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How To Avoid Your Biggest Regret
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How To Avoid Your Biggest Regret

In 2 Samuel 11, King David is 50 years old and at the height of his leadership — victory after victory, promise after promise fulfilled. And then one afternoon on a rooftop unravels thirty years of faithfulness. In How To Avoid Your Biggest Regret, Pastor Todd Doxzon walks through David's downward spiral and gets uncomfortably honest about his own biggest regret.

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The One Thing You Can’t Google When Your Life Falls Apart
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The One Thing You Can’t Google When Your Life Falls Apart

When the bottom falls out of your week, what do you reach for first?

In The One Thing You Can’t Google When Your Life Falls Apart, Pastor Mike O’Connell teaches from 1 Samuel 30. David walks back into Ziklag and finds the city burned to the ground, his family taken, and his own men ready to stone him. The Bible says he “found strength in the Lord his God.” That sentence is doing more work than most of us realize. It’s the result of years of ordinary practice, not a panic prayer in the moment.

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10 Things to Do With Kids in Elkhorn & West Omaha This May
Tamara McMillan Tamara McMillan

10 Things to Do With Kids in Elkhorn & West Omaha This May

It's going to be 83 on Saturday, and you have no plan.

Welcome to parenting in May in Nebraska. The weather, hopefully, has finally stopped pretending. Soccer is almost over. School is almost over. And the text chain has gone quiet because everybody else is also pretending they have it figured out.

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A Woman of Understanding Shifts the Atmosphere
Tamara McMillan Tamara McMillan

A Woman of Understanding Shifts the Atmosphere

She didn't try to fix the room. She just walked in differently.

That was the throughline of Denise Doxzon's Mother's Day message at Love Church — and it landed because most of us walked in expecting a sermon about strong women and walked out with a sharper question: what atmosphere am I carrying into the rooms I can't fix?

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To the Mom Who Feels Invisible This Mother's Day
Tamara McMillan Tamara McMillan

To the Mom Who Feels Invisible This Mother's Day

Mother's Day is not a Hallmark ad for everyone.

The card aisle at Walgreens doesn't have a section for the woman whose mother just died. It doesn't have one for the woman whose body won't give her a child. It doesn't have one for the mom whose teenage daughter isn't speaking to her, or the mom who's carrying a season of failing she cannot say out loud.

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Be Careful What You Wish For
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Be Careful What You Wish For

We all know the feeling — looking around, seeing what everyone else has, and quietly thinking, “I want that.” In 1 Samuel 7 and 8, the people of Israel did exactly that. They had God as their King. They had miracle after miracle in their rearview mirror. And they still asked for a human king “like all the other nations have.”

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What Actually Happens on a Sunday at Love Church (From Parking Lot to Pickup)
Tamara McMillan Tamara McMillan

What Actually Happens on a Sunday at Love Church (From Parking Lot to Pickup)

It's 8:27 AM on a Sunday.

A mom is sitting in her car in the Elkhorn Hy-Vee parking lot, one kid in a car seat, the other asking why his shoes feel weird. She's got one hand on the wheel and one on her phone, Googling, one more time, "what to expect at church." She's been Googling variations of this for three weeks.

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Why You Keep Holding Back (And How to Finally Stop)
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Why You Keep Holding Back (And How to Finally Stop)

What if your biggest obstacle is not fear — but the choice to hold back? In Judges 6, God calls Gideon a mighty hero while he is literally hiding in a wine press. That disconnect is the whole point. In Why You Keep Holding Back, Pastor Mike O'Connell unpacks the Greek word deilía from 2 Timothy 1:7 — often translated "timidity" — and reveals that it is not describing an emotion. It is describing a posture: the decision to shrink back when courage is already available to you.

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Moving to Elkhorn, NE? Here's How to Find a Church That Feels Like Home
Tamara McMillan Tamara McMillan

Moving to Elkhorn, NE? Here's How to Find a Church That Feels Like Home

Welcome to Elkhorn.

