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The Resurrection: What’s Love Got to Do With It?
See More…: The Resurrection: What’s Love Got to Do With It?In this Easter message, Pastor Byron explores how Christ’s resurrection appearances demonstrate God’s personal love and forgiveness. He examines three special resurrection appearances—to Mary Magdalene (overcoming a shameful past), Peter (dealing with failure), and Thomas (struggling with doubt)—showing that Jesus met each person at their point of need to communicate that despite their failures, they were still loved, forgiven, and valuable in His eyes.
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The Power of the Cross in Our Lives
See More…: The Power of the Cross in Our LivesIn this message, Pastor Byron teaches from Romans 6 about how the cross of Christ provides power for daily Christian living, not just forgiveness for salvation. He explains that through Christ’s death and resurrection, believers died to sin’s power and were raised to new life, and through knowing this truth, reckoning it to be true, and presenting ourselves to God, we can experience the victorious Christian life that Christ purchased for us at the cross.
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Mercy Leading to Happiness
See More…: Mercy Leading to HappinessIn this message Pastor Byron explores the fifth Beatitude about showing mercy, teaching that mercy means entering into another person’s world with compassion and extending forgiveness freely. He explains that because believers have received God’s undeserved mercy, they are called to respond by showing mercy to others, which leads to experiencing even more of God’s mercy in their own lives.
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Rebooting Your Marriage
See More…: Rebooting Your MarriageIn this message on “rebooting” your marriage, Pastor Byron offers practical steps for revitalizing relationships at any stage, including renewing commitment to listening, recommitting to each other’s needs, restoring fun and romance, relearning love-building lessons, engaging in friendly fighting, and releasing the past. Drawing from Genesis 2:24 and the story of Isidore and Ida Strauss from the Titanic, he emphasizes that lasting marriage is built on covenant commitment to God, not just feelings.
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Handling Marital Anger
See More…: Handling Marital AngerIn this message on handling anger in marriage, Pastor Byron teaches from Ephesians 4 about the four basic responses to anger (suppressing, expressing, repressing, and confessing) and provides biblical guidance for dealing with marital conflict. He explains how to “put away” anger by processing it biblically, being kind and tenderhearted with our spouses, putting ourselves in their shoes, and forgiving one another by flooding them with grace, just as Christ has forgiven us.
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It Begins With the Fundamentals
See More…: It Begins With the FundamentalsIn this message on divorce-proofing your marriage, Pastor Byron presents four foundational principles from Genesis 2:24—commitment based on covenant (leaving father and mother), loyalty and faithfulness (cleaving to one another), intimacy (the pathway to becoming “one flesh”), and trust (being “naked and not ashamed”). He emphasizes that successful marriages are built on these fundamentals, with Christ at the center, and that trust is one of the most precious yet fragile gifts in marriage.
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A Great Commission Lifestyle: Cultivate
See More…: A Great Commission Lifestyle: CultivateIn this message on cultivating disciples, Pastor Byron teaches from John 15 about the “beauty marks” of a mature disciple—bearing fruit, obeying God’s Word, maintaining a consistent prayer life, loving fellow believers, and experiencing joy. Drawing from Jesus’ four-fold discipleship process (come and see, come and follow, come and be with me, remain in me), he emphasizes that believers cannot grow alone but need connection with Christ and other believers through small groups and accountability relationships.
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A Great Commission Lifestyle: Communicate
See More…: A Great Commission Lifestyle: CommunicateIn this message on the church’s third core value—communicating the gospel—Pastor Byron presents four approaches to evangelism: worship evangelism (where authentic worship draws unbelievers to Christ), corporate evangelism (church-wide outreach events), relational evangelism (personal witness through relationships), and the urgent call from Luke 14 to “go into the highways and hedges” to compel people to come in. He challenges believers to invest in people’s lives, invite them to experience Christ, and make evangelism a priority in their everyday world.
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The Church: A Healing Community
See More…: The Church: A Healing CommunityIn this message on the church as a healing community, Pastor Byron challenges the notion that church should only be for those who appear to have it all together, illustrating that the church should be like a hospital where broken, hurting people can find refuge and healing. Drawing from Jesus’ new commandment in John 13 and Romans 14-15, he teaches that a healthy church is marked by authenticity, acceptance without condemnation, honoring one another, giving preference to others’ needs, and practicing forgiveness.
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Great Commandment Hearts: Celebrate
See More…: Great Commandment Hearts: CelebrateIn this inaugural message on core values, Pastor Byron introduces the church’s four foundational values that grow out of two great commandments—the Great Commandment (love God and neighbor) and the Great Commission (make disciples). Beginning with the first core value of being a worshiping people, he teaches from Deuteronomy 6 and Matthew 22 that prayer is the primary expression of our love for God, demonstrating our dependence on Him and providing the spiritual fuel that energizes everything else we do for Him.
