Everlasting Father
Join us for part three of our Advent series as Chris illustrates what it looks like for Jesus to be our everlasting father.
Join us for part three of our Advent series as Chris illustrates what it looks like for Jesus to be our everlasting father.
Join us this Sunday as Chip Ingram shares what it looks like to respond to life’s challenges as a Christ follower in 2020.
We’re so excited to kick off Advent season with a 4-week series called ARRIVAL: A Weary World Rejoices. Tis the season to celebrate the arrival of Jesus – as our wonderful counselor, everlasting father, mighty God, and prince of peace.
Join us this Sunday as Chip Ingram shares an important message on the topic of what freedom means for Christ followers. 1. I don’t have to control – I have to submit 2. I don’t have to hurry – I have to listen 3. I don’t have to fear – I have to love... Read more »
Join us for a special sermon on 11/8 with Ryan, reflecting on the recent presidential election and our hope, perspective, and attitudes as followers of Christ.
This week we are learning about the third member of the Trinity: the Holy Spirt as we conclude our series on the Apostle’s Creed. Holy Spirit: The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity, God in very God who alone gives new life to the believer [Regeneration: to spiritually be made alive] and... Read more »
At the center of Christianity is not a philosophy or a list of rules to obey. At the center of Christianity is a person. Jesus doesn’t ask us to believe in his teachings, or say that he is pointing the way to God. Jesus calls us to believe in him and that he is the way,... Read more »
What do we do when we are faced with tough passages in Scripture? How do we know how to interpret them and understand what God really means? Throughout the Bible, we see how tightly Jesus holds to the Word of God. It seems to be that we should know the Bible better so we can... Read more »
The early church was incredibly diverse ethnically, socioeconomically, and politically. As theologian Scot McKnight describes, it was a “fellowship of differents and unlikes”. However, it was their unwavering belief in Jesus that united this fellowship of differents. It was this unity of belief amidst their diversity that made the early church irresistible and unstoppable. Why... Read more »
“Love your neighbor as yourself” is one of Jesus’ most famous quotations, but it often does not get the depth of understanding it deserves. We understand this command today as simple, trite, and easy, but Jesus understood this as a kind of dedication to others that would not just take a retweet, a post, or... Read more »
The Christian life can often feel like an enormous add on: what do I need to do on top of everything else I’m already doing in order to be right with God? But Jesus’ primary command to us is to love God with our whole life—heart, soul, mind, and strength. The command is a quote... Read more »
What happens when you can’t see the end? What do you do when you have no estimated time of arrival? Right now, many of us are waiting: waiting for justice, waiting for peace, waiting for healing, waiting for normalcy, for reconciliation, for hope…we are a people waiting. How can we wait well and what can... Read more »
Join us this weekend to hear how the early church prayed when they were faced with opposition. How when they came face to face with power trying to shut down the spread of the gospel, instead of praying for protection or even removal of their enemy, they prayed for boldness.
What you truly believe is bleeds in how you actually behave.
Baptism is long understood as the first step of becoming a follower of Jesus. When we are baptized, we go under the water to symbolize the death of our old self, and are then brought out of the water as an image of the new life we’re given in Jesus. It is the outward expression... Read more »
Because it has been around for so long, it’s easy for us to lose the meaning of communion—or struggling with the meaning all together. Why do we take it? Why is it important? And now, during a global pandemic where most churches are online, communion seems to be something on the back burner of most... Read more »
Resiliency is the ability to withstand or recover from a difficult situation. Aldous Huxley once wrote, “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” In the final installment of our series Resilient, we are going to discover there are very specific spiritual practices resilient... Read more »