For many people the whole purpose of life is to remain as comfortable and safe as you can be for the whole of your existence. Letting Jesus into your life will mess with your ambitions of comfort. Join us as we learn this truth from some first-century fishermen who changed the world.
At what point is a human being ready to serve God? This week we examine a prophet of God who gets started rather early in life: Samuel. Join us as we examine the calling of a child.
This week we conclude the book of Jeremiah by examining the siege, the aftermath, and God’s judgment of nations. A picture that has bearing in the modern era.
How do we escape this predicament? Well, there’s God’s way forward and then there are the machinations of man. History is going somewhere, and the One who is already there has a word for those who will listen about a future exodus.
Returning to the book of Jeremiah we shall contend with a difficult but ultimately beautiful, glorious, and encouraging truth, a timeless truth for all those chosen of God, an enduring truth in exile, in a conquered land - God has planned good for us. And that good includes suffering. Join us as we dive into Jeremiah 29.
One of the best ways to understand the rise or fall of a nation and one of the best means of viewing your own spiritual walk, comes to us from an illustration of clay. Join us as we hear from God through Jeremiah about pottery and garbage heaps (Jer 18-20).
What happens when a nation tries to get rid of God? What does it look like for those rebelling and what is it like for the faithful person in the midst of such a nation? Join us as we navigate this question while examining Jeremiah 13-17.
So God has given a message of impending judgment to His people, but God tells Jeremiah the prophet to offer the people worshipping in the temple a way of escaping being taken into exile… they only have to do what God has been telling them to do all along. Listen to this word to the religious about sacred practices and sacred places.
Messages that are hard to hear are often hard for the person who has to say them as well. This week we hear the painful message that Jeremiah is charged with bringing to the people: the opening arguments in why the Jewish people and Jerusalem itself are about to fall.
Prophets receive a direct word from God and then are obliged to speak that word regardless of consequences. We often feel detached from such people, as though they were folk heroes who exhibited impossible faith. But we have far more in common with them than you might realize. This week we gather to see how the call of Jeremiah mirrors our own significant Kingdom call.
Corrupt leadership. Higher taxes in times of scarcity. Bodily mutilation and sexual revolutions. A misplaced hope in tradition. Foreign powers growing stronger and waiting for internal collapse. God’s word lost and forgotten. With that summary of the book of Jeremiah out of the way, join us over the next nine weeks as we walk with the weeping prophet, considering how we relate to and endure our culture.
What is the nature and function of the Holy Spirit? Can you describe who He his and what He’s about? Join us this week as we conclude our series on The Trinity by focusing on the person of the Holy Spirit.
It has been said, “It’s now what you know, it’s who you know.” As we continue our study of the trinity we see there’s a lot of truth to that old saying. Mediators can transform strangers into friends, enemies into family. We’ve considered the doctrine of the Trinity as well as the Father, but we cannot come to the Father except through the Son. Join us as we consider how we relate to and through Jesus, the Son.
Christians often think nothing of addressing God as “Father,” but do you realize how much of a privilege it is to have that sort of relationship with the King of the universe? Join us as we give thought to how the institution of “fatherhood” was enacted by God to teach us about relating to Him.
The doctrine (teaching) of the trinity is in many ways central to Christianity, but is at the same time one of the least understood pieces of theology in Christendom. How does God relate to God? It may sound like a strange question, but you’ve been invited into that relationship! Join us as we begin our series by getting an overview of the doctrine and its Biblical foundations.
Our world’s attempts at racial reconciliation are incomplete at best, Satanic at worst. Either the Gospel is true and every tribe, tongue and nation will bow together before Jesus or it’s not and we will remain divided and cut off from one another. There is no other way. Join us this week as we consider how we’ve been brought near in spite of all the world’s attempts to rebuild a barrier Jesus destroyed.
Our world tends to speak of technology in exclusively positive terms. Progress. Growth. Development. And yet, many of the values of our technological condition are at odds with the very character of God. How is the Christian to balance the many rewards of technology with it’s many risks? Join us this week as we tackle the fortress of technology.
The sexual ethics of Christianity set the church squarely at odds with the culture. Beyond culture, the individual often has sexual proclivities and commitments that are at odds with God’s prescriptive paradigm. How does a disciple of Christ wage war against such opposition? Join us as we address dividing and conquering the fortress of fornication.
The enemy of humanity has a goal for you: a plan that at least in part is aimed at “nothing.” More specifically a strategy that has you doing-nothing. Join us as we gather to discuss just how dangerous nothing can be.
Is self-sufficiency an impediment to a meaningful relationship with God? Depends on the degree to which it is delusional. Join us as we examine what God says regarding the issue of human dependence and how it impacts our relationship with God.
The Tenth and final commandment reveals the kind of obedience all the commandments have been after – an obedience from the heart. Serving as a bridge between the old and new covenants, in the command not to covet we see God has always been shaping hearts that desire and obey Him. This week we consider how your response to this command is a matter of life and death.
Tell the truth at all times and in every way. Isn’t that what the commandment to bear false witness means? It turns out the commandment doesn’t really say that and for good reason. This week we consider what the command means and how a shrewd person must navigate truth telling.
Taking that which you didn’t earn or which doesn’t belong to you is stealing. The eighth of the ten commandments is easily and often transgressed. Join us as we examine the practice and relationship implications of theft.
Marriage is not a product of humanity, but a plan of God. What happens when this divine covenant is broken by infidelity? Join us for a frank discussion of adultery, it’s impact, and healing in the aftermath.
If we were to list the worst sins a person could commit, murder would likely be near the top of most people’s list. The sixth commandment strictly forbids unjust killing, and this week we gather to discuss the far reaching social, national, individual, and deeply-spiritual results of murder.
The fifth commandment turns our attention to the relationship between parents and children. And the directive comes not to parents, but rather to children. Join us as we examine God’s plan for the household: a plan that begins with the family’s subordinate members.
The human relationship to work is a complex one. Too much or not enough is detrimental not just to an individual but to every relationship that an individual is involved in. In this week’s sermon, we study this firth directive which instructs God’s people to observe a mandatory cycle of work and rest.
The third of the ten commandments comes with the most dire warning of reprimand in the whole batch. And yet it remains the most broadly misunderstood of all the commandments. This week we’ll attempt to bring clarity to this very important directive from God and why the believer must take it very seriously.
Idolatry is forbidden. Historically monotheists knew what that meant, but modern Christians sometimes have difficulty discerning what idolatry looks like in the present era. This week we set out to give clarity to the history and current incarnations of idolatry as we dive into the second of the ten commandments.
What makes a law binding? What makes law more than words and instead moves it into the realm of being a regulation that cannot be ignored? The ten commandments begins with a statement that performs this very function. Join us this week as we begin studying the first of the ten commandments. (Exo 20:1-3)
