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Ever hosted a gathering where the guest list made you a little nervous? Maybe a wedding or a holiday table, where people from completely different worlds ended up sitting side by side. Pastor Nick Gatzke takes a closer look at a meal Jesus hosted for a crowd that had no business sharing a table. 
Jesus famously fed a crowd of 5,000 men with 5 loaves of bread and two fishes.  Then just a couple chapters later, Mark tells us that Jesus encountered another group of hungry people.  This time he fed 4,000.  Pastor Nick Gatzke explains what’s different about these miracles and three valuable less…
Ask anyone who’s worked in customer service, and they’ll tell you animated stories about people getting frustrated because they didn’t things their way. Whether we acknowledge it or not, most of us feel entitled to get what we want, when we want it. Pastor Nick Gatzke delivers a powerful lesson abo…
We like to think we deserve good things from family, employers, and even from God. In fact we demand, “what we deserve!” But the Bible makes it clear this attitude misses the mark. Pastor Nick Gatzke takes us to an interaction between Jesus and a Gentile woman that reveals what you and I truly dese…
Pastor Nick Gatzke talks about what it really takes to change––not just clean up. A lot of people think holiness is about tightening the rules, following more of them, or breaking fewer of them. But if that were true, the most discipled people would automatically be transformed. Find out it truly t…
We’ve all driven by a house that looked absolutely perfect from the curb.––fresh paint, trimmed hedges, and a welcome mat that looks inviting. But what’s really going on inside? Pastor Nick Gatzke digs into a Bible passage that challenges us to take a closer look, not at the outside, but at the ins…
When we reach out for help, we want immediate results. We tend to measure our level of trust in someone by their response time. So when they don’t text us back right away, we wonder if they really care at all. But Pastor Nick Gatzke challenges us to trust God’s timing even when it doesn’t match our…
There’s a particular kind of tired that has nothing to do with laziness. It’s the tired you experience when you’re doing everything right but still not seeing progress. Pastor Nick Gatzke points us toward a hope that holds steady, even when results don’t show up.
Pastor Nick Gatzke returns to the miraculous feeding of 5,000 men. This wonder was recorded in each of the four gospels and witnessed by thousands. Because we’re familiar with this story, it’s easy to marvel at the massive scale of God’s provision and still miss the more important lesson. 
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