Thrive Church Podcast

Welcome to our new series!  This first week?  The world says to follow your heart, and yet the Bible teaches the complete opposite.  It seems to be a catch-all phrase to do whatever we want in life, but God calls us to obedience instead.  Pastor Brian kicks off this new series with a great start!

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What is one of the greater things we can do for Christ?  Share The Gospel.  Once we come to know Christ, and experience his goodness, a sign of this is that we feel compelled to share how good He is.  In this week’s message, Pastor Brian shares how there are signs of our growth and the greater things that believers do to show this!  Also, Howie shares an amazing story of salvation at the end.

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Have you ever seen a miracle in your life?  How many times have you had the clarity to see when God has shown up for us?  God is good, He is there for us, and he delivers on His promises.  Pastor Brian shares a wonderful message about how God has shown up for him in his life, and how it’s good to have the eyes to see when He does for us!

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Does it ever feel like the game is rigged, the game being life?  Exactly, it’s like McDonald’s Monopoly.  Get this, God’s grace makes life not fair, and that’s a good thing for all of us.  Pastor Brian shares an awesome message about living in God’s grace and how that help creates peace in our hearts.

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Life doesn’t go as planned sometimes, and that’s okay.  For instance, space travel.  It seems everything can be in order, you can seemingly have all the right things in all the right places, and yet things can still go wrong.  The correct order is God’s order; Pastor Brian shares a great message about having this order in our lives.

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Our apologies for not being able to upload a message from last week, we were experiencing some technical difficulties, but a huge thank you to Pastor Nate for sharing about healing in Christ.  This week’s message, delivered by Pastor Brian, is from Acts 10.  Life sure is full of surprises, isn’t it?  Together, we get to explore how the early church reacted to such unexpected twists in life.

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This week’s message might be short, but it is sweet.  First, missionaries Earl and Laura Goodrich share how they are carrying out The Great Commission in Africa.  Second Pastor Brian share a great message on how The Gospel is for ALL nations, not just a select few.  For those that were able to make it to service the Sunday this message was shared, what a blessing it was to have The Arts Collective from Dallas, ...

Our apologies for the poor audio quality this week, we were experiencing technical difficulties and this is the best we could do with what was available to us.  To open this week, Pastor Keith Lawler shares the ministry of Father’s House Fellowship in Cambodia that he leads and all the God is accomplishing through him there.  Then, Pastor Brian shares a very apt message about missions in the early church.

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Remember “What Would Jesus do Bracelets”?  More like “Jesus would not have got himself into this situation in the first place,” am I right?  We often find ourselves in difficult situations that we didn’t intend to be in.  Thankfully, we serve a God who’s bigger than those situations.  Pastor Brian shares a message about how we can change the world through God’s calling.

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This message, we are blessed to have Pastor Brian and Angela preach together.  When it comes to ministry, there are people who breathe life into it, those that struggle who do so, and those that just kill it.  It should be our goal to bring that life to ministry to lead more to Christ, let’s listen to this blessed message together.

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When we come to God in prayer, we should come to Him in expectation.  Maybe it is a desire you have based on how things have been going, better yet, maybe it’s one that God put in you; either way, it is good to seek after, pray for, and anticipate God’s Will when we come to Him in prayer.  Pastor Brian shares a great message about how the early church did this.  “Somethin’s bout ta happen!&rdq...