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Sunday Teachings

Follow #31 — Mark 10:17-31 — The Cost of the Kingdom

Our story begins with a man desperate for Jesus. The other gospels tell us he was a young local ruler.

Nate HoldridgeOctober 4, 2020

Christian Life

Video Message: What Can Reveal What’s Really Going On Inside of Us?

The prophet Zechariah was a wild prophet! He had a vision of a scroll that was flying around the nation of Israel and began revealing what was really going on…

Nate HoldridgeOctober 2, 2020

Christian Life

An Adventure With God (Acts 16:1-5)

Sometimes God's people must take a risk. Consider Timothy (Acts 16:1-5). Paul and Barnabas were no longer a team. So Paul needed a new ministry companion and trainee. He went…

Nate HoldridgeOctober 1, 2020

Christian Life

God Is Light, Part 2 (1 John 1:5-22)

The first thing John tells us God's light produces is fellowship with one another and personal growth, or sanctification, within. But before detailing this, John records the first claim of…

Nate HoldridgeSeptember 29, 2020

Sunday Teachings

Follow #30 — Mark 10:13-16 — Kingdom Kids

Sunday Outline: Follow #30 -- Mark 10:13-16 -- Kingdom Kids

Nate HoldridgeSeptember 26, 2020

Christian Life

Video Message: Imputed Righteousness

Imputed righteousness is one of the greatest blessings that you and I could ever know. In Romans chapter 4 Paul tells us that Abraham was not justified by his works…

Nate HoldridgeSeptember 25, 2020

For Men Book Excerpts

Book Excerpt: No-Nonsense Biblical Man

Paul learned how to be content in every condition of life. He had been well loved, but he had also experienced a deep poverty. He had been healthy, but he…

Nate HoldridgeSeptember 24, 2020

Christian Life

God Is Light, Part 1 (1 John 1:5-22)

We read John's purpose statement, his heart for his readers, a group of Christians in a circuit surrounding Ephesus, where he'd pastored. He loved this group and, fearing the false…

Nate HoldridgeSeptember 22, 2020

Christian Life

True Greatness (Acts 25:23)

In our world, true greatness is often clouded by grandiosity, beauty, and pomp. But I want to share with you a little passage concerning Paul's life. It has often recalibrated…

Nate HoldridgeSeptember 17, 2020

Christian Life

Living In Between the Promise and Fulfillment, Part 3 (Genesis 15)

When you are living in between the promise and the fulfillment, when the world seems dark and ominous, it is important to look to the cross of Christ. There, we…

Nate HoldridgeSeptember 15, 2020

Sunday Teachings

Follow #28 — Mark 9:30-50 — An Inner, Holy Salt

Sunday Outline — Follow #28 -- Mark 9:30-50 -- An Inner, Holy Salt (Mark 9:30-50)

Nate HoldridgeSeptember 13, 2020

Christian Life

Video Message: God WILL Provide

When God makes a promise, He keeps it. Sometimes God delivers on His promises in ways we don’t expect, but He always delivers in the way that He intends.

Nate HoldridgeSeptember 11, 2020

Christian Life

An Almost Unbelievable Truth (Romans 6:11)

Let me remind you of an almost unbelievable truth, one I say to myself a dozen times a day. "So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive…

Nate HoldridgeSeptember 10, 2020

Christian Life

Living In Between the Promise and Fulfillment, Part 2 (Genesis 15)

The life lived in between the promise and the fulfillment, must be able to see past circumstances. All Abram could see what Eliezer. But God could see descendants as numerous…

Nate HoldridgeSeptember 8, 2020

Sunday Teachings

Follow #27 — Mark 9:14-29 — Jesus Enters Our Mess

Our episode today provides a major contrast with the glory of the mount of transfiguration. On the mountain, the power of the kingdom of God was on display. In this…

Nate HoldridgeSeptember 6, 2020

Christian Life

Video Message: Living the Great Life

How do you define a great life? Chances are that all of our expectations for a great life come up short in comparison to what God considers as a great…

Nate HoldridgeSeptember 4, 2020

Christian Life

Living In Between the Promise and Fulfillment, Part 1 (Genesis 15)

After defeating the four invading kings and returning the goods and peoples of the weaker kings, Abram had a meeting with the King of Salem and the King of Sodom.…

Nate HoldridgeSeptember 3, 2020

Christian Life

Friend of Sinners, Part 3 (Mark 2:16-17)

In part 3 of this Friend of Sinners series, we learn that somehow, some scribes of the Pharisees saw what Jesus was doing. We've already seen scribes in Mark's gospel;…

Nate HoldridgeSeptember 1, 2020

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Sunday Teachings

Follow #26 – Mark 9:1–13 – Be Helped by Jesus’ Transfiguration

What are we to do with such a beautiful and awe-inspiring episode? What did it mean for them? What did it mean for Jesus? And what does it mean for…

Nate HoldridgeAugust 30, 2020

Christian Life

Video Message: What’s Your Idea of Who Jesus Is?

