Prayer: How Not to Pray

One of the reasons that most people don’t pray is because it feels foreign. From the words we use to the way we were taught to pray, so much of prayer feels unnatural. Listen as Brian Pursley details why God cares more about your motives than your presentation, how to be yourself since God isn’t impressed with our attempts at sounding or looking spiritual, and to trust God to know what we need. Make sure you join us in praying for 3 things (personal, family/community, professional/circumstantial) every day for the next 4 weeks and send us ways we can pray with you and your stories of how God is answering your prayers to prayer@lakeside-church.com.

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Prayer: How to Not Lose Heart

Persistence is something that pays off in life and in prayer. Listen as Brian Pursley details why it’s so important to keep praying and understand to whom we’re praying. Make sure you join us in vowing to pray for three things (personal, family/community, professional/circumstantial) every day for the next five weeks and send us ways we can pray with you and your stories of how God is answering your prayers to prayer@lakeside-church.com.

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Life: Death

The certainty of life is that it will end. Listen to the conclusion of our look at "Life," as Brian Pursley encourages us with the perspective of death that Scripture offers and why understanding death can help us as we go through life.

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Life: Aging

Life throws many challenges our way. As we age the challenges change. Listen as Brian Pursley discusses aging and how we’ve been given a map and a guide to direct us through the challenges we face. lakeside-church.com #lakesidealgoma #algoma

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Life: Struggles

All of us face difficulties. Listen as Brian Pursley discusses why we don't have to walk through hard times alone, why there will always be problems with a side piece, the danger in the idea of the future is female, the difficulty of infertility, and when following God is really difficult. lakeside-church.com #lakesidealgoma #algoma

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Baptism

Baptism is a public declaration of your decision to follow Jesus. Listen as Brian Pursley discusses what baptism means, why it’s important, and what role we all play in helping people on their spiritual journey. lakeside-church.com #lakesidealgoma #baptism

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Salvation

If you've made the decision to follow Jesus you are made new. Listen as Brian Pursley discusses what this means for the hurts, regrets, and mistakes in our past and the hope Jesus made possible for all of us.

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Clarity: Here to Help

We often make things more complicated than they have to be. Listen as Brian Pursley shares for those that follow Jesus it all boils down to loving God and each other, how that impacts our lives and the lives of our children, and how that impacts what we do at Lakeside.

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Bottom Line

Listen as guest teacher, Tim Haugen teaches on the parable of the rich fool.

In a world where we are vulnerable to measuring our personal worth by our net worth, Jesus told a story one day intended to emphasize a 'bottom line' that has nothing to do with stuff. The story Jesus told is a jarring and sobering story with provocative contemporary relevance. Discover what Jesus had to say about treasure - and about the critical importance of the lasting worth of one's treasure.

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