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Values 2019: Jesus Is Our Message
Jesus tells us three different stories, three different ways, to illustrate one main point: Jesus is pursuing you with relentless, compassionate love.
Values Series 2019: Excellence Is Our Pursuit
Pursuing excellence is not about perfection but about growing in conviction, courage, compassion, character, and consistency as Daniel did.
Values Series: Honor Is Our Commitment
Jesus was dishonored in His own hometown, reminding us that genuine honor sees people rightly and builds them up rather than dismissing or using them.
Values Series: Servant Leadership Is Our Calling
True servant leadership means using the gifts God has given you, grounded in truth, to serve and grow others rather than yourself.
Virtue Signaling: BTS Of Criticism
A proud spirit leads to destruction, but a humble spirit leads to an abundant life, freeing us to empathize rather than criticize others.
Virtue Signaling: Love Like This
As God's family, Christians are called to love one another through unity, sympathy, compassion, humility, and blessing instead of retaliation.
Vision Series: Does My Presence Matter?
God has always worked through His gathered people, so showing up to church matters both for what He wants to do in you and through you.
Vision Series: I Love The Church
Jesus built the Church as a family that worships, grows, belongs, and reaches the world together, not a perfect institution but His beloved people.
Vision Series: It Take Two
We were never meant to do life alone.
Vision Series: The Gift I often overlook
Faithful spiritual leaders who point people to Jesus are a gift from God meant to be remembered, observed, imitated, and received with humility.
Vision Sermon: Stay The Course
As Israel marched around Jericho, God calls us to stay the course in obedience through resistance, repetition, and delayed results, trusting Him for the outcome.
Vision Sunday (Dec. 2, 2018)
Like David preparing for the temple he'd never see, this vision message calls Pinewood to sacrificial generosity and faithful preparation for generations beyond their own.
Visions Series 2025: Spiritual Gifts
Every believer is given a spiritual gift by the Spirit for the common good, meant to be discovered and actively used to build up the church.
We're Better Together Sermon
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
What Are You Here For?: I Know A Doctor
Jesus calls the unlikely and unacceptable, like Matthew the tax collector, because He came as a doctor for sinners, not a reward for the righteous.
What Are You Here For?: It's Not About You
Your life's purpose isn't self-discovery but belonging to God, who made you for His glory and loves you, not for you to use Him for yours.
What Are You Here For?: Movement & Moments
Making disciples who multiply requires relational, scriptural, accountable, prayerful, and missional habits, and God often uses small, surrendered steps of faith.
What Are You Here For?: Sacrifice & Service
True greatness in God's kingdom comes through servant leadership that seeks others' interests, stays humble, and gives itself away, as Jesus modeled.
Why Church?: Critical Elements
The church isn't a building but the body of Christ called to be, gather, serve, equip, and send believers for making disciples.
Why Church?: Kingdom First
Seeking God's Kingdom first means trading our plans for His purpose and living as active contributors in the battle between two kingdoms.
Why Church?: Myths, Models, & Measures
Scripture answers five common myths about church and brings clarity to the models and measures that define a healthy local church.
Why Church?: Ordinary People
Like Paul, ordinary people who encounter God's heavenly vision are called to engage a city, make disciples, and plant churches despite their past.
Wild & Free (Part 2): Apostle, Evangelism, & Mercy
The gifts of apostle, evangelism, and mercy are distinct callings, yet every believer shares responsibility to send, share the gospel, and show compassion.
Wild & Free (Part 2): Maturing Gifts (Prophecy, Wisdom, & Knowledge)
Prophecy, wisdom, and knowledge are Spirit-given revelatory gifts meant to align believers with God's truth and build up the church, not for personal gain.
Wild & Free (Part 2): Maturing Gifts (Teaching & Exhortation)
Teaching and exhortation are gifts that faithfully explain and apply God's Word to strengthen and encourage the body of Christ toward maturity.
Wild & Free (Part 2): Maturing Gifts Pastoring & Shepherding)
Jesus is our Chief Shepherd, and those gifted to shepherd lead, feed, guide, and protect His flock under His authority, whatever their title.
Wild & Free (Part 2): Spiritual Gifts 101
Every believer is given Spirit-empowered gifts, rooted in love, meant to build up the church and point others to Jesus.
Wild & Free (Part 2): Tongues & Interpretation
The gift of tongues, both public and private, is a real and valuable way the Spirit builds up believers and the church when exercised in order and humility.
Wild & Free: Heavenly Language
Tongues and prophecy are gifts meant to build up the church when practiced in love and order, not evidence of superior spirituality.
Wild & Free: Into The Wild
The Holy Spirit is a personal presence we can relate to, who illuminates God's Word and empowers believers with supernatural gifts like prophecy.
Wild & Free: The Supernatural Reality
The supernatural reality is that the Holy Spirit empowers us for unity, diversity, and ministry in the body of Christ.
Wild & Free: The Upgrade
This series opens core teaching on the Holy Spirit, who wants to do something miraculous in your life.
Year 8 Anniversary Sunday: Begin Again
Remembering eight years of God making a way should give Pinewood faith for what God will do next, even if it looks different than before.
You're Never Alone Sermon
Instead of giving in to worry, we rejoice, pray about everything and fix our minds on what is good, trusting God's peace to guard us.
You're Still The One: Love Through Adversity
Conflict isn’t the enemy of love—avoidance is. Strong relationships fight for each other, not against each other.
You're Still The One: The Big "O"
God's design for sex is sacred obedience within marriage, not culture's distorted view, and it brings oneness, protection, and delight.