Helping Everyone We Know Say a Deeper Yes
to the Love of God in Christ Jesus.

The statement above is part of the mission statement of our church. This is a thoroughly Biblical motivation and goal, one that should constantly mark all of us. What is my deeper yes? That question should be regularly raised in our hearts. Consider these words from Eph 3:14-21

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.  Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

Consider these tremendous blessings!

      • He gives to us according the riches of His glory.

      • He gives you the Holy Spirit to strengthen you.

      • We are forever rooted and grounded in love.

      • We are strengthened to comprehend the love of Christ and be filled with the
        knowledge of God

      • All of this resulting in a God exalting, Christ following, Spirit baptized church!

    This is an invitation to be always diving deeper into the heart of God. “Yes” should always be our answer!

    One of the distinctives of a church saying a deeper yes is this:

    “We are Passionately Pursuing the Glory of God and Our Joy in Jesus Christ.”

    What is the glory of God?

    Hebrew: Kabad = “heavy” as in weighty. This is a word that speaks to value! When we speak of the heaviness or weightiness of God we are referring to His worth – which is immeasurable – from that root word comes the word Kabowd – which, building on that word “heavy” adds to it – wealth, beauty, honor, reverence, dignity, splendor, abundance.

    Greek: Doxa = splendor and brightness as in the glory of the Sun, Moon and stars. –
    In reference to humans the words magnificence, excellence, pre-eminence, dignity, grace would apply.
    In the scriptures – belonging to God – His kingly majesty which “belongs to him as supreme ruler, majesty in the sense of the absolute perfection of the deity and it is a thing belonging to Christ, the kingly majesty of the Messiah and the absolutely perfect inward or personal excellency of Christ.”  (Strongs)

    It is the perfections, the beauty, the unsearchable wonder of His being that we long to know, to say “yes” to. 

    As David said – One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to inquire in his temple. (Psalm 27:4 ESV)

    It will take all the days of our lives – an eternity – to gaze upon the ever unfolding perfections of his being – we could inquire and inquire for ages to come and not begin to exhaust the weight of His splendor.


    “I simply define glory as the beauty of God unveiled. Glory is the resplendent radiance of His power and His personality. Glory is all of God that makes God God, and shows Him to be worthy of our praise and our boasting and our trust and our hope and our confidence and our joy.”

    – Sam Storms