Sunday morning messages from His Place Community Church in Burlington, Washington. These surprisingly candid teachings incorporate a balanced mix of lighthearted self-awareness and thoughtful God-awareness. Fresh teachings served weekly. Subscribe now!
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Even when we’re suffering and feel forgotten, confused, and hurt, God calls us to trust in Him and be patient. From December 28, 2025By His Place Community Church
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Every human everywhere has heard something inside them whisper the same things that make us all suspect: whatever this is, this ain’t really living! From December 21, 2025By His Place Community Church
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What are you most focused on this season: Christmas or Clausmas or catastrophes? From December 14, 2025By His Place Community Church
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Regardless of how hard we try to disguise, revise, and commercialize Christmas, it still shares more than good vibes; it spreads the Good News! From December 7, 2025By His Place Community Church
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Who’s chained to you? Paul turned his misery into ministry. How about you? From November 30, 2025By His Place Community Church
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Like fish surrounded by life-giving water, we’re blessing-blind: when something essential is everywhere you don’t notice it anywhere. From November 23, 2025By His Place Community Church
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We need His Word coursing through our veins, because standing firm is the opposite of standing still. To stand firm is to run to what needs to be done. From November 16, 2025By His Place Community Church
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The fatal flaw of our flesh that causes all the suffering of our sin is our arrogant ego! From November 9, 2025By His Place Community Church
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Know how hard it is to truly delight to do Thy will over my will? Only as hard as my heart! From November 2, 2025By His Place Community Church
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While we’re here on Earth, God allows some hints of Heaven to break through – to raise our spirits with a sneak peek of our fulfilling future. From October 26, 2025By His Place Community Church
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God doesn’t encourage sin; but He does expose and exploit sin. He can use it for good … if we’re willing to hear Him out. From October 12, 2025By His Place Community Church
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The Great Commission calls us to stand tall and go fishin’! And when folks see the shining proof of your faith in the form of peace in your daily trials – they’ll bite. From October 5, 2025By His Place Community Church
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We’ll miss out on all the good in pain if we believe it’s meant for earthly agony and not for eternal empowerment. From September 28, 2025By His Place Community Church
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If we can hang on to our faith as the storms keep raging, the adversity will expose what we trust and it will prove whether it’s trustworthy. From September 21, 2025By His Place Community Church
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Don’t expect God to calm the storm. Expect Him to calm your troubled heart in the storm, and trust that it must be this way. From September 14, 2025By His Place Community Church
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When we faithfully follow the clues of this world, we realize we are travelers away from our heavenly home, and the aches of our existence show we’re homesick! From September 7, 2025By His Place Community Church
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Jesus can disappoint us because He refuses to stoop to our subtle assumptions that He’ll bless, protect, and serve us in certain predetermined ways. From August 31, 2025By His Place Community Church
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Viewing faith as a satisfying series of victory laps, rather than a grueling struggle to the finish line, brings a fulfilling feeling of satisfaction. From August 24, 2025By His Place Community Church
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Even our most compelling cravings won’t come to fruition if they feel like a challenging chore. From August 17, 2025By His Place Community Church
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Childlikejoy is required for ongoing growth. Because, once we take the step to plant aseed of faith, we need power to tend it with persistence. From August 10, 2025By His Place Community Church
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An apprentice is just a novice who job-shadows a master. And, like Rome, a disciplined apprentice isn’t built in a day. From August 3, 2025By His Place Community Church
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Does your daily faith feel enticing? That should be the goal, because our most appealing options become our most consistent choices. From July 27, 2025By His Place Community Church
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Faith often fails not because it was intentionally abandoned, but just because it was accidentally forgotten. From July 20, 2025By His Place Community Church
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We can use the force of habit to produce the action of faith – so that our simple daily routines lead us into God’s presence. From July 13, 2025By His Place Community Church
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To strengthen our connection with Christ and our community, we must make an effort to remember gratitude, pursue growth, practice generosity, and embrace grace. From July 6, 2025By His Place Community Church
