Pastor Lonnie

In this message, Pastor Lonnie takes a popular children’s Sunday school song and applies it to the feet, hands, heart, mouth, and determination of Jesus. The message explores where Jesus went with his feet, how he used his hands to serve others, and how he used his mouth to speak about the presence of the peace of God.

Not all decisions in life are easy. In this concluding message from his series on Powerful Contradictions, Pastor Lonnie shares some practical self-reflective questions to help you discern your path when confronted with a gray area of complicated decision-making.

In this message, Pastor Lonnie dives into the principle Jesus taught, Give and you will receive. It is a reminder that we are interconnected and that our actions have far-reaching consequences. In giving, we open ourselves up to receive the blessings of a more abundant life and a more profound sense of purpose.

In this message from his series on Powerful Contradictions, Pastor Lonnie shows how Jesus is making a case that by letting go of self-centered desires and attachments and submitting to God’s higher purpose, there can be a deeper and more meaningful life experience.

This is the second message in the series by Pastor Lonnie on Powerful Contradictions. In this message, Pastor Lonnie explores an understanding of fairness from the teaching of Jesus from the parable of the workers in the vineyard and the effect of the lavish love of God on justice.Powerful contradictions often invite critical thinking and introspection, challenging us to explore complex issues and make difficult decisions. Acknowledging and navigating these contradictions through the lens of the Christian faith can lead to growth, learning, and more nuanced perspectives.

In this message, Pastor Lonnie discusses how powerful contradictions often invite critical thinking and introspection, challenging us to explore complex issues and make difficult decisions. Acknowledging and navigating these contradictions through the lens of the Christian faith can lead to growth, learning, and more nuanced perspectives.

In this message, pastor Lonnie discusses the significance of expecting great things from God while we attempt great things for God. God is given room to work when we give ourselves to a humanly impossible cause.

Pastor Lonnie continues his message series on Living Our Faith in this sermon about the gracious love of God we encounter through the actions and message of Jesus.

In this message, Pastor Lonnie shows how God’s power will not save you from tough times but how God’s power can get you through it.

In this message, Pastor Lonnie will show how scripture doesn't just want to be understood. It longs to be put into action. We deceive ourselves into thinking we have done the faith when we merely listen, reflect, ponder, and agree. According to the Bible, belief must be embodied and enacted to be real. The world is quite right in judging the gospel's truth based on the sort of lives the gospel can produce. Do our lives reflect the God whom we praise on Sunday morning? Your life can, and that is your sermon.

This is the Mother's Day message from Pastor Lonnie on May 14, 2023.

Serve Somebody was delivered on April 23, 2023

Healthy doubt can be the beginning of great faith because doubting is not the same as unbelief. Doubt is uncertainty. It's that murky area between belief and unbelief where nothing is decided and nothing is committed to. In this message, Pastor Lonnie uplifts two important questions to ask when we doubt that can help settle the disruptions of doubt to a vibrant Christian faith.

Easter is God's guarantee that the values of life worth preserving will be preserved and cannot be perversely destroyed. That life has the last word over death. Love is the victor over hate. Truth lives in place of falsehood. Tenderness lives in place of brutality. Good lives in place of evil. It was not a metaphor or some vague hope when Jesus said he was the resurrection and the life. It means that death has no power to take you from the arms of the Father. Whatever bad news you face. You have a resurrection coming.

On Palm Sunday, it becomes clear that when God enters our lives, he not only blesses, heals, teaches, and leads but also confronts and disturbs us. There is a city we tend to think of as within us. It is the city of our inherited patterns and ways of doing things. It is the dead weight of our habits, our unreflective living, and our assumption that life is the way we see it and nothing else. Here is a city within that cries for deliverance. Do we dare to enter this city as Jesus entered the city of Jerusalem on Palm Sunday? Will we enter our inner city triumphally? We enter our inner city triumphantly when we discover and hear that God has not entered our lives to help us do our work but has come to call us back to do His work as fully devoted followers of Jesus.

During times of spiritual dryness, Pastor Lonnie shows why we must patiently rely on the promises of God and not on emotions to realize that God is taking us to a deeper level of maturity. In this message, you will learn how Job worked through times when God seemed absent, which took him to the extravagant gracious love of God.

We can get stuck in life, and there comes a time when we must take action and leave the secure comfort of the familiar. For Peter, it meant trusting Jesus to get out of the boat and walk on water. The challenge of leaving the boat, with all its security and particular messiness, is terrifying. Still, if you don’t take the leap of faith, you will never experience walking on a surface never before imagined. In this message by Pastor Lonnie, you will get a grip on some truths to nudge you out of the boat.

God has taken an enormous risk entrusting the future church to us. In this message by Pastor Lonnie, we will learn that through the power of the Holy Spirit and with confidence in God's provisions, the church will not just survive but will prevail. The church's future is in our hands.