In Acts 4, the early church is offered a deal: you can keep your faith, just keep it quiet.

After a public miracle and a public proclamation of the resurrected Jesus, Peter and John are arrested and brought before the most powerful and educated leaders of their day. The pressure is clear. Stop speaking. Stop teaching. Keep the name of Jesus out of the public square.

But instead of shrinking back, Peter is filled with the Holy Spirit and speaks with boldness. He names what’s true: the man was healed by Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the One they crucified, the One God raised from the dead. And then comes the line that still confronts every generation: “We cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

This message challenges two kinds of Christianity that the enemy loves: silent Christians and private Christians. It exposes how our culture trains us to compartmentalize faith, keeping it personal, polite, and manageable. And it invites us into a different way, a witness that is humble, faithful, and visible.

The world isn’t waiting for impressive Christians. It’s waiting for ordinary people who have been with Jesus.

What does resurrection look like beyond Sunday?

In this message from our Church on Fire series, Bill Dogterom walks through Acts 3 and reminds us that resurrection life is not just something we believe in, it is something we live. When Peter and John encounter a man who has spent his life on the margins, we see that healing is not about spectacle but about pointing people to Jesus and inviting them into a new way of life.

This teaching challenges us to consider how the resurrection shapes our everyday moments, our work, our relationships, and the places where life feels heavy or ordinary. It also speaks directly to those who feel disqualified by failure, reminding us that brokenness is often the place where God meets us and invites us forward.

Resurrection life is not confined to the past or the future. It is an invitation to join Jesus in His restoring work right now.

Advent is an invitation to slow down, redeem time, and make room for Jesus. In this final Advent message, Bill Dogterom reminds us that love is not a shallow feeling or a seasonal mood. It’s the foundation of everything God is doing in us.

Through John 3, 1 John 4, Romans 8, and Ephesians 3, we’re invited to stand in the reality that God’s love does not depend on our performance. Not in our best moments, and not in our worst. This is love that does not condemn, love that stays present in the dark, and love that transforms us from the inside out.

If you’ve ever felt disqualified, numb, cynical, or tired, this message is a steady reminder: God is for you, and nothing can separate you from His love. 

At some point, most of us have asked the question, even if we’ve never said it out loud. Does God actually want me to be happy?

In this Advent teaching, Pastor Darren sits with that tension and invites us to slow down and be honest about how we think about joy. Not the kind that depends on things going well, but the kind that can exist even when life feels complicated. He looks at the Christmas story and points out how joy shows up right in the middle of uncertainty, fear, and ordinary people trying to trust God one step at a time.

There’s an invitation here to rethink happiness, not as something we chase or manufacture, but as something rooted in who God is and how close He comes to us. Especially in a season where expectations are high and emotions run deep, this conversation helps ground joy in something deeper than circumstances.

In this Advent message, Pastor Bill Dogterom invites us to look beyond a shallow idea of peace and see the deeper work Jesus is doing in us. Peace is not just the absence of conflict. It is the restoration of what has been fractured in our hearts and in our relationships. Bill walks through Isaiah 9 and Ephesians 2 to show how Jesus takes the fragments of our lives and brings them together into something whole.

This teaching calls us to receive the peace Jesus offers and to become people who bring that peace into a divided world. As followers of the Prince of Peace, we learn how to step out of hostility, lay aside the need to be right, and join God in his work of reconciliation.

We are beginning a four week series through Advent as we prepare the way for Christmas. Advent is the season where the Church slows down so we can become awake to God’s presence. It teaches us to wait, to notice, and to make room for the God who comes close.

In this opening message, Pastor Bill calls us to step out of the rush and become present to what God is doing right now. Advent invites us to breathe, to pay attention, and to trust that God meets us in the real moments of our lives.

Pastor Bill reminds us that thanksgiving is more than a reaction. It is a practice that grounds us and becomes the place where hope grows. Through Romans 5 and 1 Thessalonians 5, we see how joy, prayer, and gratitude shape us into people who can carry hope in every season, even in suffering or uncertainty.

