Immanuel Community Church

The gospel is not a transaction that secures forgiveness or a place in heaven, but God’s invitation to restore a broken relationship with his lost children. It’s about about knowing him, living with him, and being transformed by that relationship.

When ten spies said the promise was impossible and two said go anyway, the difference wasn’t the facts, it was which report they chose to believe.

Coveting grows from disordered desires that willpower alone cannot fix. True contentment comes as the Spirit reshapes our hearts and teaches us to find our sufficiency in God rather than in what others have.

This year’s Mexico mission team encountered a God who is greater than the challenges and limitations we face. Through five personal testimonies, interwoven with brief reflections from Scripture by Pastor Steve, we will see how God works in and through our weakness, uncertainty, and limitations.

The Seventh Word is not merely a prohibition against adultery but God’s invitation into the kind of covenant love that reflects his own faithful love for his people. It reveals that God’s boundaries for marriage are meant to form us into people who can truly love as he loves us.

SUMMARY: We often fail to recognize the God-given value of the people around us, responding instead with indifference, contempt, or even hostility. The sixth commandment calls us beyond simply “not murdering” to become people who honor God’s gift of life—seeing every person as an image-bearer and actively seeking their protection, reconciliation, and good.