by David Lindner | Sep 20, 2023 | Blog, Featured
There are a lot of great churches in Battle Ground. If you’re already going to one of them, that’s great! We’re not trying to pull anyone away from another church. In fact, please DON’T come to our church if you’re already going...
by David Lindner | Sep 19, 2023 | Sermons
We are starting a new book study, going through the book of Colossians! But we’re doing something a little different. Instead of the typical, “you show up and listen to me talk about the text,” we’re going to study it together. How? Well, we...
by David Lindner | Jan 20, 2023 | Announcements, Blog, Church, Featured
After a little over a month of meeting on Sunday mornings, we have decided to move our service back to Sunday evenings! Why? Well, there are two main reasons: 1.) Most of us preferred the time. We like having the day to do whatever needs to be done and be able to meet...
by David Lindner | Dec 23, 2022 | Announcements, Blog, Christmas, Community, Featured
Due to the icy conditions, we are moving the Candlelight service to ONLINE Only! You can participate online on our Facebook page: facebook.com/Sixeightchurch! We will have several songs that we sing together, other videos and of course – candle-light Silent...
by David Lindner | Dec 9, 2022 | Blog, Christmas, Featured
We would like to invite you to join us for our Christmas Candlelight service on Friday, December 23rd, at 6:00 pm! Why December 23? We are a family-centered church, and we don’t want our Christmas Eve service to be a source of contention for families. We...
by David Lindner | Nov 17, 2022 | Blog, Christmas, Events
We love Christmas at 6:8 Church. It’s our favorite time of year! “Christmas is the time of yearFor being with the one’s we loveSharing so much joy and cheerWhat a wonderful feelin’Watching the one’s we loveHaving so much fun” Ray...
by David Lindner | Nov 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
We are now a part of the Battleground Community! And will be opening soon! And we’re excited to be here! It’s been quite the journey for us, so below you’ll find a little bit about our history. But first, you might be wondering: what does 6:8 mean?...
by David Lindner | Apr 25, 2022 | Blog, Featured, Sermons
In John 15, Jesus gave us a great metaphor for what it means to be In Christ, for the love of God to flow through our lives in such a way that we produce fruit that endures. But what does it mean? How do we truly abide in Christ?
by David Lindner | Mar 21, 2022 | Blog, Featured, Purple Faith, Sermons
As we continue on this journey towards purple faith, we stop to take a look at God’s Kingdom. We are citizens of heaven, ambassadors of the Kingdom of Light, but are we being good representatives of God’s Kingdom? Are we worshipping God or idols of our own...
by David Lindner | Mar 21, 2022 | Blog, Featured, Purple Faith, Sermons
Below you will find links to the entire Purple Faith teaching series all in one place: Week 1: “Lemniscatianity” Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/purple-faith-part-1-lemniscatianity/id630209009?i=1000550343563Facebook:...
by David Lindner | Mar 8, 2022 | Bible, Blog, Church, Featured, Purple Faith, Sermons
As a fallen individual, I recognize my tendency to be susceptible to mistruths. As someone who has been set free from mistruths by Christ, I am committed to a lifelong pursuit of God’s truth in all of life. When that truth lines up with my preconceived notions...
by David Lindner | Mar 1, 2022 | Blog, Featured, Purple Faith, Sermons
In part 4 of our Purple faith series, we get into the first agreement we need to make if we are going to have a faith that unites. Pastor David builds a solid biblical foundation for the image of God and helps to lay out some really practical advice for putting this...
by David Lindner | Feb 20, 2022 | Blog, Featured, Purple Faith, Sermons
To be someone who has a faith that unites may require that we sometimes have longer conversations with people who think differently than we do. The problem with that is, at a time when we need to have longer conversations is also the time when we are spending the...
by David Lindner | Feb 6, 2022 | Blog, Featured, Purple Faith, Sermons
If we’re going to be people of purple faith, we have to know what we mean by that right? What does it mean to be purple? Do we mean that everyone should compromise on their beliefs and values? Should we compromise on the truth? What is purple faith?
by David Lindner | Jan 30, 2022 | Blog, Featured, Purple Faith, Sermons
The world is more divided now than it has been in any of our lives. In fact, we may be more divided than during the Cival war. And it’s not getting any better. With 2022 being another election year, as Christians, we have to prepare ourselves for what lies...
by David Lindner | Jan 20, 2022 | Blog, Community, Featured, For Vancouver, Purple Faith
If I were to ask you to estimate how many people on “the other side” hold extreme political views, what would you guess? I mean, how many of the people in the political party opposite of you are radicals? Take a guess. If you’re a “red,”...
by David Lindner | Oct 14, 2021 | 8 to 15, Blog, Devotional, Featured
Sunday evening, I shared a little about Facebook, Frances Haugen’s remarks on 60 Minutes and before Congress. I really wanted to get on the soapbox, but I tried not to. I’m still trying not to. But, I’ve been really intrigued by her perspective. She...
by David Lindner | Jun 29, 2021 | Bible, Blog, Devotional, Featured, Summer With Jesus
Today’s Bible reading comes from Luke 13:31-35 31 At that time some Pharisees came to Jesus and said to him, “Leave this place and go somewhere else. Herod wants to kill you.” 32 He replied, “Go tell that fox, ‘I will keep on driving out...
by David Lindner | Jun 28, 2021 | Bible, Blog, Devotional, Featured, Summer With Jesus
Today’s Bible reading comes from Luke 13:18-20: 18 Then Jesus asked, “What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it to? 19 It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a...
by David Lindner | Jun 25, 2021 | Bible, Blog, Devotional, Featured, Summer With Jesus
Today’s Bible reading is from Luke 13:10-17 10 On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, 11 and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at...
by David Lindner | Jun 24, 2021 | Bible, Blog, Devotional, Featured, Summer With Jesus
Today’s reading is from Luke 13:1-9 Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. 2 Jesus answered, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than...
by David Lindner | Jun 23, 2021 | Bible, Blog, Devotional, Featured, Summer With Jesus
Today’s Bible Reading is from Luke 12:49-59 49 “I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! 50 But I have a baptism to undergo, and what constraint I am under until it is completed! 51 Do you...
by David Lindner | Jun 22, 2021 | Bible, Blog, Featured
Today’s Bible Reading, Luke 12:35-48 35 “Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, 36 like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for...
by David Lindner | Jun 21, 2021 | Bible, Blog, Featured
Today’s Bible Reading, Luke 12:22-34 22 Then Jesus said to his disciples: “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. 23 For life is more than food, and the body more than...
by David Lindner | Jun 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
Today’s Bible Reading, Luke 12:13-21 13 Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” 14 Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?” 15 Then he said to...
by David Lindner | Jun 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
Today’s Bible Reading, Luke 12:1-12 One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” 2 He said to them, “When you pray, say:...
by David Lindner | Jun 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
Today’s Bible Reading, Luke 11:37-54 37 When Jesus had finished speaking, a Pharisee invited him to eat with him; so he went in and reclined at the table. 38 But the Pharisee was surprised when he noticed that Jesus did not first wash before the...
by David Lindner | Jun 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
Today’s Bible Reading, Luke 11:29-36 The Sign of Jonah 29 As the crowds increased, Jesus said, “This is a wicked generation. It asks for a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah. 30 For as Jonah was a sign to the...
by David Lindner | Jun 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
Today’s Bible Reading, Luke 11:14-28 14 Jesus was driving out a demon that was mute. When the demon left, the man who had been mute spoke, and the crowd was amazed. 15 But some of them said, “By Beelzebul, the prince of demons, he is driving...
by David Lindner | Jun 11, 2021 | Bible, Blog, Devotional, Featured, Summer With Jesus
Today’s Bible Reading, Luke 11:1-13 One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” 2 He said to them, “When you pray, say:...
by David Lindner | Jun 10, 2021 | Bible, Blog, Devotional, Featured, Summer With Jesus
Today’s Bible Reading, Luke 10:38-42 38 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. 39 She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to...
by David Lindner | Jun 9, 2021 | Blog, Featured, Rest
According to an article in the National Library of Medicine: Experts have predicted a ‘’tsunami of psychiatric illness’’ in the aftermath of COVID-19 pandemic (Tandon, 2020). For such a large scale event like COVID-19 pandemic, the impact on mental health can be long...
by David Lindner | Jun 9, 2021 | Bible, Blog, Devotional, Featured, Summer With Jesus
Today’s Bible Reading, Luke 10:25-37 25 On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 26 “What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?” 27 He...
by David Lindner | Jun 8, 2021 | Bible, Blog, Devotional, Featured, Summer With Jesus
Today’s Bible Reading, Luke 10:13-24 13 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and...
by David Lindner | Jun 7, 2021 | Bible, Blog, Devotional, Featured, Summer With Jesus
Today’s Bible Reading, Luke 10:1-12 After this the Lord appointed seventy-two[a] others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go. 2 He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the...
by David Lindner | Mar 17, 2021 | Blog, Featured, Kingdom Of God, Sermons
Not only do we live in a world where people are desperate for power, we find ourselves wanting to be able to establish kingdoms for ourselves. We want to rule and reign over our little pieces of this earth. And we want to be able to set up our own way of life within...
by David Lindner | Mar 7, 2021 | Blog, Draw The Circle, Featured, Prayer, Sermons
In today’s teaching, we take a brief look at some different types of prayer as well as address some of the common myths we believe about prayer.
by David Lindner | Feb 28, 2021 | Blog, Draw The Circle, Featured, Prayer, Sermons
On the Swedish Island of Visingso, there is a mysterious forest of oak trees; mysterious because oak trees aren’t indigenous to the island and its origin was unknown for more than a century. Then in 1980, the Swedish Navy received a letter from the Forestry Department...
by David Lindner | Feb 14, 2021 | Blog, Featured, Sermons
As we continue on in our series, “Draw The Circle,” we take a look at the time God provided enough quail to the Israelites that it was literally coming out their nostrils. Check it out!
by David Lindner | Feb 10, 2021 | Blog, Sermons
In part 1 of our new series, Draw the Circle, we take a look at how prayer can change some of the biggest fears we may face in life.
by David Lindner | Feb 9, 2021 | Blog, Draw The Circle, Featured, Prayer, Sermons
One of the times Jesus was teaching his disciples to pray, he used an illustration about a widow who wouldn’t leave a judge alone. What does this metaphor mean for our prayer life?
by David Lindner | Aug 17, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Half Brother Chronicles, Sermons
In part 2 of our new series, we’re looking at the the dangers disruptive dreamers getting in the mix of the church. We’ll talk about how dreamers tend to have ideals that become more important to them than the gospel and anytime that happens you have a...
by David Lindner | Aug 9, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Sermons, The Half Brother Chronicles
As we start off a fresh series going through the book of Jude, we are going to take a look at some of the most pressing issues of our time. One of those being the amount of misinformation, mistruths and lies that we’ve allowed to infiltrate the church and the...
by David Lindner | Apr 1, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Questions, Sermons
In today’s episode David & Jim deal with the incredibly unpopular problem of sin. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Questions-Podcast-Episode-005.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | Mar 25, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Questions, Sermons
Episode 004 of the questions podcast, recorded on Facebook Live where David & Jim talk about how we can know about God. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Questions-Podcast-Episode-004.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple...
by David Lindner | Mar 18, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Questions, Sermons
In episode 3 of the questions podcast, Jim & David talk about the clues that exist all around us for God. Jim covers three areas of evidences: Creation, History and Personal Lives. We also deal briefly with the coronavirus situation from a question asked by one of...
by David Lindner | Mar 15, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Light Pollution, Sermons
In part 4 of our Light Pollution series, we take a look at what it is that gives followers of Jesus Christ the ability to be fearless. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/03-15-2020.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | Mar 11, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Questions, Sermons
Many people today think the Bible is an outdated book that has been proven to be inaccurate and not trustworthy. Many people think of the Bible and the account of Jesus as a myth and that the New Testament is merely the propaganda of the believers of that myth, but...
