Making Waves

Check out the video version of this sermon by clicking here ! Hello and welcome back to another blessed week here at Making Waves! Thrilled that you have chosen to join us once again this week as we begin a new series on something incredibly important to me. As many of you may know, we are kind of starting off this year with an ongoing overarching theme of going “back to the basics” of the church. We kicked off the year with a series of that title and, most recently, we did a series on the “basics” of Prayer and it’s methodology and meaning. And now, we are beginning this week our next leg of the “basics” theme: worship. Now, before you close the web browser or turn off your computer and chuck it out your window, hear me out with this one. Let me start this whole thing off by saying this: I get it. It’s hard to ignore that, among the many divisions that we create within the modern church, worship is a major heartstring that people do NOT like to have plucked. And I totally g

To watch the video version of this sermon, click here . Hello and welcome back to another week here on Making Waves! So glad that you’ve decided to join us as we close out this series on prayer together. If you have missed the first two segments of this series, I encourage you to go back and check them out, but if you decide not to, I will start out with a quick summary to catch us all up to the same speed. We set out two weeks on a journey to try and begin to open up our minds and hearts to a deeper sense of prayer. To take a look at the roots of prayer and what it is at it’s most basic level to help us understand what even happens in prayer. During our first week, we saw that prayer is deeply personal. God so longingly desires to have a relationship with us. Prayer is our opportunity to connect with God in a direct line of communication. It’s also our means of connecting with the world: our community. Then, last week, we saw that prayer is persistent. God calls us to be

If you’d like to check out the live video version of this sermon, then click here . Hello and welcome back to another week here on Making Waves! I’m so glad that you have chosen to worship in this way with us here virtually. If this is your first time joining us, I would encourage you to take a trip back to last week’s blog post, as we are currently on our 2nd week of this new series on prayer called, “Prayer is …” Here’s a quick summary for any who don’t have enough time to take a journey back to two weeks ago (I totally get that, by the way.) Last week, we looked at how prayer is something deeper than we normally make it. It’s not just a surface-level thing, it’s a connection (a direct connection, in fact) with our creator and sustainer, God. We explored what is essential to prayer. Is it important that we have our eyes closed? Or our hands clasped? Or is it actually more important that we are first understanding of how the relationship and discussion with God works and is pre