In this Palm Sunday message from Matthew 21:1–17, Pastor Jim walks through Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, showing how people can recognize a problem yet misidentify its true source. The crowds expected a political solution in the overthrow of Rom...

In this message from Ephesians 4:17–32, Pastor Jim shifts from identity to behavior, showing how a transformed life in Christ leads to transformed actions. He contrasts the “old self,” marked by futility, selfishness, and deceitful desires, wit...

In this message from Ephesians 4:11–16, Pastor Jim explores the difference between immature faith and mature faith and how the church grows into Christlikeness together. Using the imagery of waves and wind pushing a boat off course, he explains...

In this message from Ephesians 4:7–16, Pastor Jim explains how Jesus, the victorious and ascended King, gives gifts to his people so that the church can grow into maturity. After defeating the powers of sin and death through his life, death, an...

In this message from Ephesians 4:1–6, Pastor Jim calls the church to walk in a manner worthy of the calling we have received. After three chapters of celebrating our new identity in Christ as one family, Jim shows that unity is not something we...

In this message from Ephesians 3:14-21, Pastor Jim walks through Paul’s breathtaking prayer that drives him to his knees. After unfolding the cosmic scope of God’s plan to unite all things in Christ and form one new people, Jim shows that the o...

In this message from Ephesians 3:1–13, Pastor Jim explores Paul’s surprising digression about imprisonment, his call, and the breathtaking purpose of the church. What looks small and ordinary on the surface is actually cosmic in significance. J...

Pastor Jim unpacks Ephesians 2:11-22 to show how Jesus is not only our peace but the one who has destroyed every dividing wall. What once separated Jew and Gentile, near and far, is now reconciled through the cross. Jim reminds us that salvatio...

In this message on Ephesians 2:1–10, Pastor Jim urges us to grasp the depth of what it means to be rescued by grace. We are not simply saved from something but brought into something entirely new. Jim describes the contrast between our spiritua...

Pastor Jim challenges the church to move beyond the basics of faith and embrace the deeper transformation that comes from truly knowing God in Christ. Paul’s prayer for the believers in Ephesus is not just one of gratitude; it is a plea for the...

Pastor Jim walks through Ephesians 1 to show that salvation is not just about rescuing individuals but about forming a new family under Christ. Drawing from Paul’s rich language of adoption, blessing, and spiritual inheritance, Jim reminds us t...

In this final message of the Rejoice series, Pastor Jim teaches from Luke 2 and explores the angelic announcement to the shepherds, showing how the glory of God should evoke great fear—yet through Jesus, that fear gives way to great jo...

Pastor Jim teaches from Luke 2, where Simeon holds the infant Jesus in his arms and declares that the long-awaited Consolation of Israel has arrived. After years of righteous waiting in silence and spiritual devotion, Simeon recognizes that wha...

Pastor Jim teaches from Luke 1 and reflects on Zechariah’s transformation from silence to rejoicing. After nine months of being unable to speak, Zechariah bursts out with a prophetic song proclaiming God’s faithfulness—not because his situation...

Pastor Jim teaches from Luke 1 and reflects on Mary’s song, the Magnificat, as a model for anchoring ourselves in God’s faithfulness during seasons of waiting. Mary, a young and lowly servant with no status or power, responds to a life-altering...

Pastor Jim Entwistle begins our Advent series "Rejoice: Songs of the Savior's Arrival" with an inspiring message from Luke 1:39-45, exploring Elizabeth's prophetic encounter with Mary.In this powerful opening to our Advent series, Pastor...

Pastor Jim teaches from Colossians 4 and calls us to live wisely in how we interact with outsiders, those not yet in the family of God. He reminds us that wisdom means applying gospel understanding to everyday life, and that our lives should re...

Pastor Jim teaches from Ephesians 5 and calls listeners to live as children of light who redeem their days, know God’s will, and walk in the Spirit. Jim explains that wisdom is more than knowledge or behavior; it is wanting what God wants and a...

Pastor Jim explores Romans 16 and the call to be wise toward what is good and innocent toward what is evil. Jim challenges the common tendency to focus on external behavior by pointing upstream to the source: belief. False gospels and counterfe...

Pastor Jim unpacks Proverbs 13:20 and Psalm 1 to show how the company we keep directly shapes who we become. Jim explains that walking with the wise leads to wisdom, while surrounding ourselves with foolishness leads to harm. He challenges list...

In this first message of the Be Wise series, Pastor Jim explores why wisdom is not only helpful but commanded by God. Drawing from Proverbs 3 and 9, Jim teaches that wisdom begins with fearing the Lord and trusting in Him rather than l...

In this final message of the Come and See series, Pastor Jim invites listeners to respond to Jesus’s call not only to come and see, but to come and go. Drawing from Luke 10, Jim explores how Jesus sends His disciples ahead of Him into everyday ...

Pastor Jim walks through Jesus’s teaching in Matthew 16 where the invitation shifts from “Come and see” to “Come and die.” After Peter boldly confesses Jesus as the Messiah, he quickly resists the idea of a suffering Savior. Jim unpacks how we ...

In this message, Pastor Jake opens with the call to follow Jesus from Matthew 4:18 to 22, reframing “follow” not as passive observation but as an invitation to apprenticeship, a daily, personal journey of becoming like Christ and doing what He ...

Pastor Jim explores Jesus’ conversation with the woman at the well in John 4, revealing worship as a response to encountering God in truth and spirit. Jim challenges listeners to see how true worship is more than ritual or location. It is a res...