by David Lindner | Mar 8, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Light Pollution, Sermons
Love flows. It’s not something we hoard and absorb for ourselves. It’s something that has to flow through our lives for it to accomplish God’s higher purposes. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/03-08-2020.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window...
by David Lindner | Mar 4, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Questions, Sermons
This is really exciting for me! For years I have wanted to do a podcast like this with Jim Huntamer, one of our volunteer staff at SixEight Church. He has an actual wealth of knowledge about so many things including, Science, Scripture, The Economy and much more. So,...
by David Lindner | Mar 1, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Light Pollution, Sermons
In the second week of our Light Pollution series, with the goal of becoming love, we work at getting a definition and understanding of love according to God and according to the world. What we will see is that they are two drastically different, actually opposing...
by David Lindner | Feb 23, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Light Pollution, Sermons
Today we begin a new series leading up to Easter Sunday, April 12th (which, if you don’t have somewhere to go, we’d love to have you join us at 6:8!!!) I just invite you to listen in to get a feel for what this series is going to be all about. You may also...
by David Lindner | Feb 16, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Questions, Sermons
Today we wrestle with the topic of Hell. It’s not easy. But, as we’ll see, there is only one being able to make such a decision, and we are not Him. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/02-16-2020.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download...
by David Lindner | Feb 9, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Questions, Sermons
In today’s sermon we tack the topic of the injustice that has been done in the name of Christ. We also take a look at some ways we can keep from being people who propagate the problem. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/02-09-2020.mp3 Podcast: Play...
by David Lindner | Feb 2, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Questions, Sermons
How can Christians claim to have absolute truth? Isn’t truth relative? Don’t people get to decide for themselves what they want to believe? We deal with these and other questions in part 3 of the “Questions” series. ...
by David Lindner | Jan 26, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Questions, Sermons
In this week’s sermon we attempt to deal with the difficult topic of the problem of evil and suffering. Note: There was a Q&A time that following the sermon that is not recorded. In that time, we also explained that one of the big reasons there is evil and...
by David Lindner | Jan 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Have you ever wrestled with this question: “How Could A Good God Allow Suffering?” I mean, if God is good as the Bible claims that He is, how could he allow so many bad things to happen? If God is all-powerful, why doesn’t he use that power to end...
by David Lindner | Jan 19, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Sermons
Today we begin a new sermon series and new adventure as a church family and you’re invited along! We are wrestling with some of the big questions and problems that people have with Christianity, starting with: How Can There Only Be One Way To God? It’s a...
by David Lindner | Jan 12, 2020 | 6:8, Blog, Featured, Sermons
In todays’ sermon we give an overview of the 7 virtues of the SixEight family. These are a set of characteristics that drive who we are as a community that are a little different than our values. If you want to know a little about who we are and who we are...
by David Lindner | Jan 7, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Questions
Do you have legitimate questions about God, Christianity or the Bible that make it difficult for you to consider going to church or becoming a Christian? Join the club! There are difficult questions. Honestly. As a pastor, I have had my doubts and questions. Maybe you...
by David Lindner | Jan 5, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Sermons
Today, another one of our elders, Peter Schuelke shares with us some of the different discipleship and teaching methods Jesus used. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/01-05-2020.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | Dec 29, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Sermons
Today, we once again have the privilege of hearing from one of our elders at SixEight Church, Alex Rice. He shares with us some of his discoveries about the humanity of Jesus and what it means for us as His followers....
by David Lindner | Dec 6, 2019 | Blog, Christmas, Events, Featured
Woh, woh, woh, woh, woh. Isn’t that a big no-no for a church to “take Christ out of Christmas? Xmas? Seriously?” Okay, hang on, don’t call the papers! (does anyone read those anymore?) Did you know that the origination of Xmas was with the...
by David Lindner | Dec 1, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Jesus Is Greater, Sermons
Today we finish out the “Jesus is Greater” series going through the book of Hebrews. In this message, Pastor David reminds us that this isn’t a solo voyage, this is something we do together in the presence of witness throughout history....
by David Lindner | Nov 24, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Jesus Is Greater, Sermons
In the final sermon in our Jesus is Greater series, we deal with the topic of spiritual authority. We don’t like the concept of authority in our culture. Our heritage is rebellion. Our forefathers rebelled against the king, consequently we’re still...
by David Lindner | Nov 17, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Jesus Is Greater, Sermons
Today’s message is the reason we decided to go through the book of Hebrews. In today’s text we will deal with the two mountains and the fact that because of the work of Jesus we are able to ascend the mountain for ourselves. We don’t have to go...
by David Lindner | Nov 10, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Jesus Is Greater, Sermons
This may be one of the most famous sections of scripture and certainly the most popular passage from the book of Hebrews. We call it the hall of faith. In part 8 of our series we look at how our faith is not a blind faith and that those who are commended for their...
by David Lindner | Nov 3, 2019 | Blog, Church, Featured, Jesus Is Greater, Sermons
In part 7 of our “Jesus is Greater” series, we take a look at the greatest institution on the planet and ask ourselves if we really care about it like we should? http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/11-03-2019.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window |...
by David Lindner | Oct 27, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Jesus Is Greater, Sermons
In Part 6 of our “Jesus Is Greater Series” we take a look at how Jesus cleanses our conscience, that He doesn’t want to simply cover up our sin. Instead, Jesus wants to cleanse the deepest parts of our heart....
by David Lindner | Oct 20, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Jesus Is Greater, Sermons
We live from our hearts but do we know what’s being written on our hearts? Are we guarding our hearts or are we allowing hollow and deceptive philosophies to set up camp in our hearts and drive our lives?...
by David Lindner | Oct 13, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Jesus Is Greater, Sermons
In part 4 of series in Hebrews, “Jesus is Greater,” we take a look at the hope that is offered to us, the people who receive this greater priest and king. To view the video, watch it on our Facebook page. The sermon starts at 1 hr, 1m & 44sec....
by David Lindner | Oct 6, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Jesus Is Greater, Sermons
This week, we get into one of the most controversial passages in all of Scripture. It has divided Christians for hundreds if not thousands of years. Today, we seek to get to the heart of what the author is trying to communicate to the audience and see how it relates...
by David Lindner | Oct 1, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Jesus Is Greater, Sermons
Do you long for more peace in your life? Do you wish there was more peace around you? If you’re anything like me, you can probably see the receding shoreline of peace in our society. But what about us as believers? Are we experiencing peace? Are we at rest with...
by David Lindner | Sep 22, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Jesus Is Greater, Sermons
Today, we started a new series at SixEight Church, Jesus is Greater. We are going through the book of Hebrews and seeing how it applies to the life of the church in the 21st century. Today, we take a look at the fact that we are lost at sea and need someone to come to...
by David Lindner | Sep 1, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Sermons
We all have dreams for our lives. God has a dream for your life too. God has a dream for this church and He has a dream for your involvement in this church. We invite you to listen in as we take a look at God’s dream for SixEight and the people of SixEight!...
by David Lindner | Aug 23, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In today’s episode of “The Overflow Podcast,” which is also the last podcast in the Like Christ series, we take a look at one last fairly simple approach to making disciples. Albeit, one we have vastly overcomplicated....
by David Lindner | Aug 22, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In today’s episode of “The Overflow Podcast,” we take a look at one of the more challenging and difficult task of making disciples. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Overflow-Podcast-00066.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download...
by David Lindner | Aug 21, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In today’s episode of “The Overflow Podcast” we take a look at another simple concept for making disciples. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Overflow-Podcast-00065.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | Aug 20, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In today’s episode of The Overflow Podcast, we take a look at one of the most effective, useful and simply ways we can disciple others. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Overflow-Podcast-00064.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe:...
by David Lindner | Aug 19, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In today’s episode of “The Overflow Podcast” we take a look at the role unconditional love plays in discipling someone. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Overflow-Podcast-00063.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple...
by David Lindner | Aug 18, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Sermons
In the final sermon for the “Like Christ” series, we take a look at a crucial aspect in becoming like Christ: Making disciples. We’ll discover why a lot of people plateau in their walk with Christ, as well as look at some of the reasoning behind the...
by David Lindner | Aug 16, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In today’s episode of “The Overflow Podcast” we’re going to take a look at another perspective for living life on mission from Eph. 5. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Overflow-Podcast-00062.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window |...
by David Lindner | Aug 15, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In today’s episode of The Overflow Podcast, we take a look at how NOT to do justice. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Overflow-Podcast-00061.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | Aug 14, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In today’s episode of The Overflow Podcast, we take a look at the humility of Jesus and the example he set for us to follow. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Overflow-Podcast-00060.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple...
by David Lindner | Aug 13, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In today’s episode of The Overflow Podcast, we take a look at how God is not only rich in mercy, but patient in showing us mercy. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Overflow-Podcast-00059.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple...
by David Lindner | Aug 12, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In today’s episode of the podcast, we take a look at the Justice mission of Jesus and how it is that we participate with Him. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Overflow-Podcast-00058.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple...
by David Lindner | Aug 11, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Sermons
This week, we stop to examine the correlation between our mission verse as a church (Micah 6:8) and the way Jesus lived his life. As we dig in, we discover Jesus lived his life very much inline with doing justice, loving mercy and walking humbly with God....
by David Lindner | Aug 9, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In today’s episode of The Overflow Podcast, we take a look at three final scriptural concepts that pertain to being the embodiment of Christ http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Overflow-Podcast-00057.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download...
by David Lindner | Aug 8, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In today’s episode of The Overflow Podcast, we take a look at how to be the embodiment of God’s love. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Overflow-Podcast-00056.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | Aug 7, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In today’s episode of the Overflow Podcast, we take a look at how Jesus lived as One with the Father, from the Father and for the Father and what that means for us to be the embodiment of Jesus....
by David Lindner | Aug 6, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In today’s episode of The Overflow Podcast, we take a look at how we actually start to change and become like Christ. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Overflow-Podcast-00054.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | Aug 5, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In today’s episode of the Overflow Podcast, we take a look at the soil of our heart and some of the things that might be keeping us from becoming like Christ. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Overflow-Podcast-00053.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window |...
by David Lindner | Aug 4, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Sermons
As we take another turn in our “Like Christ” series, we take a look at the concept of embodiment. Specifically, we get a theological framework for Jesus being the embodiment of the Father and start to take a look at what it means for us to be the...
by David Lindner | Aug 2, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In this episode of The Overflow Podcast, we take a look at inviting people into our Jesus family. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Overflow-Podcast-00052.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | Aug 1, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In today’s episode of The Overflow Podcast, we take a look at how Jesus thought of His community as family. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Overflow-Podcast-00051.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | Jul 31, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In episode 50 of the Overflow Podcast, we dig a little deeper into the way Jesus set the standards for His community of apostles. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Overflow-Podcast-00050.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts...
by David Lindner | Jul 30, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In Today’s episode of the Overflow Podcast, we take a look at the incredible diversity that existed among the disciples. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Overflow-Podcast-00049.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | Jul 29, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In episode 48 of the Overflow Podcast, we take a look at what a blessing it, what it means to speak one, abracadabra the idea of speaking life. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Overflow-Podcast-00048.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe:...
by David Lindner | Jul 28, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Sermons
Today we take at the obsessive mindset Jesus had about community. Nearly his entire earthly ministry was focused on and built around community. What does community look like today? Let’s take a look! http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/07-28-2019.mp3...
by David Lindner | Jul 26, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In today’s episode of “The Overflow Podcast” we take a look at the 9 Spiritual Pathways, based on the book by Gary Thomas, and how they related to our personal and corporate worship....
by David Lindner | Jul 25, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In today’s episode of The Overflow Podcast, we take a look at two other forms of worship that are significant parts of Jesus’ public ministry: Sabbath and Holy Days. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Overflow-Podcast-00046.mp3 Podcast: Play in...
by David Lindner | Jul 24, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In today’s episode of The Overflow Podcast, we take a look at how the concept of overflow plays in to our worship. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Overflow-Podcast-00045.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | Jul 23, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In today’s episode of the Overflow Podcast, we take a look at the temple and tabernacle and then see the correlation to the New Testament church and how it should affect our view of worship and God’s presence in our lives....
