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We exist to do whatever it takes to help all people have a relationship with Jesus. Our vision is to help all people know God, find freedom, discover purpose, and make a difference. We are vibrant beyond walls, reaching the unchurched, overflowing with love, closely connected, living like Acts, growing together, prioritizing small groups, empowering discipleship, fostering prayer, encouraging Bible reading, equipping youth ministry, cultivating next-gen leaders, serving locally and globally, raising leaders, planting churches, and holding fast to Biblical teaching. Learn more at tpob.org!

  1. 15h ago

    9/27/26 - All the Way In: Week 1 - Pastor Josh Stelly

    Follow along in Mark chapter 5

    9/27/26 - All the Way In: Week 1 - Pastor Josh Stelly

  2. 16h ago

    9/20/26 - All The Way In Intro: Trinity Compass - Who God Has Always Been - Pastor Josh Stelly

    Who God Has Always Been God is one in relationship. Nobody ignores the Trinity. We tend to pick a favorite. Today: who God has always been, and how we actually see him. I. Where This Confession Came From Jewish monotheists who recited the Shema (Deuteronomy 6:4) were the last people on earth who would divide God up. Then came the resurrection, and Thomas handed Jesus the unshareable name: my Lord and my God (John 20:28). John 14:8 (NIV) Philip said, "Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us." John 14:9–10 (NIV) Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work." II. Who God Has Always Been One God, three persons. The Spirit is the eternal bond of love between the Father and the Son. If God were solitary, love would be something God started doing rather than something God is. Romans 5:5 (NIV) And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. 1 John 4:8 (NIV) Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 1 John 4:16 (NIV) And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. God did not make you because he was lonely. His love for you is not a mood. III. How We See God: The Trinity Compass Not a personality test. A mirror. All three are true. They go wrong only when left alone. Creator Jesus Holy Spirit Revealed in Creation Cross and empty tomb Pentecost Instinct Explanation Decision Liberation Concerns Compassion, justice, wisdom Commitment, truth, evangelism Gifts, power, grace Goal: To understand To stand firm To be moved Engages: Your head Your hands Your heart Matthew 3:13–17 (NASB 2020)  Matthew 22:37–38 (NIV)  The person of the Trinity you neglect is usually the one you most need this year. IV. The Dark Side: When We Take Control The arrows point outward, past the boundary. Every distortion begins with something true about God that we love, and then reaches past the edge of it to make God predictable, useful, and ours. Syncretism I assemble God instead of letting him define himself Jesus Dogmatism Truth becomes something I possess rather than stand under The Spirit Emotionalism I treat the Spirit as something I can produce Genesis 3:1–5 (NIV)  Acts 8:18 (NIV)  V. Why Any of This Matters Two restorations: Relationship: you were not forgiven and left on the porch, you were adopted inside.  Image: in Jesus we see the true human being we were always meant to be. 2 Corinthians 5:18–19 (NIV)  2 Corinthians 3:18 (NIV)  Colossians 1:15 (NIV)  If you only ever see one third of him, you will only ever become one third of what he is remaking you into. The Invitation One practice this week! Say it over dinner, over your child at bedtime, in the car before the hard meeting, at the end of a day you did not handle well: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. You were not merely rescued. You were brought all the way in. 2 Corinthians 13:14 (NIV) May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Questions to Carry Home Which of the three is your home when things get hard: study, service, or experience? Which one have you not visited in years? Where are you most tempted to make God manageable?

    9/20/26 - All The Way In Intro: Trinity Compass - Who God Has Always Been - Pastor Josh Stelly

  3. Sep 16

    9/13/26 - 2nd Kings Part 4: Faith During Faithlessness - Trusting the God Who Never Breaks His Word - Pastor Melissa Stelly

    Follow along as Pastor Melissa Reads in 2nd Kings 18 & 19

    9/13/26 - 2nd Kings Part 4: Faith During Faithlessness - Trusting the God Who Never Breaks His Word - Pastor Melissa Stelly

  4. Sep 16

    9/6/26 - 2nd Kings Part 3: Faith During Faithlessness - Whose Faith are you living on? - Pastor Josh Stelly

