When we experience trauma, abuse, and mistreatment, three emotions surface: anger, sadness, and anxiety. They must be managed well or they end up controlling our lives and damaging our hearts. In fact, many people who have suffered need emotional healing. We need practical solutions that we can implement in our daily lives because of the residual waves of emotional pain.


In this sermon, Pastor Scott follows Peter’s lead in looking at Christ’s example of suffering. The crucifixion was the most atrocious of all abusive events in history. As we look at the crucifixion from Peter’s perspective we can learn a lot about managing our own hearts when it comes to unjust pain. We can’t escape hurt and pain but it doesn’t have to become our identity. Walk through the solutions from God’s Word to learn more about healing in your own heart.

Pontus Pilate. He is not a man many people envy. He had to make an impossible decision: to crucify Jesus or not. A decision he did not want or choose to make. What guided Pilates decision? Was it google, politics, popular opinions, or faith? What guides your choices?

Today we learn all about the conscience. God gave us all a conscience. Some people, like Pilate, lack faith. In this sermon Pastor Scott teaches us that the conscience is not the ultimate authority. Jesus made Pilate aware he had no power or authority except for that given from above. Pastor Scott shows us how the conscience helps us deal with our own sin, how it needs training, and how to handle a guilty conscious. After this sermon you will be asking yourself: How far am I willing to go to do the right thing?

Be sober minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour (1 Peter 5:8). Temptations lurk everywhere.  Over time cracks will form in our hearts and take us away from God. This is a dangerous place to be. God wants to protect us and restore us. God wants us to know and feel on our darkest days we are never, ever alone! 

In this message, we learn how Peter denies Christ three times. Pastor Scott shows us where Peter allowed temptations in, which leads to sin. Some of the danger zones we can all fall into are: being prideful, relying on self instead of God, becoming comfortable with the world, and following Christ at a distance.  We learn how to safeguard our hearts and identify potential pitfalls in our lives. When we rely on the mighty hand of God we will have a greater confidence and joy in our day to day lives.

I love you and you and you! Today’s society leads us to believe that we should love everyone-just the way they are. Is that just a selfish, self-seeking definition or the true meaning? In the love passage, Corinthians 13 2-7, defines an active, deeper love. Describes it as patient, kind, not arrogant, not boastful, not easily angered, and not self seeking. 

Pastor Scott shows us in today’s sermon that Gods’s love disciplines and corrects when needed. Just as a loving parent corrects their child.  Pastor Scott discusses how Jesus modeled love for all of us. Many practical ways we can practice our affection and root our love in biblical truths is shared. When applied correctly love compels us all to make a difference. God’s love can change our broken world.  

Life is hard. We all have experienced times of suffering. God says in 2 Corinthians 4: 8-12 we are hard-pressed on every side. Left at that, life can seem hopeless.

The good news for Christians is that God wants us to feel safe. The end of that verse goes on to say BUT not crushed, perplexed BUT not in despair. Pastor Scott teaches us this week that over 100 verses in the Bible talk about safety. Many of these verses are shared to be tucked away in our hearts in times of trouble. Our safety as Christians is in God. He wants us to feel safe so we can speak boldly, live confidently, and share the good news with others! In today’s message you will find a lot of hope. You’ll also learn how feeling safe is designed to prepare us to take risks for the Lord that take us into danger.

Listen to the sermon above.

God provides us with three broad ways to experience his glory. First, is to see his magnificent creation or just to to experience his greatness as we live life. The second has to do with experiencing God’s presence. The Israelites saw God’s glory when God’s presence came down on the tabernacle. The third is seeing his plan in motion in your life or the lives of others.

We have a glory dysfunction, a tendency to misunderstand or misrepresent the glory of God. But God does want us to participate in his glory. Listen to this sermon from Pastor Scott Turansky to understand more about what the glory of God is, and how you can best experience it in your own life.