by David Lindner | Jul 22, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In episode 43 of the Overflow podcast, we get a good definition of worship and take a look at some of the key postures of worship found in scripture. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Overflow-Podcast-00043.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download...
by David Lindner | Jul 21, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Sermons
As we continue to take a look at the habits of Jesus, we also continue to take a look at Jesus’ habit of going to the synagogue and worship. As we discovered last week, the whole of Jesus life was worship in the form of surrender, submission and commitment....
by David Lindner | Jul 19, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In episode 42 of the Overflow Podcast, we take a look again at the concept of God as a magnetic force who draws us into His story. We also take a look at the draw of opposing stories. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Overflow-Podcast-00042.mp3 Podcast:...
by David Lindner | Jul 18, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In episode 41 of the overflow podcast, we take a look at the contrast between unity and ego and the role ego has played in dividing the church. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Overflow-Podcast-00041.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe:...
by David Lindner | Jul 17, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In episode 40 of the overflow podcast, we take a look at the idea of being owners vs. renters. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Overflow-Podcast-00040.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | Jul 16, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In episode 39 of the Overflow Podcast, we take a look at the mindset of giving over getting. In today’s church, we tend to think more about what we’re going to get out of church, but that’s not a paradigm we find anywhere in Scripture....
by David Lindner | Jul 15, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In today’s episode of the Overflow Podcast, we take a look at the 4 dirty words in the church today: Sin, Surrender, Submit & Commit. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Overflow-Podcast-00038.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe:...
by David Lindner | Jul 14, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Sermons
Today as we look at another of the habits of Jesus, we stop to take a look at his habit of going to the Synagogue. It is mentioned 10 times in the different gospel accounts that Jesus went to the Synagogue. He went in his home town and when he was traveling. It is one...
by David Lindner | Jul 12, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In today’s episode of the overflow podcast, we take a look at a few more reasons to pray as well as scientific support of prayer. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Overflow-Podcast-00037.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple...
by David Lindner | Jul 11, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In today’s episode of the Overflow Podcast, we take a look at the habit of silence and solitude in Jesus’ life. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Overflow-Podcast-00036.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | Jul 10, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In today’s episode of the Overflow Podcast, we take a look at how Jesus used prayer in stressful and anxious situations. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Overflow-Podcast-00035.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | Jul 9, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In today’s episode of the Overflow Podcast, we take a look at the humanity of Jesus and what role prayer played into the way he faced temptation and making decisions http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Overflow-Podcast-00034.mp3 Podcast: Play in new...
by David Lindner | Jul 8, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
As we start week 6 of our series Like Christ, we take a look at how Jesus’ prayer life affected his desires, identity, authority and activity. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Overflow-Podcast-00033.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download...
by David Lindner | Jul 7, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Sermons
This week we take a turn away from observing the character traits of Jesus to looking at His habits. What are the things that Jesus repeatedly did? What effect did these habits have on Jesus? Today, we look specifically at prayer and the impact his prayer life had on...
by David Lindner | Jun 23, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Sermons
As we continue taking a look at the character of Jesus, Jim helps us to stop and take a look at the gentle nature of Jesus and some misconceptions we may have about being gentle like Christ. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/06-23-2019.mp3 Podcast: Play...
by David Lindner | Jun 21, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In Episode 32 of The Overflow Podcast, we look at how Jesus never used his emotions for his own advantage. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Overflow-Podcast-00032.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | Jun 20, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In episode 31 of The Overflow Podcast, we take a look at the ways Jesus experience sorrow and his response. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Overflow-Podcast-00031.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | Jun 19, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In episode 30 of The Overflow Podcast, we take a look at another emotion Jesus experienced: Joy. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Overflow-Podcast-00030.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | Jun 18, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In episode 29 of the Overflow Podcast, we take a look at something Jesus dealt with that we deal with a lot today, anxiety. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Overflow-Podcast-00029.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | Jun 17, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In Episode 28 of The Overflow Podcast, we take a look at a few different emotional concepts. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Overflow-Podcast-00028.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | Jun 16, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Sermons
If we are going to be Like Christ, we have to be like him in our emotions. But what does that mean? Does it mean that we stuff our emotions down? How did Jesus display emotions in his life? God made us as emotional beings and is, himself, an emotional being. So, what...
by David Lindner | Jun 14, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In this episode of the Overflow Podcast, we take our final look at courage and think about the desperate need that exists today for Christians to be courageous. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Overflow-Podcast-00027.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window |...
by David Lindner | Jun 13, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In episode 26 of The Overflow Podcast, we take a look at loyalty and faithfulness to see what role they play in our faith. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Overflow-Podcast-00026.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | Jun 12, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In episode 25 of the Overflow Podcast, we look at John chapter 7 and see how Jesus’ motives affected his courage and loyalty. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Overflow-Podcast-00025.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple...
by David Lindner | Jun 11, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In episode 24 of the overflow podcast, we take a look at Jesus’ teaching in John 6. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Overflow-Podcast-00024.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | Jun 10, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In Episode 23 of The Overflow Podcast, we take a look at Matthew 25 and see the combination of Courage and Faith at work. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Overflow-Podcast-00023.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | Jun 9, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Sermons
As we continue on in our Like Christ sermon series, we take a look at the courage and loyalty of Jesus. We discover that, while it’s incredibly popular in modern culture to play the victim, Jesus never did – even though he was the only true victim to ever...
by David Lindner | Jun 7, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In episode 22 of The Overflow Podcast, we take a look at 3 practical ways we can be agents of God’s grace. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Overflow-Podcast-00022.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | Jun 6, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In episode 20 of the overflow podcast, we take a look at Eph. 2:1-10 and Paul’s teaching on grace. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Overflow-Podcast-00021.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | Jun 5, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In this episode of the overflow podcast we take a look at Jesus’ teaching on truth in John 8. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Overflow-Podcast-00020.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | Jun 4, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In Episode 19 of the Overflow Podcast, we take a look at grace from Jesus’ parable on the prodigal son. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Overflow-Podcast-00019.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | Jun 3, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In episode 18 of the overflow podcast, we take a look at Jesus’ encounter with the woman at the well to see how Jesus exhibited grace and truth. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Overflow-Podcast-00018.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download...
by David Lindner | Jun 2, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Sermons
As we continue on in our series, Like Christ, we take a look at the fact that Jesus was fully grace and fully truth. There was no part of him that was absent of either of those. What does grace mean? What does truth mean?...
by David Lindner | May 31, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In Episode 17 of the overflow podcast, we take a look at the new eyes we’ve been given for seeing ourselves, others and the world. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Overflow-Podcast-00017.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple...
by David Lindner | May 30, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In Episode 16 of the Overflow Podcast, we investigate our motives for following Jesus. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Overflow-Podcast-00016.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | May 29, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In today’s episode of the overflow podcast, we ask the question, is there any hope for us to have a heart like Christ? http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Overflow-Podcast-00015.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | May 28, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In Episode 14 of the Overflow Podcast, we take a look at some of the bad motives people had for following Jesus. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Overflow-Podcast-00014.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | May 27, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In episode 13 of the overflow podcast, we take a look at how Jesus’ heart was pure in motives and affections. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Overflow-Podcast-00013.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | May 26, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Sermons
In week two of our summer series, Like Christ, we take a deeper look at the motives, desires and affections of Jesus’ heart. We are seeking to gain a better understand of what drove him in his life here on earth and to learn what God wants our hearts to look...
by David Lindner | May 24, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
As we finish out the first week of our Like Christ series, we take a look at what it means to know the heart of the Father. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Overflow-Podcast-00012.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | May 23, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
In episode 11 of the overflow podcast, we take a look at the unblemished heart of Jesus and start getting a picture of what is was that drove Jesus in his time here on earth. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Overflow-Podcast-00011.mp3 Podcast: Play in...
by David Lindner | May 22, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
Today on the overflow podcast, we take a look at the three states of our heart apart from God. Listen in and let God show you the current condition of your heart. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Overflow-Podcast-00010.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window |...
by David Lindner | May 21, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
As we continue in our Like Christ series, we take a look at what the heart is, what it does and the role it plays in our spiritual transformation. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Overflow-Podcast-0009.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download...
by David Lindner | May 20, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Overflow, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
As we start a new series, “Like Christ: The heart, habits and mission of Jesus”, we are going to be sharing a 5-7 minute devotion every day on the overflow podcast. Each day we will refresh some of the teaching from Sunday and then take a look at...
by David Lindner | May 19, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Like Christ, Sermons
As we start into this new series, “Like Christ: Having the heart, habits and mission of Jesus”, we begin by getting an understanding as to what the heart is. Our culture is driven by the heart, but do we really know what it is? Listen in as we seek to gain...
by David Lindner | Apr 9, 2019 | Blog, Easter, Events, Featured, prEaster
Can you believe Easter is just less than two weeks away? It’s right around the corner. It seems like Christmas was just yesterday, and most of us can’t believe that it’s already April, let alone time for Easter. Well. It’s here. And It’s...
by David Lindner | Apr 9, 2019 | Blog, Easter, Featured
Cynicism and skepticism are highly valued in our society. We like empirical evidence so that we can know for certain something actually happened. “And,” we quietly think to ourselves, “there’s no way to prove that Jesus rose from the dead....
by David Lindner | Apr 2, 2019 | Blog, Featured, For Vancouver, Mission 17:21
“I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.” – Jesus. (John 17:21) There...
by David Lindner | Mar 12, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Letting Go, Sermons
You know how you feel, and we would dare impose our assumptions of how you feel on you. But, from what we know about people, we know there’s an internal perception you have of yourself that is often quite different from external reality. What we mean by that is,...
by David Lindner | Mar 12, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Letting Go, Sermons
We believe in you. We believe you have incredible potential. We’re not just saying that, we actually believe it to our core. You’re amazing. You have incredible worth and dignity. And you also have incredible potential. And we’re pretty sure you know...
by David Lindner | Mar 12, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Letting Go, Sermons
I don’t know you, but I’d be willing to bet you want to achieve your full potential. I’ll bet you know you have potential and more than that, I’ll bet you feel like you you haven’t even begun to discover all that’s possible for your...
by David Lindner | Mar 11, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Letting Go
Potential is a big word. It’s overwhelming if you think about it too long. But, we all have it. Not only do we all have it, we all want it. We want to live up to our potential. We have this deep seated desire to “be all that we can be.” To be honest,...
by David Lindner | Mar 3, 2019 | Blog, Do You Know My Jesus, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 5
Luke 9:46-62 46 An argument started among the disciples as to which of them would be the greatest. 47 Jesus, knowing their thoughts, took a little child and had him stand beside him. 48 Then he said to them, “Whoever welcomes this little child in my name welcomes me;...
by David Lindner | Feb 24, 2019 | Blog, Do You Know My Jesus, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 5
Luke 9:28-45 28 About eight days after Jesus said this, he took Peter, John and James with him and went up onto a mountain to pray. 29 As he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became as bright as a flash of lightning. 30 Two men, Moses...
by David Lindner | Feb 17, 2019 | Blog, Do You Know My Jesus, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 5
Luke 9:10-27 10 When the apostles returned, they reported to Jesus what they had done. Then he took them with him and they withdrew by themselves to a town called Bethsaida, 11 but the crowds learned about it and followed him. He welcomed them and spoke to them about...
by David Lindner | Feb 10, 2019 | Blog, Do You Know My Jesus, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 5
Luke 9:1-9 When Jesus had called the Twelve together, he gave them power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases, 2 and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick. 3 He told them: “Take nothing for the journey—no staff, no...
by David Lindner | Feb 3, 2019 | Blog, Do You Know My Jesus, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 5
Luke 8:40-53 40 Now when Jesus returned, a crowd welcomed him, for they were all expecting him. 41 Then a man named Jairus, a synagogue leader, came and fell at Jesus’ feet, pleading with him to come to his house 42 because his only daughter, a girl of about twelve,...
