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Do you know that you are an heir of God? We are heirs according to His promise not because of our own behavior. This past Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached on our HEIRS series while also kicking off our 4th location in Downtown Brooklyn. You are royalty, you are heirs, you are an inheritor of all things simply by what Jesus has done. Unless we get our vision clear on who Jesus is we won't get our vision clear on others.  

This Sunday, special guest speaker, Pastor Kevin Loo kicked off our HEIRS series, showing us how we can live in the freedom that God has given us as sons and daughters. Knowing our position as heirs, by knowing God as Our Father first, we’re able to stop striving for what God says is already ours. It’s not always easy, but when we create that space to allow God to speak to us, we encounter Jesus, coming deeper into the knowledge of our inheritance in the Kingdom. 

This Sunday, we celebrated our 4th Anniversary, and as we look forward to our fifth year as a church, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached a message from Ezra 9 on how God's revival leads to rising! When we repent, turning back to God and surrendering our hearts anew to Him, we are filled with the true refreshment and energy of His Spirit so that we can be part of His restoration of our city and beyond. Our vision is Jesus Christ. Our mission is people. Our cause is love.

This week in our HELP series, Pastor Josh showed how Ezra's heart to rebuild the temple wasn't an accident but rather the hand of God on his life. Like a father putting his hand on his child, the hand of God brings us courage and keeps our praise connected to His unchanging character, not our own performance. No matter what discouragement we face, in Christ we know the hand of God is on our lives—He is with us and for us!

This past Sunday, Pastor Filmore Bouldes brought a message in our HELP series out of the book of Ezra on the promise of God. Although we may not be able to see the fulfillment of God’s promise to us at the moment, we can rest in the fact that He will fulfill it, giving us all the more reason to praise in the process. When we as believers come around a united purpose to share God’s love with this city and the world, we can be confident in knowing that it’s His consistency and perfection that is going to build the kingdom. Let’s start by using our praise as a witness even when the walls aren’t built, because our foundation is in Christ!

We serve the God who stirs our hearts and calls us home. This Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached out of Ezra on the return of the exiles and the rebuilding of the temple. Our God is actively at work to free us; His grace declares an end to exile and brings us home to rebuild the ruins of our lives. When we’re stirred, the result is always a unified vision of worship through obedience — God reveals what He wants to rebuild in your life when we say “yes” to Him!

Worry is misaligned care, misused imagination. This Tuesday, Pastor Josh Kelsey gave a powerful message out of the Sermon on the Mount, calling us to cast our worries on God so that our imagination can be filled with faith for the Kingdom calling on our lives! We were created to care, but never to carry our worries and cares on our own — Christ's heart is that we would be set free from worry as we turn to Him.  

This Sunday Pastor Josh Kelsey preached a message out of Acts 16, where Paul and Silas were thrown into prison after casting out an evil spirit and setting a young girl free. Although innocent, with every reason to complain, in their darkest hour Paul and Silas sang hymns and praised God from their jail cell. This shows us that praise isn’t about our circumstance, but about Jesus’ position in our lives. We too can be encouraged to praise even in the toughest of situations. Our freedom and our praise has the opportunity to set others free! 

The transformation from Saul to Paul is a story for each of us. This week Pastor Filmore Bouldes preached a message out of Acts 9, where Saul encountered Jesus on the road the Damascus and Ananias encountered Saul to reveal his calling. How incredible that God works through other people to reveal our own calling! Many times we can doubt God’s plan for our lives or feel shaken by prayers that seemed to go unanswered, but this story examples just how suddenly God can work when we keep trusting in Him. Jesus comes into our lives, changing our desires and mission in life, and bringing glory to His name — all so that we can share that hope with others.

This Sunday Pastor Josh Kelsey preached a message out of Acts 4 of opposition and boldness. Things of this world compete for our worship, but when we’re found in Christ we can confront our trials with a supernatural boldness and continue to endure hardships knowing that our identity rests in Him alone. We have the been given the authority to speak out in Jesus’ name freedom and healing over others’ lives just as Peter and John did. As we continue to endure through trials and opposition, we rest in knowing that they’re producing the character and hope of Christ in us. 

Each of us has the opportunity to live with great expectation and anticipation—Jesus has made each of us a new creation! This Sunday Pastor Josh preached a message out Peter and John’s encounter with the lame man by the temple gates. Through Peter and John’s faith in the power of Christ within them, they were able to give the lame man more than he was asking for—they not only gave him physical strength and healing but they gave him access to Jesus. By putting our own faith in action, we can now reach out to others and give them the same access of Christ inside us.

Jesus enters into our pain. He connects with us in our sorrow and brings comfort in our hearts when we need relief. This Sunday Pastor Emmanuel Hastings encouraged us out of John 11 as we looked at Jesus raising Lazarus back to life. Christ came to bring resurrection and life, and He is working through our situation — not just for our own lives but for those around us to reveal His glory in His time.  

Jesus always initiates and then He illuminates in our lives so that we can see Him. He wants to save and restore us as we look to Him. This Sunday, Pastor Filmore Bouldes preached a message on John 9 on how we are all blind without Jesus. When we see Jesus we see ourselves, we find our true identity and our vision is restored. 

There is no escaping sin in this life, but Jesus has taken on our guilty verdict so we may live free in this life and for eternity. This past Sunday, Pastor Josh preached a message on Jesus's encounter with the adulterous women in John 8. Through this story we are able to experience His unchanging love for this woman and all of humanity, ultimately displaying the sacrifice He was soon to make on the cross. Whether we find ourselves relating more to the woman caught in sin or the self-righteous Pharisees, God’s love is poured out on all of us, as we have all fallen short of His glory.

This past Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached on John 5 of the story of the man that was lame for 38 years. In our own times of helplessness, when the world cannot give us enough strength, Jesus encounters for healing and to reveal who He is. We’re able to receive His strength, by nothing of our own efforts, but by everything Jesus did on the cross. He calls us into freedom, even with our scars, so we can can tell of His healing power to others. 

Leaders rebuild walls to protect that which is valuable to God and to His church. This ALLIN Team Night, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached a message on leadership from the book of Nehemiah. Our city will always be a burden to us if we don't have a burden for it, we need to know the need in order to have a vision. Let's stay focused on what we are called to do in order to reach this city. 

This Sunday Pastor Josh Kelsey preached a message on the first encounter Jesus had after the Sermon on the Mount. In one touch, Jesus reached out to a leper that approached him in humility for healing and cleansed him. As we look to the leper as the sin in our own lives, we learn how to approach Jesus with the same humility and boldness. We are called to come to Him as we are. 

What are you doing to see Jesus? This Sunday Pastor Josh preached a message on the story of Jesus’ encounter with Zacchaeus, a despised chief tax collector. Jesus constantly tests the heart of men and women showing them that He came for the sole purpose of salvation for everyone. Although Zacchaeus was short in stature, it was this disadvantage that caused him to see Jesus differently. He reminds us that we’re never too far away for God to see us and call us by name. 

  God comes to us — He meets us and comes directly to our hearts to bring freedom. We have access to His living water as an endless source of overflow. This Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached a message on our source of life in Jesus. If we don't go to Jesus as our well of living water, we will run other people in our life dry. It's the positioning of our heart that determines where we find our thirst and fulfillment.

When grace touches your heart it doesn't matter what judgement comes your way. Grace always triumphs. This Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached a message of freedom that is found through Christ's radical grace. God wants to set us free so that we can bring freedom through others. We are forgiven so that we can forgive.