Casas Church

Difference Makers - Week One/July 14, 2024/Ryan Kramer

We don’t just attend church - we are the church. Joining a group is a powerful way to live that out. There is a whole group of people who need to know your story because it will benefit their journey. You also need to know their story because it will do transformational things in your life too. This give-and-take of life experiences brings us closer together to support one another, encourage each other, and, ultimately, better express the love of Jesus to the world around us.

Words, Actions, Reactions - Week Three/July 7, 2024/Glenn Barteau

In the final week of this series, we read through Romans 12:9-19 as we focused on actions. There are three things that we can take from Romans. 1) Don’t start with the action - start with the person. 2) Don’t let the actions of someone else determine your behavior. 3) Don’t play God. Do all things with sincere love and change your focus so you don’t end up fighting fire with fire. Who do you want to be when the situation you find yourself in is over? 

Words, Actions, Reactions - Week Two/June 30, 2024/Glenn Barteau

This series highlights how we can hold our words, actions, and reactions in a way that best reflects who we want to be. In week two, we focused on reactions and how we cultivate those responses because our reactions are formed by the things we surround ourselves with daily. If we want to change how we react we need to ask what we are filling ourselves with because that is where our reactions originate. 

Words, Actions, Reactions - Week One/June 23, 2024/Stacie Bartels

How can we maintain control of our words, actions, and reactions amidst the unpredictable situations that happen in life? We want to talk about these three specific areas and how we can regain or maintain control of them while being honest about who we desire to be. 
 

Vision Sunday/June 16, 2024/Glenn Barteau

On this Vision Sunday, we learned more about who Casas is, how you're a significant part of who we are, and where we're going as a community together as we step further into our mission of acceptance, love, and freedom in Christ. 

Parables Week Five/June 9, 2024/Seth Kreimeyer-Kelly

In this last week of Parables, we looked at Matthew 18:21 and the question put to Jesus is how many times we should forgive? When we feel like we’ve been wronged there are two options in front of us: the path of bitterness and the path of forgiveness. We hope to choose the path of forgiveness as it reflects the heart of God. It reflects it for us and for the people in our lives. 

Parables - Week Four/June 2, 2024/Glenn Barteau

In this fourth week of our Parables series, we read through the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard from Matthew 20:1-16. All the workers get paid the same no matter how long they’ve worked. Jesus uses this illustration to show that our illusions of fairness can trap us into comparison and make us lose trust in God. If we focus on fairness we miss what we’ve already been given. The all-day worker and one-hour worker get paid the same, which reflects the heart of God more? 

Celebration Sunday/May 26, 2024/Glenn Barteau

We celebrated the ministry year looking to Jesus as true north as we move forward in the acceptance, love, and freedom of Him together! We also rejoiced with 40 people who were baptized. Thank you for joining us as we thank God for working through us and with us to keep sharing our mission.

Parables - Week Three/May 19, 2024/Glenn Barteau

Parables are stories that paint a picture that becomes a mirror that becomes a window through which we can look and have a deeper understanding of who God is. This week we looked at a parable from Luke 18:9-14 with a tax collector and a Pharisee. In learning more about this story, we were challenged to be honest to who we are, where we are, as we are, and have an open and vulnerable heart with God that is anchored in His love, power, and grace.

Parables Week Two / May 12, 2024 / Ryan Kramer

In this second week of our Parables series, we dove into the story of the Good Samaritan from Luke 10. We learned that in parables we’re supposed to see ourselves in the story and through that then see the heart of God. Sometimes religion gets to a space where it protects its own sense of righteousness rather than loving people. Understanding parables can bring us back to what really matters to God and what should matter to each of us.