New years often bring new plans for your life. We sit and draft grand dreams of the impact our lives will have on the world only to have abandoned many of them a few weeks later. Humanity was created and designed with a particular mission in mind, and very soon after we traded in God's grand designs for the plans of our own. In the message Pastor FIkre Prince shares that God has a way of bringing us back from mission drift and helping us to fulfill our role in the earth.

Text: Genesis 11:1-9

Sermon Summary:

Big Idea: God disrupts human pride to advance his mission.

Key Question: How does God disrupt our pride to advance his mission?

1. God exposes our false self-sufficiency. (vv. 1-5)

2. God hinders our collective power. (vv. 6-7)

3. God overcomes our prideful resistance. (vv. 8-9)

The bigining of each year generally has people questioning or planning what they desire the year to look like. Many of us consider where we have been and the challeneges we've faced to try to find the path forward to where we want to go. We chart our own course, and pursue our own mission. What if there was more to the story than what we desire and what we feel? In this message Pastor Fikre Prince shares that all of humanity was created with a particular mission and purpose, and starting at that point is the best way to find joy, and have peace for the journey.

Text: Genesis 1:26-30

Sermon Summary:

Big Idea: God created humanity to fill the earth with his glory.

Key Question: How was humanity to fill the earth with God’s glory?

1. Humanity was given God’s image. (vv. 26a, 27)

2. Humanity was given God’s mission. (vv. 26b, 28b)

3. Humanity was given God’s blessing. (vv. 28a, 29-30)

Struggle changes us. When you go through tough times, you can find yourself hiding away from life, and love and even the calling of God. What if there was a way to come from behind those walls and walk in the freedom that comes in Christ? In this message, Pastor Ryan Russell shares that in Jesus we have not only have a savior but a counselor, restorer and protector.

Text: Hebrews 2:10-18

Big Idea: Wonder that Jesus suffered to save us.

Key Question: What is the result of Jesus suffering for us?

1. Our glory is restored. (vv. 10-13)

2. Our enemy is defeated. (vv. 14-16)

3. Our help is here. (vv. 17-18)