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Doing Good: How Better Bible Reading Leads to Better Biblical Living
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Guest speaker Melodie Marske delivers a word of challenge and encouragement from Ruth chapter 3.
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Pastoral Resident Nate Veldhoff draws our attention to The God Who Sees who is working in the background of Ruth chapter 2.
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Pastoral Resident Nate Veldhoff kicks off our new series in Ruth and walks us through chapter 1. Through the story of Naomi, we are reminded that the lovingkindness of God is faithful to withstand both grief and hope.
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He is risen! He is risen, indeed! On this Easter Sunday, Community Life Minister Joel Perry takes us down the Emmaus road in Luke 24:13-35 in an encounter with the resurrected Jesus.
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This Palm Sunday, guest speaker Rick Goetsch takes us through Jesus's Triumphal Entry in Luke 19:28-44.
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Youth Minister Jeremy Stringer illuminates the transformative love of Jesus we find in the story of Zacchaeus (Luke 19:1-10).
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Preaching from Luke 17:11-19, Pastoral Resident Nate Veldhoff encourages us to cultivate the spiritual practice of gratitude.
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Preaching from Luke 13:10-17 and 14:1-14, Pastoral Resident Nate Veldhoff encourages us to join Jesus in the healing way of humble mercy.
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Guest speaker Pastor Eli Garza shares a message of encouragement from Luke 9:10-17.
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Guest speaker Melodie Marske highlights the two lives, two loves, and two truths we find in the story of Luke 7:36-50.
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Preaching from Luke 5:27-32, Pastoral Resident Nate Veldhoff reminds us of how Jesus chooses the company of the sick and the sinner, inviting them into healing and new life.
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Preaching from Luke 5:1-11, Community Life Minister Joel Perry invites us to follow Jesus who is always ready to forgive and receive you.
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Pastoral Resident Nate Veldhoff kicks off our new series by preaching from Luke 4:14-30. Here, Jesus announces that he has not come to earth to pick a side, but rather to proclaim good news to the poor, release for the prisoners, justice for the oppressed, and the year of the Lord's favor.
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Preaching from Psalms 42 and 43, Community Life Minister Joel Perry concludes our series with a reminder to hope in God when our souls are downcast.
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Pastoral Resident Nate Veldhoff takes us through Psalm 4, a prayer that reminds us that God makes room, God hears, God receives troubled hearts, and God gives us peace.
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Preaching from Psalm 25, Pastoral Resident Nate Veldhoff encourages us to bring all of our mess and complexity before God, including our need for God to see and answer and our own need for growth and forgiveness.
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Beginning our new series in the Psalms and preaching from Psalm 90, our Community Life Minister Joel Perry encourages us to look to God's love and grace which goes far beyond our own human limits.
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Preaching from Hebrews 2:10-18, Pastoral Resident Nate Veldhoff reminds us that Christmas is not the end of the story. It is the beginning of Jesus's work of joining-with.
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Wrapping up our Advent series, Pastoral Resident Nate Veldhoff looks to Isaiah 61 and the testimony of Jesus. The birth of Jesus shows us that we may expect the fullness of God even in the smallest things.
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Director of Worship and Operations Betsy King-McDonald walks us through Luke 1 and the story of Elizabeth. We are reminded of the importance and power of testimony and community in strengthening one another's faith.
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Preaching from Luke 1:26-38, Pastoral Resident Nate Veldhoff walks us through the story of the angel Gabriel and Mary and points us to Mary's example of waiting in dedication.
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Pastoral Resident Nate Veldhoff begins our Advent series. In Advent, we do not wait in idleness or in vain, but we prepare and make ready for the coming of Jesus in the world.
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Community Life Minister Joel Perry turns us to the example of King Josiah (2 Kings 22-23) as one who pursued renewal and reform in worship while seeking God in humility.
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Preaching from Acts 6:1-7, guest speaker Carole Metzger challenges us to pursue cross-cultural competency and develop cross-cultural relationships.
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Director of Worship and Operations Betsy King-McDonald preaches from Acts 10. When we encounter obstacles to multiethnicity in the Church, we can respond with prayer, staying open, and saying yes.
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Preaching from Philippians 2:1-4, Pastoral Resident Nate Veldhoff challenges us to embrace our need for one another and the Other.
