As we conclude our series Expectations, Pastor Derek teaches on how God expects us to act when we sin. We must realize that we need God's help, recognize the origin of our sin and realize the joy of our salvation.

As we continue our series about Expectation, Pastor Adrian leads us to the first chapter of Luke to see two different examples of how people's expectations differed when encountered by the word of God. We learn that expectations are birthed and fortified by the word of God and witnessing the fulfillment of God's word.

As we enter the Christmas season, we are all filled with expectations for the holidays. Pastor Adrian encourages us to foster proper and great expectations. In the first century when Jesus came to this Earth there were many people who encountered him but missed the reality of who he was because their expectations were skewed by their erroneous expectations. Let us be people who always have a hope and expectation as we maintain a right view of God.

As we conclude our series on building the masterpiece of family Pastor Adrian shares on the most important aspect of building a family, namely, maintaining the first love we have when we initially encounter God.The driving force behind any believer is maintaining the love that compels us to seek wholeheartedly after God.

In a world that practices little to no healthy communication, it is important to be intentional about healthy communication. As we continue in our series Art of Family, Billy speaks about how communication impacts our lives.

One of the hardest characteristics to attain that fuels a great family is everyone accepting their roles. God created a divine outline of how authority structure should work and the roles that each member of the family should play. As with any great team, when people are walking in their roles to the fullest it benefits everyone involved. Pastor Adrian outlines how these roles were established by God and how we can play our part.

Pastor Chip Buhler continues our series focusing on the making of a masterpiece of a family. The principles that fuel a masterful family also apply to spiritual family, businesses and organizations of all kinds. Pastor Chip shares on the importance of sacrificing for your family.

Pastor Adrian begins a new series focusing on the making of a masterpiece of a family. The principles that fuel a masterful family also apply to spiritual family, businesses and organizations of all kinds. Pastor Adrian begins with the principle of being all in and committing to do what it takes to accomplish the mission of the family.

As we prepare for the Big Give this week, Pastor Adrian speaks about how we give to the things that we love. And that many times, the reason we have issues giving is because we have a love issue. We never have an issue giving to the things we love, so as we reset our affections and aim them toward God we will have no issue being generous with all the things that God has given to us to steward.

Pastor Adrian speaks about the great illusion that money can bring. Many times we look to money for security. However, we see that Jesus spoke to the truth that at times our perspective and reality of our situation do not line up and that we must be rich toward God and depend on him for our security.

This week Pastor Adrian teaches on having a vision for your money. When we allow ourselves to not have a vision to guide us, then we will be lost as the proverb says. Sometimes, the vision we have for our money is to simply purchase supply our own selfish desires. As we look to Jesus and decide to live a generous life, giving to the advancement of His kingdom, we will experience His promise to provide our every need.

Guest speaker, Ben Kaempfer, joins us today at Engage as we dive into the book of Matthew and discuss external versus internal spirituality and the unfortunate hypocrisy between the two that many of us suffer from.

Everyone wants the glory of a revolutionary, but few want to live like one. Pastor Adrian continues our series on revolutioinaries, and what it will take to live like a revoltuionary in order to be make the impact that God is calling us to make. This week Pastor Adrian focuses on the greatest revolutionary of all time, Jesus. We see that the driving force behind many of Jesus acts was His compassion for people, and that should also be a signifying mark on His followers.

Everyone wants the glory of a revolutionary, but few want to live like one. Pastor Adrian continues our series on revolutioinaries, and what it will take to live like a revoltuionary in order to be make the impact that God is calling us to make. This week we see that must make ourselves undone before Jesus so that we can be consecrated in order to make impact.

Everyone wants the glory of a revolutionary, but few want to live like one. Pastor Adrian continues our series on revolutioinaries, and what it will take to live like a revoltuionary in order to be make the impact that God is calling us to make. This week we see that it takes a level of crazy relentlessness in order to press into God enough to make the impact that he desires our lives to make.

Everyone wants the glory of a revolutionary, but few want to live like one. Pastor Adrian continues our series on revolutioinaries, and what it will take to live like a revoltuionary in order to be make the impact that God is calling us to make. This week we see that it takes conviction in order experience a personal revival that fuels a public reformation

Everyone wants the glory of a revolutionary, but few want to live like one. Pastor Adrian begins our series on revolutioinaries, and what it will take to live like a revoltuionary in order to be make the impact that God is calling us to make. During our first week we take a look at Beniah and how he chased down a lion into a pit, and how it was one of the indicators how he would go on to live an impactful life.

