This one-week message examines the biblical truth of God’s surpassing glory in the new covenant in contrast to the old covenant. Through understanding Paul’s imagery, we can see the reality of God’s glory in Jesus and the challenge to change old habits that hinder what God is doing.
This one-week series examines the biblical, theological, and practical understanding of the lordship of Jesus. Jesus is not just a means to heaven or a good teacher, but Lord of all the universe. Our walk with Jesus is not segregated to a personal spiritual feeling, rather it influences every aspect of our life and the ethic…
This one-week message emphasizes the importance of transforming our lives to reflect Jesus. By understanding that we live in a world that is trying to form us to reflect its values, we can see where we need the Spirit to transform us to be like Christ. We play a role in this process through our daily…
Any home, office, friend group, or church will include diverse views on all sorts of sensitive topics, and when these topics come up, almost any space can become a battleground for “culture wars.” So how do Christians engage friends and family on sensitive topics? How do Christians stand for truth while honoring the imago Dei in…
This two-week series examines two powerful verses in Peter’s first epistle. In these verses we learn how our faith can be purified through trials and tests. Then we won’t just survive but even grow in our trust and faith in God.
This four-week series looks at four lessons from Jesus which teach us what it means to be on mission for him. We will discover how to “brag on” God, represent the body of Christ to our community, participate in and be grateful for our church, and be welcoming agents of grace to others.
This four-week series looks at how the way we live can be a form of evangelism. Living out our faith for the world to see can help others come to know Jesus.
Water in three forms? A four-leaf clover? A mystery? The Trinity defies easy explanation, but its beauty is no less real. This four-week series explores the doctrine of the Trinity and reveals how a greater appreciation of the Trinity sheds light on what we understand about the Father’s love, the Son’s gift of salvation, and…
This series looks at families and people in the Old Testament who dealt with the same challenges and temptations we face today. We may be several millennia removed from these people and their stories, but we’re all outside of Eden. And just like them, we deal with rivalry, discontentment, disobedience, the temptation to conform, and…
This series looks at families and people in the Old Testament who dealt with the same challenges and temptations we face today. We may be several millennia removed from these people and their stories, but we’re all outside of Eden. And just like them, we deal with rivalry, discontentment, disobedience, the temptation to conform, and…
Water in three forms? A four-leaf clover? A mystery? The Trinity defies easy explanation, but its beauty is no less real. This four-week series explores the doctrine of the Trinity and reveals how a greater appreciation of the Trinity sheds light on what we understand about the Father’s love, the Son’s gift of salvation, and…
There are many phrases used among churchgoers that sound scriptural yet are contrary to what Scripture actually teaches. These erroneous beliefs about God and our Christian walk can be damaging rather than helpful. This five-week series looks at common misconceptions and what Scripture actually tells us about how believers should approach these situations in life.
This four-week series takes a look at some of the different “face-offs” between God and the gods of Israel’s neighbors and enemies in the Old Testament. Every passage that speaks of the works of God speaks of who God is in our lives, as well of the lives of those in the Old Testament. As…
What’s the meaning of life? Everyone from philosophers and British comedians have been asking the question since the beginning of recorded history, but there’s just no single answer for all people. Instead, Jesus offers us a vision of a meaningful life that embodies his mission of Spirit-filled hope and love. This four-week series takes lessons…
This four-week series examines Jesus’s rise in fame and popularity throughout his ministry, pointing out that if we are striving to be like him, our lives will look different than what the culture might expect. Humbling ourselves rather than promoting or exalting ourselves will become our aim.
Jesus’s teachings and actions were never done in a haphazard way. Everything recorded for us points to the person and work of Jesus and his calling for those who would follow him. This series is designed to look at three stories of Jesus from the Gospels and at the disciples’ responses to these events.