If you're reading this in a half-unpacked living room with a dog that still doesn't know where home is, we get it. Moving is a lot. And somewhere on the list, between the new dentist and the first oil change in a new zip code, is the question, “Where do we go to church?”

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Warfare Wisdom
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Warfare Wisdom

You thought you outgrew that thing — and it’s back. The temptation. The doubt. The old mindset. If you’ve been quietly fighting a battle nobody sees, this message is for you.

In “Warfare Wisdom,” Pastor Kap Chatfield walks through Joshua to show us three principles that change how we fight: Lock Up. Look Again. Lean In. God didn’t promise you a life without battles. He promised to teach you warfare inside of them.

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Get Your Feet Wet
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Get Your Feet Wet

What is keeping you on the riverbank? In Joshua 3, God's people stand at the edge of the Jordan River — flooded, overflowing, and completely impassable by human effort. The promised land is right there. But God does not part the water first. He waits for their feet to get wet. In Get Your Feet Wet, Pastor Mike O'Connell unpacks one of the most faith-stretching moments in all of Scripture and asks a simple but convicting question: where are you on the map?

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How To Live Full
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How To Live Full

When was the last time you felt truly full, not just physically, but deep in your soul? In How To Live Full, Pastor Mike O’Connell delivers a powerful Easter message about the emptiness we all carry and the only One who can truly fill it. We chase pleasure, prestige, performance, and people, but every time, we’re left wanting more.

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The Power of a Satisfied Soul
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The Power of a Satisfied Soul

We all know what it feels like to be hungry. But what about the feeling of an empty soul? In The Power of a Satisfied Soul, Pastor Todd Doxzon gets honest about the hole we all carry — and the endless, exhausting ways we try to fill it. From Solomon's pursuit of pleasure, possessions, and performance to a woman at a well who had been searching in all the wrong places, the pattern is the same: everything we reach for eventually runs dry.

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He Is Risen
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He Is Risen

Is the resurrection real — or is it just something we say? In He Is Risen, Pastor Kap Chatfield makes the case that the resurrection of Jesus is not a fairy tale, not a spiritual metaphor, and not a crutch for people who need comfort. It is the most consequential event in human history, and the evidence for it is stronger than most people realize.

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The Life You're Choosing
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The Life You're Choosing

What decisions are you making right now that might be holding you back from God's best in your life? In Deuteronomy 11, Moses stands before the people of Israel on the edge of the promised land and lays out one of the clearest invitations in all of Scripture — obey and be blessed, or walk away and miss out. In The Life You're Choosing, Luke Reelfs unpacks three things that happen when we say yes to God and actually mean it. 

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Above All Else
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Above All Else

What does it actually look like to love God with everything you have — not just on Sunday, but in every room of your house, every season of your life, and every story you pass down to the next generation? In Deuteronomy 6, Moses delivers what may be the most important charge in all of Scripture. In Above All Else, Pastor Ben Norvig unpacks what it means to remember, obey, and worship — and why the order matters more than we might think.

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Addressing Anger Issues
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Addressing Anger Issues

Have you ever let anger get the better of you — and later wished you could take it back? In Numbers 20, Moses, one of the greatest leaders in history, has an outburst that costs him the promised land. In Addressing Anger Issues, Pastor Todd Doxzon gets honest about his own struggles with anger and shows us what happens when pressure, pain, and pride collide — and what it looks like to finally get free.

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How Do You Hear It?
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How Do You Hear It?

Here’s the question that follows every moment of conviction: “But how do I actually know what God is asking me to say yes to?”

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The Three Letter Word God Loves
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The Three Letter Word God Loves

What keeps us from saying yes to God when we know He is calling? In Numbers 9, the people of Israel learned to move whenever the cloud of God’s presence moved. But in Numbers 13, when obedience required courage, fear and excuses began to rise. In The Three Letter Word God Loves, Pastor Mike O’Connell reminds us that following God is not one big decision. It is a lifetime of yeses.

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