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Preaching from Romans 16:25-27 and Ephesians 6:19-20, guest speaker Melodie Marske challenges us to live into God's story.
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Preaching from Ephesians 2:14-22, Pastoral Resident Nate Veldhoff directs us toward the peace-proclaiming presence of Jesus.
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Community Life Minister Joel Perry preaches from Romans 1:16 showing us that unity in diversity is at the core of the Gospel.
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Pastor Nathan kicks off our new series exploring multiethnicity, unity, and the Church.
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Preaching from Luke 13:1-9, Pastor Nathan wraps up our Fall Vision Series. We are seeking an honest, compassionate, and HOPEFUL faith in Jesus Christ.
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Preaching from Matthew 9, Pastor Nathan continues our Fall Vision Series. We are seeking an honest, COMPASSIONATE, and hopeful faith in Jesus Christ.
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Preaching from Luke 18:9-17, Pastor Nathan continues our Fall Vision Series. We are seeking an HONEST, compassionate, and hopeful faith in Jesus Christ.
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Pastor Nathan kicks off our Fall Vision Series! We look to Luke 15 to illustrate how we are SEEKING an honest, compassionate, and hopeful faith in Jesus Christ.
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Pastoral Resident Nate Veldhoff takes us through Romans 13:8-14 and shows us how neighbor-love is the seal of God.
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Our Pastoral Resident, Nate Veldhoff, walks us through the story of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37) and shows us that the love of God is a love that abolishes borders.
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Preaching from Matthew 19:16-22, Pastor Nathan shows us that the way to encounter true and everlasting life is not through our actions but through knowing and encountering the God who knows and loves you.
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Returning to Leviticus 19:1-4 and 9-18, Pastor Nathan highlights the profound grace of God in the call to holiness.
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Pastor Nathan kicks off our new series about the sometimes messy work of loving each other. Turning to Leviticus 19:1-4 and 9-18, we see the breadth and reach of God's call for us to love one another.
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Pastor Nathan wraps up our stay in 1 Thessalonians 2 and points us toward the work of the Holy Spirit in us: a work of supernatural love and connection.
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Preaching from 1 Thessalonians 2:13-16, Pastor Nathan reminds us of God's constant, faithful presence and work in our lives. By the grace of God, we are the Holy Resilient.
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Preaching from 1 Thessalonians 2:11-12, Pastoral Resident Nate Veldhoff encourages us to take a call-in posture with on another that is modeled after God's own call-in posture toward us.
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Pastoral Resident Nate Veldhoff preaches from 1 Thessalonians 2:8-10 and highlights the difference the gospel makes in our lives as a crucial component of our witness.
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Preaching from 1 Thessalonians 2:7b-8, Pastor Nathan highlights tender care as another pillar of a Spirit-filled witness.
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Preaching from 1 Thessalonians 2:3-7, Pastor Nathan points us toward a Spirit-formed witness that is characterized by integrity.
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Returning to the book of 1 Thessalonians and preaching from 2:1-2, Pastor Nathan calls out the characteristics of a Spirit-formed, courageous witness.
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Pastor Nathan helps us to listen for the "more" that Jesus has to say to us and to seek after the Spirit who leads us in all Truth.
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On this Pentecost Sunday, Pastor Nathan points us to 1 Thessalonians 1:8-10 as an example of Spirit-filled testimony.
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Preaching from 1 Thessalonians 1:4-7, Pastor Nathan walks us through six signs of a Spirit-filled Church.
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Preaching from 1 Thessalonians 1:4-5, Pastor Nathan encourages us to seek comfort in our God of Love who is always present and always active.
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Preaching from 1 Thessalonians 1:2-5, Pastor Nathan reminds us that through Christ's work on the cross, we are brothers and sisters with Jesus, at home with God and at home with one another.
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Preaching from 1 Thessalonians 1:1-5, Pastor Nathan encourages us to cling to the virtues of faith, hope, and love even in the face of uncertainty.
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Preaching from 1 Thes 1:1-5, Pastor Nathan points us to the bedrock Christian practices of gratitude, prayer, and mindfulness.
