Vive Church With Adam Smallcombe

If God is so good, why do you suffer? Why do bad things happen to you?Anything of value has a process of suffering and suffering can shrink your perspective.  In the second installment of the series, All Ways All Good, Pastor Keira delivers a powerful message entitled, The Story with Suffering. God is with you in every situation and every circumstance but God doesn’t work in prevention, He works in providence. God doesn’t cause you to suffer, but He doesn’t waste suffering. You can’t deal with suffering alone, stop suffering in your suffering, surrender your suffering to God!

What weaknesses are you working with? If God is so good why are you so weak?Reality is that things aren’t always good but God can work all things in ALL WAYS for your good! Pastor Adam Smallcombe kicks off a new series with a sermon entitled, All Ways All Good. God has mysterious ways that He works in your lives, and weakness is one of those ways. You must see yourself through the grace lens NOT the weak lens. Mercy covers what we’ve done but Grace is what we’re called to become. Grace is your guide post, a revealer of direction. Your desires are not the problem, it is your direction. So while your desires drive you, it has to be your grace that guides you. He has CALLED you, He has GRACED you!

Grace is unmerited favor and unconditional love, so how do you get this Grace? How do you grow in this Grace? How do you give this Grace?On the heels of truth, there is always a counterfeit. In the final installment of the series, Strong in the Grace, Pastor Keira delivers a powerful message entitled, Grow in the Grace. You must know the truth and interrogate the misinformer. You must marry Grace and Knowledge to create an intimate relationship with Jesus, so that you will know His nature. In the Christian faith what you feed, you grow, so we must feed on the truth! Being exposed to the truth is essential for unity. Grace is from Heaven, but Grace has been grounded in us. So you grow Grace by being grounded in Community such that Grace moves towards people.

Has shame forced you into isolation? How do you fully receive the gospel of grace if you are stuck in the cycle of shame?The gospel of grace is not just the good news- it is the “too good to be true” news. The enemy uses shame to stall and stop you from what God has for you. When you live in a community with incredible authenticity shame will lose its power over you. Pastor Vance Roush shares a powerful word and gives three tools that grace is built on that will allow you to overcome shame. There is nothing you can do to earn grace, it is God who makes you right in His sight.

What does it mean to forget the past and move forward? Have we neglected our future to care for our past? In the second installment of this series, Strong in the Grace, Pastor Michelle Stewart delivers a message entitled, High Calling. In this Christian life, we are called to, there is one outcome we are called to achieve: To KNOW Christ. Forget everything that hinders your faith and obedience, and remember everything that serves your faith and obedience. High calling is not about what you’re called to do, but who you’re called to know. Choose to press forward in the grace of God, and the resurrection power of Jesus.

Have you been stuck in a cycle that you can’t seem to break free from? Is the need to understand everything keeping you from moving forward?Pastor Adam Smallcombe delivers a powerful word on Easter Sunday to help you move forward in resurrection power. Evidence without explanation means you are stuck, but evidence beyond explanation is what allows you to move forward. Instead of struggling to figure out the how, get to know God and know that when you step out, He will meet you there. It is the resurrection power that can break a cycle of defeat, and gives us the power to move forward. 

Do you want to move in the power of God? Are you going to be the witnesses to the miracles, or will you be a vessel through which God moves?Palm Sunday wasn’t a random event but a detailed fulfillment of ancient prophecy. Pastor Adam Smallcombe teaches that Palm Sunday was a spiritual encounter with the power of heaven, made possible only by the power of God. God is looking to move through the church, to move through you. Don’t live a life so focused on yourself that you miss what God is doing around you. God has a world full of people that you are meant to impact.

Is your forgiveness on show, or is it shut up? Are you trapped inside of unforgiveness, letting it burn your heart from the inside?Unforgiveness delays and destroys your destiny, forcing you into isolation with your feelings. Pastor Keira Smallcombe delivers a powerful word about the power of forgiveness. Jesus shows up to set the record straight, to restore you, so that you can run after him unhindered. Listen to the voice of your Father, not your feelings, and He will take you further than you could ever go.

What does it mean to have access to salvation? What is the greatest evidence of the resurrection?Pastor Adam Smallcombe teaches that in order to believe in the power of salvation we must believe that the resurrection is more than an element of faith. It is the most important component of faith. The fact that Jesus was raised to life means that He defeated death in the process. The power of the resurrection is the same power that raises you from a dead and dormant life.

