What if the thing that scattered you is the reason you can reach people no one else can?
In this message, Pastor Paul talks about a group of people whose lives were turned upside down by persecution. It looked like the end, but instead, it's how their message spread.
It comes down to three things most of us deal with: hard seasons aren't wasted, being the same isn't the same as being united, and sometimes letting go is the only way something grows.
This one's for you if you're in a rough stretch and wondering if it counts for anything. Or if church has always felt like you had to fit a mold. Or if you're holding on a little too tight to a kid, a team, or a plan.
20 Sept 2026
Why Growing Pains Are a Good Sign (Not a Warning)
Growth feels good until it doesn't. Somewhere in the middle of moving forward, most of us hit a wall nobody warned us about.
This week Pastor Paul looks at a moment in the early church (Acts 6) where fast growth exposed a real problem. How they handled it says more than the growth itself.
This about why growth hurts before it pays off, why the best season of your life and the hardest one can be true at the same time, and why getting stretched isn't proof something's broken. It might be proof something's working.
13 Sept 2026
Your Doubts Might Be the Point
What if the most famous doubter in the Bible wasn't a failure of faith but the reason the message made it 4,000 miles from home?
This week we kick off a new series called UNDERWAY, about finding your bearings when you're in the middle of change in your life, your work, your faith, or all three at once.
We look at the story of Thomas: the disciple who said out loud what everyone else was probably thinking, "I don't believe it until I see it."
He gets remembered as "Doubting Thomas." But history tells a different story, Thomas ended up traveling further than any other disciple to share what he'd seen, eventually reaching what's now Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, and India.
This isn't a message about ignoring your doubts or forcing yourself to "just believe." It's about what doubt is actually for and why the people who ask the hardest questions are sometimes the ones who go the furthest.
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