First devotionals
An important step in making your relationship with Christ real and living is to be connected to real community. Start one of these devotionals with others during this sermon series!
21 Days
Join Pastor Rick Warren for this series that will not just give you the information you need to maintain financial fitness but also the motivation to become a responsible and trustworthy manager of everything God has given you.
MORE – Generosity And Faith In Your Finances
14 Days
When you serve a God of the abundant—why not expect MORE? He is a big God and is ready to do big things in your life—will you trust him with it? Read this plan and be challenged to change your mindset on finances, build up your faith, trust, and legacy, and see his hand bless you and all areas of your life.
Coping With Dwindling Finances
7 Days
When it seems like your finances are out of control—when it feels like there’s no way to find a sense of peace—you can turn to the solace of Scripture. Even when it seems to us like God doesn’t see our burdens—we discover that he feels our heartaches. He intimately understands our anxieties and worries. And he wants us to bring those worries to him.
7 Days
The financial situation in America is challenging and uncertain; families are in trouble. But we serve a mighty God and His ways are tested and proven time after time. Steve Repak faced the same challenges that others face: being spiritually and financially broke. God had a purpose for Steve’s life: a calling to financial faithfulness. God led Steve to become a Certified Financial Planner™ and he has grown to become a premiere financial expert and author in both the secular and faith-based realms. Over the next seven days, Steve will provide seven Biblical financial principles from his book Six Week Money Challenge for Your Personal Finances so you can jumpstart your finances, better equip yourself for all God’s good work, and live the life God has always wanted for you! Whether you are financially rich and spiritually broke, spiritually rich and financially broke, or anywhere in between, we challenge you to become a better steward of your financial resources so you can focus less on your temporary security and more on your eternal security.
Win Your War devotionals
An important step in winning your war is to be connected to real community. Start one of these devotionals with others about winning your war.
7 Days
Most of life’s battles are won or lost in the mind. So how do we start winning more of those battles? In this 7-day Bible Plan from Life.Church Pastor Craig Groeschel’s book, we’ll discover how to fight toxic thoughts, overcome out-of-control thinking, and start winning the war in our minds using God’s truth as our battle plan.
5 Days
Do you feel like a victim to your spiraling thoughts? Do you often fall prey to toxic thinking patterns like victimhood, anxiety, and distraction? The enemy of our souls is determined to make us feel helpless, overwhelmed, and incapable of making a difference for God’s kingdom. It doesn’t have to be that way! Get out of your head and into God’s promises in this five-day, thought-changing devotional from Jennie Allen.
Don’t Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: Win the Battle of Your Mind
6 Days
We all struggle with controlling our thoughts and making them honorable and glorifying to God. In this six-day reading plan, based on Louie Giglio’s book, Don’t Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table, you’ll learn how to take authority over your thoughts and emotions—through the power God has given us the power, through Jesus Christ, to defeat the Enemy.
June 23 Update from Justin Jordan
Hey Real Life, tune in as our Lead Pastor shares the church’s plan amidst the change in Ada County’s approach to coronavirus. Also, a celebration story of what God is doing at Real Life!
Sunday Reopening Plan #3
Lead Pastor Justin Jordan shares our reopening plan for Guest Ministries and the Custodial team
Sunday Reopening Plan #2
Director of Family Ministries, Jenni Florendo shares the Lifer Kids reopening plan
Sunday Reopening Plan #1
Lead Pastor Justin Jordan discusses some of our Sunday Reopening Plans
Together Yet Apart
Even in the age of social distancing, we lifers were able to come together to welcome back our lead pastor Justin Jordan after a couple Sundays off. Welcome back Justin, we are so glad you're feeling better! #reallifetv #onepersonatatime #togetheragain
Face Mask Task Force
Our Face Mask Task Force is off and sewing! In fact, the Idaho STEM Action Center has said they can supply us with elastic and filters for the masks! Plus they have a huge need of organizations wanting to make the masks, including the Nampa Police Department.
Please spread the word, we need more seamstresses. Sign up here to join the team!
March 14 Update from Justin Jordan
I hope you are doing well on this Saturday. I wanted to update you regarding where we are at with holding Sunday services with the outbreak of coronavirus in our community. If you haven’t heard, we now have a confirmed case of corona virus in our community located in Ada county.
At this point, we now plan to NOT hold physical services tomorrow. We are planning on having a sermon via video tomorrow and each Sunday until we choose to meet again. We are doing this not out of fear, but rather out of concern and love for our community. We want to love our neighbors well and make wise decisions. The health professionals have discouraged large group gatherings to help keep the spread of corona virus from happening and to help keep our health services from being overwhelmed. We believe choosing not to meet is a way to help contribute to this endeavor in our community.
With that being said, we have a tremendous opportunity in front of us as a church. The opportunity that lies before us is that we have the ability to meet needs, show up and rise to the occasion as a church. The history of the church shows us that while the world is scared, we are not. When the world runs away, we do not. When the world self preserves and hoards things, we do not,. Instead we share and we give up things for our neighbor. When there is uncertainty, we stand firm in the hope of Jesus and run towards the unknown and darkness that at times surround us. What does this practically look like for us in this season?
Here are some things I want you to consider. What would it look like for you to meet your neighbors and let them know you are here to meet needs? Could you offer over items that are needed and continue to find out what their needs are? Could you offer up some toilet paper? :) Could you go get groceries for the elderly, immunocompromised, asthmatics, sickly or those with diabetes and leave it at their front door for them? Could you FaceTime, text and call people who are lonely in quarantine and offer them encouragement and hope. The answer to all of those questions is yes. We could do that and I believe we will do it because you, Real Life, know who you are. You are the bride of Christ ready to be mobilized as Jesus’ church.
Here are the things that we are doing moving forward: We are doing a video on facebook later today that will cover the same things that are discussed in this email. You can watch it on Facebook and it will be uploaded onto our blog on our website later today. In addition, we will still continue meeting in small groups such as home groups, youth group and classes. We are empowering our leaders to decide whether or not they should meet, hoping that they will meet, but not expecting it either as we know a lot of sickness is going around. We trust each decision that is going to be made in smaller groups.
As stated earlier, we will do a sermon video each Sunday until we meet again that will be posted on Facebook and on our blog. In addition, we will be meeting together as a staff team on Monday to dive into a deeper plan of how we mobilize and meet needs as a church going forward in this season.
As your Lead Pastor I want you to know that even though we are living in an interesting season, we will not fear (2 Timothy 1:7). I am extremely excited to see how we as the church will overcome this moment. The bride of Christ always overcomes because Jesus overcomes. Please be sure to stay tuned with more communication (emails & social media posts) as we move into this season and remember where our hope lies.
“One Person at a Time,”
Justin Jordan
Lead Pastor