God is the perfect father who generously provides for, keeps his word to and never abandons his children. When we’ve failed or have been failed, He is the perfect father who forgives and pursues his children.…

God can be known and wants to be known. The proof is that God secured his presence with us through His Son and gives us the Holy Spirit so we would walk daily in His presence.…

Jesus is the creator of everything. Because He creates all things, everything points to Him, everything is under His authority, and everything rests on Him.…

Critics of Christianity say the church is full of hypocritical, judgmental, intolerant fanatics. But Jesus uses His authority not to condemn, but to save. Anyone who truly follows Him will look for opportunities to extend grace and expect to see transformed lives.…

Critics of Christianity say that faith in God has led Christians to injustice and, therefore, it should be rejected. But the God of the Bible chooses the poor, and anyone who truly believes will care for the poor and marginalized as a way of life.…

Critics of Christianity say that belief in God is a straightjacket that takes away freedom of thought and action, but there’s no such thing as freedom without truth. The most liberating freedom is love, which is the basis of a relationship with God.…

Critics of Christianity say that the Bible is full of inaccuracies and therefore cannot be reliable, but we have great reasons to trust the Bible’s authority historically, culturally and personally.…

Critics say that science has disproven Christianity, but our Faith is not undermined by science. Our God wants us to know Him and also seek to understand the universe in which He has placed us. Science helps us do that, and science and Christianity can be in harmony.…

Critics say that a loving God would never send people to hell. But the Christian belief in hell is essential to knowing our own hearts and knowing the love of God.…

The only way to understand and endure evil and suffering is not to abandon belief in God but to shift the purpose, responsibility, and solution of evil in the world.…

Critics of Christianity say that religion divides and should be thrown out or marginalized. But only Christianity has the capacity to defeat the divisiveness of religion.…

Jesus is RISEN! Awaken...there is much to celebrate!…

One of God’s ultimate desires for His people is that we would live with the awareness that there is very little we can control, but that He has control over everything. …

God has a purpose for trials; so don’t avoid them when they come, but let them work.…

God’s will for His people is for them to live a life of tangible love so that the world would know what God is like and give Him glory. We show tangible love through our relationships, environments and acts of service.…

Everyone worships something. Your life is a direct product of what you worship. Your worship is a direct result of what story you most believe.…

Just as God vindicated Noah and his family through the flood waters after He endured suffering from a sinful generation, God too will save those whose faith is in Jesus. He will give them the power to endure just as He does for us.…

If we understand the value of the gospel, it will show up by the way we sacrifice for God's family, bless when others curse us, and point to Jesus as the source of our hope.…

Entrust yourself to Him who judges justly.…

As God's chosen exiles, we declare what He's like by the way that we serve.…

We are built by God into a spiritual house where He dwells so that we would demonstrate and declare Him to the world as we come to Jesus for life and power.…

God’s calling to his exiled people is to be holy because He is holy. To be holy is to be fully set apart for Him and set apart with His people.…

Everyone who follows Jesus will experience trials. Those trials are used by God so that we would put our faith in the right place.…

Our God is beyond what we can imagine - our identity in Christ is equally awesome! We are sent people, strangers in a foreign land by God for God, chosen and equipped for God's purpose.…

Celebrating the arrival of our Savior.…

Our lives must find their place in some greater story, or they will find their place in some lesser story.…

Our lives must find their place in some greater story, or they will find their place in some lesser story.…

Our lives must find their place in some greater story, or they will find their place in some lesser story.…

Our lives must find their place in some greater story, or they will find their place in some lesser story.…

Our lives must find their place in some greater story, or they will find their place in some lesser story.…

Our lives must find their place in some greater story, or they will find their place in some lesser story.…

Our lives must find their place in some greater story, or they will find their place in some lesser story.…

Our lives must find their place in some greater story, or they will find their place in some lesser story.…

Our lives must find their place in some greater story, or they will find their place in some lesser story.…

In order to live out our gospel identity, we need to walk in light of the gospel in the everyday rhythms of life. Live normal life with gospel intentionality.…

