Living Life Right-Side Up
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Motivation for Kingdom Living
In this message Pastor Byron challenges listeners to recognize the urgency and importance of Jesus’ teachings from the Sermon on the Plain in Luke 6. He explores three motivations for obedient living: calling Jesus “Lord” requires corresponding action, clean hands and pure hearts result in God’s blessing, and neglecting to build on Christ’s foundation leads
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Can A Fruit Tree Lie?
In this message Pastor Byron explores the biblical call to transformation rather than merely living a “recycled” Christian life. Drawing from Luke 6:43-45, he explains that true spiritual growth produces good fruit evidenced especially through our words, reminding believers that God expects progress rather than perfection and that our response to conviction reveals whether we
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Seeing My Growth for the Benefit of Others
In this message Pastor Byron addresses the danger of false teaching in today’s church, using the analogy of artificial fruit in a luxury hotel to illustrate how some spiritual leaders offer something that looks authentic but lacks real substance. He emphasizes the critical importance of choosing teachers wisely, living with a clear conscience to avoid
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Judging Others
In this message Pastor Byron shares the remarkable story of missionaries to Ecuador’s Auca Indians, including how Steve Saint’s children adopted as “grandfather” the very man who killed their actual grandfather—demonstrating supernatural forgiveness and love. He explores Jesus’ teaching on judging others from Luke 6, explaining when judgment is wrong (preferences, motives, convictions, hypocrisy) and
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Dealing With Demanding People
In this message Pastor Byron teaches on responding to difficult and demanding people who persecute believers for their faith in Christ. Using Jesus’ teaching from Luke 6 about turning the other cheek and loving enemies, he explains how Christians are called to respond with unnatural love, unselfish actions, and unnatural words—praying for those who mistreat
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The Blessing of Rejection
In this message Pastor Byron explains how believers should respond to persecution in today’s postmodern world that rejects absolute truth. He teaches from Luke 6 that when Christians face persecution for standing with Christ, they should change their perspective, embrace their responsibility as kingdom citizens, check their motivation to ensure they’re not trying to please
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When Life Hurts
In this message Pastor Byron explores Jesus’ teaching about when to weep and when to laugh in a world that lives life upside down. He explains that there is a biblical time to stop weeping—when God comforts us, removes our sin through confession, and sends comforters into our lives—and also times when laughter is wrong,
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Living Life Right-Side Up
In this message, Pastor Byron launches a new series called “Living Life Right Side Up,” challenging believers to embrace God’s kingdom values in a world that lives contrary to His principles. Using Jesus’ teaching from Luke 6 (the Sermon on the Plain), he addresses how Christians are called to live counter-culturally, particularly in their relationship