Elements City Church Podcast

Everyone has a reach of impact. Every church is called to reach and have a God-sized impact. We strive to be a church that will REACH people for Jesus. To help people reach up in worship and truly love God. We will help our folks reach out to love others closer toward God and bless our community. We long to see everyone experience the transformation of a life-giving and life-changing relationship with Jesus.

Discipleship: the church talks about often, but what is it? And how can we make 2021 a year where we grow deeper into knowing and becoming like Jesus? Our Worship Director, Lyle Thompson, looks at what we can take from Matt 28:18-20 to give us some truths to live by as we look to make discipleship a priority in 2021.

We live amidst a season of unrelenting uncertainty and in order to stabilize ourselves to keep holding onto hope as we move forward, we must re-anchor to the ONE who is our foundation of consistency: Jesus. He helps us see the bigger picture. He will get us through. He is forever with us.

We are surrounded and flooded by messages. Some float on by, but some stop you in your tracks. The message announced to some shepherds that first Christmas is one that still echoes today. Have you heard it? Have you responded to it? It is a message of hope for all people - it’s an “all skate” kind of invitation. God’s message in Christmas is an unlimited Good News message, from a limitless God, to an inexhaustible number of people.

Christmas is often displayed by the perfect decorations and pristinely wrapped presents. But the Story of Christmas is actually anything but perfect, tidy and pristine. It’s a story that involves uncomfortable divinely timed interruptions and faith stretching invitations to trust God more in the next moment than in the previous. Look for God in the midst of life’s interruptions - He might just be on the move, inviting you to join Him and growing your faith in those moments.

We all have moments in our lives where we can ‘feel’ the silence of God. It often leaves us uneasy, unsettled and thinking He’s uninterested and uninvolved. But God is always at work and often does some of His best work in the quiet. He’s still active behind the scenes of your life friend. He’s still at work. Trust Him and in His timing. Often, it’s in that quiet - where He can grow our hearts to want to REACH UP in worship.

As we turn to chapter 5 in Ephesians we’re going to look at 3 key ways we are to live as followers of Jesus. The Apostle Paul is continuing to challenge us to 'grow up' in Christ and live out of the new position we've been given through Christ. He's wanting us to now live as imitators of God, to live as children of the light and to live wisely. It's like Paul is saying: 'this is the way' we're to now live.

Through Christ we are now ‘new and improved’ - the old has gone and the new has come. We are to continually choose to live out of and operate within this ‘new’ that God has done through Christ. This new will show itself in how we now live…put off what was, put on what is. It’s spiritual maturity on display in the way we now live.

In Ephesians 4, Paul shifts from a theological focus to a practical focus. Keeping in mind some themes in chapters 1-3, Paul begins to lay out a map to help the Church to mature to the fullness of Christ. 

We're looking at one of the Apostle Paul's prayers for the Church and for us today. A prayer that we might have Christ dwell securely with us and that we might have a life built on the foundation of His amazing love. That we might come to grasp its relational understanding more and more. We will never move beyond the love of God and when it's in the love of Christ we live, we will have love to give. 

In Ephesians chapter 2, the Apostle Paul is going to give us a glimpse into the incredible “improvement” work that God is doing in and through Jesus that we are benefiting from. It’s so much bigger than a simple ‘improvement’ project for humanity — it’s sort of a divine demolition & renovation project for all of […]

The Apostle Paul writes to the church in the first 3 chapters of Ephesians, basically saying: “Remember who you are". Remember how God loves you, remember how he poured his mercy on you, and through His Son - he has gifted you a brand new identity! He unpacks 3 key images that help us anchor our identity to what we receive in Christ, not what we achieve on our own.

We will reset. We will refresh. We will resolve to continue to live on mission: bringing the hope and light of Jesus to the heart of this city we love. The city that Jesus loves so dearly. God has next steps for us as a church - he has next steps for each of YOU. Discover yours and keep in step with following after Jesus. Are you ready? Let's go.

Jesus is FOR YOU & He’s FOR people — He longs for His Church to make the same proclamation of Good News - that God is FOR people wherever they are at. This generation is looking for an alternative to simply more hype or more hate. They’re looking for HOPE. Friends, the CHURCH is still the hope FOR the world - we’re to carry forward the very mission of Jesus. (Luke 4:18-21)

The closer we grow in relationships and community as a church the more prone we are to have conflict and offenses that can ultimately tear us apart because we feel so deeply. This message is a call to all believers in every church to remember how Jesus paid our unplayable debts so we can love each other as Christ loved us. This is every churches greatest challenge!!

We are to be a part of a hope-giving church, that impacts the community and shares this hope with a world that needs it – all because we have been given HOPE. We’ve been given a HOPE from Jesus that takes care of our past (gospel), is present in our here & now, and secures our future. We’re infused with this HOPE to now share it with others. We are to become PEZ PEOPLE, (if you will)…God’s HOPE dispensers to the world.

What does it mean to be merciful? The Scriptures have so much to say about that and they call us practice it. A mercy-filled church begins with followers of Jesus living in light of the mercy they have received and then choosing to pass it along. Always keep God's mercy for you in view. Mercy is a godly mandate, not just a good suggestion.

When Apostles wanted to deal with conflict in the church they looked to people who were full of wisdom and faith. What does it mean and how can we become the type of people who live full of wisdom and faith? More than better programs, better sermons, better worship music, we need men and women who are full of wisdom and faith if we are to fulfill the call to be the church of Jesus!

Have you ever wondered if you lived during the time when Jesus walked the earth if you would have followed Him? How could we ever know if given that chance? Since the Holy Spirit is now the one who was "sent" to earth and is now "teaching what Jesus taught" it seems we too have the opportunity to follow Jesus by being filled and led by the Spirit. Without the Spirit, all is but man-made religion. Learn more about this vital connection between following Jesus and following the Spirit!

Tonight we’re looking into what anchored the early church at the beginning and rooted it to a solid, biblical foundation. Acts 2:42-47 There are 4 key practices that rooted the church then, that we must hold onto and engage in still today. What one is God calling you to deepen yourself in?