Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Tickets available at the door. This event is for men and teen guys.

They are asking for our help to get the doors open so they can begin to serve our community. Their strongest need for help is contributions toward the $10,000 kitchen equipment needed and volunteers on Saturday, February 25th between 9am and 3pm at 901 West 5th Street – Winona.  Learn more and sign up for updates and their newsletter at www.Lighthouse-Ministries.com.

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Sunday, February 12, 4-8pm

Have you been attending PV for a while, and would like to better understand the church, possibly considering membership?

Join us for this informative class that answers the basics of who we are, what we are called to do, and, if you choose, how you can become a participating member. Dinner will be served and childcare is available. To register, click “I’m going” on the calendar on the Table, check Discover PV on your bulletin response card and drop it in the offering on Sunday morning, or call the office, 452.5518.  This class is the first step toward membership.

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

You would think that it’s impossible to miss Christmas in the United States.  However, many people miss Christmas without even realizing it.  This Christmas season, we’ll be looking at four signs that God gave to us in preparation for the birth of His Son.  Not the impersonal kind all around us, but PERSONAL SIGNAGE, intended to bring comfort, peace and joy to your life.

God wants this Christmas to be the most meaningful Christmas that you have ever experienced.  And if you are going to make that a reality, you’ll need to discern the signage.

Christmas Eve Celebrations: A Sign Of Joy Luke 2:12
December 24
1, 3, and 5pm
Childcare is available for birth-33 months during the 1 & 3pm celebrations

There will be no Sunday morning worship celebrations on Sunday, December 25.

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Sermon by Pastor Brandon Zieske

Monday, December 5 | 7:00pm | Pleasant Valley Church

Join us for an evening of music, drama, dessert, and an opportunity to exchange the hustle and bustle of the season for laughter, friendship, peace and tranquility.  Kathy Young will help us focus on the true meaning of Christmas. Register to attend on the calendar entry on the Table. Direct questions to Heidi, 454.3057.

What’s the Table? The Table is a relational, online web application, custom-tailored for Pleasant church. We aim to engage the community, empower leaders, and move people beyond the pews and into authentic, life-changing friendships.
If you have not already joined the Table, here’ s how:

1) Go to the home page of this site, click on “the table” button.
2) Click “I’m new here”
3) Click “Join” and follow the steps to sign-up.
4) Fill out your profile and make sure to add a picture.

Enjoy joining the church family to pray, meet, learn and serve with each other beyond Sundays. You can post and read discussions and serving opportunities. You can view and register for upcoming events. You can join a group and keep up to date with your group members!

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Bring your boxes to the Worship Celebrations on November 13 or 20 (Boxes may be dropped off on Sundays at the table in the entryway) or during the week, November 14-19  : Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 12-4pm; Tuesday, Thursday: 4-7pm; Saturday 10am-noon; Sunday 1-4pm.

Operation Christmas Child brings joy and hope to millions of children in desperate situations around the world through gift-filled shoe boxes and the Good News of God’s love—in their own language! Click here for details on how to pack a shoebox!  http://www.samaritan.org/index.php/OCC/Pack_A_Shoe_Box/ 

Moment of Prayer – Prayer is crucial to the work of OCC! Unite in prayer with the country on Monday, November 14, at 2pm EST (1pm our time). Please ask God for another blessed shoe box season. For more prayer requests, click here. samaritanspurse.org/prayforocc

Questions? Contact Doug and Julie Hinrichs, 452.6193 or hindrds@hbci.com

Sermon by Nick Hall

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

If you’ve ever wondered what it was like to be a part of the ACTS church,  then hold on to your hats.

Pastor Rick will dig into the Scriptures to show us a God who used a small group of people to do BIG things for His glory.  He loves to fill weak, broken vessels with immeasurable grace and mercy.  In fact, He’s looking for a few broken pieces… How about you?  Come and hear of His crazy plan to use Pleasant Valley Church.

Sermon by Pastor Joe McConkey

Video From Sermon:

In Leviticus 6:13, while giving instructions to the priests about worship, it says, The fire must be kept burning on the altar continuously; it must not go out.

Can you imagine how much work it was to keep a fire going 24/7/365? History records for us that the fire burned continuously for 860 years!  The fire went out when the people of God were carried off into captivity by the Babylonians. This happened because they were no longer captivated by the fact that they were the people of God. They turned away from God, chasing after the temporary rather than the treasure of knowing God!

It is not God’s responsibility to keep the fire burning in our hearts; it’s ours!
Are you a consumer of the things of God or are you consumed?  To consume means to “engage fully”. A consumer simply eats all he can get.

All of us grow attachments to incidental things—and fail to venture forth where God leads.  When we pray, do we pray like a consumer or like we are consumed?  Do we live in spiritual pretense or spiritually intense?

There are a good number of people who don’t mind being touched by the fire of God, as long as it’s containable, or better said, controllable! As long as they determine its heat and intensity, they don’t mind being near the fire!