by David Lindner | Jan 27, 2019 | Blog, Do You Know My Jesus, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Luke 8, Sermons, Vol. 5
This humorous account brings up some very interesting lessons for us to learn. As we continue in our new series, looking at the life of Jesus in Luke 8 we come across an unusual encounter. Jesus casts thousands of demons out of one guy and sends them into a herd of...
by David Lindner | Jan 20, 2019 | Blog, Do You Know My Jesus, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 5
In part 2 of our new series, “Do You Know My Jesus?”, we take a look at an odd contrast that Jesus makes in Luke 8. He contrasts the light with listening. Why would Jesus contrast something that you see with you eyes and something you hear with your ears?...
by David Lindner | Jan 13, 2019 | Blog, Featured
Has this ever happened to you? Where you’re talking to a couple of people about something, but you can tell that one of them isn’t listening? Maybe they’re scrolling through their phone, or tapping alerts on their smart watch. Or they’re just...
by David Lindner | Jan 13, 2019 | Do You Know My Jesus, Luke 8, Vol. 5
As we jump into a new series at the start of this year, we’re also getting back into the book of Luke. Starting in chapter 8, we get to take a look at Jesus telling the parable of the sower. While the primary application of this parable is those who don’t...
by David Lindner | Jan 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
At the start of a new year we often tell ourselves we are going to make some changes. We’re doing to do things differently. We’re going to get eat healthier, workout and lost those pounds. We’re going to make more money, take more time off and spend...
by David Lindner | Jan 6, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Rooted, Sermons
The enemy uses two primary tactics when it comes to his war against Christians: ideas and isolation. If he can get you obsessing over an idea/lie/half truth and get you isolated at the same time, he wins. Too often, our approach as Christians to this issue is like...
by David Lindner | Dec 16, 2018 | Blog, Sermons, The Christmas Set Up
This week we started a new series called “The Christmas Set Up.” It’s a series based on a book written by our pastor. We’ve been sharing a chapter a day of the story in audio and PDF format, and you’re invited to participate! (Actually, we would love, love, love for...
by David Lindner | Dec 9, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Sermons, The Christmas Set Up
This week we started a new series called “The Christmas Set Up.” It’s a series based on a book written by our pastor. We’ve been sharing a chapter a day of the story in audio and PDF format, and you’re invited to participate! (Actually, we would love, love, love for...
by David Lindner | Dec 2, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Sermons, The Christmas Set Up
This week we started a new series called “The Christmas Set Up.” It’s a series based on a book written by our pastor. We’ve been sharing a chapter a day of the story in audio and PDF format, and you’re invited to participate! (Actually,...
by David Lindner | Nov 30, 2018 | Blog, Christmas, Featured, The Christmas Set Up
It seems that the Christmas season is getting busier and busier every year. We start off the holiday season with the best intentions not to let ourselves get carried away by the hustle and bustle of the season. But we still seem to find ourselves overwhelmed by...
by David Lindner | Nov 25, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Sermons
We always celebrate the stars of the story. Everyone knows Peter, but do you know the guy that brought Peter to meet Jesus? This week we take a look at the idea of being someone’s Andrew. http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/11-25-2018.mp3 Podcast:...
by David Lindner | Nov 18, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 4
As we finish up Luke chapter 7, we are blessed to hear from Alex Rice, one of our deacons at SixEight. He beautifully shares his testimony and correlates it to the woman washing Jesus’ feet with perfume....
by David Lindner | Nov 11, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 4
In this passage from Luke 7 we take a look at a group of people who’s behavior towards Jesus, He classifies as that of petulant little children. How are we responding to Jesus? http://68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/11-11-2018.mp3 Podcast: Play in new...
by David Lindner | Nov 4, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 4
In this passage of Luke 7, we take a look at some people who were getting tripped up on Jesus. They thought he was going to be one way, but it turned out that he wasn’t anything like they expected. Today, we still find ourselves getting tripped up on our idea...
by David Lindner | Oct 28, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 4
As Rob shares with us today, we learn about something else that moves Jesus. Last week, we learned about Faith that amazes Jesus, today we see something that stirs him to act. Join in as we learn about the compassion of Jesus. ...
by David Lindner | Oct 22, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 4
As we jump back into the book of Luke, we are going to see something amazing. Throughout the gospels, people are constantly amazed at Jesus, but that isn’t the case here. Instead, Jesus gets amazed by the faith of someone. Who is it? What’s so amazing...
by David Lindner | Oct 15, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Sermons
This week we are privileged to hear from one of the newer members of our church, one who has a lot of ministry experience and training that has and will continue to greatly benefit our church. Corby shares with us today some insight to help us become students of the...
by David Lindner | Oct 7, 2018 | Blog, Did God Really Say, Featured, Sermons
In the final part of this series, we take a look at some of the big lies we believe about ourselves. As we’ll discover there are quite a few of them. But, spoiler alert, the good news is that these lies actually hold no sway over our lives unless we let them....
by David Lindner | Sep 30, 2018 | Blog, Did God Really Say, Featured, Sermons
There are lies that some live their lives by that are having an adverse affect on their ability to have meaningful relationships. There are lies we believe about church that are affecting our ability to experience the true community we were created for. If we’re...
by David Lindner | Sep 23, 2018 | Blog, Did God Really Say, Featured, Sermons
In Part 2 of our series, we take a look at the lies we believe about God, and these are just a few of them. There is a lot of bad thinking that has infiltrated the church when it comes to God and our relationship with Him. We need some serious realignment with who God...
by David Lindner | Sep 16, 2018 | Blog, Did God Really Say, Featured, Sermons
Did God Really Say? We find that question in Genesis 3:1, and that one question has done more to destroy God’s design for those created in His image than any other question in History! Our world right now is a direct result of our response to that question. As...
by David Lindner | Sep 9, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Sermons
We have been making some significant shifts as a church when it comes to our focus. In today’s reiteration of that vision for our church, I share some of my story. I specifically wanted to share some of the biggest changes God has made in my life over the past...
by David Lindner | Sep 2, 2018 | Blog, Continually Devoted, Featured, Sermons
As we bring our Continually Devoted series to a close, we take a look the lifestyle of the early church. The first four weeks we looked at what they were devoting themselves to. This week, we look at what that produced in the early church. It was nothing short of...
by David Lindner | Aug 26, 2018 | Blog, Continually Devoted, Featured, Sermons
There is a lot of teaching about prayer. There are a lot of statements about prayer. And, there is a lot of confusion about prayer. What is prayer? Why should we pray? Why can we pray? These are all questions we address in part 4 of our series on the church. Join us...
by David Lindner | Aug 19, 2018 | Blog, Continually Devoted, Featured, Sermons
As we continue on in our deep dive into life in the early church, we take a look at what might be a surprisingly difficult challenge. On the surface it doesn’t seem to be all that big of a deal, but as we take the concept of living sacrificially out to our...
by David Lindner | Aug 12, 2018 | Blog, Continually Devoted, Featured, Sermons
As we continue our deep dive into the thinking of the early church, we take a look at the type of fellowship they had. It’s not really what we would call fellowship. In fact, we’ve used the word incorrectly all these years, and watered down it’s...
by David Lindner | Aug 5, 2018 | Blog, Continually Devoted, Featured, Sermons
Throughout the month of August, we are going to be taking a look at the things the early church was continually devoted to. That word, that is most often translated simply “devotion” is much more than that. It carries with it the idea of:...
by David Lindner | Jul 25, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
Love the Lord with all your soul. Yesterday, Jim shared in a comment on the post this helpful explanation: “The body is what you are. It is made of the chemicals found in the earth, put together by God. Your spirit is why you are. In scripture, it is the breath...
by David Lindner | Jul 24, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
Yesterday, we started thinking about the soul. We looked at how we are souls with bodies. The soul is the eternal part of us. The soul is what will be saved. We will get new bodies, but not new souls. It’s that part of you that makes you who you are, but...
by David Lindner | Jul 23, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
Mark 12:30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’[a] 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] There is no commandment greater than these.” Last week, we talked about...
by David Lindner | Jul 22, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 3
In the last sermon from Luke 6, we take a look at a key passage for us as a church and as believers. We want to be good trees that produce good fruit. What is a good tree, how do we produce good fruit and are those even the right questions to ask? Listen in as we take...
by David Lindner | Jul 20, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
Luke 6:43 “No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. 44 Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thorn bushes, or grapes from briers. 45 A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an...
by David Lindner | Jul 19, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
Luke 6:43 “No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. 44 Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thorn bushes, or grapes from briers. 45 A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an...
by David Lindner | Jul 18, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
Yesterday, we talked about loving God with all your heart. And how our heart is our Motives, affections and feelings. (You could put emotions in this category as well. I’m sure there’s some disagreement, but just go with it.:) And our emphasis was on the...
by David Lindner | Jul 17, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Overflow Podcast, Sermons
Our goal at SixEight Church is to live our lives out of the overflow of our hearts. So, we are starting a new podcast. Our goal is to resource you where you are. We want to help you live out of the overflow in you day in/day out life. To do that, we’re going to...
by David Lindner | Jul 15, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 3
Luke 6:37 “Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. 38 Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap....
by David Lindner | Jul 8, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Sermons
We are starting to take a look at what God has in store for us at SixEight Church, as we move ahead into some things that are different than we’ve been doing them. There is one thing so important to us, and it’s this: That we walk humbly with God. The...
by David Lindner | Jul 1, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 3
Luke 6:27-36: 27 “But I say to you who hear: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,28 bless those who curse you, and pray for those who spitefully use you.29 To him who strikes you on the one cheek, offer the other also. And from him who takes away your...
by David Lindner | Jun 24, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 3
Luke 6:17-26 17 Then he came down with them and stood on a level place. And a large number of his disciples had gathered along with a vast multitude from all over Judea, from Jerusalem, and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon. They came to hear him and to be healed of...
by David Lindner | Jun 17, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 3
Luke 6:12-16 12 Now it was during this time that Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and he spent all night in prayer to God. 13 When morning came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles: 14 Simon (whom he named Peter), and...
by David Lindner | Jun 10, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 3
Luke 6:6-11 6 On another Sabbath, Jesus entered the synagogue and was teaching. Now a man was there whose right hand was withered. 7 The experts in the law and the Pharisees watched Jesus closely to see if he would heal on the Sabbath, so that they could find a reason...
by David Lindner | Jun 3, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 3
Luke 6:1-5 Jesus was going through the grain fields on a Sabbath, and his disciples picked some heads of wheat, rubbed them in their hands, and ate them. 2 But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?” 3 Jesus answered...
by David Lindner | May 27, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 3
Luke 5:33-39 33 Then they said to him, “John’s disciples frequently fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours continue to eat and drink.” 34 So Jesus said to them, “You cannot make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them, can...
by David Lindner | May 20, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 3
Luke 5:27-32 27 After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax booth. “Follow me,” he said to him. 28 And he got up and followed him, leaving everything behind. 29 Then Levi gave a great banquet in his house for Jesus, and there was a...
by David Lindner | May 13, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 3
Luke 5:17-26 17 Now on one of those days, while he was teaching, there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting nearby (who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem), and the power of the Lord was with him to heal. 18 Just then some...
by David Lindner | May 6, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Sermons, Vol. 3
Luke 5:12-16 12 While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came to him who was covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he bowed down with his face to the ground and begged him, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.” 13 So he stretched out his hand and...
by David Lindner | Apr 22, 2018 | 6:8, Blog, Featured, Sermons
So we all have a pretty good idea of what humility is. We think we know what it means to walk humbly, but do we really? Do we really understand the concept and on top of that, what does it mean to walk humbly with God? Let’s take a look at this idea together!...
by David Lindner | Apr 15, 2018 | 6:8, Blog, Featured, Sermons
We are trying to be the kind of church that is passionate about being compassionate. But what is compassion anyway? And what does it mean to show someone compassion? Certainly there is more to it than simply feeling sorry for someone. Join us as we take a look at what...
by David Lindner | Apr 8, 2018 | 6:8, Blog, Featured, Sermons
Okay, so our church’s name is based on the verse, Micah 6:8 – “He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? But to Do Justice and to Love Mercy and to Walk Humbly with your God.” Cool. But what does it all...
