Category: Message Recap


  • Live Sent When Christians are indistinguishable from non-Christians, they are useless for mission. But when Christians intriguethe world they attract the world. (v. 13)   Followers of Jesus are called to be an alternate city within every earthly city; An alternate human culture within every human culture; An alternate kingdom within the kingdom of this world. (v. 14-16)   Jesus came to cast a vision for…

  • sHift // Part 2 “Do Your Part” January 12, 2014 All followers of Christ have a MINISTRY because all are MINISTERS. Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ. – Ephesians 4:12 The body of Christ is ALL of us – not just…

  • Lower The Bar The gravitational pull to move from being a a community of people who follow Christ and live their everyday lives as on mission by God to share the message of His grace – His Gospel towards being a “Club for Insiders” is overwhelming.  That is unless a community of people who follow…

  • 1 Corinthians 1:10 In a letter Paul wrote to encouraged a church he started in a city called Corinth, he wrote: 1 Corinthians 1:10 I appeal to you, dear brothers and sisters, by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, to live in harmony with each other.  Let there be no divisions in the church.…

  • Main Idea: Giving presents is good.  Giving PRESENCE is better. There is absolutely nothing wrong with giving gifts or presents. In fact, in many instances it isn’t simply a good thing to do, but it is something that you should do. But if giving presence is better than giving gifts – the epitome of what…

  • WHY DO SOME PEOPLE WALK AROUND WITH A “BA HUMBUG” ATTITUDE? During this Christmas season it is really easy to “ba humbug” through it, and forget the point of it – to make Christmas and xmiss and miss out on what you really hoped this Christmas season to really be about. So during this series…

  • The Gospel Is Dangerous In this message we learn that Paul’s message—the gospel—is dangerous. And for those of us who follow Christ, the measure for whether or not the gospel is working in our lives is not what some may think it means. It’s very easy to begin to think that God’s plan is to…

  • Actions don’t merely SPEAK louder that words, sometimes they ECHO in to the next generation Your actions – of course – speak louder than words but it’s not just about the here and now.  It’s not even about the next 10 or 15 years. It’s way bigger than that. Actions speak louder than words, but you are going to…

  • Don’t Be This Guy Recap – Relationship Series Part 2 of 4 in the Relationship Series at Clarity Church in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. What if I said that there was a secret to understanding why there are conflicts in the relationships of your life?  What if I said there was one thing you could to…