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Each of us carries around brokenness in our heart because of what someone said or did. When we don't deal with that pain, two things can happen - broken things comes out of us or we turn to broken things to try to numb the pain.God has better for us than that! He wants to make our hearts whole! In part 2 of, Brokenhearted, Doug talks about why Jesus is the best person to heal our broken hearts.

Most of us live every day of our lives with broken places in our hearts. Some of us are aware of the pain. Others of us have shoved it down deep, tried to ignore it or worked hard to numb it out. The problem is, none of these approaches work. They are a band aid at best and poison at worst.What if we brought our pain to God? Is He qualified to heal our hearts and if so, is He interested? Does He care about our broken hearts? In part 1 of Brokenhearted, Doug encourages us to face our pain and take steps toward healing in God.

Sometimes the last thing we feel like is holy. We more often feel sinful, stained, messy and broken. When we feel like this it's easy to listen to the accusing voices in our lives that remind us how imperfect we are.In Imagery Part 6, Doug challenges us not to let accusations keep us from closeness with God or from doing the things He's called us to do. He reminds us of the beautiful thing God has done in our lives to make us His own.

Have you ever wondered what the most important thing that God wants to produce in our lives is? It's love. Love is the most important thing, but often the most difficult thing. The kind of love that we're talking about is a love that reaches out to the people that we're the least like. This kind of love flows toward people who haven't met our conditions and sometimes break them. This love is given to people before they even think about changing.Sound impossible to love people like this?! Good! It should! In Part 5 of Imagery, Doug explains that you and I are incable of this love on our own, but God can produce it in us.

It's safe to say that every one of us has obedience issues. God calls us to do certain things and we really struggle to do them. Maybe some of the reasons that we have these obedience struggles are because we don't understand the beauty of love-fueled obedience and we forget that our obedience to God produces something we all want - joy!In Part 4 of Imagery, Doug helps us re-think obedience!

We all strive to have things like love, peace, self control, compassion and joy in our lives. The funny thing is that we often try to produce these things on our own, when God - the source of all these things - wants to produce them in us.In Imagery Part 3, Doug talks about the powerful, life giving, alive, close, connected relationship that Jesus wants to have with us.

What area of your life feels like it's dying? Is there a relationship or opportunity that died? Does an area of your heart feel like the life has been sucked out of it? Was there a dream that you felt God put in your heart that hasn't ever materialized? In Part 2 of Imagery, Doug helps us take a step forward in the areas of our life that seem dead and hopeless.

When we face a crisis we try to figure out a plan. What will we do? How will we get out of this? What's our next step?In this one part message, Pastor Pavone talks about God's amazing ability to handle any crisis we may face.

Imagery is visually descriptive language. The Bible is full of these awesome word pictures. In Imagery Part 1, we get a beautiful picture of hope for when we are feeling stuck in our relationship with God. If we're honest, many of us got to a certain place in our relationship with God and never went any deeper. Others of us may have never even tested out the waters so to speak.No matter where we are today, Doug challenges us and motivates us to take a next step toward God.

Life doesn't always go how we expected it to go. Things happen that we don't see coming. Whether it's a painful marriage, a fractured relationship, financial strains, addiction or sickness, sometimes we are caught off guard.In this one part message, Kelly shares that no matter what you and I face, we are never left without hope.

Some of us have known that we need to look into Jesus for a long time, but we keep putting it off.Others of us have felt like we need to share the love of Jesus for a long time, but we keep putting it off.In the last part of Today, Doug challenges both groups of people to stop procrastinating and to take the next step, Today!

Have you ever decided that an area of your life is off limits to God? Rather than giving Him full access to your life, you've decided to try to hide some things that you just aren't ready to deal with?In part 2 of Today, Doug helps us see why instead of covering our sin up, we should run to God for forgiveness and freedom - and why we shouldn't put that off!

We are masters at putting things off until tomorrow. We struggle with this not only in our day to day lives, but in our realtionship with God. We suffer from something called, spiritual procrastination.In this three part series, we will take a look at several areas of our lives where we tend to struggle with spiritual procrastination. Doug will challenge us to stop putting things off to tomorrow, and do what God's called us to do TODAY!

Have you ever realized that when we give into our fear knots we miss out on seeing how big God is? Every fearful situation we find ourselves in is an opportunity to see how big God is. The problem is, often when fear we run instead of trusting God.In Part 3 of Fear Knot, Doug challenges us to replace our fear with trust so that we can overcome our fear and enjoy new experiences with God.

At one point or another we all fear that we're not going to successfully navigate life. We find ourselves wishing we had a road map to help us make it through. We get ourselves stuck in fear knots, worrying about how we will navigate jobs, relationships, finances and big decisions.What if God gave us a road map? What if this road map was designed to help us navigate life? In Part 2 of Fear Knot, Doug tells us what this road map is and challenges us to use it!

The Bible tells us over 100 times to fear not. Instead of taking God'a advice, we tend to get ourselves caught in fear knots.Some of us fear if we will measure up at our job or as a parent or spouse. Others of us stress about an obstacle in our way - a financial situation, a medical diagnosis or a difficult person. Some of us are dealing with anxiety over a battle we may have to go through. Maybe we are fighting for a relationship or battling through a sin struggle.In Part 1 of Fear Knot, Doug talks about where to find a source of peace when we're caught in a fear knot.

Check out this one part message by Andrew!

Check out this one part message by Pastor Pavone!

Every single day we face a choice - will we choose God or something else? Will we look to Him to be our source of joy and satisfaction or will we look to other things? In this one part message, Doug reminds us that the reason we often choose other things is because we have forgotten that God is better. He is better than everything else!

In this series we've been exploring the evidence about Jesus death and resurrection. In this message Doug wraps up the series as we look at several more pieces of evidence including, miracles, changed lives, the transformation of the 1st century and more!