Celebrate Recovery Sunday! CR is a Christ-centered 12 step recovery program that we’ve hosted at Franconia for almost 18 years! Our Celebrate Recovery group will be leading us on a…
Two thousand years ago occurred the single greatest event in history thus far—a non-resistant peasant from a small town was condemned as a threat to both the Roman Empire and…
Have we ever truly taken time to think about obedience? Why do we defy the commands that our God has set up? Why do we do the things that we…
This Sunday concludes our series which focused on living a sacrificial/surrendered life. If the scriptural admonitions were taken seriously, we have vowed to lay down our lives, our relationships, our…
Over the past three weeks we’ve wrestled with the life-altering sacrifices of life, relationship, and treasure. This Sunday we’ll look at something which lies at the core of our sense…
We all love rags to riches stories and especially those who go on to use their riches for the glory of God! BUT, do we get as equally excited about…
It seems funny that we have to lay down our relationships. Why would Jesus call us to this type of sacrificial living? Jesus even tells us whoever does not hate…
This week we begin a five week series on living a sacrificial life which will take us up to the week just prior to Palm Sunday. If there is one…
“Old habits die hard.” How often have these words rung true in our ears—for better and for worse? The same might well have been said of the Jews of Jesus’…
A well known passage in the Sermon on the Mount. We can understand how Jesus equates Anger to Murder knowing that our chaotic anger causes harm to others, even ourselves.…