As a new school year begins, Pastor Adrian speaks about crossing over into a new season. Just as the Israelites crossed the Red Sea into a new season, there is always the temptation to want to go back to the previous season. But we must listen to the words that Moses told the Israelites just as they were about to enter into their new season; we must not fear, stand firm and look for the Lord's salvation.

As we conclude our summer sermon series in the book of Ephesians Pastor Adrian speaks to us about Christ's victory over satan, sin and death. He explains that while we are currently in a battle, Christ's victory is ours as well once we believe in His finished work on the cross. We are encouraged to put on the armor of God in order to be able to stand against the enemy's attacks.

As we continue in our series on identity, Pastor Adrian shares on how are identity is tied to our willingness to submit. Many times the word submit is a word that people do not like, we are always looking for ways to push back against authority. However, we see in Ephesians 5 that all are relationships are impacted by our willingness to submit and it all begins with the reason to submit, which is a reverence for Christ.

As we continue in our summer midweek service centered on maturity, Pastor Adrian teaches on never giving up. As mature believers, we must not allow ourselves to quit on situations and relationships. Our greatest example was obviously Jesus as he encountered the toughest situation in history, in the garden just before his crucifixion. We learn that in the toughest situations we must lean in to God.

In our next installment of our series on identity, Pastor Adrian speaks on being filled by the Holy Spirit. Since the fall in the garden, humanity has yearned to fill the hole that was created by the fracture in relationship that we have with God. With all the things that are vying to attempt to fill the void, Pastor Adrian shows us how to ensure that we are once again filling with the only thing that can satisfy the void, the Holy Spirit.

Continuing with our series of identity, Pastor Adrian speaks on the the new life that God has given us through Jesus. Sometimes, we tend to carry burdens and scars from our past, but we are to take off or put off our old life and put on a new and better life through Him.

As we continue in our midweek services focusing on maturity, our Executive Director Billy Humphrey shares on priorities. Billy breaks down misconceptions about priorities, and Biblical principles that will help us set our lives in the order that God wants.

As we continue in our sermon series on identity, Pastor Adrian speaks on the equipping of believers. God granted gifts so that we could use them to build his church. As we mature, we learn to use these gifts that God has given us to help build His church.

As we continue in our midweek series lookin to help believers mature in their faith, we have a guest pastor, Ben Kampfer from Downtown Community Church, speaking about communication as it relates to sharing the gospel. Pastor Ben teaches on the biggest hinderance of people sharing their faith is because they are insecure. A great way to combat the insecurity is being sure of why you believe what you believe.

As we continue in our series about Identity, Pastor Derek Kasdorf teaches us on prayer and how it allows us to tap into our identity as children of God. As a father, God wants to hear his children and grow in relationship with us. As children of God, we should know that God loves us and wants to hear us.

As we continue our focus on Maturity in our midweek series, Derek Kasdorf, our College Campus Pastor, teaches us about the significance of sharing your faith.

As we continue in our series about identity, Pastor Adrian teaches that as a result of being in Christ, we are now in family. Jesus' life and sacrifice leads to the breaking of the walls of hostility that hinder and stop us from building meaningful relationships. We learn that what brings us into family, keeps us in family. And the only thing that allows us to build those relationships is the cross of Christ.

As we continue in our series where we find that our identity is in Christ, Pastor Adrian teaches us that as a result of the gospel and Jesus' life that now we are saved. This term is one that is at times casually thrown out in Christian circles without the realization of the impact of being saved. Pastor Adrian explains that the key thing we are saved from is from ourselves, and that God has saved our desires, direction and destination.

As we continue in our summer series highlighting what it means to be a mature Christian, Pastor Adrian speaks to us about personal responsibility. He teaches us that true personal responsibility viewed through the lens of the gospel looks very different than personal responsibility trumpeted in our culture. Pastor Adrian also weaves in how the church and mature believers must take up the responsibility to usher in a new time period of race relations that does not overlook issues or abdicates the role that God has called us to play.