by David Lindner | Apr 4, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Now What
In the Bible, 3 days is often the time period it takes to go from death to life. We see that of Jesus. Jesus also referred to Jonah when He was about his resurrection. Jonah spent three days in the belly of the sea monster. This is day three. Do you feel alive? I...
by David Lindner | Apr 3, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Now What
Day 2: Knowing God Changes Everything 1 Cor. 6:19-20a – “19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price.” Before God gave you this new life,...
by David Lindner | Apr 2, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Now What
Day 1: I am a new creation, the old has gone, the new is here. 2 Cor. 5:17-21 17 So then, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; what is old has passed away—look, what is new has come! 18 And all these things are from God who reconciled us to himself through...
by David Lindner | Apr 1, 2018 | Blog, Easter, Featured
On Easter we celebrate the fact that Jesus rose from the dead. But what about Jesus’ statement when He says that He IS the resurrection? What does that even mean? And what about death and fear? If Jesus is who He says He is, and He is the resurrection, what does...
by David Lindner | Mar 25, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Sermons
A lot of believers have a dimmer switch on their faith. When we are around the right group of people, our lights shine brightly. When we’re around a different group, we turn the light down. But what does God want for us? And how is it that we even shine our...
by David Lindner | Mar 18, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Sermons
There is a theme throughout scripture. It’s God’s heart for us, His people. That’s what He wants. He wants us to be His people. He wants to be our God. He wants to dwell among us like He did in the garden in the very beginning. God uses this phrase...
by David Lindner | Mar 11, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 2
There is a crucial change in perspective that takes place in Peter in the story recorded in Luke 5:1-11. In the beginning of the story, Peter refers to Jesus as Master, but at the end he calls Jesus Lord. What changed? What happened in Peter that led him to this...
by David Lindner | Mar 7, 2018 | Blog, Events, Featured, SixEight Food Pantry
Every week, the SixEight Food Pantry serves an average of 100 households. We are very fortunate to be able to send our clients out of here with so much food that they’ll need a wagon to be able to get it to their car! As a food pantry, we want to help people...
by David Lindner | Mar 4, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 2
At we wrap up the 4th chapter of Luke, we learn some very interesting information about Jesus’ ministry at Capernaum. We also get a bit of a lesson in greek, because there is a very interesting paradox that takes place in this story that you miss if you...
by David Lindner | Feb 25, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 2
A lot of people in our world think there is a struggle between good and evil. A lot of major movies focus on the theme. In fact, since Hollywood seems to be able only to produce motion pictures related to comic books, that’s about the only major theme in movies...
by David Lindner | Feb 18, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 2
When Jesus first began teaching during His public ministry, he was given the scroll of Isaiah and he opened to this famous passage: “The Spirit of the Lord us on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom...
by David Lindner | Feb 11, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 2
Jesus, when he was tired and hungry was tempted by the Devil. He was offering things that most of us would have sold our own soul for, and yet Jesus resisted. In Jesus’ resisting, we learn for ourselves how to resist the Devil....
by David Lindner | Feb 4, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 2
If you’ve ever read through the Bible for very much time, you’ve certainly come across a genealogy or two. They can be a real challenge to get through. But is there more to it than just a list of names? Could it be that the significance of where Jesus came...
by David Lindner | Jan 28, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 2
In a few short verses we learn about how Jesus was baptized. Today we will take a look at all the different tellings of this story to gather a bigger picture of the significance of Jesus’ baptism. What we learn about Jesus ministry through this story has quite...
by David Lindner | Jan 21, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 2
In Luke 3:1-20, we hear about how John the Baptist was preparing the way for Jesus. This is what he had been created to do. While John is preaching, he uses a very interesting phrase: Produce Fruit in Keeping With Repentance. What did John mean by this phrase, how did...
by David Lindner | Jan 14, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 2
John the Baptist was raised in the wilderness. Jesus was tested in the wilderness. The Israelites wandered in the wilderness. What is the deal with the wilderness in the story of God? Is it a good thing or a bad thing? Join us as we take a look at the wilderness...
by David Lindner | Jan 8, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 2
Luke 3:1-6 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar—when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and Traconitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene— 2 during the high-priesthood of Annas and...
by David Lindner | Dec 31, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Sermons
Mark 4:1-20 A farmer went out to sow his seed.4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5 Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. 6 But when the...
by David Lindner | Dec 24, 2017 | Blog, Christmas Stories, Featured, Sermons
In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2 (This was the first census that took place while[a]Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3 And everyone went to their own town to register. 4 So Joseph also went up...
by David Lindner | Dec 17, 2017 | Blog, Christmas Stories, Featured, Sermons
2 Peter 3:1-12 Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking. 2 I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior...
by David Lindner | Dec 10, 2017 | Blog, Christmas Stories, Featured, Sermons
Matthew 25:31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats....
by David Lindner | Dec 3, 2017 | Blog, Christmas Stories, Featured, Sermons
1 Timothy 3:16: Beyond all question, the mystery from which true godliness springs is great: “He appeared in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was preached among the nations, was believed on in the world, was taken up in glory.” John 1:14:...
by David Lindner | Nov 26, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Sermons
Prov 3:9-10: Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops; 10 then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine. James 1:16 Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. 17 Every good and perfect...
by David Lindner | Nov 19, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Sermons
1 John 4:9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since...
by David Lindner | Nov 12, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 1
Luke 2:41-52 41 Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover.42 When he was twelve years old, they went up to the festival, according to the custom. 43 After the festival was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus...
by David Lindner | Nov 5, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 1
Luke 2:22-40 22 When the time came for the purification rites required by the Law of Moses,Joseph and Mary took him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord 23 (as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male is to be consecrated to the Lord”), 24 and to...
by David Lindner | Nov 2, 2017 | Blog, Featured, SixEight Food Pantry, Tons Of Turkey
It’s More Than A Meal…More Than A Bird In a couple of weeks, most of us are going to sit down around a table. Many of us with family we love. And we’re going to remember how blessed we are. We get to live in a great county, with amazing freedom. At...
by David Lindner | Oct 29, 2017 | Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 1
Luke 2:1-21 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2 (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3 And everyone went to their own town to register. 4 So Joseph also...
by David Lindner | Oct 22, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 1
Luke 1:67-80 67 And his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, saying, 68 “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people 69 and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David,...
by David Lindner | Oct 22, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 1
Luke 1:57 When it was time for Elizabeth to have her baby, she gave birth to a son. 58 Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her great mercy, and they shared her joy. 59 On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to...
by David Lindner | Oct 8, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 1
Luke 1:39-56 39 At that time Mary got ready and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judea, 40 where she entered Zechariah’s home and greeted Elizabeth. 41 When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy...
by David Lindner | Oct 1, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons
Luke starts the account of Jesus by talking about Zechariah and Mary. We have to ask ourselves, why would Luke choose to start here. If it was just because of the obvious facts of the story, Luke would have likely just stated the fact. There must be a reason Luke is...
by David Lindner | Sep 24, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons
As we get started in a brand new sermon series, we dig into Luke’s stated purposes for writing his account of Jesus. As we will discover, Luke the physician was very intentional and methodical in his approach to investigating the facts surrounding the life of...
by David Lindner | Sep 20, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Investigating Jesus
As a church we are passionate about Jesus. In fact, if we are going to call ourselves ‘Christians’ we must be passionate about Jesus. But, do we really know who Jesus was? Do we really know what Jesus did? Do you know what Jesus said? Or has our...
by David Lindner | Sep 19, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Walk Humbly
Your glory is too small a thing to live for. It is not a good thing for God to oppose you. I, as a pastor, could not in any way recommend that you live your life in direct opposition to God. In fact, if I have any merit as a pastor, I ought to do everything in my...
by David Lindner | Sep 17, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Overflow, Sermons
We were created on purpose for a purpose. Each one of us has something unique to offer the Kingdom. Sadly, many of us never get there because we never get past our own selfishness. If we can’t understand that the reason God created us wasn’t simply for our...
by David Lindner | Sep 10, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Overflow, Sermons
There has been a devastating shift in most people’s approach to church today. Something that we used to perceive as a lifetime commitment, has now become something we are only committed to as long as we are satisfied. We’ve started treating the family of...
by David Lindner | Sep 3, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Overflow, Sermons
So far in this series we’ve talked about what real love is (Part 1), having the right motives in coming to Jesus (Part 2) and having the right identity (Part 3). This week, we take a look at the actions this kind of a life should produce. As we look at some key...
by David Lindner | Sep 1, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Investigating Jesus, Sermons, Vol. 1
Luke 1:5-38 5 In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah; his wife Elizabeth was also a descendant of Aaron. 6 Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, observing all the Lord’s...
by David Lindner | Aug 28, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Overflow, Sermons
As we continue in our series, Overflow, we stop and take a look at where we find our identity. So many of us are looking for our identity in so many different places. But, where will we find who we were truly meant to be? Today, we take a look at what it means to find...
by David Lindner | Aug 23, 2017 | Block Party, Blog, Featured
If you’ve never heard of us or have no clue what 6:8 is, you may not know about our Block Party. Every year, the Saturday after Labor day, we do a free block party for our community. We love this community and count it a privilege to be a part of it. So, every...
by David Lindner | Aug 20, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Overflow, Sermons
Now that we at least have an idea of what love is (part 1), we need to look at what is driving us. At the beginning of the day or at the end of the day, why are we driven to know God? What is the reason we are coming to God? We take a look at one of the most epic...
by David Lindner | Aug 6, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Overflow, Sermons
What is love? And no, I’m not talking about a Saturday Night Live skit. What is real, authentic love? Our world is telling us one thing about love, but when we look at the Bible, we’ll see an entirely different idea all together. The question is, whose...
by David Lindner | Jul 23, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Sermons
Today, as we wind down from a full year of ministry at SixEight Church and just before we gear up for a brand new season of ministry this fall, we stop for one week and ask ourselves a very important question: Where are we? When it comes to our relationship with God,...
by David Lindner | Jul 16, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Love The Lord With All Your Heart, Sermons
As we finish up this look at what is, according to Jesus, the greatest command, we find a very interesting scene that unfolds in Mark 12. Jesus is dialoging and being challenged by the Elders, Teachers of the Law, Pharisees, Herodians and others who were gathered...
by David Lindner | Jul 8, 2017 | Church, ministry, pastor, priest, sermon
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by David Lindner | Jul 8, 2017 | Church, ministry, pastor, priest, sermon
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by David Lindner | Jul 2, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Love The Lord With All Your Heart, Sermons
Last week, we covered the idea of loving God with all your heart. This week, we’re going to try to gain a better understanding of “Soul, Strength and Mind.” As we are going to learn, the point of it all is that God wants our sold out, all the chips...
by David Lindner | Jun 30, 2017 | Church, ministry, pastor, priest, sermon
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by David Lindner | Jun 25, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Sermons
We’ve heard this verse a hundred times. We talk about our heart all the time. We encourage one another to “follow your heart.” But, is that really good advice? Do we even have a proper understanding of what our heart is? And what does it mean to love...
by David Lindner | Jun 18, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Love Your Neighbor, Sermons
As we finish up this series on loving our neighbors, we take a very practical look at some of the things the Bible says to do and not do when it comes to loving our neighbors. In Leviticus 19, we hear about all the rules for living in community. Some of them seem out...
by David Lindner | Jun 11, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Love Your Neighbor, Sermons
Right after Jesus told us about loving our neighbors, he gave us an illustration about what it really means to do that. It’s one of the most popular stories in the Bible, and yet there might be some elements of the story we gloss over because we’re so...
by David Lindner | Jun 4, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Love Your Neighbor, Sermons
One of Jesus’ most famous passages is where He tells us to Love our neighbor as ourself. It’s all over the place in our world, even secular media will throw that phrase around all the time. Where does this start though? We are supposed to love our...
by David Lindner | May 28, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Own It, Sermons
We’ve talked about owning our own faith and owning our church, but what about the mission God has given us? How does this faith that we have, that we experience when we’re together with our church family intersect with the rest of our lives? Or, do we even...