God loves to see the hearts of His people glowing towards Himself. God will never be satisfied just to touch you, He wants to consume you, (body, mind, soul, and spirit)! He wants everything.

God not only want to light a fire in you for Him! He wants you to become consumed by that fire!

The early Christians did not need a shot in the arm every Sunday to keep them going. They knew Jesus and they upset the world, worried the devil, and gave wicked rulers insomnia.   They started something that jails couldn’t lock up, fire couldn’t burn, water couldn’t drown, and swords couldn’t kill. This world has never been moved by cold, calculating poeple, but by believers, with their hearts on fire.
We suffer today from a type of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as the Twins chances of going to the World Series.  We are suffering from a lack of consumed hearts.

Are you a consumer, content to demand this or that from God to quell your temporal spiritual appetite?  Or are you willing to become consumed, by the awesome power of God, the amazing beauty of Jesus and the empowering presence of His Spirit?  As always, the choice is yours.

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Jesus says first get out a mirror and confess your own mess of sins! -Matthew 7:1-6

Everyone we see every day of our lives is either caught in or just coming out of or in between moving into some area of sin.  There are sins of the flesh or spirit, unkown or known – Gal 5:19-21; 2 Cor 7:1; Ps 19:12 – and no one is immune Rom 3:23; 1 John 1:7-10.

I am thinking a lot about how to restore a person caught in sin these days from this verse:

Gal 6:1: ”Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin restore him gently.  But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted” .

2 Biblical principles on this:

First, the word  for “restore” is used in Matthew 4 to describe what John and Andrew were doing to their fishing nets – “mending”.  The word is used also in at least two other passages to describe what church leaders and the word of God are to do – “equip Christ followers for service” and being “adequately equipped for every good work” – Eph 4:12; 2 Tim 3:17.

So when we aim to resore someone caught in sin our mindset is more than just getting them out from under the guilt and onto holy living.  The focus of restoration is God’s glory!  It is about restoring them to fruitful and productive living for Him!  Those fishing nets were not mended to look nice for fellow fisherman looking on but so that they could catch fish.

Second, “gently” (which means to be strong and controlled inwardly) restore them.  Restoring sin captivated people is spiritual warfare.  There are traps set for everyone around.  Gentleness is one of the only two characteristics Jesus ever highlighted about Himself Matthew 11:28-30.  It is counter intuitive for us to use gentleness in warfare but it is the way of Christ.

So when we aim to restore someone we do it in all humility and gentleness but with great power and confidence in Christ’s will and way.

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Church doesn’t end just because the worship service is over. “Church” is the body of Christ seeking God’s kingdom, not just an event on Sunday morning. Prayer, service, study and fellowship are important aspects of faith that shouldn’t be restricted to the hour we sit in a pew. That’s what the Table is all about. It’s a private social network, just for Pleasant Valley, that enables us to connect 24/7, not just on Sunday.

September 11, 2011: Ground Zero: Gospel

September 18, 2011: Ground Zero: Relationships

September 25, 2011: Ground Zero: Accountability

October 2, 2011: Ground Zero: Christ-Likeness

October 9, 2011: Ground Zero: Exaltation

Ground Zero is a term that will forever be associated with September 11, 2001. Most of us remember where we were when we heard that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. Even more etched in our memory is the moment when we watched both towers fall. From that point forward, we knew everything had changed. Nothing would stay the same.

Meeting Jesus Christ is always a Ground Zero moment. We see this throughout the Bible in story after story. Individuals meet Jesus Christ and their lives are transformed – forever.

Have you encountered Jesus Christ at your own Ground Zero?

Have you been truly transformed by His Gospel?

Are you spending yourself for His Kingdom?

Are you surrounding yourself with revolutionary relationships?

Do your actions, words, and lifestyle look like Jesus?

Is your worship more than just Sunday morning?

Our prayer is that our church would see  9-11-11 as a mark on our spiritual timeline that we would not look back from.

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Sermon by Pastor Joe McConkey

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Sermon by Pastor Chad Ellenburg

Every life is comprised of a few themes and people who make the major difference. This four-part series, focuses on four relationships that we must cultivate in order to become all the Lord envisions for us.

Sermon by Pastor Joe McConkey

Every life is comprised of a few themes and people who make the major difference. This four-part series, focuses on four relationships that we must cultivate in order to become all the Lord envisions for us.

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Every life is comprised of a few themes and people who make the major difference. This four-part series, focuses on four relationships that we must cultivate in order to become all the Lord envisions for us.

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Every life is comprised of a few themes and people who make the major difference. This four-part series, focuses on four relationships that we must cultivate in order to become all the Lord envisions for us.

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Sermon by Pastor Bob Alsens

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Sermon by Pastor Paul Sanders

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias

Sermon by Pastor Rick Iglesias