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Pastor Nathan kicks off our new sermon series with 1 Thessalonians 1:1. Even in uncertain times, we can find comfort by knowing who we are, where we are, and what we have as Jesus's Church.
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This year, Easter looked pretty different from what we are used to. But, even as we shelter in place with the disciples on that first Easter morning, we declare: He is risen! He is risen, indeed!
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Preaching from John 12:12-16, Pastor Nathan points us to the faithful presence of Jesus on this Palm Sunday.
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Preaching from John 14:30-15:8, guest speaker Rick Goetsch encourages us to abide in Jesus, the True Vine.
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Preaching from John 13:31-14:7, Pastor Nathan shares with us an invitation of Jesus to join Him in fellowship and trust. Even though we will encounter fears and failures, Jesus as the Way, the Truth, and the Life, says "Let not your heart be troubled. Trust God; trust also in Me."
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Preaching from John 11:1-44, our Youth Minister Jeremy Stringer gives us a message of hope and confidence in Jesus who is Resurrection and Life.
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A pastoral word of encouragement and wisdom as we navigate COVID-19 together as a church family and hand-in-hand with our Lord Jesus.
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Preaching from John 10:11-18, Pastoral Resident Nate Veldhoff shares with us how Jesus's claim as the Good Shepherd is an invitation into belonging and a statement of Jesus's own deep devotion toward his flock.
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Preaching from John 10:1-10 Pastor Nathan points us to Jesus as the Gate to God the Father. We are encouraged to bring ourselves hand-in-hand with all those who are hurting and in need to this Gate.
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Preaching from John 8:12 and 9:1-7, Pastor Nathan points us to Jesus as the Light of the World. Jesus's light reveals to us who we are and reveals to us who God is.
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Preaching from John 6:35-40, our Pastoral Resident Nate Veldhoff kicks off our series on the I Am statements of Jesus. Jesus describes himself as the Bread of Life, our spiritual nourishment that fulfills our deepest needs.
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As we come together around Communion, Pastor Nathan points us to how each of Jesus's "I Am" statements is fulfilled at the Lord's Table.
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To wrap up our series, Pastor Nathan looks to Acts 20:35, 1 Timothy 6:17-19, and 2 Corinthians 9:12-13 to show us how great a blessing it is to give.
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Looking to Proverbs 3:9-10 and Ephesians 5:1, Pastor Nathan shows us that when we give, we are imitators of God's own heart.
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Preaching from Ecclesiastes 4:4-9, 5:19 and Matthew 6:19-21, Pastor Nathan points to the virtue of contentment and how cultivating contentment brings us into the very heart of God.
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Pastor Nathan kicks off our new series preaching from Matthew 25:14-30. We are given vision for how our money and possessions are tools through which we can align ourselves with God's purposes and the work God is doing in and through each of us.
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Pastor Nathan encourages us from Ephesians 2:1-10 and turns us toward a new year.
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Pastor Nathan preaches from John 1:1-5, 10-14.
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Preaching from Hebrews 2:10-18, Pastoral Resident Nate Veldhoff encourages us to see Christmas as the first steps of Jesus taking the long way to join with us.
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Preaching from Matthew 1:18-25 and Luke 2:1-7, Pastor Nathan walks us through the messiness of the manger story.
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Preaching from Luke 1:26-38, Pastor Nathan shows us how in the story of the Annunciation, we see a God who chooses to enter into the world by working in the impossible. Like Mary, we are encouraged to give God our "Yes" and be one by whom Christ is birthed into the world.
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Pastor Nathan preaches from Ephesians 5:1-20.
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Pastoral Resident Nate Veldhoff finishes off our Ephesians series, urging us toward reconciliation, unity, and courage in the power and presence of God.
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Pastor Nathan highlights the value of a soft and bright heart before God and others in Ephesians 4:17-32.
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Guest preacher & pastor Cyd Holsclaw discusses mutual submission as a mark of being a people filled with the Spirit.
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Pastor Nathan points us toward the foundational nature of Unity in Ephesians 4:1-16.
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Pastor Nathan on Ephesians 2:11-22.
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Our Pastoral Resident, Nate Veldhoff, preaches from Ephesians 2:1-10. In this passage we see how God's grace restores to us value, worth, and identity.