In order to live out our gospel identity, we need to walk in light of the gospel in the everyday rhythms of life. Live normal life with gospel intentionality.…

God gives us His Holy Spirit to send us on Jesus' mission. We are His missionaries. Our missionary identity leads us to trust God and to make disciples who make disciples.…

God brought us into the kingdom through Jesus. He is our King. We are His servants. Our servant identity leads us to serve God as worship and to serve people as though they are Jesus.…

God made us a family through Jesus. We are His children. He is our Father. When we realize our family identity, we respond to God in love and treat others like brothers and sisters.…

God has saved us not just for ourselves but for His purpose in the world. We have been saved to worship Him, to show Him to the world, and to share Him with all people.…

God is the power to save. He has saved us from the penalty of sin, is saving us from the power of sin, and will save us from the presence of sin. We are free in Him, and this has implications on who we are (our identity) and how we live (our rhythm).…

Our prayer is that we would be a people who treasure God above all things, who are united with Him and who boldly call those who don't yet believe to be united to Him also, and who experience the real presence of God in our midst as we submit our lives to Him.…

Your acceptance before the Father is not in your doing, it’s in your being.…

When we rely on the methods of God rather than the presence of God, we give greater honor to our leadership and influence than to God when things go right.…

The search to live life according to a set of laws and principles instituted by God in order to gain more control over our own lives, will always leave us unsatisfied because it requires us to bear the weight of our own decisions rather than trusting in and living for God.…

Study of Jonah: Another prophet named Jesus picks up on the story of Jonah and in a stunning way demonstrates its fulfillment. The resolution to Jonah’s story can actually bring about great resolution to ours too.…

Study of Jonah: Apart from the gospel, our inclination is always towards self-centered comfort. But when Jesus become our comfort, God can begin to free us for other-centered compassion.…

Study of Jonah: Self-righteousness will always distance us from both God and the other undeserving people whom God loves so dearly. The way to defeat self-righteousness is by exchanging the need to justify ourselves by our goodness with the good news that Jesus is our justification.…

Study of Jonah: Repentance is an urgent acknowledgement of an offense towards God that is confessed to God & others and results in a change of heart and action. Even though God is not obligated to respond to our repentance, He chooses to do so with incredible mercy.…

Study of Jonah: God gives second chances not based on who we are but who He is. He gives second chances not because we measure up in some way but because He is gracious.…

Study of Jonah: When we become aware of the idols we have set up in our lives and make a commitment to trust God alone for our strength and deliverance, we can be used by God for the mission He has for us.…

Study of Jonah: God is committed to save us, like Jonah, in such a way as to require we put our full faith in Him alone.…

Study of Jonah: Many of the difficult seasons that you face in life are not God’s attempt to punish you for bad behavior, nor are they times when He’s abandoned you. They are His merciful attempts to draw you back into His love, so you can complete your life’s purpose for His glory.…

Study of Jonah: God has a mission for your life, but God must do something great in you before He’ll ever do something great through you. Your rebelliousness must be revealed to you, and God’s grace must overwhelm you.…

Sex is not a god. Sex is not gross. Sex is a gift to married couples for the purpose of bringing oneness through renewing their covenant and serving one another.…

God created husbands and wives with distinct roles that together reflect the image of God. The husband’s role is to be a servant-leader who loves his wife as Christ loves the church. The wife’s role is to be the strong-helper who respects her husband in such a way as to enable his leadership to flourish.…

To be married means to put your spouse above all others as a priority because your primary relationship has the power to set the course of your life. This is God's plan and order for your life.…

The key to a great marriage is a great friendship. All other aspects of marriage flow from friendship. This is why God designed marriage; so we would walk in intimacy and not be alone.…

Marriage is not designed as a contract to give you what you want. It is a covenant relationship that is based on us serving the one we’re committed to regardless of the return.…

With God’s help you can have a new marriage with the same spouse. In order to get a new marriage, YOU need to be a new spouse. In order to be a new spouse, you need to deal with your own selfishness and place Jesus at the center of your life.…