As we continue in our series of identity, Pastor Adrian teaches on how God the Father appreciates believers. Pastor Adrian also gives special attention to fathers on this Father's Day in order to let it be known that the role of the father is something that is worthy of appreciation. We learn that appreciation produces security, serving and unity.

As we continue in our midweek services, focusing on maturing as believers, Dave Plettl teaches on stewardship. He focuses on teaching that we all have gifts, that we should use those gifts to serve others, that we are stewards and not owners of the gifts and that ulitmately the gifts are used to glorify God.

One of the byproducts of Jesus' work on this earth, is that those who believe in Him have been given the opportunity to take part of the blessed life. In our American society, the idea of a blessed life has become skewed from the original intent that the Lord wanted us to experience. Pastor Adrian speaks to us about the spiritual blessings available to believers, and how the spiritual blessings far outweigh any financial or physical blessing that we could receive.

According to the Bible, a human's identity can be formed into just one of two different camps; you can either be viewed as being part of Adam's lineage or you can be viewed as being part of Jesus' lineage. Pastor Adrian begins our series that will focus centering our identity in Christ so that we can experience the fullness of life that God desires for us.

As we begin our summer midweek service that is themed on maturity, Pastor Adrian speaks about what the character that a Christian should walk in maturity. He speaks on making sure that believers will have more wins than losses in their lives.

As Christendom in the United States has waned and just about disappeared, the way that Christians should interact with our culture has drastically changed. Pastor Adrian encourages us to be aware of aware of the climate of our culture, so that we as believers can effectively engage our culture to accomplish the Great Commission laid out by Jesus for His church.

In the fourth week of our series of Mixtapes, Pastor Adrian shares with us about how being impacted by the gospel leads us to have changed lives. Every person can look at our world today and admit that the world needs changing, but in order to produce the change we would like to see, we will need to have experienced this change. Whenever an experience impacts our lives, especially for the better, we cannot help but share that experience with others. As Jesus impacts our lives, we can then share Jesus with the world to be able to spark change.

In our third week of our Mixtape Series Roshad Thomas comes in as a guest speaker and teaches us on how Jesus calls us to repentance. Roshad shows us that Jesus is not looking for perfect people that have reached a certain level of holiness before they can come into relationship with God. In fact, we all suck and will never be able to be good enough in our strength, but Jesus already has everything prepared for us to be able to come back into relationship as God originally intended.

As we celebrate our mothers on this Mother's Day, Pastor Adrian speaks to us to aspire to a trait that mothers carry in spades, relentless faith. It is almost inherent for a mother to have such strong faith and belief in their children and for their children. Pastor Adrian uses the example of the Shunamite women from 2 Kings 4 so that we can have a resting/passive faith that comes from contentment in Jesus. Also, in conjuction with the resting faith that comes from contentment, we should also have an active faith that allows us to believe God for things that are greater than we can accomplish in and of ourselves.

Throughout the new mixtape series, Engage Church will approach several different unrelated topics. This week, Pastor Adrian teaches us how to live a life that will leave a legacy for centuries. Pastor Adrian outlines that there are five points that will help us build these century lasting legacies. We should follow the cloud of God, start with the Word of God, think with the end in mind, develop a squad, and advance God's kingdom.

The Holy Spirit is the most misunderstood person in the Trinity. A lot of times people are not really sure of what His role is and/or misrepresent Him. This can be seen as some people believing that the Holy Spirit empowering believers ended with the canonization of scripture, while others have twisted theology and practices. This week Pastor Adrian outlines how to recognize people and churches that are living Holy Spirit led lives.

The Holy Spirit is the most misunderstood person in the Trinity. A lot of times people are not really sure of what His role is and/or misrepresent Him. This can be seen as some people believing that the Holy Spirit empowering believers ended with the canonization of scripture, while others have twisted theology and practices. This week Pastor Adrian shows us through the scripture that from Jesus baptism and even with the empowering of Jesus' disciples at Pentecost that the Holy Spirit descends upon the people of God to empower them to go on mission.

