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To the Dad Who Wonders If He's Doing Enough
There is a voice most dads carry.
It starts somewhere around the second kid, gets louder after forty, and rarely goes quiet. The voice says: you are not doing enough. You are not present enough. You are not spiritual enough. You are not patient enough. Your kids deserve a better version of you.
Is There a Modern Church in Elkhorn? Yes — Here's What That Actually Means
“Modern church” is one of those phrases that can mean three very different things.
It can mean skinny jeans and smoke machines. It can mean a rock show pretending to be a church. Or it can mean a church that is rooted in timeless truth and knows how to communicate it in a way that connects with real life today. That third thing is what we are, and it’s what we want to talk about.
Heavy Is the Crown
What do you do when God hands you something you feel stunningly unqualified to carry? In Heavy is the Crown, Pastor Kap Chatfield teaches from 1 Kings 3 — the moment a 12-year-old Solomon steps into the throne after King David — and walks through four keys to steward the next assignment God is inviting you into.
2026 Summer Guide: Kids Programs, Camps & Activities in Elkhorn & West Omaha
Summer is 12 weeks long, and you probably only have plans for about eight of them.
This guide is here so you don’t hit July 6th and realize you have six straight Wednesdays of nothing but screen time. Bookmark it. Share it with the group chat. We’ll update it every year.
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.
What Should I Wear to Church? (A No-Pressure Guide from an Actual Church)
The first Sunday you walk into a new church, you will probably be either wildly overdressed or wildly underdressed, and then spend thirty minutes thinking about it during the service.
We want to spare you that. So here’s a straight answer to a question you probably just Googled.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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?”
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.