What’s your idea of who Jesus is? Is He just your friend when you’re lonely? Is He the person you go to only when things start to fall apart? Or…

Nate HoldridgeAugust 28, 2020

Christian Life For Men Book Excerpts

Book Excerpt: Dear New Dad

The funny thing about fathering is that even though the influence is so great and the responsibility so intense, billions of us have done it. Some have fathered well and…

Nate HoldridgeAugust 27, 2020

Christian Life

Friend of Sinners, Part 2 (Mark 2:15)

Now, the day of salvation in your life should be a day of celebration, and that's how Levi saw things. He invited Jesus to his house and invited his friends,…

Nate HoldridgeAugust 25, 2020

Sunday Teachings

(Sunday Message) Acts 27 — When All Hope Is Lost

Acts 27 — When All Hope Is Lost (Sunday Gathering)

Nate HoldridgeAugust 24, 2020

Christian Life

Video Message: A Belief That Can Carry You Through Crisis

Our responses to crisis reveal our beliefs about God. For some of us, we’re experiencing the tension that comes through the revealing process right now! But now is the time…

Nate HoldridgeAugust 21, 2020

Christian Life

The Call of Abraham (Genesis 12:1-3)

The passage tells us the Lord spoke to Abram. We aren't told how God spoke to Abram, nor does it tell us why God chose to call this man. I…

Nate HoldridgeAugust 20, 2020

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Tuesday Nights

Genesis 27-28

In Genesis chapter 27 and 28, Moses turns his attention to the story and the line of Jacob. And just as a reminder to the setting that we're in, in…

Nate HoldridgeAugust 19, 2020

Christian Life

Friend of Sinners, Part 1 (Mark 2:13-17)

In this three-part series, we are going to explore this question: What kind of people enter into God's kingdom? We are going to ask this because the first time Jesus…

Nate HoldridgeAugust 18, 2020

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Christian Life Sunday Teachings

Follow #25 — Mark 8:34-38 — Following Jesus

I must start today's teaching by reminding you of our place in the gospel of Mark. Mark had begun his book by revealing Jesus' identity: he is the Christ, the…

Nate HoldridgeAugust 16, 2020

Christian Life

Video Message: Jesus’ Favorite Fruit

When Jesus looked at the people around Him, He hoped that their belief would cause so many beautiful actions to come from their lives. He desired that they would have…

Nate HoldridgeAugust 14, 2020

Christian Life A Guide For The Climb

A Guide For The Climb – Chapter 14 – War for Unity (Psalm 133)

“The Bible has the answers,” they say. Knowing how messed up life and the world and relationships can be, you decide to read it. Perhaps, you think, you will find…

Nate HoldridgeAugust 13, 2020

Christian Life Encouraging Word

Encouraging Word

“The believer, grounded in this love, is made stable for every season of life.”

Nate HoldridgeAugust 12, 2020

Christian Life

Video Message: Understanding Goals for Your Kids

Many parents are completely unprepared when it comes time to raise, not their little children, but raising young adult children. The goal during their adolescent years should be to teach…

Nate HoldridgeAugust 7, 2020

Luke

Luke 24

Verse By Verse Expositional Bible Teaching

Nate HoldridgeAugust 6, 2020

Christian Life

Encouraging Word

“God's people are at their best when God is at the center.”

Nate HoldridgeAugust 5, 2020

Luke

Luke 23

Verse By Verse Expositional Bible Teaching

Nate HoldridgeAugust 5, 2020

Luke

Luke 22:39-71

Verse By Verse Expositional Bible Teaching

Nate HoldridgeAugust 4, 2020

Luke

Luke 22:1-38

Verse By Verse Expositional Bible Teaching

Nate HoldridgeAugust 3, 2020

Luke

Luke 21:5-38

Verse By Verse Expositional Bible Teaching

Nate HoldridgeAugust 2, 2020

Luke

Luke 20:1-21:4

Verse By Verse Expositional Bible Teaching

Nate HoldridgeAugust 1, 2020

Christian Life

Video Message: God Would Be the One to Do the Work

We are great at identifying our own problems, but so often we don’t pray through them or call up God to help us solve them.

Nate HoldridgeJuly 31, 2020

Luke

Luke 19

Verse By Verse Expositional Bible Teaching

Nate HoldridgeJuly 31, 2020

Christian Life Book Excerpts

Book Excerpt: Let Us Hear

John was an incredible man with an incredible life story. Peter or Paul he was not. God had a different plan for his life. Paul had traveled and written profusely.…

Nate HoldridgeJuly 30, 2020

Luke