What good is a dad in society these days? What is the point of fatherhood? In this message, we will look into the roles a dad plays in his family, what the scripture teaches about the responsibility men have as fathers, and how to lean on our heavenly Father when our earthly fathers disappoint us.
06.09.19 - The Hardest Part
Friendships are hard to form and hard to keep. But what is the hardest ingredient in friendship? In this message we will look at the one crucial piece of friendship that must exist for our relationships to be real and rewarding.
06.02.19 - Reconciliation
Having real, authentic friendships in our digital age is hard enough, but how to we even begin to reconcile a friendship that is broken or lost? In this week's message, we will look at how to restore these tenuous relationships and what truly loving one another with the love of Christ looks like in our every day lives.
05.26.19 - Who Do You Follow?
We all have a few lingering unhealthy relationships that we know are pulling us farther from our relationship with Jesus, but we don't necessarily know how or when to click the "unfollow" button on the friendship. This week, Topher & Rachel talk about how maintaining healthy boundaries helps us grow closer to our friends and to God.
05.19.19 - #nofilter
Sometimes it's easy to put a filter on your social media presence. When you only show people the good things in your life, it's easy for others to assume that life is great and you have your act together. But what do we do when life gets tough and that filter gets hard to maintain? In this week's message, we'll talk about what it means to be honest with others about where we are at, and how to treat one another with a balance of both grace and truth.
05.12.19 - Choose Your Friends Wisely
People say that you are the average of your five closest friends. If that is true, then it is imperative to your growth to pay attention to who gets into that friend circle. In this message, we will look at Jesus’s friendships, how he chose them and maintained them, and learn some lessons for how we can do the same.
Note: Due to a technical error with the sound board, the first 2-3 minutes of the audio is missing. The audio picks up just after Chris launches into the sermon, so no necessary content for understanding the message is missed.
05.05.19 - You've Got A Friend In Me
In this digital age, we are more connected than ever before. Study after study shows that for all this connection we are as lonely as ever. We all long for connection and to build lasting friendships. But how do we do that well? In this series, we will look at what the scripture teaches about friendship and learn how we can build deeper relationships in our lives.
04.27.19 - The Aftermath
Perhaps you’ve heard the Easter story - that Jesus Christ died and came back from the dead. But what difference did that make to those who were his followers? Where did the movement go from there? In this message, we look at the aftermath of the resurrection and see what can change in us because of it.
04.21.19 - The Resurrection
What do you do when you’ve given up and thrown in the towel? Where do you go from there? How do you keep going forward? In this special Easter message, we looked at what happens when we feel that hope has died and there is no way forward by looking at how Jesus triumphed over death.
04.14.19 - The Trial
In the final days of his earthly ministry, we see how Jesus deals with extreme stress, violence, unfair accusations, and injustice. How can we, like Jesus, handle the most difficult aspects of life with patience, grace, and humility?
In this week's message, we discover the truth about how Jesus leads his people, and how we can faithfully follow him through some of the most painful moments of our lives.
Lent | Week 6: The Trial
Join us this over the next eight weeks as we celebrate the season traditionally called Lent. At Area 10, we are celebrating Lent through this guided study through the last week of Jesus’ life alongside our message series, The Final Week.
Here is our third week of devotions, running from Sunday, April 7th to Saturday, April 13th:
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04.07.19 - The Meal
Jesus gave his followers a very specific way to remember him always. But what did it mean in his day? What does it say for us now? In this message, we will look at the last meal Jesus had with his followers on a very tense night before he was betrayed and arrested.
Lent | Week 5: The Meal
Join us this over the next eight weeks as we celebrate the season traditionally called Lent. At Area 10, we are celebrating Lent through this guided study through the last week of Jesus’ life alongside our message series, The Final Week.
Here is our third week of devotions, running from Sunday, March 31st to Saturday, April 6th:
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Lent | Week 4: Washing Feet
Join us this over the next eight weeks as we celebrate the season traditionally called Lent. At Area 10, we are celebrating Lent through this guided study through the last week of Jesus’ life alongside our message series, The Final Week.
Here is our third week of devotions, running from Sunday, March 24th to Saturday, March 31st:
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03.24.19 - Why Faith Matters
We live in a culture that values style over substance. However, Instinctively, we all know there is something broken in that. We appreciate people of character and people of substance at work, at home, or in school.
In this week's message, we look at one of the strangest miracles Jesus ever performed and see what it means for us to be fruitful and make something of our time on earth.
Lent | Week 3: Why Faith Matters
Join us this over the next eight weeks as we celebrate the season traditionally called Lent. At Area 10, we are celebrating Lent through this guided study through the last week of Jesus’ life alongside our message series, The Final Week.
Here is our third week of devotions, running from Sunday, March 17th to Saturday, March 23rd:
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03.17.19 - The Final Week
The final week of Jesus’s life is rich with joy, sorrow, and agony. In this message, we are going to look at why Jesus' is so angry with the religious leaders of the day and what that means for Christians attempting to live authentically today.
Lent | Week 2: Cleaning House
Join us this over the next eight weeks as we celebrate the season traditionally called Lent. At Area 10, we are celebrating Lent through this guided study through the last week of Jesus’ life alongside our message series, The Final Week.
Here is week 2 study: Cleaning House
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03.10.19 - Return of the King
The final week of Jesus’s life is filled with drama. So much happened that week that the gospel writers spend one-third of their writing about Jesus on that week.
In this series, we will look at the events of that week leading up to Easter, and we will examine what we can learn as disciples of Jesus from those events.
In this message, we are going to look at Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem as he rode in on a donkey and what that means about politics, kingdoms, and power.
Lent Devotional: Week 1
Join us this over the next eight weeks as we celebrate the season traditionally called Lent. Lent is a period of 40 days where Christ’s followers observe a period of fasting and studying scripture, representing the 40 days that Jesus spent in the desert preparing for his earthly ministry. Lent is time of self-examination and preparation for the coming of Easter. At Area 10, we are celebrating Lent through this guided study through the last week of Jesus’ life alongside our message series, The Final Week.
Here is our first week’s study, starting with Ash Wednesday, March 6th:
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