
Imitatio Christi: in Always Having the Poor
Text: John 12:1-8
What does Jesus mean "You will always have the poor with you?" The answer explodes our notions of what church is and what Jesus is doing in the world.

Imitatio Christi: What it means to be whole
Text: Luke 15:1-3; 11b-32
There is a plethora of self help advice out there centered on hacking your way to wholeness. But what if you already have everything you need to be whole?

Imitatio Christi: In Senseless Suffering
Text: Luke 13:1-9
Jesus is confronted with the question of why seemingly senseless suffering happens. His actions show us God's answer.

Imitatio Christi: in an Anxious Age
Text: Luke 13:31-35
In an age when it seems as if all we hold dear is at stake, Jesus offers us God’s counterintuitive way forward.

Imitatio Christi: In the Wasteland
Text: Luke 4:1-13
Jesus journey towards the cross begins in a familiar place. Jesus shows us what it means to be human in the wastelands and wandering of life.

The Marks of Christ
Text: Galatians Galatians 6:1-18
The mosaic of Christ in the world is made up of a variety of people, cultures, ideas, and identities. But the Church will inevitably look like Jesus.

A Transfigured Present
Text: Galatians 5:1-26
God's gift does not guarantee us an easy life. It doesn't even guarantee us a happy life. What God's gift does offer us is a beautiful life.


Peace of mind in the present
Text: Galatians 4:12-31
How does what Jesus is doing seep into our every day lived experience? Galatian’s uncomfortable allegory opens our eyes to the reality of our life with God, even in this present chaos.

The gift you keep refusing
Text: 3:19-4:1-11
So much of life is driven by our attempts to grab for ourselves what God freely offers as a gift. So what might happen if we actually accepted it?

Trusting in the Crucified Messiah
Text: Galatians 3:1-18
God’s plan to undo the fracturing of humanity has always been to create a people marked by faith. This faith is not about being intellectually right but about trusting—entrusting ourselves to the crucified Messiah who is bringing blessing to all the nations of the earth.

For those who feel like they’re on the outside
Text: Galatians 2:11-21
If at some point it was made clear to you that the good news didn’t include you, this sermon is for you.

One thing to remember heading into the new year
Text: Galatians 1:1-10
With a new year come new reflections, reminders, resolutions, and often some resolve. In the midst of all that, what is the number one thing to keep in mind?

The Word Became Flesh and Dwells Among Us
Text: John 1:6-14
We expect God’s glory to be in power and might, but Jesus reveals in His humanity and divinity His glory by being lifted up through suffering and death.

The Light Shines in the Darkness
Text: John 1:1-5
As we reflect on this past year and pray about the year ahead, we are reminded of the overarching truth that the Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness does not overcome it.

What we miss about Mary’s song of revolution
Text: Luke 1:39-55
Mary’s Magnificat is a powerful song of revolution and rectification in a broken world. But have we missed the entire point of it?

Advent Tears Us In Two
Text: Luke 3:7-18
Preparing the way of the Lord means acknowledging the darkness without and within. Doing so will mean drawing this one fundamental conclusion…

Someone greater than you is coming
Text: Luke 3:1-6
John the Baptist is standing in the wilderness, calling us to repent, for the one greater is to come and make all things new. We are then invited into Jesus' salvation and restoration, giving up the old to a life far better than we can ever imagine.

Don’t Give Up Hope
Text: Luke 21:25-36
Ready to hope again? Hope is often something overlooked (or abandoned) in post evangelical churches like ours. But Jesus’ insists that we be a strange people who hope when it seems like we have absolutely no reason for hope. And oddly enough, Jesus uses this truth to ignite our hearts to hope again.

A Grateful Life
Text: Luke 24:13-35
In our work of leading a Jesus centered life God encounters us and transfigures our resentment into gratitude.