Sometimes we struggle to see the connection between the Law of Moses and the work of the new covenant. Books like Leviticus and Numbers sometimes leave Christ followers scratching their heads. However, the letter to the Hebrews might be our best bet in seeing the connection. This six-week series takes us through key ideas in…
This three-week series explores the gift of friendship and community in the life of faith. We will look at friends found in Scripture and their faith-filled prayers, then examine how we can receive and extend the same kind of Christian love and care in our own communities.
This series seeks to help believers wrestling with regret. When we’re focused on our regrets, we tend to obsess about the way things could have gone and the lives we could have lived—and taken to an extreme, this can cause us to be poor stewards of the lives we actually have. How do we deal…
This series seeks to help believers wrestling with regret. When we’re focused on our regrets, we tend to obsess about the way things could have gone and the lives we could have lived—and taken to an extreme, this can cause us to be poor stewards of the lives we actually have. How do we deal…
This three-week series looks at the difference between the people who accepted the call and followed Jesus and those who admired him from a distance but ultimately abandoned him. We will discuss the difference between fans and followers and how our culture has made it easy to just be a fan.
This four-week series examines the unity between the Old Testament and the New Testament. People can segregate Old and New without fully understanding what God is saying throughout all of Scripture. Through understanding our impulse to apply and misinterpret the Bible, we can see the story of redemption that unifies everyone from Abraham to Paul and…
This four-week series examines theological anthropology: what the Bible says about being human. God created humanity to be in relationship with him. Human beings are created body and soul in God’s image and likeness. However, sin has affected every aspect of human nature, and so Christ brought redemption to the world and showed us how to…
This four-week series looks at how the way we live can be a form of evangelism. Living out our faith for the world to see can help others come to know Jesus.
This series presents a biblical view of work that challenges the extremes of workaholism and apathy. We’ll discover the meaning and dignity in all types of work, the true purpose of work, and the opportunity in our work to serve, worship, and participate in God’s design for human flourishing.
This four-week series for youth and adults looks at the “side effects” of being a Christian. Saying yes to Jesus may cause rejection, conviction, and discomfort, but it’s all worth it to gain Christ!
This six-week series examines the long list of virtues and vices that are listed in Colossians 3. How we should live implies there are ways we should not live. This series looks at those two categories and how the gospel makes a life of virtue possible.
This eight-week series looks at the kings of the united and divided monarchies. It follows the highs and lows of Israel and Judah as they each march toward conquest by foreign empires. The series also highlights God’s mercy throughout the story.
God’s calling for our lives is always just in time. We may be plotting toward something when God shows up to change our plans. The prophet Ezekiel was training to be a priest when the landscape changed and God called him to be a prophet. This five-week series walks through the transformation of Ezekiel and…
This four-week series examines the biblical and theological understanding of time, eternity, God, and the incarnation. Through examining Scripture, we can see that God is both beyond our time but also engages and inhabits time in the world. The incarnation reveals God coming into time but being different than us as well. Since God experiences time…
This message examines the prophet Ezekiel’s vision of dry bones in Ezekiel 37 and God’s message of love and forgiveness for those who will repent.
This four-week series for youth and adults looks at prayers in the Bible that express pain, frustration, doubt, disappointment, and hopelessness. Through them we see that God welcomes honest prayers and longs to hear the deepest cries of our hearts.
This four-week series examines the wisdom of Scripture to help us navigate the changes and transitions we go through in life. By drawing on Scripture, believers are encouraged to see these changes from an eternal perspective.
This six-week series examines the theological idea that Jesus is true, better, and greater than specific figures and events in the Old Testament. Through looking at the comparisons between Jesus and Moses, David, Job, Melchizedek, and the tabernacle, we can understand the importance of such figures and how Jesus fulfills and is greater than those truths…
This sermon can be preached around the US holiday of Independence Day. It points us beyond our fixation with earthly freedom and political power to the greatest freedom ever secured: freedom in Christ. The sermon highlights the fact that we are all in bondage to sin and need to experience the freedom offered only by…
This four-week series helps us understand that God is the ultimate storyteller, invites us to participate in his story, and includes us in the story-making of others’ lives. Another way to think of the theme of this series: “This is my part in God’s story.”
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