Advent forms us into people who recognize that God is near in the highs, the lows, and the everyday moments in between.

Pastor Darren teaches from Acts 3 and invites us to recover a simple truth. Healing was never meant to be unusual for the people of Jesus. In the early church it was normal for God to meet people in their pain, restore what was broken and reveal his Kingdom through ordinary disciples who made themselves available.

Through the story of the man at the Beautiful Gate and the testimonies coming from our own community, Pastor Darren shows how Jesus continues his ministry through the Church today. This message calls us to lay down a powerless version of faith, raise our expectations and learn to pray with compassion, courage and trust.

If you have ever wondered how healing fits into everyday discipleship, this teaching will help you step toward a bigger and more hopeful view of what life with Jesus can look like.

Most of us do not feel rich. We just feel like we never have enough. We live in a culture of Amazon boxes, comparison, and quiet anxiety about money, and it is easy to believe that life really does consist in the abundance of our possessions.

In this teaching, Pastor Darren Rouanzoin walks through Acts 4, Luke 12, John the Baptist’s call to repentance, and the story of Zacchaeus to show that Jesus cares deeply about how we relate to our stuff. Not because he wants something from us, but because he wants freedom for us.

You will hear real stories from our church family of canceled debts, unexpected cars given away, rent covered, and spontaneous offerings that could only be explained by grace. Then Pastor Darren presses into the deeper question behind all of it: what would Jesus see if he looked at your bank statement, and what would change if he was truly in charge of your finances?

This message is for anyone who feels the pull of consumerism, who feels suspicious of the church and money, or who longs to live with open hands but does not know how to start.

What does real devotion look like in a world built around comfort and convenience? In this message, Pastor Darren looks at Acts 2:42–47 and shows us a picture of the first church. It was a community of people devoted to Jesus, devoted to one another, and devoted to His mission.

So much of faith today can become about consuming spiritual content, showing up to events, or chasing comfort. But the call of Jesus is different. He invites us to be all in. To live in a way that reflects heaven on earth. To be a people shaped by Scripture, filled with the Spirit, and committed to love.

This teaching will help you see what the church was meant to be and how to live with wholehearted devotion in an age of consumerism.

The gospel is not an idea or an experience. It is a person. In this message from our Church on Fire series, Pastor Ramin walks through Peter’s first sermon in Acts 2 and shows the full story of Jesus—the King who lived, died, rose again, and now reigns with power and love.

If you’ve been trying to carry life on your own, this is an invitation to turn to Him and receive the life only Jesus can give.

Acts 2 is more than the beginning of the church. It is the culmination of the entire story of Scripture and the moment the Holy Spirit fills ordinary people to carry the presence of Jesus into the world. In this message, Pastor Darren unpacks Pentecost not as a distant event but as the Spirit’s ongoing invitation to live Spirit-filled and anchored in God’s Word.

Listen to discover why a truly biblical church must also be a Spirit-filled church.

Waiting is never easy. The disciples were confused, disappointed, and broken after Jesus left. Yet in Acts 1, before the Spirit was poured out, God was already shaping a new kind of community. It was not built on power or position but on faithfulness and trust.

In this message, Pastor Bill Dogterom calls us to keep showing up even when we feel hidden or overlooked. The Spirit empowers us not just to do but to be, to be a people God can trust with His presence.

God works in the ordinary, in the places we would rather skip past. It is there that He prepares us for what is next.

The last command Jesus gave His disciples before sending them into the world was simple: wait. Not to strategize, not to build programs, but to wait for the promised gift of the Holy Spirit. In a culture that hates waiting, this call can feel like weakness or failure. But in God’s kingdom, waiting is where He forms us, fills us, and empowers us.

In this message from our Church on Fire series, Pastor Darren unpacks Acts 1 and reminds us that the Church was never meant to run on talent, vision, or programs alone. We are called to be a people who carry His presence into every corner of life.

If you’ve grown tired of running on your own strength, this is an invitation to slow down, open your hands, and wait for His Spirit.