How a God of love deals with evil
Text: Zephaniah 3:8-20
Zephaniah offers a grand picture of God's judgement and God's love. In the process we find that the heart of God is to make all things new.
Our Current Moment
Text: Habbakuk 1:1-4; 3:16-19 (NASB20)
In the face of yet even more “unprecedented times” where is God? And what does hope and victory look like right now?
Back to the Basics
Text: Micah 6:6-8
In a world complicated by endless demands and distractions, what does God truly require of us? Today we'll dive into Micah 6:6-8 and explore the timeless and transformative call to "do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with your God." We'll uncover how these basic principles can simplify our spiritual journey and align our lives with God's heart. Join us as we strip away the non-essentials and return to the core of our faith, finding purpose and peace in the simplicity of God's requirements.
When Certainty Doesn't Lead to God
Text: Micah 6:6-8
In a world complicated by endless demands and distractions, what does God truly require of us? Today we'll dive into Micah 6:6-8 and explore the timeless and transformative call to "do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with your God." We'll uncover how these basic principles can simplify our spiritual journey and align our lives with God's heart. Join us as we strip away the non-essentials and return to the core of our faith, finding purpose and peace in the simplicity of God's requirements.
God’s Idea of Justice
Text: Amos 5:4-27
What is God’s idea of justice and how does this square with what Jesus is doing in our lives? The prophet Amos gives us insight into the profound depths of injustice and how the path to justice is not as obscure and unfamiliar as we might think.
A Loving God or Judging God?
Text: Joel 2:18-32 (NLT)
How do we make sense of a loving God who also judges and seems to punish people? The prophet Joel helps us reimagine all the contours and nuances of this great and terrible day of judgement known as “The Day of the Lord.”
Your biggest assumption aboutGod is wrong.
Text: Hosea 1:10–2:23
One of our foundational ideas about God is that He is a reciprocating God, a God of karma. Yet the Book of The Twelve leads with Hosea's depiction of a God who stops at nothing to be with us.
A God Who Sees Me
The often-overlooked story of Hagar is a shocking revelation of God. He finds the social outcast in the wilderness and identifies himself with her—transforming her status to become the woman who named God. Whoever and wherever you are, God sees you and comes to find you.
This Present Darkness
The love of God offered to the world in Jesus will mean nothing short of dismantling the powers of darkness. What that looks like may surprise us.
Should Wives Submit to Husbands?
Does a Jesus centered life mean that wives should submit to their husbands? The answer is surprisingly political, subversive, and down right punk.
Living in the Worst Timeline
Jesus' resurrection does not magically whisk us away to a better place, nor does it magically transform this world. Jesus' invitation into His radically different story might just mean this is the worst timeline.
Reimagining Love
How does Jesus resurrect our ideas of what it means to be human? It starts and ends with love.
How can we change the world?
A Jesus centered life is far more than morality. Jesus invites us to join in His redemptive work in the ways we physically and bodily show up in the world. And this makes all the difference
What does God want me to do with my life?
You have an important job to do. Being a church goer with church going friends is fine. But what difference does that make to you or to the world? Jesus invitation is an invitation into a risky, exciting and deeply meaningful way of life. Jesus has given you a vocation.
Passion Sunday | Ephesians 3:13-3:20
Passion Sunday | Ephesians 3:13-3:20
Jesus final week offers the central story and pattern of life for Ephesians’ new creation community.
Why We Can’t Ditch The Church | Ephesians 2:19-3:13
Why We Can’t Ditch The Church | Ephesians 2:19-3:13
We’re not merely rescued by God, not merely included by God, and not merely recreated by God. We are God’s sacrament to a dying world
Inclusion is the fruit of the Spirit | Ephesians 2:11-18
Inclusion is the fruit of the Spirit | Ephesians 2:11-18
God’s divine embrace extends to the far off, yes even you. Once we realize this, we also realize that we are called to be an active part of that embrace, seeing, including, and loving the ‘other
You Have Been Created to Co-create | Ephesians 2:8-10
You Have Been Created to Co-create | Ephesians 2:8-10
The surprising reality of God reaching down and re-humanizing us has a plot twist. In our re-creation, we are made co-creators by God. We call this Church.