Intimacy With God

Pastor Bill Bush · Jun 1, 2026

In Psalm 23, King David — writing as an aging king facing overwhelming opposition from his own son — moves through three scenes (green pasture, dark valley, and feasting table) to show that genuine worship is far more than singing songs of gratitude. It is an act of daily surrender and trust: trusting God with our needs, trusting Him through our valleys, and trusting Him with our future. The psalm's journey from talking about God to talking to God reveals that valleys are not dead ends but the very places where faith deepens from informational and transactional to intimate and powerful.

Pastor Daniel Goulding · May 20, 2024

In Matthew 6, Jesus corrects people who pray a lot but have missed the heart of it. Using the Lord's Prayer as a model — not a script — He shows that effective prayer begins with a clear picture of who God is: a holy, all-knowing Father who invites us into relationship. True prayer moves us from treating God as a heavenly genie into a posture of familiarity, expectation, humility, and dependency — where the goal is not extracting things from God but drawing closer to Him and being transformed by His presence.

Pastor Daniel Goulding · Nov 13, 2023

In His letter to the church in Ephesus, Jesus affirms the church's hard work, doctrinal soundness, and moral convictions, but issues a sobering warning: they have abandoned their first love. The sermon argues that Christian life cannot be reduced to religious activity or service done for God. The totality of the Christian experience is knowing God and being known by Him. When believers drift from that intimate relationship into mere duty, Jesus calls them back through three steps — remember, repent, and repeat — so the flame of the Holy Spirit is never extinguished.

Pastor Pat McCalla · Feb 14, 2021

From the Garden of Eden to the tabernacle in the wilderness, from the incarnation of Jesus to the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, and all the way to the new creation described in Revelation, the entire Bible tells one story: an ineffable God who needs nothing and no one has always desired to dwell with — and ultimately within — His people. The Hebrew word mishkan (tabernacle) is the thread that ties this whole story together, revealing that God's deepest longing is not just to be near us but to be in us.

Pastor Bill Bush · Sep 1, 2019

Using the story of David and Saul in 1 Samuel 24, Pastor Peter argues that anxiety tempts us to cut corners — to take the convenient, self-driven shortcut instead of the God-honoring path. The real root of corner-cutting, however, is a shallow relationship with God. Like David, who declared 'You are all I really want in life,' we must pursue God Himself through prayer, His Word, and worship — not merely the things He gives — because when we stop cutting corners in our walk with God, the enemy flees and the peace that transcends all understanding becomes ours.