When Jesus was born in Bethlehem, the declaration of the angels to the shepherds was “Glory to God in highest heaven, and peace on earth to those with whom God is pleased.” However, it is easy to see that there is not much peace on earth. Was this just an aspirational hope or is there any substance to the promise of peace. This message suggests that "The Path to Peace" may be different than we think.

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• Today, I reconnect with God by expressing a childlike faith in Him.
• I understand that the PEACE He gives doesn’t require the removal of all evil from the world.
• I will memorize John 14:27, John 16:33, and Matthew 28:29.

Join Pastor Rick as he and his grandson celebrate the birth of Christ and the hope of the world.

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• Today and tomorrow, I will celebrate the birth of Christ.
• This week, I will choose to reflect on the light of Jesus and the truth he wants me to walk in.

Join Pastor Rick as he takes on a journey to fend off the inward tendency of offense that will always present itself to us during the holidays.

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• This week, I will ask God daily to reveal anything in my heart that is attempting to steal my joy in Christ.
• Today, I am choosing to forgive the following person______.

Join us this week as Pastor Johnathan dives into the next sermon in the Christmas at Christ Place Series.

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• Today, I will look for tangible ways to serve my family, my friends, and my faith community.
• This week, I will invite someone to join me at Christ Place.

Christmas comes with much warm nostalgia for many. But for many others it also brings difficult and dark emotions to navigate. Join Pastor Rick as he unpacks the beautiful and victorious implications of Jesus birth for our lives.

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• This week, I will initiate letting some Christ Followers know of my isolation and ask for prayer.
• This week, I will reach out and be family to someone in my sphere of relationships.

Failure is not final. Quite literally it can become your defining moment. Join us as Pastor Rick walks us through John's closing words as we see Jesus offering us hope and purpose.

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• Today, I am choosing to leverage my failure for God’s glory
• This week I am praying for God to help me love Him and others with His AGAPE.

There is no denying that each of us have a past or that our past has a way of haunting us. Join Pastor Rick as he dives into this subject.

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• I will PUT DOWN the following:____
• I will PICK UP the following:____

Join Pastor Ashley as she talks about holy contentment.

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• I will make a list of characteristics I believe to be true about God.
• I will write down areas of my life that I find difficult to trust God with.
• I will ask God to teach me to have a holy content in whatever circumstance I am in.
• I will ask God to grow in me a holy discontent for the lost, forgotten, and broken.

Join Jeff Haase as he talks about what it is like to serve in the Middle East.

Jesus never wanted our faith to become stagnant or hit a barrier that stunted our growth. Doubt and fear have a way of bringing fatigue to our faith. Join Pastor Rick as he addresses doubt and faith.

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• I will come forward for prayer, for I need the peace of God right now.
• This week, I am asking God to help me deepen my trust in Him.
• This week, I will linger longer in prayer and reading God’s Word.

Join us this week as Pastor Johnathan dives into the next passage in the Gospel of John series: BELIEVE.

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• Today,  I will embrace the hope, the peace, and the promise of the future.
• This week, I will invite someone to join me at Christ Place.

The journey each of us take to believing includes a variety of experiences. The earliest Christians had amazing times when they sat and listened to Jesus teach, but they also experienced the devastating time where He was crucified and buried. They must have thought that their journey was over. But shortly after they discovered the empty tomb, their journey continued. In a similar way, Christians and those who would become Christians experience the journey to believing. Join Pastor Terry as he encourages each of us to continue the Journey!

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• I will accept the reality of believing, and I will also ask God to help me in my unbelief.
• Wherever I presently am on the Journey, I will look more and more closely at His story.
• Today, with God opening my eyes, I believe!

Join us this week as Pastor Johnathan dives into the next passage in the John series: BELIEVE.

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• Today I will embrace the hope, the peace, and the promise of the future.
• This week, I will invite someone to join me at Christ Place.

What is our purpose in life? Join Pastor Rick as he dives into Ephesians 2 and helps us see the handiwork of God in our lives.

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• I will attend the next available Growth Track.
• Today, I will fill out a Dream Team application.

It’s possible to grow older and yet not grow more mature in Jesus. Join Pastor Rick as he unpacks some obstacles to growth and the necessity of being humble and being hungry.

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• Today, I come forward for prayer and confess my lack of hunger and desire for more of God.
• This week, I will sign up for a Connect Group with the intention to grow.
• I will memorize Psalm 139:23-34.

Join us this week as Pastor Johnathan continues our Fall Series at Christ Place: GOD'S HOUSE.

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• Today, I will lean into the fact I belong here.
• This week, I will invite someone to join me at Christ Place.

Church can be messy. Join us this week as Pastor Rick looks at the obstacles to healing and being a people of healing.

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• Today, I will come forward for prayer and breathe some fresh air.
• This week, I will sign up for a Connect Group and stretch my faith muscle.
• This week, I will memorize Luke 4:18.

Join us as Pastor Rick returns and dives into the subject of acceptance.

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• Today, I will take some time to meet others here at church and ask them some questions.
• This week, I will sign up for a Connect Group.
• This week, I will memorize Matthew 7:1-2.

Join us this week as Pastor Johnathan kicks off the brand new Fall Series at Christ Place: "GOD'S HOUSE."

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• Today, I will lean into the change in my community.
• This week, I will invite someone to join me at Christ Place.

As Jesus completes His work on the cross in our text for today, He declares “It is finished.” He is not simply stating that the end of His suffering had come, but also that the work that made the redemption of all who will believe possible had now been fulfilled.

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• I will rest in the finished work of Jesus to provide for my future.
• I will DO things not to earn God’s love or favor, but because of what He has DONE for me.
• I commit not to a life of religion, but to a life of declaring the Good News of Jesus.

Join us this week as Pastor Johnathan dives into the next passage in the John series: Believe

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• Today, I will Embrace the Cross by sharing my faith
• This week, I will invite someone to join me at CP.

Join Pastor Nathan as he continues in our Gospel of John series: BELIEVE.

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• This week, pray and decide what you are willing to lay down before the Lord.

Join us as Pastor Landon continues in the John Series: BELIEVE.

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• Spend some alone time with the Lord this week, seeking His truth through Scripture.
• Look for ways this week that we can put action to our faith. Join a Connect Group, begin serving on a Dream Team, sign up for One-To-One mentoring.

Join Pastor Ezra as he continues through our Gospel of John series: BELIEVE.

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• Take some time this week to think and pray about what group you are in from our message and see what Jesus will show you.
• Pray and ask God to reveal His plan for you and commit to clarifying and obeying it this week.
• Find one person to share what God has revealed to you through prayer. Tell them what God showed you about where you are, what he revealed about where He wants you to go, and your plan to go that way.

Join pastor Danette as she walks through John 18:1-11 and teaches how Jesus models releasing control to God.

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• I will step forward and release control of a specific, difficult situation.
• I will join a Connect Group to grow in community with others.