by David Lindner | May 24, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Own It, Sermons
For many of us, church is something we attend. It’s the pastor’s thing. I come to it, when I feel like it, but it’s just something I do. Well, what if I told you church isn’t something you go to or do? And what if I told you that God has...
by David Lindner | May 16, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Own It, Sermons
We talk a lot about faith. We are supposed to have faith in Jesus and that’s our “saving faith.” But, what does that mean? Is faith something we do or is it something else? We invite you to listen in as we cover this tough topic and try to gain a...
by David Lindner | May 3, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Sermons
It’s a classic movie now (although I remember when it was first out!), but many of us still love that classic scene of Dead Poets Society where the students take a stand for their teacher, who they feel has been unfairly fired. As we take a look at Baptism, this...
by David Lindner | Apr 26, 2017 | Baptism, Blog, Featured
We have been blessed to be able to baptize 33 individuals since September 1st of 2013. And we would be honored to be able to help you take this step in your walk as a follower of Jesus Christ! If you’re wanting to get baptized, contact the church office to find...
by David Lindner | Apr 26, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Sermons, The End...or is it
So, Christ died on the cross to pay for our sins, and we know that our old self was crucified with Him on that cross. And, Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father and we too receive this new life in Christ. What we thought was the end was only the...
by David Lindner | Apr 19, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Sermons, The End...or is it
Last Sunday was awesome! It was Easter, we celebrated the Resurrection and this new beginning we have because Christ conquered the grave. And it’s a powerful and epic story. It’s great. We love the resurrection. We could talk about that all day long....
by David Lindner | Apr 17, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
Well, that was Easter. Jesus has Risen. Now what? Where do we go from here? Matthew 28:18-20, Luke 24:45-48; Acts 1:1-11; John 14:15-27; 15:26-27 The question we need to ask ourselves is: Are we just standing around looking at the empty tomb, or the fact that Jesus...
by David Lindner | Apr 16, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Sermons, The End...or is it
Have you ever spent two hours of your life watching a movie, only to have it end in a horrible way? “There’s two hours of my life I’ll never see again!” As we celebrate Easter, we take a look at Easter from the perspective of the Disciples who...
by David Lindner | Apr 16, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
It’s Resurrection Day! This is the day we live for as Christians! And, this account of the resurrection is stunning. It’s probably the one story in the Bible, where, if I could travel back in time, I would want to be a part of this story. Read along and...
by David Lindner | Apr 15, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
Watch this video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwX_EpNR4CA The Cover-Up Conspiracy Matthew 27:62-66, Luke 24:1-7
by David Lindner | Apr 14, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
Good Friday: These readings are broken up throughout the course of the day. Please find some time through the day today to meditate on each part of the events of Good Friday. We have put together a Spotify Playlist to help you think about the significance of this day....
by David Lindner | Apr 13, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Sermons, The End...or is it
Have you ever thought about the guy who made the cross that Jesus died on? And what about this part of the story where it mentions the wine-vinegar that was given to Jesus on a hyssop branch, what’s that all about? Listen in to part 1 of our new series...
by David Lindner | Apr 13, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
During each day of this week, we invite you to read the story of what took place on this day of the week. During each day, note the response of the crowds and religious leaders toward Jesus. Pay special attention to what happens to Jesus each day. Spend some time...
by David Lindner | Apr 12, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
During each day of this week, we invite you to read the story of what took place on this day of the week. During each day, note the response of the crowds and religious leaders toward Jesus. Pay special attention to what happens to Jesus each day. Spend some time...
by David Lindner | Apr 11, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
During each day of this week, we invite you to read the story of what took place on this day of the week. During each day, note the response of the crowds and religious leaders toward Jesus. Pay special attention to what happens to Jesus each day. Spend some time...
by David Lindner | Apr 10, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
During each day of this week, we invite you to read the story of what took place on this day of the week. During each day, note the response of the crowds and religious leaders toward Jesus. Pay special attention to what happens to Jesus each day. Spend some time...
by David Lindner | Apr 9, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured
All the epic stories have an epic ending. Often times there is some big twist that brings the whole story together. Other times the sweet moment of vindication happens as the villain is finally defeated. And then, that text comes on the screen: “The End.”...
by David Lindner | Apr 9, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, prEaster
Can you believe Easter is just a week away? It’s right around the corner. It seems like Christmas was just yesterday, and most of us can’t believe that it’s already April, let alone time for Easter. Well. It’s here. And It’s time. Time...
by David Lindner | Apr 9, 2017 | Blog, Ephesians: Alive To Live, Featured, Sermons
Ephesians 6:10-24 10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the...
by David Lindner | Apr 9, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
During each day of this week, we invite you to read the story of what took place on this day of the week. During each day, note the response of the crowds and religious leaders toward Jesus. Pay special attention to what happens to Jesus each day. Spend some time...
by David Lindner | Apr 8, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
Jesus Anointed At Bethany John 12:1-11 Observe: What did Jesus do in this story? Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What ways do you need to...
by David Lindner | Apr 7, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
The Good Shepherd John 10:1-15 Observe: What did Jesus do in this story? Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What ways do you need to submit to...
by David Lindner | Apr 6, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
The Vine and the Branches John 15:1-17 Observe: What did Jesus do in this story? Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What ways do you need to...
by David Lindner | Apr 5, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
Jesus, The Bread of Life John 6:25-69 Observe: What did Jesus do in this story? Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What ways do you need to...
by David Lindner | Apr 4, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
The Healing at the Pool John 5:1-14 Observe: What did Jesus do in this story? Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What ways do you need to...
by David Lindner | Apr 3, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
The Parable of the Sower (Click here to download the free pdf ebook “Preparing the Soil” Based on this passage) Mark 4:1-20 Observe: What did Jesus do in this story? Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be...
by David Lindner | Apr 2, 2017 | Blog, Ephesians: Alive To Live, Featured, Sermons
Ephesians 6:1-9 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), 3 “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” 4 Fathers, do not provoke your...
by David Lindner | Apr 2, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
The Death & Resurrection of Lazarus John 11:1-44 Observe: What did Jesus do in this story? Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What ways do...
by David Lindner | Apr 1, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
The Rich and the Kingdom of God Mark 10:17-27 Observe: What did Jesus do in this story? Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What ways do you...
by David Lindner | Mar 31, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
Blind Beggar Receives His Sight/Zaccheus Luke 18:35-19:10 Observe: What did Jesus do in this story? Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What...
by David Lindner | Mar 30, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
Little Children & Jesus Mark 10:13-16 Observe: What did Jesus do in this story? Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What ways do you need...
by David Lindner | Mar 29, 2017 | Blog, Featured
Let’s get right to the point… We claim to trust God, and we understand that we need to, but do we really do so? I know I can struggle with it. God has made all these promises to us in His word, but do I really trust Him enough to follow through? God has...
by David Lindner | Mar 29, 2017 | Blog, Ephesians: Alive To Live, Featured
This is our Study through the book of Ephesians at SixEight Church. We have been going through this letter Paul wrote, verse by verse. However, even though we have read every verse as we have studied here, there is no way for us to cover all of the content contained...
by David Lindner | Mar 29, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
Drop The Rock John 8:1-11 Observe: What did Jesus do in this story? Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What ways do you need to submit to His...
by David Lindner | Mar 28, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
The Transfiguration Luke 9:28-36 Observe: What did Jesus do in this story? Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What ways do you need to submit...
by David Lindner | Mar 27, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
Jesus Walks On Water Matthew 14:22-32 Observe: What did Jesus do in this story? Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What ways do you need to...
by David Lindner | Mar 26, 2017 | Blog, Ephesians: Alive To Live, Featured, Sermons
Ephesians 5:21-33 21 And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. 22 For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the...
by David Lindner | Mar 26, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand John 6:1-14 Observe: What did Jesus do in this story? Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What ways do you need...
by David Lindner | Mar 25, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
SOTM: The Wise and Foolish Builders 7:24-29 Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What ways do you need to submit to His will for your life today?...
by David Lindner | Mar 24, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
SOTM: True & False Prophets/True & False Disciples 7:15-23; Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What ways do you need to submit to His...
by David Lindner | Mar 23, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
SOTM: Ask, Seek, Knock/The Narrow and Wide Gates 7:7-14; Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What ways do you need to submit to His will for...
by David Lindner | Mar 22, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
SOTM: Judging Others 7:1-6; Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What ways do you need to submit to His will for your life today? (How can you...
by David Lindner | Mar 21, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
SOTM: Treasures in Heaven/Do Not Worry 6:19-34; Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What ways do you need to submit to His will for your life...
by David Lindner | Mar 20, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
SOTM: Fasting 6:16-18; Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What ways do you need to submit to His will for your life today? (How can you apply...
by David Lindner | Mar 19, 2017 | Blog, Ephesians: Alive To Live, Featured, Sermons
Ephesians 5:15-21 15 So be careful how you live. Don’t live like fools, but like those who are wise.16 Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days. 17 Don’t act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do. 18 Don’t be drunk with wine, because...
by David Lindner | Mar 19, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
SOTM: Prayer 6:5-15; Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What ways do you need to submit to His will for your life today? (How can you apply the...
by David Lindner | Mar 18, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
SOTM: Giving to the Needy 6:1-4; Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What ways do you need to submit to His will for your life today? (How can...
by David Lindner | Mar 17, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
SOTM: Eye for an Eye/Love Your Enemies 5:38-48; Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What ways do you need to submit to His will for your life...
by David Lindner | Mar 16, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
SOTM/Oaths 5:33-37; Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What ways do you need to submit to His will for your life today? (How can you apply the...
by David Lindner | Mar 15, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
SOTM/Adultery & Divorce 5:27-32; Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What ways do you need to submit to His will for your life today? (How...
by David Lindner | Mar 14, 2017 | Blog, Encouragement, Featured
Lately, I find myself wanting to send you (the church) more encouragement. I would send you emails all the time to encourage you as you life this life, but I don’t want to overwhelm your inbox. So, I’m doing it here, that way you at least have the choice....
by David Lindner | Mar 14, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
SOTM/Murder Matthew 5:21-26; Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What ways do you need to submit to His will for your life today? (How can you...
by David Lindner | Mar 13, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
SOTM/The Fulfillment of the Law 5:17-20; Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What ways do you need to submit to His will for your life today?...
by David Lindner | Mar 12, 2017 | Blog, Ephesians: Alive To Live, Featured, Sermons
Ephesians 5:1-14: Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are his dear children.2 Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us[a] and offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God. 3 Let there be no...
by David Lindner | Mar 12, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
SOTM/Salt & Light 5:13-16; Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What ways do you need to submit to His will for your life today? (How can you...
by David Lindner | Mar 11, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
Sermon on the Mount/Beatitudes Matthew 5:1-12; Observe: What did Jesus do in this story? Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What ways do you...
by David Lindner | Mar 10, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
Jesus Calms The Storm Mark 4:35-41 Observe: What did Jesus do in this story? Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What ways do you need to...
by David Lindner | Mar 9, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
Jesus Heals And Forgives A Paralyzed Man Mark 2:1-12 Observe: What did Jesus do in this story? Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What ways do...
by David Lindner | Mar 8, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured
In 2014, Easter Sunday fell on April 20th. 4/20. I thought it was kind of funny. Some people asked, “Don’t you know what 4:20 is?” I did. And I would reply: “I think it would be awesome if we had a bunch of potheads here for Easter.” It...
by David Lindner | Mar 8, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
Jesus Calls His First Disciples Luke 5:1-11 Observe: What did Jesus do in this story? Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What ways do you need...
by David Lindner | Mar 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
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by David Lindner | Mar 7, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
Jesus Not Accepted In His Hometown Luke 4:14-30 Observe: What did Jesus do in this story? Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What ways do you...
by David Lindner | Mar 6, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
Jesus With the Woman at the Well John 4:4-42 Observe: What did Jesus do in this story? Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What ways do you...
