How Do I Deal With My Dysfunctional Family?
September 17, 2017 | Josh McPherson
Sadly, sometimes it's the people closest to us who hurt us the deepest, and the relationships we expect to be most life-giving that end up being the most toxic. But God designed families to thrive and be life giving. Could we ever experience that? In this sermon, Pastor Josh answers specific questions asked about how to be faithful to Jesus while living inside and around broken and dysfunctional families.
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How Do I Deal With Singleness?
October 01, 2017 | Adam James
In an age of sexual and relational confusion, combined with personal longings and desires, what are the timeless biblical principles regarding singleness? How do you navigate a season (or life) of singleness with purpose, hope, and encouragement, especially if it's not how you imagined your life would go? How can the church do better to serve singles and remain empathetic to the challenges of singleness? With sincere compassion and practical helps this sermon aims to answer those questions and give the listener hope.
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The Most Important Issue In Marriage
January 31, 2016 | Josh McPherson | Marriage
The most important issue in marriage may not be what you think. In this message, Pastor Josh kicks off the Marriage Strong series with a word for singles and marrieds about the single greatest thing determining the health of any marriage.
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The Two Essential Laws Of Marriage
February 07, 2016 | Josh McPherson | Marriage
When God designed marriage, he designed it for success, and he designed it with laws to ensure its success. But just like the laws of nature, when we break them, they break us. When these laws are understood and lived out, the marriage flourishes. When these laws are violated and ignored, the marriage shrivels and dies. In this sermon, Pastor Josh explains the two simple yet foundational laws of marriage and their universal application to any marriage.
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The Heart of Biblical Marriage
February 14, 2016 | Josh McPherson | Marriage
In this sermon, Pastor Josh asks and answers three fundamental questions: What is the essence of marriage? What is the purpose of marriage? What is the fuel for marriage according to the biblical worldview? The answers to these questions provide the ground and framework for intensely practical answers to marriage's most complex problems.
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Becoming A Godly Man
February 21, 2016 | Guest Speaker | Marriage
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The Weight and Privilege of Headship
February 28, 2016 | Josh McPherson | Marriage
Headship is the great privilege and responsibility of every married man to love his wife selflessly as Jesus loves the Church. In this sermon, Pastor Josh gives practical instruction regarding this radical kind of love that husbands are called to give their wives.
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The Strength & Beauty of Helper
March 06, 2016 | Josh McPherson | Marriage
In this sermon, Pastor Josh & his wife Sharon teach on the truth and beauty of the wife's holy calling as "helper" in marriage and Paul's charge for wives to "submit to their husbands as unto the Lord." Misunderstandings, rebuttals and excuses abound around this controversial topic, but with clear teaching and straight talk, Josh and Sharon go to the heart of the issue and show the beauty of God's design in this practical sermon that will change how you view the divine calling of helper forever.
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The Truth About Sex In Marriage
March 13, 2016 | Josh McPherson | Marriage
From Kim Kardashian to Miley Cyrus, from Men's Health to Glamour & Cosmopolitan, and from the Beatles to Taylor Swift, everyone has an opinion and something to say about sex. But the Bible has more to say, and it's better. Far from being a prudish book, the Bible unabashedly talks openly and honestly about the good gifts of sexuality and God's design for it. In this fun, honest, and straightforward sermon, Pastor Josh unpacks the Christian ethic of sexuality and the practical out-working of it by looking at two shocking commands Paul gives married couples when speaking about sex...revealing the true secret to lasting, exciting, and fulfilling sexual intimacy.
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The Most Powerful Act In Marriage... What To Do When You've Done It Wrong
March 20, 2016 | Josh McPherson | Marriage
Two things you can know for sure going into marriage- you will sin against your spouse, and your spouse will sin against you. But if there's no mechanism in the marriage to deal with the hurt and pain this causes, the marriage will not grow strong. Betrayal, broken trust, harsh words, broken agreements, disrespect, emotional abandonment, infidelity, jealousy, unmet expectations... the list is long of how we can wound our spouse. So what do we do when we've been hurt the deepest by the one we vowed to love the most? We engage in the most powerful act a marriage can experience... forgive. But when the pain is deep, this can feel impossible.
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Your Relational Life Plan
February 02, 2020 | Josh McPherson
This is our reality as humans...we are fundamentally relational beings. Human thriving is predicated upon the quality of our relationships. In this sermon, Pastor Josh draws out of the Bible 4 Relationship Principles guaranteed to increase your relational IQ.
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