Family Fest Speaker Podcast

Paul Maloney Testimony - Winter Weekend January 2020

Listen to Paul Maloney's testimony from Winter Weekend, January 2020

Pete Larson - Better Parents, Stronger Kids

Better Parents, Stronger Kids

Helping parents and kids lean into the love of God as they grow. Building a strong foundation to raise faith-filled, joyful, and self-reliant kids.

Laying a Solid Foundation:

1. Focus on your marriage
2. Love unconditionally
3. Identify your core values
4. Use effective discipline
5. Give your kids Time
6. Surround your kids with other adults

Brad Pearce - SS19 Talk #1 - We are image bearers of God

We are amazing, wonderfully, incredibly created. God didn't make any junk. He didn't mess up. We are not a mistake. If we listen, God’s voice rings true as we search to discover the unifying force that brings us together.

Brad Pearce - SS19 Talk #2 - Don't be afraid. God's is with us.

Often, the voices in our world can be overwhelming. Fear is an extremely loud voice in our world today. We often ask, “God, don't you care? Don't you care about what's going on? Don't you care about people that are suffering?” Jesus reminds us not to be afraid. God has the power to calm storms. He is all divine and all human and He has the power to calm our storms.

Brad Pearce - SS19 Talk #3 - Drinking from the well of abundant life

In our culture today, we drink from many different wells; success, achievement, appearance, but they are not enough to satisfy us. Our hearts get thirsty, our lives get busy when we try to satisfy so many things. The water of our culture tells us to do more, need more. Jesus came to give you abundant life. If you drink the water that he provides, you will never be thirsty again.

Scripture: John 4

Brad Pearce - SS19 Talk #4 - With man, it is impossible, but with God, all things are possible

Who can be saved? How is it even possible? Jesus says "what's impossible for people to get themselves to God, is possible for believers." As we ponder this condition of impossibility of the perfect law, let us consider what is going on below the surface. We have to look at the condition of ourselves. If we believe we’re good enough or that we've done enough good deeds, we miss the solution God puts forth. Only God is good but through the process of death, hope, and life everlasting, is possible.

Brad Pearce - SS19 Talk #5 - The wage of sin is death

Jesus died on the cross so that he might take all of our impossibilities upon himself. In the context of our impossible situation, the brokenness of our sin, Jesus’s mission was to come and pull us through. This is how we experience grace; Christ died for us so that he could forgive us and that we might have life and live eternally with him.

 

Scripture John 18

Brad Pearce - SS19 Talk #6 - We are saved by grace through faith

Life is tough. Life is challenging, but Jesus walks alongside each of us. He calls us to get out of our boats and to find our true voice, our vocation, the reason we were put on this earth. He picks us up out of the storm and whispers to us, I Love You. You are beloved. You are an image-bearer of God.

Mike Ashburn - WWF19 Talk #1-Get in the game

The spirit of God is in you and that changes everything. We are the food that Jesus can take and turn into a miracle to feed the many. We don't have to stay on the bench for lack of credentials.

Scriptures: 1 Corinthians 3:16, John 8, Matthew 8, Mark 6, Colossians 1: 9-14

Mike Ashburn - WWF19 Talk #2-Jesus changes everything

Jesus is the door to eternal life. He is the only one that can take us from darkness to light, from death into life. Jesus fixes his eyes on us, calls us by name and into a life of faith. If you want to have life, you need to go through him. Jesus changes everything.

Scriptures:

1 Corinthians 3:16, Colossians 1: 15, John 1:1, John 10:9, Matthew 14, Hebrews 12