by David Lindner | Mar 5, 2017 | Blog, Ephesians: Alive To Live, Featured, Sermons
Ephesians 4:17-32: 17 With the Lord’s authority I say this: Live no longer as the Gentiles do, for they are hopelessly confused. 18 Their minds are full of darkness; they wander far from the life God gives because they have closed their minds and hardened their...
by David Lindner | Mar 5, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
Jesus teaches Nicodemus John 3:1-21 Observe: What did Jesus do in this story? Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What ways do you need to...
by David Lindner | Mar 4, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
Jesus Changes Water Into Wine John 2:1-11 Observe: What did Jesus do in this story? Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What ways do you need to...
by David Lindner | Mar 3, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
John the Baptist’s Testimony regarding Jesus John 1:15-34 Observe: What did John do in this story? Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in John’s actions that could be applied to your life today? Pray: What can you praise/thank God for today? What...
by David Lindner | Mar 2, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
March 2 Jesus Is Tested in the Wilderness Read Matthew 4:1-11 Observe: What did Jesus do in this story? What was Jesus’ source for responding Satan’s temptations? Apply: What principle/truth do you see modeled in Jesus’ actions that could be applied...
by David Lindner | Mar 1, 2017 | Blog, Ephesians: Alive To Live, Featured, Sermons
In life, there are many things that we don’t think we’re ready for. So, often times, we will wait on them until we think we’re ready. We don’t think we’re ready to get married, so we keep waiting. We don’t think we’re ready to...
by David Lindner | Mar 1, 2017 | Blog, Easter, Featured, Journey Through The Empty Tomb
Today, we are starting a journey as a church. In 45 days (11 hours and 30 Minutes), it will be Easter Sunday. And on that day we will celebrate, as one big family, the empty tomb. However, there is so much that happened before that epic event that we need to know as...
by David Lindner | Feb 23, 2017 | Blog, Ephesians: Alive To Live, Featured, Sermons
One of my favorite passages in all of the Bible is in this chapter of Ephesians. Not just mine, but many Christians love these verses. Phrases like: 20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work...
by David Lindner | Feb 14, 2017 | Blog, Ephesians: Alive To Live, Featured, Sermons
I am in awe of what God has done for me. I am so grateful for God’s gift of salvation, redemption and transformation. But, do I ever take this gift God has given to me beyond my own selfishness? I’m so thankful for what God has done for me, but have I even...
by David Lindner | Feb 8, 2017 | Blog, Ephesians: Alive To Live, Featured, Sermons
The position we live our lives from makes all the difference. Are we living our lives from the position that God designed for us, are are we still trying to get there? This is the big question we address as we cover this portion of Ephesians. It’s a great...
by David Lindner | Jan 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
It’s the dream many of us share. Getting wealthy without having to work patiently for it. Just like George Bailey in “It’s A Wonderful Life” when his dad says, “Still after that first million before you’re thirty” and George...
by David Lindner | Jan 30, 2017 | Blog, Ephesians: Alive To Live, Featured, Sermons
We are going to hear from Paul today about death. That is, the death in which we used to live. We often say, our former selves, or who we used to be. The question we ask today, though, is: Do we really understand what the old, dead version of ourselves was? And do we...
by David Lindner | Jan 22, 2017 | Blog, Ephesians: Alive To Live, Featured, Sermons
We like the what questions. What am I supposed to do? What are the rules? What am I going to have for lunch? What are we going to do tomorrow? The what questions of life are tangible and easier to answer. But, when we become consumed by the what and neglect the why,...
by David Lindner | Jan 18, 2017 | Ephesians: Alive To Live, Sermons
For most of us, our lives as Christ followers have been characterized by the things we are supposed to do and the things we’re supposed to avoid. But, have we missed something? Could it be that we’re starting in the wrong position, and that instead of...
by David Lindner | Jan 16, 2017 | Blog, Featured
Due to our parking lot still being covered in snow, and the threat of freezing rain tomorrow morning and throughout the day, the SixEight Food Pantry will be closed tomorrow, January 17, 2017. We don’t want you to risk your life trying to get here to pick up...
by David Lindner | Jan 8, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Sermons, Vol. 1, Vol. 2
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar—when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and Traconitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene— 2 during the high-priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the...
by David Lindner | Jan 1, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Sermons
As we kick-start this new year, we wanted to stop for just a moment to focus on one way we might be able to make the most of a new opportunity like this. So, we talked about how important time is, and how quickly it rolls past us. Wouldn’t it be awful to wake up...
by David Lindner | Dec 18, 2016 | Blog, Christmas Through The Carols, Featured, Sermons
For many, Christmas is a joyous season of celebration and family and traditions. But for others, Christmas isn’t such a joyous occasion. What do we do when we find ourselves struggling to be jolly the only time of year we even use that word? This week we are...
by David Lindner | Dec 12, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group!...
by David Lindner | Dec 11, 2016 | Bible, Christmas Through The Carols, Featured, Sermons
As we continue this series looking at some of our favorite Christmas carols, we are going to take a deeper look at the history and theology of one of the most beloved carols of all time: “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.” As we are going to learn there is a...
by David Lindner | Dec 11, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group!...
by David Lindner | Dec 10, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group! 1...
by David Lindner | Dec 9, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group!...
by David Lindner | Dec 8, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group! 1...
by David Lindner | Dec 7, 2016 | Blog, Christmas Through The Carols, Featured, Sermons
Every year, around this time, we start singing the same old Christmas songs. Of course, there are the ones we love that have absolutely no spiritual significance. At least I’ve never been able to find much to be gleaned from Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer as it...
by David Lindner | Dec 7, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group!...
by David Lindner | Dec 6, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group! John...
by David Lindner | Dec 5, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group! Luke...
by David Lindner | Dec 4, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group!...
by David Lindner | Dec 3, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group!...
by David Lindner | Dec 2, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group! Jonah...
by David Lindner | Nov 30, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Sermons
As we wrap up this month of talking about living a life that shines, we take this idea one step further. As a church, we have a deep desire to be a redemptive force in the community. Yes, we want to have a redemptive influence in the lives of everyone each one of our...
by David Lindner | Nov 30, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group! Joel...
by David Lindner | Nov 29, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group!...
by David Lindner | Nov 28, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group!...
by David Lindner | Nov 23, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Sermons
As we continue to look at the idea of living a live that shines/living a life that begs the question, we take a bit of a turn. That turn is towards the idea of being created in God’s image and what that means for us as creative beings. A lot of people think...
by David Lindner | Nov 23, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group!...
by David Lindner | Nov 22, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group! John...
by David Lindner | Nov 21, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group!...
by David Lindner | Nov 20, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group! Psalm...
by David Lindner | Nov 19, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group! Psalm...
by David Lindner | Nov 18, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group! Psalm...
by David Lindner | Nov 17, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group! Psalm...
by David Lindner | Nov 16, 2016 | Blog, Featured, SixEight Food Pantry, Thanksgiving, Tons Of Turkey
Well, it’s almost here! Thanksgiving is a week from tomorrow and our Tons of Turkey distribution is less than a week away! That means, there are a lot of good deals going on around town that you can take advantage of to help provide a turkey for a family in need...
by David Lindner | Nov 16, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group!...
by David Lindner | Nov 15, 2016 | 6:8, Blog, Featured, Sermons
You may have wondered where the name SixEight came from. Well, it comes from this verse in Micah 6:8: “He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? But to Do Justice, and to Love Mercy and to Walk Humbly with your God.”...
by David Lindner | Nov 15, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group!...
by David Lindner | Nov 14, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group!...
by David Lindner | Nov 13, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group!...
by David Lindner | Nov 12, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group! 1...
by David Lindner | Nov 11, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group! Psalm...
by David Lindner | Nov 10, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group!...
by David Lindner | Nov 9, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group!...
by David Lindner | Nov 8, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group!...
by David Lindner | Nov 7, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Good Trees
Below you will find links to every sermon in the Good Trees series. Listen in to be encouraged about how to live a life that produces good fruit. Good Trees, Part 1: Grace & Truth Good Trees, Part 2: Make Every Effort Good Trees, Part 3: Virtue Good Trees, Part 4:...
by David Lindner | Nov 7, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community...
by David Lindner | Nov 6, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Sermons
Matthew 5:13-16 ESV 13 “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet. 14 “You are the light of the...
by David Lindner | Nov 6, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group!...
by David Lindner | Nov 5, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group! 1...
by David Lindner | Nov 4, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group! 1...
by David Lindner | Nov 3, 2016 | Blog, Featured, SixEight Food Pantry, Tons Of Turkey
It’s More Than A Meal…More Than A Bird In a couple of weeks, most of us are going to sit down around a table. Many of us with family we love. And we’re going to remember how blessed we are. We get to live in a great county, with amazing freedom. At...
by David Lindner | Nov 3, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group! Luke...
by David Lindner | Nov 2, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group!...
by David Lindner | Nov 1, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group!...
by David Lindner | Oct 31, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group! Psalm...
by David Lindner | Oct 30, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Sermons
1 Thessalonians 5:18 ESV 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. Colossians 3:17 ESV 17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him....
by David Lindner | Oct 30, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group! John...
by David Lindner | Oct 29, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group! Psalm...
by David Lindner | Oct 28, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group!...
by David Lindner | Oct 27, 2016 | Bible, Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
We invite you to join us in a time of reading and reflection together as a church. We are spending the final 68 days of 2016 reading God’s word together and discussing it. Read todays passage below and then join us for discussion in our Facebook Community Group!...
by David Lindner | Oct 26, 2016 | Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
Please read the following selection from the Bible and then join us for a discussion around it on our Facebook Community Group! Exodus 3:1-15 Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of...
by David Lindner | Oct 25, 2016 | Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
Read today’s section of the Bible and then join us in our Facebook Community Group to discuss it! Psalm 90:1-17 Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. 2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the...
by David Lindner | Oct 24, 2016 | Blog, Featured, T-Minus 68
Read the passage below, then join us for conversation around these verses in our Facebook Community Group! Genesis 17:1-9 When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless, 2 that I...
by David Lindner | Oct 23, 2016 | Blog, Devotional, Featured, T-Minus 68
Read the passage below, then join the discussion in our Facebook Group! Isaiah 44:6-21 Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: “I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god. 7 Who is like me? Let him proclaim...
by David Lindner | Oct 23, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Good Trees, Sermons
2 Peter 3 This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, 2 that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your...
by David Lindner | Oct 16, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Good Trees, Sermons
2 Peter 2 But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many will follow their...
by David Lindner | Oct 2, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Good Trees, Sermons
2 Peter 1:3-11 3 His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, 4 by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them...
by David Lindner | Sep 25, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Good Trees, Sermons
2 Peter 1:3-11 3 His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, 4 by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them...
by David Lindner | Sep 18, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Good Trees, Sermons
2 Peter 1:3-11 3 His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, 4 by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them...
by David Lindner | Sep 11, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Good Trees, Sermons
2 Peter 1:3-11 3 His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, 4 by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them...
by David Lindner | Sep 4, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Good Trees, Sermons
2 Peter 1:3-11 3 His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, 4 by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them...
by David Lindner | Aug 28, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Good Trees, Sermons
2 Peter 1:3-11 3 His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, 4 by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them...
by David Lindner | Aug 24, 2016 | Block Party, Blog, Featured
Block Party 2016, September 10th, 11a-3p! We love this community! Seriously. West Hazel Dell is where it’s at! And we are honored to be a part of this place you call home. To help express our gratitude for being such an awesome community, every year we put...
by David Lindner | Aug 21, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Good Trees, Sermons
2 Peter 1:3-11 3 His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, 4 by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them...
by David Lindner | Aug 14, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Good Trees, Sermons
2 Peter 1:3-11 3 His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, 4 by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them...
by David Lindner | Aug 7, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Good Trees, Sermons
2 Peter 1:3-11 3 His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, 4 by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them...
by David Lindner | Jul 31, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Sermons
Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. http://www.68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/07-31-2016-edited.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | Jul 24, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Sermons
Psalm 139:13-18 13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I...
by David Lindner | Jul 17, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Sermons
Isaiah 1:16 “learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause.” Join us as Rob Goff shares with us about the greatest epidemic taking place in America today. For more...