    Whose Faith Are You Living On? Introduction Last week we watched Jehu do everything God told him to do without ever giving God his heart. This week the story moves south into Judah, and it begins with a seven year old boy on a throne. If you have ever known someone who seemed rock solid for twenty years and then walked away from all of it in about eighteen months, this passage gives us some great insight. And if you have ever wondered whether the faith you are living on is actually yours, this story helps us to look into the mirror of our own lives. 2 Kings 12:2 NIV Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord all the years Jehoiada the priest instructed him. Part One: The Background 2 Kings 9:27 NIV When Ahaziah king of Judah saw what had happened, he fled up the road to Beth Haggan. Jehu chased him, shouting, “Kill him too!” They wounded him in his chariot on the way up to Gur near Ibleam, but he escaped to Megiddo and died there. 2 Kings 11:1 NIV When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to destroy the whole royal family. 2 Kings 11:2 NIV But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Jehoram and sister of Ahaziah, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the royal princes, who were about to be murdered. She put him and his nurse in a bedroom to hide him from Athaliah; so he was not killed. Part Two: 2 Kings 12 2 Kings 12:1–2 NIV In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba. Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord all the years Jehoiada the priest instructed him. 2 Kings 12:6 NIV But by the twenty-third year of King Joash the priests still had not repaired the temple. 2 Kings 12:7 NIV Therefore King Joash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and asked them, “Why aren’t you repairing the damage done to the temple? Take no more money from your treasurers, but hand it over for repairing the temple.” 2 Kings 12:15 NIV They did not require an accounting from those to whom they gave the money to pay the workers, because they acted with complete honesty. 2 Chronicles 24:15 NIV Now Jehoiada was old and full of years, and he died at the age of a hundred and thirty. 2 Chronicles 24:17 NIV After the death of Jehoiada, the officials of Judah came and paid homage to the king, and he listened to them. 2 Chronicles 24:18–19 NIV They abandoned the temple of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and worshiped Asherah poles and idols. Because of their guilt, God’s anger came on Judah and Jerusalem. Although the Lord sent prophets to the people to bring them back to him, and though they testified against them, they would not listen. 2 Chronicles 24:20 NIV Then the Spirit of God came on Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood before the people and said, “This is what God says: ‘Why do you disobey the Lord’s commands? You will not prosper. Because you have forsaken the Lord, he has forsaken you.’ ” 2 Chronicles 24:21–22 NIV But they plotted against him, and by order of the king they stoned him to death in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple. King Joash did not remember the kindness Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had shown him but killed his son, who said as he lay dying, “May the Lord see this and call you to account.” 2 Kings 12:2 NASB 2020 Jehoash did what was right in the sight of the Lord all his days that Jehoiada the priest instructed him. Hebrews 7:23–24 NIV Now there have been many of those priests, since death prevented them from continuing in office; but because Jesus lives forever, he has a permanent priesthood. 2 Chronicles 24:17 NIV After the death of Jehoiada, the officials of Judah came and paid homage to the king, and he listened to them.

    9/6/26 - 2nd Kings Part 3: Faith During Faithlessness - Whose Faith are you living on? - Pastor Josh Stelly

  5. Sep 13

    8/30/26 - 2nd Kings Part 2: Faith During Faithlessness - The Long Memory of God - Pastor Josh Stelly

    The Long Memory of God IntroductionLast week we watched Elijah hand off his ministry to Elisha. Today we move ahead about twenty years in the story, to 2 Kings 9, and we meet a man named Jehu.Here is what I want you to understand before we open the text. This chapter does not make much sense on its own. If you start reading at 2 Kings 9:1, you will find a young prophet pouring oil on an army officer's head and telling him to wipe out an entire royal family, and you will reasonably wonder where any of that came from and why God would be behind it.Where We Are Going TodaySo let me tell you the plan, and give you something to write down if you take notes.The question this passage answers is this. What does it look like when God finally keeps a promise about justice, and what happens to the person he uses to keep it?We are going to move in three steps.First, the background. We have to go back roughly twenty years, to a piece of ground called Naboth's vineyard, and to a promise God made there that nobody was still waiting on.Second, the text. We will walk through 2 Kings 9:1 to 13 in three short scenes. An assignment, a message with two halves, and a remarkable response. Third, the outcome. We will look at how Jehu's life actually turned out, which is not the ending most of us would predict, and which is where this passage stops being ancient history and starts asking us questions.And here is the sentence the whole message rests on, so let me give it to you now rather than at the end. God can use a person to accomplish his purposes without that person's heart ever belonging to him. Being useful to God and being right with God are not the same thing. Part One: The Background 1 Kings 21 The Assignment, 2 Kings 9 vv. 1-32 Kings 9:1–3 NIVThe prophet Elisha summoned a man from the company of the prophets and said to him, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, take this flask of olive oil with you and go to Ramoth Gilead. When you get there, look for Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi. Go to him, get him away from his companions and take him into an inner room. Then take the flask and pour the oil on his head and declare, ‘This is what the Lord says: I anoint you king over Israel.’ Then open the door and run; don’t delay!”The Message, 2 Kings 9 vv. 4-102 Kings 9:4–10 NIVSo the young prophet went to Ramoth Gilead. When he arrived, he found the army officers sitting together. “I have a message for you, commander,” he said. “For which of us?” asked Jehu. “For you, commander,” he replied. Jehu got up and went into the house. Then the prophet poured the oil on Jehu’s head and declared, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anoint you king over the Lord’s people Israel. You are to destroy the house of Ahab your master, and I will avenge the blood of my servants the prophets and the blood of all the Lord’s servants shed by Jezebel. The whole house of Ahab will perish. I will cut off from Ahab every last male in Israel—slave or free. I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat and like the house of Baasha son of Ahijah. As for Jezebel, dogs will devour her on the plot of ground at Jezreel, and no one will bury her.’ ” Then he opened the door and ran.The Response, 2 Kings 9 vv. 11-132 Kings 9:11–13 NIV Part Three: How Jehu Turned Out 2 Kings 10:30 NIV 2 Kings 10:31 NIV Application First: trust God's memory when nothing seems to be happening.Second: do your part, and leave the outcome to God.Third: find out where your obedience stops.

