Audio Messages

There are many different kinds of love, but it's been said that the greatest is sacrificial love - giving up something precious for the well-being, benefit, or blessing of another. In this first message in our series The Sacrifice, Pastor John looks at a familiar story of sacrifice and what we can learn about sacrificial love motivated by faith.

We live in a gritty, dirty, dark world. Colossians 1:13 says that in Jesus God has defeated the dominions of darkness and brought us into Jesus’ kingdom of light. The problem is that we still live in a dark world. How do we overcome the darkness? Better yet, how do we keep from being overcome by the darkness? The solution is not religion. It’s not spiritualism or mysticism. It’s not moralism or rules. Those are solutions that come out of a world that is already in darkness. We need a solution that comes from above, not below.

Living courageously is the mark of many heroes and sheroes. But where does courage come from? In this message, Pastor John looks at the story of Stephen, whose historical reputation is as a follower of Jesus with great courage.

Whose voice do you listen to? Whose voice moves you to action? In this message, we look at Jesus' open invitation to anyone in the sound of His voice to receive the soul-satisfying Living Water of eternal life, and pass it on to others.

Living wisely in our everyday world is challenging – and nowhere does this prove to be more true than our words. It’s so easy for our conversations to quickly turn sour, to go where he had not intended to go. In this message, Pastor John shares wisdom from Proverbs on how the tongue can be transformed from a factory of hurt to a fountain of life.

What does it mean to be made for more? It does not mean you were made for more stuff, not more power, not more money not more possessions. You were not born primarily for these things. Pastor John Stillman takes a deeper look into Psalm 122 to answer the question what were we made for.

Jesus’ church has been blessed and built up by a long and wonderful practice of sharing words of encouragement, direction, and praise. In this message, Pastor John provides a message to the church on how to commend the good in others while praising the glory of God.

What's holding you back from following Jesus? In this message, Pastor John looks at the story of a man who had been told lots of things that, before that moment, at least in his mind, kept him from making that kind of commitment. But then he hears of how Jesus came to remove the barriers that had kept him from a relationship with God.

A recent study found that Christians are not all that different from non-Christians when it comes to navigating their lives with compassion, understanding, mercy, and forgiveness. In this message, Pastor John gives a hopeful plan for having hard conversations that navigate towards unity.