The Holy Spirit is the most misunderstood person of the Trinity. Many people think that the Holy Spirit is weird in a negative way. But one of the main roles that the Holy Spirit is to empower believers in Jesus to be weird in a way that is counter-cultural. Not weird for the sake of weird, but that believers would be clearly different than those around them because of the grace of God; Jesus' life, death and resurrection; and the Holy Spirit granting the believer strength to follow in Jesus' footsteps.

Easter is the biggest celebration for the Christian faith since it marks the distinguishing factor between itself and all other religions, Jesus Christ resurrection.The world has been broken through sin and rebellion and the only thing that could restore the relationship between God and humanity. Pastor Adrian explains how Jesus takes things that were broken and make it into something beautiful.

Palm Sunday marks the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem the week before he was crucified and ressurected in order to allow humanity to once again be in relationship with God. After his entry into Jerusalem, Jesus had an interesting interaction with a fig tree. Pastor Adrian explains the significance of Jesus interaction with the fig tree and how it applies to our lives so that we can bear fruit.

We are present for the things we value. This week Pastor Adrian outlines for us that God values people above everything else. As followers of Jesus, we should also pattern our lives to reflect Jesus' value system and place people at the top of our list.

Many times, people in the church desire to be disciples, but do not put the same value in leading others to be disciples. Pastor Derek Kasdorf walks us through why as believers it is important to follow Jesus, fellowship with believers, and fish for men

A lego comes in all different types of shapes, sizes and colors but exists do one thing, to connect. However, even though the legos connected from their initial creation, it was hard to build any type of structures until the foundation piece was introduced years later. For humanity there is only one foundation that can be built upon that is strong enough to withstand any trial or situation, and that foundation is Jesus. 

A lego comes in all different types of shapes, sizes and colors but exists do one thing, to connect. Similarly, the church may operate in many different ways, but its main purpose is to create disciples. Before anyone can even become a disciple they must encounter Jesus, and be brought from death to life. Just as Jesus called Lazarus up from the dead, Jesus places us in community in order to have someone help us take the grave clothes off. 

Submitting to authority is a hard task for most people to do, especially when we don't agree with the person in charge. God has designed authority stuctures to be present in every aspect of our lives. Authority is divinely established, from parental authority in the house; to management structures in our companies; all the way to our leaders in government. Our spiritual growth will be hindered if we do not see authority as a divine institution designed by God.

Scandal (Week 3): Love Serves

Guest pastor Ben Kaempfer of Downtown Community Church (DCC) joins us to deliver a powerful message on relationship with significant others.  The depth of our love for God is directly reflected by the quality of our love for others.  There is no better measure of love than service, in all circumstances.  Love serves, regardless.  How well are you loving?

Scandal (Week 2) - Trust Issues

Most of us are guilty of trusting too much in our own goodness.  We rely on our imagined ability to earn our way into heaven.  By trusting too little in His goodness, we miss what God truly has for us; A life of freedom from the bonds of our flesh.

Scandal (Week 1) - The Dance

Relationships construct our world. In creation, God established the perfect relationship with man only for it to be fragmented out of our desire to get from God instead of give to him.  Do your relationships reflect an attitude of getting, or, as God intended, giving?

New Rules 2K15 -  Week 3 (Engaging Culture)

Sacred or secular? Our motivation determines which applies. The church today, in many ways, limits it's influence to the walls housing its congregation. To truly live as disciples, we must carry the gospel in all aspects of life; work, play and all things between.

New Rules 2K15 -  Week 2 (Engaging People)

What should mark us as disciples of Christ? Is our good deeds? Is it the wealth we accumulate? John 13 tells us the way we love each another will reveal that we are followers of Christ; that we love others as He loved us.

New Rules 2K15 -  Week 1 (Engaging God)

Church culture does not make us Christians.  God wants to engage us in a way that alters the path of our lives.  Isaiah Chapter 6 is perhaps the best example in scripture of this.  In a single moment there is a disturbance in Isaiah's soul, delivering him from his complacent state, recognizing his need for redemption.  When God inquires who He should dispatch, Isaiah declares, "Here am I.  Send me."

Eyes Wide Shut  // 01-04-2015

At the beginning of a new year, we are inclined to focus on the past and future, ignoring the present. We point to past spiritual failure and future spiritual growth without taking inventory of our current state.  Our prayer at Engage for 2015, is that you would take hold of where you are with God, and seek earnestly to know Him more.