Study of Mark: Jesus is RISEN! Because He is alive, we have the opportunity to REthink our expectations, our value, our priorities, our identity and our mission. With Jesus the impossible is possible.…

Study of Mark: Jesus experienced the most unjust act in the history of the world through His crucifixion in order to demonstrate the most incredible act of mercy and grace the world has ever known.…

Study of Mark: Jesus took upon Himself God's anger towards evil in order to free us from the penalty of sin and restore our relationship with a loving God.…

Study of Mark: Jesus demonstrated through the last supper that we should remember that we need a Savior, we need a new family, and we need a new future.…

Study of Mark: Jesus is the Passover Lamb who delivers us to freedom, and as we understand Him in that way then we will value Him above all other causes and use the time we have to worship Him.…

Study of Mark: Jesus went ALL IN for us, and only when we've fully worked that reality can we love God and others the way that we were designed.…

Study of Mark: Jesus demonstrated the ultimate sacrifice by leaving the wealth, glory, love, and joy of the Trinity -- for us. Only when His sacrifice becomes the most important in our lives can we experience the true riches that only He, our Messiah, can offer.…

Study of Mark: Jesus invites us to follow Him if we just let Him lead. He doesn’t always take us where we want to go, but He always takes us where we need to go.…

Study of Mark: Jesus calls us to combat the misplaced fear in our lives and focus instead on His Glory and Presence.…

Study of Mark: Jesus demonstrated His heart for people and, at the same time, what keeps us from experiencing the heart of Jesus in us.…

Study of Mark: Jesus is never unavailable to us. He makes us clean and raises us from death. Reach out to Him and cast yourself on Him because He rewards those who come to Him in faith.…

Study of Mark: Jesus challenges us to bear spiritual "fruit" by nurturing "good soil" in our lives and allowing God to use even our tiny "seed" to do great things for Him.…

Study of Mark: Jesus broke the rules by associating with bad people, forgetting the past, and overlooking the law and as a result He started a movement.…

Study of Mark: Jesus can and does bring physical healing in the world today; but more importantly, He points us to a greater need which all of can share - the need for forgiveness.…

Study of Mark: Jesus commands us to repent, to REthink our lives and start a movement that He can use to change lives.…

What if we realized the opportunity we've been given to join with Jesus in loving those who need help the most by giving an unbelievable present, Jesus Himself?…

What if we celebrated and gave more of the best gift of all that God first demonstrated for us: the gift of presence?…

What if we chose the Kingdom of Emmanuel over the Kingdom of Consumption and let that influence where we stop and worship this Christmas?…

What if we spent a little less on the stuff that doesn't matter, choosing instead to give more of our time to the people we love and more of our resources to the people who have nothing?…

Thankfulness is a choice we make and when done is rewarded with more of God's presence.…

The Church is the community of God's redeemed people and exists to continue the mission of God in the world - reconciling creation to its Creator - by demonstrating God's love, mercy, and forgiveness in action.…

Salvation is a free gift from God to man - only by trusting in Jesus Christ as atonement for our sin can we be reunited with God and saved from sin's penalty.…

Men and women were created to exist forever - either eternally separated from God by sin or in union with God through forgiveness and salvation.…

Men and women are made in the image of God and were given unique value and a unique mission that was corrupted by sin that seperates us from God apart from His intervention.…

The Bible is God's word to us. If we understand and apply it correctly, we will see our part in God's greater story - living with more confidence and power than we thought possible.…

Holy Spirit is personal and active in the lives of God’s people. If we allow He will illuminate, transform, and empower us to a new kind of life.…

Jesus came to earth as a man and lived a sinless life in order to offer Himself as a perfect sacrifice on the cross for the payment of our sins. He arose from the dead to demonstrate His divinity and now rules over creation from Heaven until His return when He will bring God's kingdom on earth.…

God is the Creator and Ruler of the universe. He has eternally existed in three distinct Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. These three are co-equal and are one God.…

Cultivate's official introduction to the neighborhood and an outline of the vision for the new audience.…

John Cope of Keystone Fellowship shares a strategy for influencing South Jersey for Jesus as we trust God in the journey.…

