Immanuel Community Church

At the heart of the Christmas story is the declaration that a King has been born. Each of us is invited to wrestle with what it means to live under his rule.

The gospel calls us to radically reconsider all our relationships, seeking to lift others up in the spirit of unity and love. This includes dismantling the walls of hostility that often exist between men and women.

As image-bearers of God, woman have full access to all positions of leadership in both society and the church.

No matter how powerful or popular we are, or strong and successful we look we all have the sickness of sin that will destroy us, even if we think we can hide it from others. But if we humble ourselves before God and trust His word by faith, we can experience healing and new life in Him.

As followers of Jesus, we’re called to embody the good news of the gospel that God’s kingdom has come to help the poor, claim justice and freedom for the oppressed, and to proclaim God’s favor on humanity.

Baptism can be transformational if we understand the spiritual reality that God is revealing to us through this physical re-enactment; that we are a new creation and Jesus is renewing His creation through his resurrection and his resurrected followers until he returns.

We place our faith in money because it promises us contentment, comfort and control, but God desires that we seek these things in Him because ultimately they can only be found in Him alone.

While there is a strong horizontal component to Christianity (our relationships with other humans), the central relationship is vertical. A thriving spiritual life requires that God himself be the central figure in our lives. Nowhere is this more prominently pictured than John’s vision of the Throne Room of Heaven in Revelation 4.

 God calls us to widen our ring of friendship including those who we normally would not think to invite into our inner circle of love, care, and truth telling.