Arbor Church

On Arbor Church’s first Christmas Eve Service, Jake tells us about the shepherds whom the angels first told of Jesus’ birth and how Immanuel, God with us, ensures that we will never be lonely, even if we are as alone as a shepherd with only his or her sheep for company.

Jonathan Wolfgang visits from Northsore Community Church to speak on Mary and how responding to the stress of life’s unexpected, and potentially unwanted, gifts with worship and trust magnifies God.

Jake tells us about Zechariah and Elizabeth, a faithful and blameless couple without fault yet are unable to bear children in a world of an extended silence from God. However, a dramatic change leads to the beginnings of Immanuel: God with us.

Money. We love it, we hate it, we fight about it, and Jesus talked about it … a lot. Drawing inspiration from the way we balance things in the physical world and from Scripture, Jake talks about the three things we need in order to achieve balance and margin in our financial lives.

Our message today is from guest speaker Tom Regan from Imprint Church, and it’s about making room in our busy lives to balance our activity with rest.

This week, we start a new series on finding balance. Jake digs into a Psalm written by Moses (yes, Moses wrote a Psalm!) to uncover a principle that will change your perspective on your time and how you choose to spend it.

Garrett wraps up our series on miracles with a unusual healing that Jesus performed on behalf of a man who wasn’t a Jew … miles away from the man who needed to be healed. Can our faith do that? And, a tougher question: can we influence God?

Jesus meets a man who’s been unable to walk for 38 years and asks him a very curious question: do you want to get well? Is the miracle we say we want really what we’re looking for?

The raising of Lazarus is one of Jesus’ most famous and most impressive miracles, but on close examination it’s also one of his most puzzling. Jesus doesn’t race to the scene when he hears that his beloved friend is dying. Why?

Today we’re honored to be joined by Professor Wally Kowalski, professor of theology at Northwest University, to help us answer some of our toughest questions about miracles.