A church for people who feel church isn’t for them.

Sunday: 9:30AM, 11:00AM
801 Beirne Ave, Huntsville (5-Points)

 

You Belong Here

We don’t care what you wear, how many piercings or tattoos you have, what candidate you voted for or even if you know anything about the Bible. We are a church filled with people just like you with every kind of story imaginable.

It’s dark, it’s loud, and it smells a lot like coffee. We love Jesus.
We love the Bible, and we love our church.

We’re having a ton of fun, but we aren’t just playing around.
We love what we get to do here.

We think you’ll love it too.

Upcoming events

  • Difference Maker Orientation

    Sunday, January 25th

    Interested in learning more about serving at Essential Church? Sign up for our bi-weekly orientation. This is a chance for you to meet with our staff and have your questions answered. We'd love to help you use your gifts for God here at Essential!

    12:00 to 12:30 on the 2nd and 4th Sundays each month (excluding on Big Days, like Fall Fest). Meet at the coffee bar after service! 

  • Next Steps

    February 1st

    Are you tired of sitting on the sidelines and just doing church? Are you ready to learn more, grow more, serve more? Then Next Steps class is here for you!

    Next Steps is not some boring tutorial, but an exciting overview of how you can join the Essential Church Community! You will hear what we are about, how you can connect, and where you can plug in.

    The class will be in the sanctuary immediately following second service. Lunch and childcare are provided, but registration is required for adults (for the Next Steps class) and for children 6 weeks to 5th grade (for childcare).
    Registration closes on Thursday, January 29th at midnight.

  • Women's Ministry Retreat

    February 20th and 21st

    Step away from the noise and into a sacred space designed just for you. This retreat is a time to rest, reflect, and reconnect—with God, with others, and with your own heart. Through powerful teaching, heartfelt worship and meaningful conversations, we’ll explore what it means to be deeply rooted in faith and renewed in purpose.
    Come as you are—and leave transformed.

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Huntsville

Address
801 Beirne Avenue Northeast
Huntsville, AL 35801

Summer Service Times
Sunday: 9:30am and 11:00am

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Last week’s Teaching:

Guarding the Gift of Unity

 

Disunity is one of the greatest threats to the mission of Jesus today. In this message from James 1, we confront how easily anger, careless words, and impulsive reactions fracture Christian community, and what it actually takes to keep the unity the Spirit has already created.

James gives us a brutally practical path forward: be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger, receive the Word with humility, and actually do what God says. Unity is not created by trying harder to like each other. It is protected through obedience, repentance, forgiveness, and spiritual maturity.

This sermon challenges believers to examine where anger, sin, and spiritual passivity may be quietly eroding unity, and calls the church to pursue purity, humility, and action for the sake of joy, protection, and mission. Ultimately, we are pointed to Jesus, who absorbed God’s righteous anger so we could be reconciled to God and one another.

YouTube Description

Have you ever been hurt by a Christian? Or been the one who caused the hurt?

Disunity doesn’t usually explode. It quietly spreads through anger, careless words, delayed obedience, and spiritual self-deception. In James 1:19–25, we learn that unity is a gift from the Spirit, but it is something we are responsible to keep.

In this message, we unpack:

  • Why anger destroys Christian unity

  • How listening to God shapes how we treat others

  • Why purity and obedience are essential for healthy community

  • The danger of hearing God’s Word without doing it

  • How the cross changes the way we deal with conflict, anger, and forgiveness

Unity protects the church, fuels the mission of Jesus, and brings deep joy. This sermon calls every believer to slow down, listen closely, repent honestly, obey immediately, and love one another the way Christ has loved us.

If you want a faith that doesn’t fracture relationships and a church that moves forward together, this message is for you.

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