On Sunday, Candace shared that our minds are like gardens, they need tending to, they need the weeds to be pulled and they need cultivating. “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” 2 Timothy 1:7 When we recognize that when we experience life it creates thoughts, feelings and behaviors. It’s in this process that we can choose which thoughts take root and which ones we need to discard. We don’t need to believe every thought that goes through our brain. Listen to this week's talk to learn more about having a Sound Mind. For more info you can go to our website and also check us out on instagram and Facebook. We are also on YouTube. If you want to support STUDIO financially you can do so here. Have a great week!

Have you noticed God can be easy to find as well as hard to find? Following Jesus is an amalgamation of clarity and mystery. It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, But the glory of kings is to search out a matter.Proverbs 25:2There are things we see and experience and there are things we don’t see and don’t experience, yet in order for us to realize what God intends for us, it is essential to embrace both of these dimensions of God. In other words - God is with you and there is more of him somewhere else.Pastor Eric in his talk encouraged us to not push the cruise control but rather for us to be intentional about growing as people who are following Jesus. To be a people who pursue and be hungry for more of Him.For more info you can go to our website and also check us out on instagram and Facebook. We are also on YouTube. If you want to support STUDIO financially you can do so here. Have a great week!

We had a special Sunday this past weekend, we had our dear friends, Jimmy and Genea Horner, with us,Jimmy Horner shared with us this past Sunday about the Simplicity of the Missions Lifestyle. In the talk Jimmy referenced how Jesus, in the Gospels, was given eyes to see need and He then moved towards it, allowing Himself to be the solution. Jimmy says this is all a lifestyle of missions is: having a need highlighted to you and then moving towards it, allowing your day and life to be altered, trusting Jesus in you to be the solution. Jimmy suggests that when God highlights a need to you, it’s the same as receiving a word from Him. A powerless church points a finger, but a powerful church who knows who they are takes ownership and moves towards need with simple trust in Jesus to be who He is. Missions is not complicated, we can all be living this in our own communities - you don’t have to be a person of great resources or have the ideas for change. It’s an honor and a privilege to turn towards people and see God move through you; stepping into ownership before knowing what will happen, leaves room for the miraculous. May we all grow in becoming people who are moved with compassion into ownership and action to become a part of the solution for our families, neighborhoods and communities. For more info you can go to our website and also check us out on instagram and Facebook. We are also on YouTube. If you want to support STUDIO financially you can do so here. Have a great week!

Pastor Eric and Candace tag teamed for a talk to champion and celebrate Moms. They both shared personal stories about their moms and grandmas that helped shaped and formed who they are today. They shared stories about a few Moms in the Bible and what we can learn from their tenacity, creativity and ingenuity. It was because of them that some of the most remarkable stories in the Bible exist. Join us as we celebrate all the Moms in our lives. For more info you can go to our website and also check us out on instagram and Facebook. We are also on YouTube. If you want to support STUDIO financially you can do so here. Have a great week!

This past Sunday we wrapped up our Generosity series. Our heart was to invite all of us into a lifestyle of generosity as humans with our time, money and resources. One of the signatures of the New Testament church was radical generosity. On Sunday, Pastor Eric shared with us why this conversation about our money is important as it is connected to our spiritual formation. The way we view money and the way we handle money is not something separate from our spiritual formation. The decision to follow Jesus involves every part of our lives. He encouraged us to bring the area of our finances into the journey of being shaped and formed by God. It is here we gain His perspective on what he has in mind and we move to a place where we trust God with our finances. He also brought up the topic of “tithing” and unpacked some questions surrounding it such as:*What does the bible say about tithing?*What was the origination and purpose of tithing?*Is tithing required in the New Covenant? Our goal with this series was to invite each of us to a deeper understanding of how important our finances, time and resources are to our spiritual formation and the invitation to be a part of what God is doing on the earth.For more info you can go to our website and also check us out on instagram and Facebook. We are also on YouTube. If you want to support STUDIO financially you can do so here. Have a great week!

