Feb 10, 2026
Pastor Jeffrey continues our series through James with part 4: Listen. He discusses the constant noise of our culture, as compared with James' call to humility and wisdom through listening.
"Sometimes your greatest ministry to someone is not what you say but how you listen."
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Feb 3, 2026
Pastor Jeffrey continues our series through James with part 3: Surrender. Surrendering our pain to God and trusting that He will do what He has already promised.
" Your trials are not signs of God’s absence. Rather, they are tools of God’s formation."
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Jan 19, 2026
In this the second part of our series through James Pastor Jeffrey unpacks the importance of the believers identity as belonging to Christ and how this informs our lives as a whole.
"Exile is not the evidence of God’s absence. It is often the environment of His deepest work."
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Jan 13, 2026
This is part one of a sixteen week study through the book of James. Pastor Jeffrey begins this verse by verse study with James 1:1-12. "James is not writing as an outsider. He is not writing as an academic. He is not writing as a detached observer. He is writing as a brother who once doubted, a disciple who...