a moment in time that can help us make sense of what it looks like to give thanks. Check out Part One of Alpine Chapel's mini-series "Holiday Hustle" and listen as Executive Pastor Chris Brown shares about the power of gratitude to change our hearts this holiday season.

Too many people go through life full but unfulfilled. They cram their calendars and drain every ounce of their energy chasing something they think will satisfy them. In the quiet and brutally honest moments of their days, though, they admit that they're empty. God never intended us to live like this. In fact, our experience of spiritual emptiness only exists because of our separation from God. It's only when we're reconciled to him do we find the "abundant life" that God designed us to live. Check out Part Three of Alpine Chapel's series, "Goliath Must Fall", and listen as Lead Pastor Dave Mudd talks about how the giant of Spiritual Emptiness has been defeated by Jesus and what it really means to live life to the full.

Relationships were meant to be a gift from God. But too often they can become breeding grounds for bitterness and offense. These offenses create division which can lead to the destruction of even the closest relationships. Knowing this, one of the best things we can do for ourselves and others is be unoffendable: light-hearted, durable, and ready to follow Jesus' lead in forgiveness. Check out a special Father's Day message from Alpine Chapel and listen as Lead Pastor Dave Mudd talks about how the power of Jesus empowers us to live unoffendable lives.

We live in a culture obsessed with independence. Our desire to belong to ourselves makes it hard for us to accept the reality that we belong to God. But what if belonging to God isn't a bad thing at all? What if being one of God's prized possessions is actually one of the best things that could happen to us? Check out Part Five of Alpine Chapel's series, "Identity Crisis", and listen as Lead Pastor Dave Mudd unpacks what it means to be "God's own possession" and what keeps us from letting this truth sink into our hearts.

Becoming a follower of Jesus is more than just "turning over a new leaf". It's an entirely new way of life that's lived from Jesus' resurrection power inside of us. One of way talking about this move into our new life with Jesus is holiness: being set apart for a relationship with God and responsibility in His plan for the world. It's as we embrace our holiness that we understand what it means to be a holy nation. Check out Part Four of Alpine Chapel's series, "Identity Crisis", and listen as Lead Pastor Dave Mudd talks about what holiness is, what it isn't, and how it impacts our minds, our hearts, and our wills.

To whom have you given authority in your life? Are you listening to cultural icons or God's High Priest, Jesus Christ? From the beginning, it has been God's intention to raise up a kingdom of priests who have been made royal by their union with Jesus. And chief among their priestly duties is to act as witnesses of the true, living God. Join us for Part Three of Alpine Chapel's series, "Identity Crisis" and hear Lead Pastor Dave Mudd talk about what it means to be a royal priest, God's image bearer, to a world in need of God's marvelous light.

This week in our series on Carols, Dave Mudd, lead pastor at Alpine Chapel in Lake Zurich, looks at the classic carol - Away in a Manger

This week in our series on Carols, Dave Mudd, lead pastor at Alpine Chapel in Lake Zurich, looks at the classic carol - Away in a Manger

Some relationships are worth fighting to keep. Others are worth fighting to break. When it comes to the flesh (the sin nature that still lives in us), the only option for a follower of Jesus is to fight for the breakup. But when the whole world seems set up to keep us in a relationship with our flesh, where can we turn to make the break? Check out Part Ten of Alpine Chapel's series, "Always Jesus", and listen as Lead Pastor Dave Mudd shares about the good, the bad, and the better when it comes to our relationship with our flesh and the hope that Jesus offers.

There's a lot that can be said about the Bible. One thing that needs to be said, though, is that our relationship with it is complicated. That's because too often we treat it as an object to be understood rather than an opportunity to be taken. What would change in our relationship with the Bible if we started seeing it through our relationship with Jesus? Check out Part Eight of Alpine Chapel's series, "Always Jesus" and listen as Staff Pastor Alex Gowler calls us to clear the air in our relationship with the Bible and start reading it through the lens of our relationship with Jesus.

Fear is a common human emotion. Each one of us knows the experience of fear, but what we might not know is that our fears provide powerful insights into our hearts. In fact, fear can give us such a clear picture of our own souls that we can say, "Tell me what you fear and I'll tell you what you believe." Check out the final installment of Alpine Chapel's series, "Mixtape", and listen as pastor, speaker, and friend of Alpine, Richard Morris, helps us discover what our fears say about our beliefs and how a clear view of God can bring us freedom from the things that scare us the most.

What do The Greatest Showman, cups of cold water, and our everyday interactions with people have in common? The potential to ascribe value to others. In a world that is desperate for meaning and purpose, one of the beautiful things about life with Jesus is the ability to infuse meaning into the lives of others through our words and deeds. Join the Alpine Chapel family for a special message from Lead Pastor Dave Mudd about the power of our conversations to become moments that bring meaning to the lives of others.

More often than not, our bodies are in one place while our minds and emotions are in another. This wasn't the case with Jesus. Jesus was able to be fully present in every interaction that he had with others. That's not to say he wasn't tempted to be somewhere else mentally or emotionally, but that he overcome those temptations which are the same ones that keep us from being present with others. So what does it look like for us to follow Jesus' example when it comes to being present? Check out part two of Alpine Chapel's series, "42 Seconds" and hear Staff Pastor Alex Gowler share about the one thing that helps us overcome the temptations of appetite, approval, and ambition so that we can be present with those around us.

Trials are a part of living as broken people in a broken world. We can think of them as interruptions or we can engage them as opportunities to grow. But beyond a renewed perspective on our valleys, we need a renewed posture: a way of approaching our valleys that isn't about us but about Jesus. Check out Part Two of Alpine Chapel's series, "Valleys", and listen as Lead Pastor Dave Mudd helps us understand what it means that God's power is made perfect in our weakness.

God promises to work all things for the good of those who love him. That doesn't mean circumstances won't be difficult, though. That doesn't mean that our lives will always be easy. It does mean that no matter what happens, God can use our circumstances to accomplish our ultimate good: to know and be like Jesus. Check out Part Four of Alpine Chapel's series, "HOPE", and hear from Lead Pastor Dave Mudd about how God desires to conform us to the image of Jesus through the circumstances of our lives. Also, join Alpine as we commemorate the five-year anniversary of Dave and Natalie Mudd's leadership of Alpine Chapel.

When people talk about “hope”, they’re typically talking about things we wish would happen (even though we have no certainly that they will!). But when the Bible talks about hope, it’s something very different. Biblical hope assures us of a better tomorrow because it is based on the promises of a good and faithful God. Check out Part One of Alpine Chapel’s new series, “HOPE”, and listen as Lead Pastor Dave Mudd helps us understand the difference that’s made in our lives when we stop putting our hope in things that will fail us and begin putting our hope in the promises of the only One who never fails.

Nobody wants it, but we can’t seem to get rid of it: stress. No matter what we do, the stress in our lives never seems to go away. In fact, it just seems to get worse. But what if the solution to our stress has been right in front of us all along? Would we really want to take advantage of the cure that we’re offered? Check out Part Two of Alpine Chapel’s series, “Making Change”, and listen as Lead Pastor Dave Mudd shares the most powerful thing we can do to deal with pervasive stress in our lives.

In this chapel segment we heard from Dave Mudd, Pastor of Alpine Chapel in Lake Zurich IL.