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Jasper is one of the few precious stones that contains impurities, which prevent any light from passing through it. But we’re made pure so we can see His face and feel His embrace. From June 29, 2025By His Place Community Church
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God’s always speaking loud and clear – we just need to lower the volume of everything else. From June 22, 2025By His Place Community Church
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Today we are going to face the fear of death, embrace the gift of salvation, and rest in the certainty of a safe landing! From June 15, 2025By His Place Community Church
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How can frustration and failure simultaneously be fun? Games! And since faith is how we embrace adversity, if we can make it a game, we can smile while we struggle. From June 8, 2025By His Place Community Church
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Our brains aren’t wired to just suffer through problems; they’re wired to solve them. Because God’s plan is more about figuring it out than toughing it out. From June 1, 2025By His Place Community Church
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Like a mirror, if we don’t honor the honesty of God’s Word when we see our faults and flaws reflected in it, we’ll get distracted and forget what we saw. From May 25, 2025By His Place Community Church
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Consider God’s sternness, and continue in His kindness, and let the pruning commence! From May 18, 2025By His Place Community Church
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Motherly love is a critical component of our Heavenly Father’s character – and an essential element of Christian life for us to emulate! From May 11, 2025By His Place Community Church
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When you make an entrance, wherever you go, do you brighten the room or darken the doorway? From May 4, 2025By His Place Community Church
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As recipients of the love that saved us, our job is to fill our branch with a new fruit that’s bound to be someone’s new favorite! From April 27, 2025By His Place Community Church
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This whole world is in desperate need of the anti-venom of the King of the kings of the cobras. Otherwise, we’re victims of every sin, that ultimately becomes the deadly venom of our own demise. From April 20, 2025By His Place Community Church
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Like an apprentice, we weren’t just “hired” to represent God in image; we’re meant to become like Him in character. From April 13, 2025By His Place Community Church
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We weren’t merely created, we were fashioned for His family, the Body of Christ. And just as an arm can’t fulfill “its own special work” if it’s dismembered, neither can we. From April 6, 2025By His Place Community Church
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God created us to be loved, to know we’re loved, and to be driven by His love. But that all begins with believing in His love. From March 30, 2025By His Place Community Church
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God places a high value on self-examination. So, we’re gonna test ourselves for the five vital signs of a good and faithful servant! From March 23, 2025By His Place Community Church
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Once we understand why serving is our common command, all we need to feel fulfilled is our specific assignment. From March 16, 2025By His Place Community Church
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Serving God means saving us! And church is all about finding your fit to serve your part in the body of Christ. From March 9, 2025By His Place Community Church
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Humility isn’t thinking poorly of yourself, it’s thinking rightly of yourself. And the purest power of God is released through humility. From March 2, 2025By His Place Community Church
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Somehow, in some sense, Jesus says being a kid is our key to living in His kingdom. But there’s a right and wrong way to be a child. From February 23, 2025By His Place Community Church
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Jesus offers two brilliant, back-to-back parables: The New Cloth Patch and the New Wine. Both stress the need for flexibility and pliability in God’s hands. From February 16, 2025By His Place Community Church
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In the Good Samaritan parable, why did the Priest and the Levite cross the road? The answer should serve as a warning to us. From February 9, 2025By His Place Community Church
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Without God as our trusted Master, life can feel like meaningless chores instead of valuable training. From February 2, 2025By His Place Community Church
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What’s with God’s ongoing emphasis on who’s who when it comes to our conversations? Why is He so worried about miscommunication? From January 26, 2025By His Place Community Church
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It takes a lot of effort to take a load off. So, how hard do you work at resting in Christ? From January 19, 2025By His Place Community Church
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Like physical health, spiritual health takes ongoing effort to keep things operational and to defend against intruders. From January 12, 2025By His Place Community Church
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