Many in our culture mistakenly believe that people, at the core, are good, that the path to heaven is in trying to do more good things than bad, and that as God evaluates them, they will be found weighted in the right direction. But the first few verses in Ephesians 2 confirm that this is not true. Once we decide to follow Jesus, the Holy Spirit comes to live within us and starts a battle with our fleshly nature. The question is: Who is winning?

The church in Ephesus was a healthy church with great leaders. Yet in Revelation we see a strong warning to this church and eventually the church died. Somewhere along the way, despite a once thriving church, they stopped their forward progress and instead slid into oblivion. This can also happen in individuals. God expects all of us, no matter where we are in our faith journey, to keep moving forward and growing a healthy root system. Pastor Ken Abramson walks us through three ways to keep moving into deeper relationship with God.

It’s not easy to take a look at our personal spiritual root system. How we internalize what God thinks of us greatly affects our spiritual outlook. Our root system will go deeper when we embrace three truths about God, salvation, and His love for us. Pastor Ken Abramson walks us through those three truths in this week’s sermon.

Some believe if they learn the deep truths of doctrine in the Bible it will lead to spiritual growth. But this doesn’t happen automatically. The goal of studying the Bible isn’t just knowledge accumulation, but for us to go deeper in our relationship with God and to love Him more. In this sermon Pastor Ken Abramson wants us all to realize how blessed we are by God and to use our growth in knowledge to grow in relationship with him.

When the storms of life come upon us, do we have a strong spiritual root system that keeps us from crashing? The storms amplify our faith…or lack of it. Today we launch a new sermon series that looks to the church of Ephesus. This church had a lot of opposition from the culture surrounding it but God unleashed his will through Paul and the church thrived. We have a lot we can learn from the Ephesian church!

Many times the scriptures state that Jesus went off alone to pray. But there are a few instances when the scriptures tell us what he prayed for and there is so much we can learn from His words. Listen in as Pastor Ken Abramson teaches us to Pray Like Jesus.

In this final sermon of the series, Pastor Ken Abramson defines two groups of people based on Mark 6 where the disciples are rowing across the lake when Jesus joins them. After the miracle of feeding the 5,000, it was evident that there was the crowd, who followed Jesus for the benefits but went home each night. Then there were the disciples who obeyed Jesus, even when he told them to row into a strong headwind in the middle of the night. Which kind of follower are you?

How we respond to our circumstances, the good and the bad, matters to God and says a lot about what we think of Him. Christians like to quote Romans 8:28, that says God works all things out for the good of those who are called to His purpose, but do we really believe it? And who gets the right to decide what “good” really means? Listen in as Pastor Steve Wick walks us through some lies we tend to believe and how we can move to a place where we truly believe and live out Romans 8:28.

Do you believe that God cares about how we relate to people in our life? He not only cares, he created us specifically for relationships. But not all relationships are easy. Pastor Ken Abramson give three ways to bring hard relationships to the cross.

Our role as parents isn’t to be best friends with our kids, or to live our lives through them. It’s to have a God-sized, God-centered vision for them. Andy Abramson helps us to see what our role is in stewarding the gifts of our children to what God has planned for them so that we can ultimately release them to Him to live a life for the Kingdom.