A look at how Jesus took his ministry public and a reflection on what we can learn from it.…

God's presence is found most with people who are most desperate for Him and choose Him because they know that He is the Lord and there is no other.…

God's presence is found most with people who are most desperate for Him and are dependent on Him even when life is at its most difficult and the path forward is unclear.…

God's presence is found most with people who are most desperate for Him and allow God to meet with them in the deepest places of life and to access every part of their day.…

God's presence is found most with people who are most desperate for Him and that has little to do with our efforts and a lot to do with experiencing God's pursuit of us.…

God's presence is found most with people who are most desperate for Him but, for that, we need to defeat the sin that keeps us from God by understanding that He sees and forgives and then allowing Him to break through the denial and self-condemnation in our lives.…

God's presence is found most with people who are most desperate for Him but, for that, we need to shed our misplaced dependencies on other things (idols).…

Using Paul's letter to the Philippians to explore the concept that partnership with each other and with Jesus in the gospel requires both our wholehearted Giving and Receiving.…

Using Paul's letter to the Philippians to better understand his remarkable message on the secret of contentment delivered from behind the bars of a jail cell..."I can do everything through Him who gives me strength."…

Using Paul's letter to the Philippians to better our understanding of how God is the remedy for our anxiety and disunity by providing peace that only He can give.…

Using Paul's letter to the Philippians and the occasion of the 6th month anniversay of Cultivate Church to celebrate what God has done and to recognize the great race that lies before us with the understanding that God took hold of us for a reaon.…

Using Paul's letter to the Philippians to examine Paul's purpose and reveal that at the end of the day all our accomplishments are rubbish if not for Jesus and in comparison to the love we should have for Him.…

Using Paul's letter to the Philippians to show how the church needs both people who put the concerns of others above their own and dependable servants who ask "What is Jesus doing and how can I be a part of it?"…

Using Paul's letter to the Philippians as remembrance and motivation to follow Jesus because God works in and through us, and we must respond in love to fulfill His good purpose.…

Using Paul's letter to the Philippians to demonstrate that as followers of Jesus we need to be united in purpose and looking out for others as much as we look out for ourselves.…

Using Paul's letter to the Philippians as an example of how to live as citizens in God's Kingdom while still living in this world.…

A reflection on the phrase in Paul's letter to the Philippians "For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain" and how it forms the heart of understanding God's UNfinished work in our lives and the world.…

Using Paul's letter to the Philippians as inspiration to ask "How did I get here?" in order to gain a better understanding of the work God is building in our UNfinished lives.…

An inspection of the UNfinished work in our lives to better orient our perspective as we look forward to the day Jesus finishes the work by inaugurating His kingdom in the world.…

God is calling us to give our One.Life to follow Jesus by believing, seeing, and joining His invitation to a Resurrection.Life. The resurrection changes everything.…

God is calling us to give our One.Life to follow Jesus by picking up our cross daily and allowing Him into our suffering while also joining others in their suffering.…

A baptism celebration of the new life that God has given to the people of Cultivate Church who are answering His calling in their One.Life.…

A celebration of the work God has accomplished at Cultivate Church in the Dig Phase and preparation for the upcoming Sow Phase.…

God is calling us to give our One.Life to follow Jesus by inviting Him into our work.…

God is calling us to give our One.Life to follow Jesus by committing our whole lives to God.…

God is calling us to give our One.Life to follow Jesus in a community empowered by God's Spirit.…

God is calling us to give our One.Life to follow Jesus in relentlessly seeking wisdom (a hearing heart) over the knowledge of the world.…

God is calling us to give our One.Life to follow Jesus in using our power for the benefit of those who are powerless.…

God is calling us to give our One.Life to follow Jesus in replacing rules with love.…

God is calling us to give our One.Life to make His dream our dream that Jesus called The Kingdom.…

A new approach to reaching families.…

A new community called for a purpose and a reason.…

A new name, mission, and values.…

A new attitude about who we need to be to receive God's new work in our midst.…

The beginning of the process toward understanding why God has placed us here and who he has called us to be.…