    8/30/26 - 2nd Kings Part 2: Faith During Faithlessness - The Long Memory of God - Pastor Josh Stelly

  6. Sep 13

    8/23/26 - 2nd Kings Part 1: Faith During Faithlessness Elijah & Elisha - Pastor Timothy Parker

    The Faith of Elisha 1 Kings 19:19 & 21- So he departed from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, while he was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. And Elijah passed over to him and threw his mantle on him...  So he returned from following him, and took the pair of oxen and sacrificed them and boiled their flesh with the implements of the oxen, and gave it to the people and they ate. Then he arose and followed Elijah and ministered to him.  2 Kings 2:1-6- And it came about when the Lord was about to take up Elijah by a whirlwind to heaven, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal. Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay here please, for the Lord has sent me as far as Bethel.” But Elisha said, “As the Lord lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel. Then the sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came out to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that the Lord will take away your master from over you today?” And he said, “Yes, I know; be still.” Elijah said to him, “Elisha, please stay here, for the Lord has sent me to Jericho.” But he said, “As the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they came to Jericho. The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho approached Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that the Lord will take away your master from over you today?” And he answered, “Yes, I know; be still.” Then Elijah said to him, “Please stay here, for the Lord has sent me to the Jordan.” And he said, “As the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So the two of them went on.   2 Kings 2:7-8- Now fifty men of the sons of the prophets went and stood opposite them at a distance, while the two of them stood by the Jordan. Elijah took his mantle and folded it together and struck the waters, and they were divided here and there, so that the two of them crossed over on dry ground.  2 Kings 2:9-10- When they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask what I shall do for you before I am taken from you.” And Elisha said, “Please, let a double portion of your spirit be upon me.” He said, “You have asked a hard thing. Nevertheless, if you see me when I am taken from you, it shall be so for you; but if not, it shall not be so.”   “[Elisha’s] request for a 'double portion' wasn’t greed.  It was a request in keeping with ancient Israeli inheritance laws.  He was asking to be treated as the elder son, who received twice as much as the rest of the family”- Stan Mast, Theologian & Professor Emeritus of Calvin Seminary. 2 Kings 2:11-12- As they were going along and talking, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire and horses of fire which separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind to heaven. Elisha saw it and cried out, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” And he saw Elijah no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes and tore them in two pieces.   2 Kings 2:13-15- He also took up the mantle of Elijah that fell from him and returned and stood by the bank of the Jordan. He took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him and struck the waters and said, “Where is the Lord, the God of Elijah?” And when he also had struck the waters, they were divided here and there; and Elisha crossed over. Now when the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho opposite him saw him, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” And they came to meet him and bowed themselves to the ground before him.  Our Context 1. Love God, love people, abstain from hero worship 2. Transition is an integral part of God’s will3. God equips those He calls4. God’s faithfulness is the truth we hold to in faithlessness

    8/23/26 - 2nd Kings Part 1: Faith During Faithlessness Elijah & Elisha - Pastor Timothy Parker

  7. Sep 13

    8/16/26 - Remember : Pastor Josh Stelly

    REMEMBER "Remember the wonders he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced." — Psalm 105:5 We are wired to forget. In seasons of comfort, we drift from dependence on God, and in seasons of pain, grief clouds our memory of His past faithfulness. The Israelites forgot God's miracles in the wilderness. We do the same — forgetting answered prayers, forgotten promises, and moments of grace. Then Samuel took a stone and set it up... He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far the Lord has helped us.” - 1 Samuel 7:12 YOU can remember Don't forget to remember: let us hold fast to God's promises this week.

    8/16/26 - Remember : Pastor Josh Stelly

  8. Sep 13

    8/9/26 - Isiah 58: Rebuild (response to fires) - Pastor Josh Stelly

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