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We begin our 9-week journey through Ephesians! Pastor Nathan kicks things off taking us through Ephesians 1:1-23 and showing us how we have a big God with a big plan for the whole world and all who trust in Jesus.
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Speaking from Luke 13:1-9, Pastor Nathan talks about the DNA of Huron Hills Church, that we are seeking an honest, compassionate, and hopeful faith.
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Speaking from Matthew 9:1-17 and 35-38, Pastor Nathan talks about the DNA of Huron Hills Church, that we are seeking an honest, compassionate, and hopeful faith.
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Speaking from Luke 18:9-17, Pastor Nathan talks about the DNA of Huron Hills Church, that we are seeking an honest, compassionate, and hopeful faith.
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Pastor Nathan talks about the DNA of Huron Hills Church, that we are seeking an honest, compassionate, and hopeful faith.
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Preaching from Joshua 1:10-16, Pastor Nathan encourages us that we are blessed to be a blessing to others. Even in seasons of change, we can count on God's heart and desire to extend blessing to us.
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Hear from our Community Life Minister, Joel Perry, as he helps us to name God as our Good Shepherd.
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Pastoral Resident Nate Veldhoff discusses the ways that we see God identify, dwell, and show solidarity with us throughout Scripture.
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Guest speaker, JR Briggs continues our Names of God series by taking us through the story of Hagar. Even in the midst of flight, Hagar encounters God as one who looks upon her, truly sees her, and loves her. She then gives God a name: El Roi, the God who sees me.
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Pastor Nathan invites us to see God's power as a mighty one who conquers anything standing in the way of his nourishing, life-giving love.
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Pastor Nathan kicks off the Names of God series by discussing the name God gives God's self: I Am What I Will Be, a name that signals freedom, power, and is anchored in covenantal love.
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On this Feast of the Trinity, Pastor Nathan calls us to worship the God who is endlessly calling us into relationship.
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The Spirit that came at Pentecost, that rests on all of us who believe, has come to empower us as God's agents of creation—the creation of a new way of living and being.
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What does ascension mean to us today?
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Pastor Nathan walks us through the practice of asking for the Holy Spirit's wisdom—the very wisdom of God—and assures us that God is generous in giving God's Spirit.
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This week, Pastor Nathan leads us through the practice of Lament. This might be a difficult or unfamiliar practice for many of us, but when we come before God in realness and honesty, we build a genuine, trusting relationship with the God who hears us and is present to us.
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Stepping into Forgiveness is stepping into the work of Jesus. It is crucial that God's people do God's work: forgiving others, and moving into relationship.
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Through this season of Eastertide, we are looking at the essential spiritual practices we engage with in light of Resurrection. This first week, Pastor Nathan teaches us about the radically trusting and relinquishing practice of Praise.
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Pastor Nathan delivers a joyous Easter Sunday message, demonstrating the importance of finding Jesus in the tender, vulnerable places: by attending with care to the tombs in our lives.
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Worship Arts Director Betsy King delivers the first message of the 4-part Holy Week series, encouraging us to know the heart of Jesus, both learning to be loved and to love.
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Pastor Nathan ends our Lenten series by unpacking the ways that Jesus subverts and exceeds our expectations, and urges us to see Him and worship Him for who He truly is.
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Week 5 of our Lenten series through Ezekiel.
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Week 2 of our Lenten series centered on the Book of Ezekiel. Pastor Nathan preaches a hopeful word, reminding us that God is always working.
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Looking to Ezekiel 8, we see how a new heart from God is a heart of trust, a heart of devotion, a heart of hope, and a heart of steadfast worship.
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Week three of our Lenten series from the Book of Ezekiel.
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This season of Lent, we look to the prophet, Ezekiel. Pastor Nathan encourages us to look for the fresh movement of the Spirit, for that is the place where the limitations we have set on God are removed and where we receive a new heart.
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Pastor Nathan uses the parable of the talents to remind us that God is invested in growing His community through us, and that we already have what is needed for God's mission to go forward.
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In week 3 of our series on living a life of generosity, Pastor Nathan preaches the power of sacrifice.
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When we follow Jesus into a life of generosity, it transforms who we are as a community giving us vision and purpose.
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Pastor Nathan kicks off a new series about following Jesus into a life of generosity. The first step in aligning ourselves with Jesus in this way is by declaring and living out our trust in Jesus instead of trusting in wealth or possessions.