What do you do when negativity begins to seep into your life? Do you feel like you are losing the battles that you are fighting? We certainly have an enemy that accuses us. However, one of the greatest opponents we can face is often ourselves. The negativity we allow to permeate our minds and what we dwell on contradicts the word of God over our life. Pastor Michelle Stewart teaches us that we need to be washed with verses - daily. How do we apply VERSES to vs US?

Are you questioning God’s calling for your life? Is the enemy coming at you with deceptive questions and attacks?Jesus was skilled at navigating sticky situations where instead of REACTING he responded with questions. Some of the most profound questions we see from Jesus came as a response to those who were questioning him. The enemy loves to corner us into making statements and then using those statements as accusations. Pastor Adam Smallcombe teaches that when we question everything against the word of God we will find a cheat code to victory.

Do you feel defeated in this season?  Do you doubt yourself and feel you don’t have what it takes to stand against opposition? Pastor Adam Smallcombe unpacks a powerful word about an epic battle between good and evil. For 40 days Jesus was fasting in the wilderness and was tempted by the devil. However Jesus had more than bars, he had verses. Scripture that was wielded like a sword to defeat the enemy. What THEY (the enemy & powers of darkness) don’t want you to know is the word of God. But when you get the word of life on the inside of you, you can take on any battle.

Are you feeling stuck or stalled in your life? How do you use the unplugged moments to strengthen your resolve and become unwavering in your commitment? Pastor Vance Roush teaches us that the way to stay committed is to first be submitted. Unrelenting means to not soften or yield in one’s determination. To be unwavering in our commitment and to not weaken in our pace.

Do you feel restrained by your circumstances? Do life’s restrictions hold a grip on your life? Pastor Keira Smallcombe shares about the power of confessing that our God is greater than our circumstances, and his unrestrained love and glory has the power to shake what is shackling you. 

Are you overcomplicating your prayers while you are waiting for God to move? Do you feel like you can’t move forward because you are living in the promises of the past? This message from our Lead Pastor, Adam Smallcombe reveals the transformative power prayer has to change our circumstances, and to change us. Making a place to experience God’s glory in your life will allow God to propel you, to mobilize your vision instead of memorializing moments of the past.

How often have you been held captive by fear? Are you closed off to the world or are you living out your faith with windows wide open? Daniel shows us that intimidation is not a circumstance, it is a spirit, meant to make us servants to spread the enemy’s fear. The enemy doesn’t need to defeat you, if he can get YOU to disqualify yourself. Catch this message from our Lead Pastor Adam Smallcombe, as he shows us the importance of finding confidence in the authority of Christ in a sermon titled ‘Unplugged and Unintimidated: with Windows Wide Open’.

What are the things from 2020 that are crowding you in 2021? Have you plugged in to the world for so long that you see everything with the filter of fear? Unplugging is less about disconnecting, but more about reconnecting to the right source. Strength is developed from a place where the source is present. When is the last time you had an unfiltered moment with God to reconnect with the source? Have you received your anointing for your assignment? Tune is as Pastor Adam shows us that prayer is power and the importance of unplugging and finding a rhythm of rest by plugging back into the source in a sermon titled 'Unplugged and Unfiltered'.

Do we understand the power we have through God? There are times that we can feel powerless in the presence of problems, but the bible shows us that even while Jesus was tempted in the wilderness He reveals the power of prayer, the power of worship, and the power of the word. Has our struggles through the wilderness that was 2020 revealed this to us? Or do we need to get our power back in 2021? Tune in as Pastor Michelle kicks off the Unplugged series with a sermon titled, 'Unplugged and Unlimited - Get Your Power Back'.

What would you do different if you had a do-over? Are we expecting our circumstances to change before we see revival in our lives? We have to realize that God has never stopped working in us despite our circumstances! Revival is not something that happens outside of us but something that happens inside of us. Tune in as Pastor Adam preaches the final message of the year, 'This is Revival'.

Is there something you’ve been searching for? God is searching for you. And when we recognize that truth, our only response is worship. This SPECIAL message is from our VIVE Christmas Creative Film, KING, told from the perspective of the wisemen. What made the wisemen so wise? Pastor Adam Smallcombe says it’s one thing to FIND a King, it’s another thing to realize you NEED a King.