by David Lindner | Jul 15, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video
Romans 12:1-2 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the...
by David Lindner | Jul 14, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video
Romans 12:1-2 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the...
by David Lindner | Jul 13, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Sermons
For too many Christians, Jesus has been something we’ve tried to add to our lives. We add a little Jesus on Sunday and hope that will be enough for the week. But, Jesus never intended to leave us as we were. He wants a total transformation. Listen in as we take...
by David Lindner | Jul 13, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video
Romans 12:1-2 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the...
by David Lindner | Jul 12, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video
Romans 12:1-2 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the...
by David Lindner | Jul 11, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video
Romans 12:1-2 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the...
by David Lindner | Jul 5, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video
Ephesians 2:1-13 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also...
by David Lindner | Jul 3, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Sermons
Join us as we explore Ephesians chapter 2 and talk about what it means to be near to God. http://www.68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/07-03-2016.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | Jul 1, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video
Malachi 3:13-4:6 13 “You have spoken arrogantly against me,” says the Lord. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we said against you?’ 14 “You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What do we gain by carrying out his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord...
by David Lindner | Jun 30, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video
Malachi 3:13-4:6 13 “You have spoken arrogantly against me,” says the Lord. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we said against you?’ 14 “You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What do we gain by carrying out his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord...
by David Lindner | Jun 29, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video
Malachi 3:13-4:6 13 “You have spoken arrogantly against me,” says the Lord. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we said against you?’ 14 “You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What do we gain by carrying out his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord...
by David Lindner | Jun 28, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video
Malachi 3:13-4:6 13 “You have spoken arrogantly against me,” says the Lord. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we said against you?’ 14 “You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What do we gain by carrying out his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord...
by David Lindner | Jun 27, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video
Malachi 3:13-4:6 13 “You have spoken arrogantly against me,” says the Lord. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we said against you?’ 14 “You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What do we gain by carrying out his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord...
by David Lindner | Jun 26, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Sermons
Click below to listen to part 7 of our series on the book of Malachi http://www.68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06-26-2016.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | Jun 23, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video
Malachi 3:6-12 6 “I the Lord do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.7 Ever since the time of your ancestors you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the LordAlmighty. “But...
by David Lindner | Jun 22, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video
Malachi 3:6-12 6 “I the Lord do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.7 Ever since the time of your ancestors you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the LordAlmighty. “But...
by David Lindner | Jun 21, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video
Malachi 3:6-12 6 “I the Lord do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.7 Ever since the time of your ancestors you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the LordAlmighty. “But...
by David Lindner | Jun 20, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video
When you get the firing order wrong on your car, the engine runs really poorly. The same is true in life. When you get your priorities wrong, life gets rough. How does money affect my relationship with God?
by David Lindner | Jun 19, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Malachi, Sermons
Listen to part 6 of Malachi below! http://www.68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06-19-2016.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | Jun 17, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video
Yes, we are back with the Daily Coaching tips! And today, we’re wrapping up the process series. Jesus said, “unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it will produce no fruit.” How does that apply to making disciples?
by David Lindner | Jun 16, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video
Today we are covering the 4th part of the discipling process at SixEight Church – Pruning.
by David Lindner | Jun 15, 2016 | Baptism, Blog, Featured
We have been blessed to be able to baptize 33 individuals since September 1st of 2013. And we would be honored to be able to help you take this step in your walk as a follower of Jesus Christ! If you’re wanting to get baptized, contact the church office to find...
by David Lindner | Jun 12, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Sermons
Join us as we hear from Guest Speaker, Phil Yntema. http://www.68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06-12-2016.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | Jun 8, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video
Progress and Protect As a part of following Christ, our work as the disciplers is not done once someone has put their faith in Jesus. In fact it has only just begun. Now that they are in Christ, we must go through the process of helping them understand the parts of...
by David Lindner | Jun 7, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Malachi, Sermons
Week 1: Backing Away Week 2: Cutting Corners Week 3: 2:1-9 (Jim Huntamer) Week 4: Commitments Week 5: Faithful Messengers Week 6: Week 7:
by David Lindner | Jun 7, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Malachi
Are you intimidated by the idea of sharing the gospel with someone? Worried you’re going to mess it up? Here’s a simple pneumonic device to help you have a basic understanding of PLANTing the seed of the gospel in the life of someone you’ve been...
by David Lindner | Jun 6, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Malachi
Before we can think about sharing the gospel with someone, we have to do the sometimes more difficult work of preparing the soil. Sometimes the soil is easy to till, sometimes it requires a pick axe. Regardless, if we don’t prepare the soil to receive the seed,...
by David Lindner | Jun 5, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Malachi, Sermons
Malachi 2:17-3:5 17 You have wearied the Lord with your words. But you say, “How have we wearied him?” By saying, “Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delights in them.” Or by asking, “Where is the God of justice?” 3:1 “Behold, I send my...
by David Lindner | May 29, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Malachi, Sermons
Malachi 2:10-16 10 Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers? 11 Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. ForJudah has...
by David Lindner | May 27, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Malachi, Video
Malachi 2:1-9 “And now, O priests, this command is for you. 2 If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed...
by David Lindner | May 26, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Malachi, Video
Malachi 2:1-9 “And now, O priests, this command is for you. 2 If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed...
by David Lindner | May 25, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Malachi, Video
Malachi 2:1-9 “And now, O priests, this command is for you. 2 If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed...
by David Lindner | May 24, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Malachi, Video
Malachi 2:1-9 “Now, you priests, this commandment is for you. 2 If you do not listen and take seriously the need to honor my name,” says the Lord who rules over all, “I will send judgment on you and turn your blessings into curses—indeed, I have already done so...
by David Lindner | May 23, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Malachi, Video
Malachi 2:1-9 “Now, you priests, this commandment is for you. 2 If you do not listen and take seriously the need to honor my name,” says the Lord who rules over all, “I will send judgment on you and turn your blessings into curses—indeed, I have already done so...
by David Lindner | May 22, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Malachi, Sermons
Malachi 2:1-9 “And now, O priests, this command is for you. 2 If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed...
by David Lindner | May 20, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Malachi, Video
Malachi 1:6-14 6 “A son honors his father, and a slave his master. If I am a father, where is the honor due me? If I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says the LordAlmighty. “It is you priests who show contempt for my name. “But you ask, ‘How have we shown...
by David Lindner | May 19, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Malachi, Video
Malachi 1:6-14 6 “A son honors his father, and a slave his master. If I am a father, where is the honor due me? If I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says the LordAlmighty. “It is you priests who show contempt for my name. “But you ask, ‘How have we shown...
by David Lindner | May 18, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Malachi, Video
Malachi 1:6-14 6 “A son honors his father, and a slave his master. If I am a father, where is the honor due me? If I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says the LordAlmighty. “It is you priests who show contempt for my name. “But you ask, ‘How have we shown...
by David Lindner | May 17, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Malachi, Video
Malachi 1:6-14 6 “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’7 By...
by David Lindner | May 16, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video
Malachi 1:6-14 6 “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’7 By...
by David Lindner | May 15, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Malachi, Sermons
Malachi 1:6-14 6 “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’7 By...
by David Lindner | May 11, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Malachi, Video
Malachi 1:1-5 The oracle of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi. 2 “I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob 3 but Esau I have hated. I have laid waste...
by David Lindner | May 10, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured
Malachi 1:1-5 The oracle of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi. 2 “I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob 3 but Esau I have hated. I have laid waste...
by David Lindner | May 9, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Malachi, Video
Malachi 1:1-5 A prophecy: The word of the Lord to Israel through Malachi. 2 “I have loved you,” says the Lord. “But you ask, ‘How have you loved us?’ “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob, 3 but Esau I have hated, and I have turned...
by David Lindner | May 8, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Malachi, Sermons
As we start off a new series at SixEight Church, we’re going to be taking a good look at the book of Malachi – everyone’s favorite book! As a book that was written about 1,000 years after God gave Moses the law, there are some very strong...
by David Lindner | May 6, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video, Who Am I?
Matthew 6:25-34 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store...
by David Lindner | May 5, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video, Who Am I?
Matthew 6:25-34 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store...
by David Lindner | May 4, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video, Who Am I?
Matthew 6:25-34 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store...
by David Lindner | May 3, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video, Who Am I?
Matthew 6:25-24 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store...
by David Lindner | May 2, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video, Who Am I?
Matthew 6:25-34 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store...
by David Lindner | May 1, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Sermons, Who Am I?
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed with everything that is going on around us all the time. It feels like our world is full of chaos and we are just stuck in the corner hoping to survive. http://www.68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/05-01-2016.mp3Podcast: Play...
by David Lindner | Apr 29, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video, Who Am I?
1 Peter 2:4-9 4 As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him— 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus...
by David Lindner | Apr 28, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video, Who Am I?
Ephesians 2:10 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
by David Lindner | Apr 27, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video, Who Am I?
Romans 12:1-8 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the...
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by David Lindner | Apr 26, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Disciplemaking, Featured
You’ve heard me say it before. An hour on Sunday is not enough. Simply being at church on a Sunday morning doesn’t matter at all, if it doesn’t affect the other 167 hours of the week. That’s a big misconception. I can just go to church, and get...
by David Lindner | Apr 26, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video, Who Am I?
Romans 12:3-8 3 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. 4 For just as each of us has...
by David Lindner | Apr 25, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video, Who Am I?
Romans 12:3-8 3 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. 4 For just as each of us has...
by David Lindner | Apr 24, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Sermons, Who Am I?
When we compare ourselves with others, it’s easy to feel like what we bring to the table pales in comparison to what we see others doing. http://www.68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/04-24-2016.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple...
by David Lindner | Apr 22, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video, Who Am I?
Romans 8:18-28 18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by...
by David Lindner | Apr 21, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video, Who Am I?
Romans 8:18-28 18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by...
by David Lindner | Apr 20, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video, Who Am I?
Romans 8:18-28 18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by...
by David Lindner | Apr 19, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video, Who Am I?
Romans 8:18-28 18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by...
by David Lindner | Apr 18, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video
Romans 8:18-28 18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by...
by David Lindner | Apr 17, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Sermons, Who Am I?
Sometimes the greatest challenge we have to overcome isn’t a result of a bad choice that we made, it’s the result of someone else who made a bad decision. How do we move on from that?...
by David Lindner | Apr 14, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video
Hebrews 10:19-26 19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of...
by David Lindner | Apr 13, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video
Hebrews 10:19-26 19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of...
by David Lindner | Apr 12, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video
Hebrews 10:19-26 19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of...
by David Lindner | Apr 11, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video
Hebrews 10:19-26 19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of...
by David Lindner | Apr 11, 2016 | Blog, Events, Featured, Parent's Night Out
It can be hard to get out. When you have a kid or two (or three or four), it can be a pretty big challenge to find the time to get out of the house by yourself. We understand that, and we want you to know that we care! That’s why we are having a Parent’s night out –...
by David Lindner | Apr 10, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Sermons, Who Am I?
A lot of us struggle to feel like we matter to anyone. Sometimes we wonder if anyone would notice if we weren’t around anymore. http://www.68church.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/04-10-2016.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts |...
by David Lindner | Apr 8, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video
Romans 5:18-6:4 18 Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people. 19 For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also...
by David Lindner | Apr 7, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video
Romans 5:18-6:4 18 Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people. 19 For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also...
by David Lindner | Apr 6, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video
Romans 5:18-6:5 18 Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people. 19 For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also...
by David Lindner | Apr 5, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video
Romans 5:18-6:4 18 Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people. 19 For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also...
by David Lindner | Apr 4, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video
Romans 5:18-6:4 18 Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people. 19 For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also...
by David Lindner | Apr 3, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Sermons, Who Am I?
Many of us have things in our past that we are embarrassed to admit. Some of us have things in our past that we think will keep us from being able to know God. Let’s see what the Bible has to say about that!...
by David Lindner | Apr 1, 2016 | Blog, Daily Coaching, Featured, Video
Genesis 1:26-27 26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” 27 So...