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Wrapping up this series, Pastor Nathan looks at how Jesus is the better Jonah. Jesus paves the way for us to show radical love toward those we label as our "enemies."
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This week, Pastor Nathan leads us through how Jesus is the better Isaac. Jesus is the provision of God to bring us to God because of the love of God. And if we were ever to doubt that love, we need only look at the cross to be sure that God loves us.
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Pastor Nathan walks us through the story of Hosea, and we see how Jesus is the better Hosea. God is willing to do the unthinkable to restore us.
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Continuing our series on Jesus as the fulfillment of Old Testament promises, Pastor Nathan helps us to see how Jesus is the better Adam. From Eden to Gethsemane, we see two humans, two gardens, but two very different outcomes.
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In the final Sunday of Advent, Pastor Nathan looks to the example of Mary to show us how God works through the power of weakness, consent, blessing, and witness.
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Pastor Nathan turns us to the words of the prophet Isaiah and the hope that the Light of Christ can shine into any and every kind of darkness.
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Pastor Nathan kicks off our first series of 2019: Better. Together we will look to the Old Testament and find Jesus as the fulfillment of promises and the climax of the story of Scripture.
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Finishing up our Philippians series, Pastor Nathan encourages us to learn the joy of waiting well.
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Nate Veldhoff continues through Philippians 4:1-9 and encourages us to set our joy firm in our God of Joy.
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Looking to Philippians 3:12-4:1, Pastor Nathan highlights seven places we encounter the Joy of Christ.
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Preaching from Philippians 3:1-11, Pastor Nathan calls us to rejoice! To know Christ is to rejoice in the Lord who rejoices over you.
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Carole Metzger talks to us about the relational impact of working together for Jesus.
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Guest speaker, Melodie Marske, continues through Philippians 2:12-18. We are encouraged to live out our identity as God's children marked by obedience and joy.
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Walking through Philippians 2:1-11, guest speaker Rick Goetsch casts vision for the Church: even with our many differences, we may come together looking to the glory and love of Jesus Christ.
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Nate Veldhoff continues through Philippians 1:18-30 and shares four statements of powerful confidence that allow us to hold fast to the Joy of Jesus in every circumstance, even our suffering.
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From Philippians 1:12-18, Pastor Nathan preaches on the unstoppable power of God to advance the good news of Jesus, our greatest joy. This gospel changes everything!
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Pastor Nathan kicks off our Philippians series! Preaching from Philippians 1:1-11, we are reminded of the deep grace, peace, love, and fellowship to be found in Jesus and with each other.
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What could it look like to make your home at a church filled with hope? Is hope simply a church word for optimism? Why on earth be hopeful when we look at the world around us?Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Continuing our vision series, Pastor Nathan preaches on the radical compassion of God, extended toward us and His whole world, that we get to take part in extending toward others.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
As we continue our series on seeking an honest, compassionate, and hopeful faith, Pastor Nathan discusses the ways that honesty and openheartedness shape who Huron Hills is as a church home. (this audio file is broken. We apologize.)Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Preaching from Luke 15, Pastor Nathan kicks off our Huron Hills Church vision series. Just as God seeks after us, we want to take on this same posture as we seek an honest, compassionate, and hopeful faith in Jesus.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Preaching from the story of the unjust judge in Luke 18:1-8, Pastor Nathan encourages us to pray at all times, never giving up.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Wrapping up our prayer series, Nate Veldhoff teaches about how pace and posture can help us make sure our life of prayer is truly a lifetime of prayer.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Pastor Nathan and Nate Veldhoff encourage us toward boldness in prayer through bold letting go and bold quietness.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Pastor Nathan preaches on the voice of God and how God longs to be with and speak with us.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Kicking off our series on Prayer, Nate Veldhoff challenges us to notice our presence, expectations, and feelings within and around our own lives of prayer.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Director of Worship & the Arts, Betsy King unfolds the themes of Psalm 145, and calls us to mindfully experience joy and praise as a gateway to God's Kingdom.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Nate Veldhoff preaches from Psalm 85 and challenges us to listen to God's promise of peace.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Guest speaker Melodie Marske preaches hope from Psalm 48.