Pastor Emily Ridout walks our community through the second message of Advent 2019. The other side of the Christmas story sometimes includes the loss of loved ones, jobs, illnesses, & waiting spaces. View this message for a reflection and encour

SVA Platinum Birthday - Conversation 4: Dream Again

Nov 26th, 2019 45m 37s

Dream Again is the last Sunday conversation in the Twenty-Year celebration series. Pastor Baly said, “SVA started with a God sized dream.” Do you have God-sized dreams? God has hard-wired us to be dreamers and He desires for exceed our wildes

SVA Platinum Birthday: Faithfulness

Nov 12th, 2019 42m 54s

Faithfulness is a reflection on how God has been faithful as we celebrate SVA’s twentieth Anniversary. The implication for us is to follow His faithfulness, not just in the big things but the mundane things of life that no one sees. This has

SVA Platinum Birthday: Gratitude

Nov 6th, 2019 1h 34m

November 3rd is the launch of our Twenty-Year anniversary celebration and Gratitude is the first Sunday conversation of this four-week series that includes some moving video highlights of the SVA over the years. Pastor Monty used two quotes of

All The Feels - Conversation 7: Learning to Love

Oct 31st, 2019 48m 38s

Learning to Love is the last Sunday Conversation in the All The Feels series. Pastor Monty leads this conversation by challenging us to grow in our emotional maturity by learning to love others well. The telling litmus test is whether we are

All The Feels - Conversation 6: White Space

Oct 22nd, 2019 46m 19s

Our mindset in culture today is over-commitment. If we are not busy, we feel guilty, yet, this was not what God has planned for us. Rest is a gift with God, which He describes as a Sabbath, but it requires some resistance in order to do it the

All The Feels - Conversation 5: Losing It

Oct 15th, 2019 48m 40s

Peter Scazzero said, “Grief and loss are meant to enlarge your soul.” The key with this message is how God will use the holy emptying of grief and grieving to do four important things in our life if we allow Him to do that work within us. To

All The Feels - Conversation 4: The Wall

Oct 8th, 2019 49m 3s

Part of our journey in growing deeper in Christ is experiencing The Wall. The Wall is what results when the size of our suffering exceeds the size of our faith and there is a crisis of disorientation. Have you been there? Maybe you are doing

All The Feels - Conversation 3: It's So Unfair!

Oct 1st, 2019 49m 23s

In It’s So Unfair! Pastor Kristin talks about the cascading impact of our sins on the people around us and how other’s sins and actions can negatively impact us as well. The key is breaking out of the destructive cycle of unfairness through God

All The Feels - Conversation 2: Starting to Feel

Sep 25th, 2019 49m 13s

Starting to Feel is the second Sunday conversation in the All That Feels series. In this message, Pastor Monty said we have a choice in our feelings and the power that raised Jesus from the dead is the one the Father desires for us to seek to b

All The Feels - Conversation 1: Diagnostics

Sep 25th, 2019 1h 6m

All The Feels is a 7-week series that offers breakthrough tools to help you experience God’s revolutionary life for you. In this first Sunday Conversation, Pastor Monty said, “One of the reasons we don’t live the lives we were created to live i

Say What - Conversation 10: Salt & Light

Sep 3rd, 2019 50m 13s

Salt and Light is the last Sunday conversation in the series on the parables. In this message Pastor Baly said we must remember that “our identity comes before our behavior.” God sees us as valuable and powerful and He also desires that we real

Say What - Conversation 9: The Worst Thing You Can Do With Your Life

Aug 27th, 2019 51m 32s

The Worst Thing You Can Do With Your Life is conversation nine in the series on the Parables. All of us are given certain responsibilities and the key is not to compare, but use what we are given. Pastor Monty said these responsibilities have a

Say What - Conversation 8: The Wheat and Tares, Let Them Grow Together

Aug 19th, 2019 51m 32s

In the Parable of the Wheat and Tares, an enemy plants weeds in a farmers field. When the workers ask if they should remove the weeds, the farmer replies by saying, "No, because while you are pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with the

Say What - Conversation 7: Love In Action

Aug 11th, 2019 48m 22s

Conversation 7 Love in Action, is about the implications for us from the Parable of the Good Samaritan. Dwight said there is an “interdependence” that God placed in our hearts and we need Him and we need each other. The key though is our atti

Say What - Conversation 6: That's Not Fair!

Aug 7th, 2019 47m 54s

That's Not Fair! is the Sunday conversation for August fourth. The parables of Jesus were meant to challenge the crowd, and this one is one of the most controversial because it confronts us with our definitions of fairness and generosity that

Say What - Conversation 5: Gardening with Ciscoe

Jul 29th, 2019 47m 15s

Kristin Moomaw takes a look at the parable of the fig tree.

Say What - Conversation 1: Realities Of The Afterlife

Jul 23rd, 2019 43m 48s

Realities of the Afterlife is about the parable of Lazarus and the rich man. It seems like we all gravitate to stories about the afterlife, and we can see this in a number of TV shows and recent movies. Pastor Joe asked the question, what would

Say What - Conversation 3: Hidden Treasure

Jul 16th, 2019 39m 42s

Hidden Treasure is the third Sunday conversation about the parables of Jesus. The first two parables discussed in this message prompts the question, is there something when discovered that I would sell everything I own to obtain it? Jesus says

Say What - Conversation 2: The Lost Boys

Jul 8th, 2019 48m 4s

The Sunday conversation of the “Lost Boys” is the parable about the prodigal sons. This parable disrupts the idea of transactional wisdom based on our merit or ability to earn it. Instead it focuses on the “scandalous grace” that reframes our i

Dave Eubanks - Love Wins

Jul 1st, 2019 40m 17s

Love Wins is a message from one of our missionaries, Dave Eubanks. Pastor Monty described Dave as one of our heroes because Dave, his family, and his ministry, The Free Burma Rangers, supply deliverance and proclaim Jesus in war-torn areas, mo

Say What - Conversation 1: Super-Size, the Parable of the Mustard Seed

Jun 25th, 2019 47m 23s

Super-Size is about the parable of the Mustard Seed, which explains how the Kingdom of God starts similarly small yet grows exponentially. Because of this, God uses His kingdom to shelter us in three ways that speaks as loudly today as it did 2

Follow Me - Conversation 8: Unfollow

Jun 18th, 2019 42m 57s

Unfollow is the last Sunday conversation in the Follow Me series. There is a significant crossroad that all of Jesus’ followers encountered, a pivot moment that caused a number of them to press the “unfollow” button and leave. Jesus then asked

Follow Me - Conversation 7: The Secret of Leading Great

Jun 11th, 2019 49m 43s

The Secret of Leading Great focuses on a conversation that Jesus had with His disciples in Mark 10. In this passage He speaks to the leadership style you often see in culture and He challenges His followers to turn all of this upside down on ho

Follow Me - Conversation 6: Wanting To Want

Jun 4th, 2019 47m 26s

Conversation 6 in the Follow Me series deals with the topic of consumerism and how this affects your following Jesus. Pastor Baly said that consumer-Christianity asks the question, “What’s in it for me?” What the Lord wants us to consider inst