GARDEN CHURCH Podcast

There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Yet, we all tend to have narratives that we believe and perceive about ourselves and others that say otherwise. These narratives model what Paul writes in Romans about the polarizing life that we live as Christians. We have to live either by the Spirit or by the flesh. We have to choose life or death. The only way to live this free life in Christ is by being filled with the Spirit and living the life that God designed for us to live in him. Listen as Pastor Bill slows down our Empowering Presence series in order to give us time to truly understand the Spirit and his role in giving us true life.

The Holy Spirit doesn't come to just be a marker of salvation. He comes in order to reorient our identities to the truth that we are in Christ. Through the Spirit, our whole lives are reconstructed, started with our identities. It is out of our identities that we live out of. When we live out of our proper identities in Christ, we then truly live out of the abundant inheritance that the kingdom of God offers. Listen as Pastor Darren leads us further into our series, the Empowering Presence.

Francis Chan referred to the Holy Spirit as the "forgotten God." As we continue through our series, the Empowering Presence, we wanted to do a survey of the Holy Spirit in order to introduce ourselves to the fullness of this person of God. Pastor Bill took us through the Old and New Testament to get an overarching idea of what role the Holy Spirit plays. This summary allows us to take our first steps into a healthy understanding of the wonder and majesty of the third person of the Trinity.

Who is the Holy Spirit? What does he do? Why do we need him? There is a lot of mystery around God, but even more so when it comes to the Holy Spirit. We started a new series that is all about the Holy Spirit. Listen as Pastor Darren lays out the vision of what it would look like for us to be a churched fully filled, driven, and influenced by the Holy Spirit.

Jesus shows us how to love. As we wrap up our series on Emotional Healthy Spirituality, Pastor Bill urges us to lean into Jesus model in love. Christians are called to look like little Christ's and part of that is shaping the way that we interact with ourselves and each other. Jesus shows us the risk and the weight of truly loving one another. Jesus' words were, "by this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another" (John 13:35). Listen as we try to understand what this exactly look like.

Gief and loss are normal in a broken world. We cannot expect to travel through our lives without experiencing hurt. Jesus acknowledges that, and even teaches us how to handle the emotions when dealing with grief and loss. Listen as Bill Dogterom helps us address our emotions, and how to give them to Jesus in order to live fully transformed lives.

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There is a heaviness in the air at Garden Church, and it has been felt in our relationships, workplaces, and our homes. Pastor Darren took a break from our Emotionally Healthy Church series to address the spiritual warfare that our church has been feeling. There is a lot of uncertainty when it comes to the spiritual battles that we are constantly facing, and we are thankful for our Pastor equipping us to move on and fight!

What happens when we believe that we can transform lives, renew cities, preach the gospel, bring forth the kingdom, reign in heaven on earth on our own? Disaster. When left to our own devices humanity can and will run itself into the ground. It is because on our own we aren't enough. You are not enough, but Jesus is. How can we learn to root our identities in Christ, so that we may bring life? Listen as our friend, Megan Fate Marshman, walks us through the miracle of the feeding of the five thousand and how Jesus teaches us to lean into him when we don't have enough.

"Here as in Heaven." For more information visit : garden.church