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Pastor Nathan delivers a word of encouragement from Psalm 30 on God's constant, everlasting presence.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Jumping off from the movie "Coco," Pastor Nathan addresses our need for belonging and encourages us to rest in the truth that we have perfect belonging and perfect acceptance in the arms of our Heavenly Father.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Jumping off from the movie The Incredibles, Nate Veldhoff encourages us to surrender our need to produce our own significance and instead look to God who declares each of us to be significant, chosen, and perfectly loved by Him.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Jumping off from themes in "The Greatest Showman," Pastor Nathan explores how our core desires of security, significance, and belonging are good things, given by God, and perfectly met by God.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Nate Veldhoff preaches on the Holy Trinity and challenges us to look upon God in wonder.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Celebrating the story of Pentecost in Acts 2:1-21, guest speaker, Lindsey Smallwood, delivers a challenging and comforting word about the reliable and surprising Holy Spirit.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Pastor Nathan preaches from Acts 1:1-11 as we together celebrate and meditate on Christ's Ascension.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Pastor Nathan delivers a meditation of hope and praise from Psalm 98.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Nate Veldhoff brings a powerful message of hope from the book of Haggai.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Guest speaker, Lindsey Smallwood, revisits the words of Haggai 1:1-15. Like the Israelites, we are invited into the work of rebuilding God's temple. But for us, God's temple is all of us together, living in His now and not yet kingdom for which we long and to which we belong.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
As we gathered around tables to worship, Pastor Nathan leads us in a meditation on Acts 3:12-19. In this passage, we see the patient grace of resurrection and the continual refreshment of an Easter God making us an Easter people inhabiting an Easter world.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Preaching from Haggai 1:1-15, Pastor Nathan kicks off our series, "Resurrection Hope; the Words of Haggai." In the words of this prophet, we find an Easter hope that goes far beyond just one Sunday a year. Here we find the hope of our God who is always working and always with us.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Alleluia! The Lord is risen! He is risen, indeed! Alleluia!Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
On this Maundy Thursday, we hear a powerful word from our Worship Arts Director, Betsy King. Together, we are invited to remember and to experience the transforming love and presence of God in the everyday things around us.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
On this Palm Sunday, we are invited to gather around the holy place that is the person of Jesus and to spread ourselves before him, the King who humbled himself to the point of death on a cross.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Guest speaker, Rick Goetsch, takes us through John 12:20-33. We are made new, given new life, by Jesus's redeeming death on the cross.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Preaching from John 3:14-21, guest speaker, Melodie Marske, tells of how Jesus makes us new when we step into His life, love, and light.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Nate Veldhoff preaches from John 2:13-22 and challenges us to leave behind the clutter in our lives because Jesus makes us new when we make room.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Pastor Nathan relays Jesus's two-fold challenge from Mark 8:31-38: to get out of God's way and stop resisting His work of love, as well as to get in step and follow Jesus's pattern of renewal.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Pastor Nathan kicks off our Lent series, Make Us New, preaching from Mark 1:9-15. Jesus makes us new when we respond to His call to repentance in a way that faces reality, agrees with God about that reality, and chooses to believe that God's love will uphold us anyway.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Preaching from Haggai 1:1-9 and Mark 9:2-9, we celebrate the Transfiguration of Jesus together.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Nate Veldhoff speaks from Matthew 16:13-24 and challenges us to identify the areas in our lives where we have replaced the real Jesus with a "Jesus idol." Yet Jesus's response, no matter how far we have wandered, is to draw us closer to himself.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Hear from guest speaker, Rick Goetsch, as he encourages us to encounter the grace and truth of Jesus we see in Mark 2:1-12.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Hear from our Worship Arts Coordinator, Nate Veldhoff, as he shares from John 21. We are encouraged to meet with Jesus, because He is ready for you. Jesus is ready for you right now, you as you are, you personally.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Speaking from Luke 5:1-11, Pastor Nathan encourages us to embody the same practices Jesus embodied: empowering others through truthful grace and gracious truth.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