This past Sunday, we had Steven Gilliam bring part 3 to our Generosity series. He and his family are apart of Studio. He is an entrepreneur, business owner and he also has a degree of Master of Arts in Biblical & Theological Studies.Steven taught from 2 Corinthians 9:6-15. In verse 6 and 7:"Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver." Generosity is designed to be fun and it’s something we can attach our faith to. He shared how he is dreaming of ways to increase his generosity and was deeply marked by acts of generosity he’s experienced through his life. He encouraged us to live with a reality that there is more than enough. It is in this place we recognize we follow a God who always has more than enough and we get to participate in sowing and distributing. We also should be aware there is a reaping component to our generosity and this is how God designed it.For more info you can go to our website and also check us out on instagram and Facebook. We are also on YouTube. If you want to support STUDIO financially you can do so here. Have a great week!

We are in the second week of our four week “Generosity” series. Our hope is to grow as followers of Jesus; in His ways, words and values. We also long to grow in the heart and spirit of generosity as this will impact our ability to steward well and walk in faith. Pastor Candace shared from Matthew 10 that Jesus sends out the 12 disciples and He instructs them in verse 7-8:"As you go, proclaim this message: ‘The kingdom of heaven has come near.’ Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give." What if blessing and freedom didn't stop with us, but flowed through us and from us?As we grow in freedom and in intentionally giving away what God has given us, here are some questions to ask ourselves:What do you have to give? What would it look like to live freely and generously with what God has given you? Thank you Lord for what you have given us, have done in us, and thank you for what you are doing in us now. (take time to thank God, you might not have everything, but you have…). Lord, give us a generous and willing heart and fill us with your spirit. Open our eyes to see what we have to offer, invest and sacrifice. We choose to live open handed with the things you give us.For more info you can go to our website and also check us out on instagram and Facebook. We are also on YouTube. If you want to support STUDIO financially you can do so here. Have a great week!

We kicked off our “Generosity” series this Sunday. Pastor Eric posed the question “What is your relationship with money?” Knowing that each of us have our own upbringings and life experiences which essentially shape and form our relationship with money. Here are some questions we went over on Sunday to help you move towards a clear idea of your relationship with money:Is it one where fear is the motivator?Do you have a perspective of money where it is wrong to have it or is there an amount that is wrong to have?Is money something that is associated with evil?Is money a means or an end to achieve happinessIs greed at play in this relationship? Is it a highly emotional relationship?When you lose a lot of money what happens to your emotions and mind in the process? When you see someone with a lot of resources and/or money what are some of your initial thoughts and opinions about that person?Our goal in week 1 was to identify and to be able to articulate our relationship with money so that we can bring it to light and allow God to come in and disciple us in this area of our lives according to a Kingdom Perspective.For more info you can go to our website and also check us out on instagram and Facebook. We are also on YouTube. If you want to support STUDIO financially you can do so here. Have a great week!

Just as we see in nature through each season, we, as people and followers of Jesus also aim to continue to grow and become all that God created us for. As humans we recognize our design to be in relationship and connection. One thing that we can do to grow and expand ourselves is to become better communicators and better listeners. James 1:19-20 encourages us as we navigate trials:"My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires." ‭‭‬‬Communication greatly impacts our relationships and the better communicators we can become, the better relationships we can have. Let’s continue to grow, be better humans, neighbors/friends/family, and better communicators.We ask that the Lord will continue to grow us, open our ears and give us a heart to listen.For more info you can go to our website and also check us out on instagram and Facebook. We are also on YouTube. If you want to support STUDIO financially you can do so here. Have a great week!

Pastor Eric took us on a journey involving two people in the story of Jesus and his journey to his death and resurrection: Nicodemus and Mary. Two very different people and yet they both had these moments with Jesus that essentially changed their entire lives. One was apart of the religious establishment which made the decision to crucify him and the other sold her body for a living. Here we see how Jesus was able to touch two very different people and because he rose from the dead he created pathways for people to move from being dead to alive. On this Easter Sunday we celebrated that Jesus had the answer to death and he addressed all the internal longings of the human soul.For more info you can go to our website and also check us out on instagram and Facebook. We are also on YouTube. If you want to support STUDIO financially you can do so here. Have a great week!