Reach Church

Happy snowy Sunday! There are no gatherings today, but here's a short devotional to help facilitate a time of scripture reading and fellowship in your home. Discussion questions: 1. Have you embraced your freedom in Christ? 2. How much are you consuming and for what purpose? 3. What opportunity - small or large - do you have to serve someone this week?

What happens when Jesus is not the center of our lives? What are we to do when we realize He isn’t in His rightful place? This passage doesn’t just pose the questions, it provides the answers. He’s provided the map of how people get lost — it’s on us to follow it back home.

It all comes down to this: Jesus is either God, or He’s not. If He is, He gets everything we have and everything we are.

Many avoid authority at all costs, believing that total autonomy is the path to joy. But the authority of Jesus is marked by love, and submitting to it with our entire lives is where satisfaction is found.

God commands us to rest so we can experience true rest in Him and His Gospel. Yet most of us insist on grinding 7 days a week. What does our refusal to slow down reveal about our hearts? More importantly, what joy are opting out of when we sidestep God’s call to remember the Sabbath?

Our theology of healing should serve everyone in the multitude — those who experience miraculous healing, and those who don’t.

Many of us will start pursuing goals and changes to start the new year. First, let's pause and reflect on key things the Bible taught us this year to keep our hearts attentive to how God would have us plan ahead.

Receive. Rejoice. Remember. Repeat. Just like Mary.

What feels impossible this Christmas? As we study the "first impressions" of Jesus in each Gospel, we see how his arrival shows us that nothing is impossible with God.

In a tender encounter with a woman used to being on the fringes, Jesus reveals an incredibly important truth — the satisfaction we all seek is found only in Jesus....knowing Him, and making Him known.

Ben Malcolmson, assistant to the Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll (and husband to our very own Brittney Malcolmson), shares his story with Reach. Ben shows us that if we walk in obedience to God's will, he will work great things through even small acts of faithfulness.

Within these verses lies the secret of life that no one sees coming — fullness of joy does not come from the pursuit and exaltation of self, but in the denial of self. When John the Baptist says “I must decrease, he must increase” he flips contemporary culture on its head…and invites us to follow him into true satisfaction.

“For God so loved the world that He gave his only son…” These words are the most well-known in the entire bible for good reason. Believe them, and the result is eternal life.

Jesus says we all must be born again. It is only through His life, death, and resurrection that we are able to enter the Kingdom of God.

Our greatest good and deepest joy come through nearness to God. When Jesus cleanses and replaces the temple, he declares himself to be the only means by which we can experience life-changing closeness to our creator.

The first miraculous sign Jesus performs in the Gospel of John is spectacular at first glance, and even more profound as one looks deeper. As hundreds of gallons of water change to wine, we discover the new way change is designed to come into our lives in the ways that matter most.

Dr. Gerry Breshears helps us get practical, using the biblical example of Elijah to show us how to respond to depression and anxiety. Includes live Q&A immediately after the message.

We start our conversation on mental health by establishing a shared vocabulary, declaring shared convictions, and pointing to a shared hope.

As we come face to face with Christ’s purpose, we also discover our own. We all want to witness greater things — that happens as we follow Jesus on his mission.

God is community. God invites us to community, so that we’d start communities.