Friendship Creekside

09/06/2026

Happy Sunday! We'd love to see you this morning. Here's what's happening at Friendship today...

📖 9:30 AM - Adult Bible study (child care available)
📖 9:30 AM - Middle School & High School Bible study
⛪ 10:45 AM - Worship Service (child care available)
💻 10:45 AM - Live stream starts. Make sure to subscribe to get notified when we go live!

We are a Christ-centered church located in South Austin/Dripping Springs, dedicated to helping people Encounter Jesus, Become like Jesus, and Impact our world for Jesus. On this channel, you’ll find: Weekly Messages: Inspiring and biblically-grounded teaching from our Sunday services. Worship: Mus...

09/04/2026

Ladies, are you stuck in a dinner rut and sick of making the exact same meals every week? 🍽️✨

Save the date! We’re hosting a Potluck & Recipe Swap next Friday, September 11 at 6PM, and you’re invited! Come for the food, stay for the fellowship, and leave with a week's worth of fresh ideas!

📍 Where: Fellowship Hall
🗓️ When: Friday, Sept 11th at 6:00 PM
🥗 What to bring: A dish to share + printed copies of a favorite family recipe (Bonus points for quick & simple meals!)

Bring a friend and come hungry—we can't wait to share a meal with you!

09/03/2026

Join us in our 6:56 prayer time!
The Power of Praise
Adoration and praise are powerful spiritual warfare weapons. Satan hates it when we praise God. Why? Because he wants to be worshiped instead! When we worship God, Satan runs. Psalm 8:2 tells us, “From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise because of your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.” When we praise God, the enemy is silenced! Psalm 149:6-9 indicates that praise in our mouths works to “inflict vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples, to bind their kings with fetters, their nobles with shackles of iron. . . This is the glory of all his saints.”

Second Chronicles 20 contains an amazing story of the power of praise. When faced with a powerful enemy—too powerful for his armies—King Jehoshaphat called for a time of fasting and prayer during which God revealed He would bring victory. Somehow Jehoshaphat got the idea (it had to come from God) to march against these armies with singers in the front of his army. The singers lifted beautiful praises to God: “Give thanks to the Lord, for his love endures forever” (20:21). The result? The opposing armies began attacking each other. The army of Judah didn’t even have to fight! That’s the power of praise! Make it a regular part of your prayer life.

--Adapted from The Power of Personal Prayer (Learning to Pray with Faith and Purpose) by Jonathan Graf.

09/01/2026

Men, join us TOMORROW night as we launch a brand-new study on 1 Samuel (1:1–2:11)! Don't worry, we’re skipping the fire pit this week—the weather is doing plenty of heating on its own. But you can still count on great discussion & solid fellowship.

Bring the whole family, there's something for everyone! Here is what’s happening tomorrow evening:

🍴 6:00 PM: Church family dinner provided by our amazing Kitchen Ministry!
📖 MENistries: 1 Samuel series kicks off at the gazebo across the creek
🎀 Ladies’ Bible Study: Deep dive into the Word (Childcare provided!)
🎨 Creekside Kids: Lesson & fun with Ms. Yaya.
🎸 ONE EPIC Youth: High-energy worship & small groups.

Grab your family and come grow in faith together! See you there! 🙌

08/27/2026

We were so blessed by the turn out for Youth Night last night! Huge thanks to everyone who came out. If you couldn't make it, set a reminder for next Wednesday—because we're just getting started, and you won't want to miss it!

🎉 Plus, Wednesday nights now have something for every single member of the family. While the youth gather, MENistries meets for discipleship, our ladies group is diving into a new Bible study on the Trinity (with childcare provided!), and Ms. Yaya has fun lessons and crafts ready for our elementary kids.

🚗 Pack up the car next week, bring the whole family, and let’s grow in faith together!

08/27/2026

Join us in our 6:56 prayer time!
Evaluating Your Prayer Life

While there are hundreds of positive promises regarding answered prayer, there are also many times in Scripture where God outlines what will hinder our prayers – especially sin. No one prays perfectly and God is not playing with us. He does not make intercession so unattainable that only the super-spiritual can be effective. He knows our frame and understands our weakness. But He is also very clear about those things that can hinder our prayers.

Are we willing to evaluate the effectiveness of our prayer life by laying it before the Father? If God shows us areas of need, we can turn to Him in repentance and take every step necessary to adjust our life to encounter Him afresh in prayer.

--Adapted from Simply Prayer by Bill Elliff.

08/23/2026

Happy Sunday! We'd love to see you this morning. Here's what's happening at Friendship today...

📖 9:30 AM - Adult Bible study (child care available)
📖 9:30 AM - Middle School & High School Bible study
⛪ 10:45 AM - Worship Service (child care available)
💻 10:45 AM - Live stream starts. Make sure to subscribe to get notified when we go live!

We are a Christ-centered church located in South Austin/Dripping Springs, dedicated to helping people Encounter Jesus, Become like Jesus, and Impact our world for Jesus. On this channel, you’ll find: Weekly Messages: Inspiring and biblically-grounded teaching from our Sunday services. Worship: Mus...

08/20/2026

Join us in our 6:56pm Prayer! Do You Hear Him?

Every place in this world God created is proclaiming God, but most do not recognize it as such. And most do not—upon hearing His voice—give Him the glory He deserves. Men call the world around them “nature.” The Bible calls it “God’s Voice.” Seven times in Psalm 29, David speaks of the "voice of the Lord" speaking through the mighty things he sees and hears happening around him. David heard God's voice in the thunder, lightning, earthquake, and storms.

He heard God's voice in the temple where everything around him was shouting, "Glory!" He heard and saw God as he realized his King was sovereign over everything. Creation showed him that "the Lord sits as King forever." And He saw God as the One who was "giving strength to His people" and blessing His people with the gift of peace. He recognized the Source behind what He was experiencing personally and what His people were experiencing.

The proper response is seen in the opening lines of this Psalm: “ Ascribe to the Lord, O sons of the mighty, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength. Ascribe to the Lord the glory due to His name; worship the Lord in holy array.” (Psalm 29:1-2)
To "ascribe" means to recognize who is the rightful Creator and Author of these things. We are to so understand the voice of God in nature that we realize He is the cause behind it all.

And there is but one response: "Worship the Lord in the majesty of holiness." We are to let His voice draw us to bent knees, lifted hands, raised voices, surrendered lives in true worship. And if we are hearing Him all day, we will be worshiping Him every hour!

Glorious Creator God, You alone are King forever! We bow our hearts and lives before Your glory and strength! Turn our attention towards Your beautiful face continually, all day long! Help us to step away from anything that threatens to take our thoughts off of You and show us how to worship the majesty of Your holiness in spirit and in truth. To You be all honor and glory and praise!

--Adapted from Prayer with No Intermission by Bill Elliff.

08/19/2026

Wednesday Nights are back TOMORROW and this year we have something for everyone! We'll kick the night off with a delicious meal made by our Kitchen Ministry before heading into our evening activities!

🎀 LADIES: We will be kicking off a brand-new study, He's Where the Joy Is: Getting to Know the Captivating God of the Trinity. Childcare provided for ages 0–5!
💪 MEN: Big news! Your weekly gathering is moving from Thursday to Wednesday night this Fall. Come out and hear about what MENistries will be up to this Fall!
🔥 MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL: ONE EPIC Youth is BACK! Invite your friends and get ready to see how the Lord moves in your lives this year!
🎨 ELEMENTARY: Ms. Yaya has awesome lessons, fun crafts, and plenty of playtime lined up for you!