Creekside Covenant Church

Welcome to the party. We are an odd lot in Jesus. Some people stink others are fragrant. We are loud. We are quiet. We are rich and poor. We're all hungry. Yet, is there room at the table and do I really fit in?

We continue our Lenten series looking at heaven, this world and Satan's world. As we accept these realities, we learn to live effectively in our gray world between the light of Christ's heaven and the darkness of Satan's realm.

When you're moving from the darkness into the light there will be confrontation. We get focused on what, how, where, and when we will meet the confrontation. But what really matters is "who?"

The Lenten journey - and the journey of all of Scripture and every Christian - is a journey from darkness to light. Today we’ll look at how this is woven throughout the pages of God’s Word. directly to the salvation that God promises for the future.

Solomon – supposedly the wisest man who ever lived – wrote in Ecclesiastes that “everything is meaningless.” Now…what if that’s actually GOOD news?!

Do you know what it’s like to be afraid, to be in danger; to be vulnerable and unsafe? What if the danger never passed? What if the sense of impending doom never went away? This is the reality for 2 billion people in this world who live in state of fear every day of their lives. The systems of justice in their reality are broken, corrupt or completely non-existent, and the bad guys don’t have to be afraid of going to jail. It is the work of IJM in partnership with the church is to be God’s...

Edward Sumner is the Director of Development at Real Escape from the Sex Trade (REST). Listen as he shares about REST is fighting sex trafficking, and where hope can be drawn from the story of Jesus and the Demoniac from Mark Chapter 5.

We worship a God who serves, delivers, and restores. He calls us to do the same. Will we?

We often go to Job to get answers about suffering. What we find are actually answers about God.

Stepping out of the Story of the Old Testament and looking back from the New Testament and the hope of God's sons and daughters entering the Father's presence through Jesus.

Limping Back To The Land And The Covenant, It is a return story, and points to the return from exile ultimately fulfilled in Christ

We celebrate hope as Christians and yet most of us have experienced our hopes being dashed and even suffocating hopelessness. How can we live in real, practical hope with such disappointment and suffering?

Josiah seems as if he could be the light, but it is too late. Nonetheless, the reforms he enacts, all point to the greater work of Jesus.

Idolatry Fills The Land: Ahab, Elijah, & The Prophets of Baal, God's repeated victory over idols.

Is Solomon the fulfillment of God's promise? No he is a a conflicted person and sets the stage for the divided kingdom and idolatry. Jesus, as the true son of David, stands in CONTRAST to Solomon as the one who will effect an eternal kingdom.

God shows his grace in his provision of His people in manna, water, and a bronze snake.

The spies go in to the promised land, they come back afraid and are sent wandering.

The reason for the blood, the sacrifice, the need for a death.

Moses is called by God at the burning bush and learns that God hears the cries, sees the suffering of his people and wants to bring rescue.

Joseph is sold into slavery, yet ends up in the exact place God wants him to be, and agent of faithfulness and grace.