The Choice To Love

The kind of love God gives to us, and the kind of love he wants us to give to others, is not a feeling. It is a choice. The choice to love is also the choice of remaining in God's light or moving away from God into darkness. In this sermon from 1 John 2:7-11, I teach that God's L.I.G.H.T. provides us the power to love God's way.

Follow along with the online sermon notes or download the PDF fill-in-the-blanks sermon outline.

#077: The Divine Dance of Crazy Love

Todd Pierce teaches at Church Requel this weekend. We learn about the Drenched Doormat, the Defiant Dictator, the Desolate Dodger, and the Detached Deserter. Will we choose our way or God's way? One alternative leads us to the Diabolical Disarray. The other leads us to the Divine Dance of Crazy Love!

Music for this weekend's podcast is "Crazy Love" by Hawk Nelson.

#068: Winning With The Hand I'm Dealt

We start this week's podcast with an interview of Diana Devolder, the new Children's Ministry Director at Church Requel. Exciting news! We follow that up with Sunday's sermon, "Winning With The Hand I'm Dealt." Life is like a game of poker. You have to play with the hand you're dealt. We talk about 5 factors that make you who you are along with 5 winning choices.

The curriculum that Diana talks about is Live from Group.com.

Music on this week's podcast is "I Can Only Imagine" by Mercy Me.

#054: Toxic Words

In this week's podcast we talk about how to handle toxic words in our lives - words others say to us as well as words we repeat to ourselves. I also talk about this past week's CR worship experience, including celebrating a young Kindergardener, who makes a public confession of faith.
Here are links to the things mentioned in this week's CR Podcast:

• More information about the portable baptistry can be found here.
• Andy Stanley's leadership podcast can be found here.
• The Catalyst Leaders' podcast can be found here.
• The Beyond Pod podcast app can be found here.
• The Apple Podcast app can be found here.
• The Instacast podcast app can be found here.

Music for this week's Church Requel Audio Podcast is "Words" by Hawk Nelson.

#042: Choosing My Future

We are who we are today because of the choices we have made in the past. It follows then that we will have the future we will have tomorrow because of the choices we make today. We are quite literally "choosing our future." In this talk we learn 4 life-shaping choices from the life of Moses.

Music for this week's podcast comes from "Forward To The Future" by O.C. Overtones.

God Saves Us

We learn about the 5 Links in God's Plan of Salvation.  We start with the simple children's sermon - simple but filled with truth! Then we put this into the theological language of Romans 8:29-30. Finally Pastor Mark answers 3 questions about God's unconditional election of Christ-followers.