Firelife Church

No one can take hold of the Kingdom of Heaven through information or learning. The Kingdom can only be "REVEALED"; and God reveals it through experiences and encounters. It requires faith and obedience are inseparable. Bible: Proverbs 25:2; 1 Corinthians 2; Genesis 12:1-4; Luke 10:21-24

As believers, we should pursue the way in which God thinks like it is precious treasure...not just His thoughts about things, but the pathway He travels to come to a conclusion. Bible: Proverbs 1:7; 2:1-12

"That which you most need will be where you least want to look." Carl Jung (19th-Century Swiss psychiatrist) In this message, Jared discusses the critical need to forgive others and the value of living un-offended. Bible: Proverbs 18:19; Matthew 18:21-35; Luke 13:34-35

God created us with the highest value, but we were taken possession by "the thief" and placed in dark seclusion. Then, God purchased us by sending His only Son, Jesus, to pay the highest price. This is the story of Easter. Bible: John 10:10; John 3:16; Ephesians 2:1-5; Isaiah 60:1; Romans 8:22-23

C.S. Lewis said, "Put first things first and we get second things thrown in. Put second things first and we lose both first and second things." In this message, Jared discusses what happens when we find our YES and pursue it first. Bible: Matthew 6:16-24; Matthew 6:33; Matthew 7:7-12;

God has a design for each of our lives that deserves our wholehearted pursuit. It is equally true that we have an adversary who wants to move us away from that design by any means possible. In this message, Ashleigh discusses what it looks like to pursue God's design and how to be alert to the enemies' tactics so that we can be completely fulfilled in God. Bible: Luke 3:21-38; Luke 4:1-13; Ester 12

There is so much power in the Name of Jesu. In this message, Segun discusses how we bear His Name as sons and daughters, but we have access to His authority.

It is vital that we partner an innovative and creative culture with a highly productive culture. In this message, Jared discusses what this means and what it looks like for Firelife going forward. Bible: 1 Samuel 8:1-5; Psalm 78

Religion is the word of God without the Spirit of God; and religion will seek to make us into "bricks". The Kingdom is the word of God partnering with the Spirit of God in order to make us into "living stones". In this message, Jared discusses the vast differences between a "brick" and a "living stone". Bible: Romans 8; 1 Peter 2:1-10

The goal or purpose for mankind is to be delighted in God and to live in His delight. To miss this goal is to sin, or to miss the mark. But sin is more than just doing "bad things", or things that "miss the mark". Sin also describes how we easily deceive ourselves and spin illusions to redefine our bad decisions as good ones. Shame is the residue from these illusions. Confession and repentance disempower shame and bring the lies we tell ourselves to the light of truth. Bible: Psalm 37:1-6; Isaiah 55:1-13; Ephesians 5:8-15; 1 John 1:5-10

Does God even like me? How? If He likes me, what does He like about me? And what should I do with this information? Bible: Zephaniah 3:17; Psalm 18:19; John 15:16; 1 Peter 2:9; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; Romans 2:4 What's the point of this message? (1) God delights in us by choice. And His delight in us is unchanging. (2) God's delight in us does not mean "approval" of harmful thinking or actions. (3) God's delight in us causes us to move toward Him, breaking off shame.

From the beginning, God wanted to go on a walk with mankind. Unfortunately, we chose our own way and the devastating result was shame. Since the original sin in the garden, shame has been keeping us from our walk. In this message, Pastor Jared invites everyone to break partnership with shame and to go on a walk with God. Bible: Genesis 3:1-10; Romans 8

Every day we are inundated with harmonies, attitudes and agendas that want our partnership. Our agreement not only validates their claim for legitimacy, it becomes the filter by which we see, hear and reason. What are you partnering with? Bible: Matthew 12:22-37; 18:18-20

This message is a reminder to anchor ourselves to the source of our relationship with God. Communication. As believers, it is possible to cultivate presumption or misplaced confidence where we are tempted to think we have wisdom or insight apart from inquiring of the Lord. Bible: Galatians 3:1-14; 4:1-11

Fear is imagining our past, present or future without Him. Fear is believing the lie that there is a place we can go where He won't go with us. It is the belief that there is a mess or a pain so bad that He will abandon us to ourselves. The good news is that God is love and "perfect love DRIVES out all fear!" Bible: 1 John 4:1-21; 2 Timothy 1:6-7

Our response to God in any encounter is as important the encounter. Bible: Luke 24

There is no season in life in which God has not fully equipped us. We are not inadequately prepared for any promotion, storm, assignment, dark night or increased favor because He has promised to walk with us. We are not alone! Bible: James 1:1-8; 2 Timothy 3:14-17; 1 Samuel 10

God is the best gift-giver and He loves for us to ask Him because we know Him. Every one of us must learn how to touch the heart of God by asking, seeking and knocking. Bible: Jeremiah 33:2-3; Matthew 7:7-11; Matthew 13:3-9

In this message, Jared outlines 4 ways to assess surrender in our lives by first pondering the following statements: Very little of our modern Christianity requires "surrender"; yet, Christianity, as a religion, values obedience. The truth is that you cannot have obedience without surrender and attempting to is what we call "legalism"; and what God calls "rebellion". Bible: 1 Samuel 15; Matthew 3

Building culture happens naturally, whether we mean for it to or not. But building the culture we desire requires intent and lots of attention. This means that we reward and celebrate what we want in the culture, but this alone is not enough. In order to have the culture we want, we must also confront what we don't want in the culture. And confrontation in the Kingdom looks very differently than what we typically know as confrontation. Bible: Proverbs 4:20-26; 2 Samuel 12:1-14