If you struggle with guilt and shame over past mistakes, or over wrongful actions performed against you by someone else, you are not alone.

When you enter into a relationship with Jesus however, He frees you from guilt. He released you from shame. He makes you a new person, healed and whole, unshackled from the weight and pain of our sins, and the sins committed against us. There is no real way to remove the heavy burden that shame puts on us. We make a mistake, and we feel like that mistake identifies our entire being, That mistake defines us, so why bother feeling like we're worth anything?

In this message, Jon Barnes tackles the lies used to convince us we have to drown in our shame and guilt and shows us in scripture how God removes our stains and renews our hearts when we trust in Him!

If this message hits home for you, and you’re ready to learn more about what it means to be free in Jesus, text the word “jesus” to 315-444-2100 and a pastor will contact you!

In our modern western way of life, we all have on thing in common when it comes to authority: We don't life it. We don't like someone else being in charge of our life, our decisions, our happiness, etc. We think authority equates to a form of slavery, where we cannot rule our own personal kingdoms. But the Bible gives a very different depiction of authority.

God values authority, and He personally created systems and structures of authority so that we could be protected when vultures circle us, so that we could be corrected when our mistakes consume us, and so that we can be supported when adventure lies ahead of us. Check out this message from Pastor Kason on the value, role, and absolute need we all have for authority in our lives.

Augustine believed that evil was simply the absence of God's goodness. Anything less than God's truth is evil. We have all been duped into substituting God's truth for a lie at one point or another. One of the reasons many of us have chosen to follow Jesus was because we were tired of being duped by sin and lies. We wanted God's truth. So we decided to allow God to expose the darkness and deception in our hearts and show us a better way.

In this message, Pastor Rich challenges us to allow God to come in again and expose the sin in our lives. As a perfect and loving Father, God wants to correct us and save us from these self-destructive lies that creep in to our hearts.