At The Movies is a 4-week summer message series taking popular movies and connecting them with Biblical truths. In each service you’ll see scenes from some of your favorite films and hear a message that connects to the teaching of the Bible. It’s a great opportunity to invite your friends and family!

The At the Movies series is designed to be an onramp for people in our church and people in our valley who do not know the message of the Bible and help connect them to God and His gospel. Jesus taught heavily through stories and parables using truths that were apparent in cultural life to point people to God. In a way, movies are our modern day parables. Movies explore the issues we all confront; death, beauty, courage, purpose, pain, connection, and hope. These films are often popular because they touch on universal longings and needs. We see this series as a great way to point people to the one ultimate truth—JESUS.

Theologian Francis Schaeffer said, “Art is a reflection of God’s creativity, evidence that we are made in the image of God.” We don’t endorse the entirety of the content in the films we are featuring. However we’ll make it obvious that that each of these films points to a truth about the human condition and the need for Jesus. In the same way Jesus taught the people of His day by looking around to the objects and stories present in the culture (coins, sheep, widows, and wayward sons), we are looking to the stories being told in our culture and using the questions they elicit to point people to God.

Yes. Each week we’ll look at a movie through a biblical lens, studying Scripture that expands and illuminates the truth at the heart of each movie’s theme.

Our hope is to use this series as a practical, tangible way for the people of Southwest to engage the people in their lives who are spiritually curious, hungry, and INVITE them to a safe and welcoming place to learn more about Jesus. We see this series as a great tool to help our people move where they live. Many of these films have already connected with the culture on a heart-level. Our ultimate goal is to point people towards what we all need—a saving relationship with Jesus Christ.

Unfortunately, because we cannot broadcast or archive our "At the Movies" series on YouTube due to copyright laws, we will be providing additional livestream service options to our Church Online platform at various "showtimes" throughout the week following the weekend service:

Weekend services on Sunday mornings at 9:00 AM & 11:00 AM

Sunday evenings at 3:00 PM, 5:00 PM & 7:00 PM

Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays at 6:00 PM