As we begin our Epiphany series, "Jesus Revealed," we celebrate the baptism of Jesus. Preaching from Mark 1:4-13, Pastor Nathan encourages us toward deeper trust in Jesus who sometimes crashes into our lives and other times is quietly working behind the scenes.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Nate Veldhoff speaks about how God is doing a restorative work in the world by doing a restorative work in people. We join God in the restoration of the world by being restored ourselves.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Preaching from Mark 13:24-37, Pastor Nathan encourages us to be watchful as we enter into this season of Advent. It may feel easy to look around and chose to despair, but we must have confidence that God IS doing a reconciling work, and that Christ IS coming.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Together we declare that Christ is King! Christ, alone, is King!Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Wrapping up our series on Spiritual Formation and speaking from Romans 15:5-7, Nate Veldhoff casts vision for the end-goal of our Spiritual Formation. We are formed for relationship, so lean in to communing with God and communing with others.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Speaking out of 2 Corinthians 3:17-18, Pastor Nathan helps us to see that the present moment is the only place God can meet us. God wants the real you, wherever you are.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Pastor Nathan preaches from Joshua 3:7-17. We are encouraged not to be content only standing on the edge, but instead to trust and obey, to step into the rushing waters of the Holy Spirit.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Guest speaker, Derek Vreeland, kicks off our new series: Formed by the Spirit. Speaking out of 2 Corinthians 3:17-18, Derek helps us understand that Spiritual Formation is not by our own efforts. Instead it is by God that we are BEING transformed to look more like God.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Guest speaker, Bob Adgate wraps up our series on the sacred art of neighboring. God is a God of love, and his love poured out on us through Jesus serves as a model for us to love our own neighbors.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
We return again to the story of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37) as Pastor Nathan teaches on the practice of Posture.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
We return again to the story of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10:25-37 as Pastor Nathan speaks on the practice of presence.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Guest speaker, Lindsey Smallwood, continues our series on the sacred art of neighboring and lays out for us the practices of Seeing, Stopping, and Serving.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Pastor Nathan speaks on the practice of pace. We so often feel trapped in the lie of incessant business and productivity. But our spiritual practice must be one of subtraction, not addition.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Hear from guest-speaker Gary Rohrmayer, president of Converge MidAmerica, who describes for us 6 relationships we need to cultivate in order to live on mission.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
The first week of our series on neighboring. When we're called to love our neighbor, that means loving the actual, real-life people we are actually around in real-life. The place you are is the place you're called.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Pastor Nathan casts vision for this upcoming season of ministry and identifies 10 marks of a Spirit-filled church.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
When we make room, the Spirit fills. In the last week of our Holy Spirit series, Pastor Nathan encourages us to lean into the stirrings of the Spirit.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Pastor Nathan speaks on the question: What does the Holy Spirit do? We are encouraged that one the Spirit's primary jobs is to welcome us into the growing family of God.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
For the first Sunday in our three-week series on the Holy Spirit: Who is the Holy Spirit?Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Melodie Marske speaks on the 10th commandment, "you shall not covet." We are encouraged to be mindful of where our wants come from, and to seek after God so that our hearts and desires can become more like His.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Pastor Nathan speaks on the commandment "you shall not bear false witness," and encourages us to live lives exemplifying plain speech and words of blessing.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Pastor Nathan reminds us of the Holy Spirit's critical role in the Church and encourages us, as a church, to seek out and create spaces for Spirit-filled fellowship and Spirit-empowered ministry.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Pastor Nathan speaks on the 7th commandment: you shall not commit adultery. This commandment is for everybody, and every aspect of our lives should be marked by faithfulness and fidelity reflecting the faithfulness and fidelity of God.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Melodie Marske speaks on the sixth commandment: you shall not commit murder.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Pastor Nathan speaks on the fifth commandment, honor your father and mother, and how we experience God in human relationships marked by honor, especially with our parents.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Guest speaker Rick Goetsch reminds us of the importance of the Sabbath. We may not be good at resting, but God is, and he gave us the gift of the Sabbath day of rest so that we may enjoy him, creation, and others.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Nate Veldhoff brings down the house in his message about attaching the name of God to our own intentions and agendas in this compelling sermon on the 3rd commandment, "Thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain."Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Don't make idols! The things that we go to, time-and-again, for comfort, for distraction, for security...these are the things that we truly worship, and truly structure our lives around. We are challenged to look into our own hearts, and see where we need to un-make idols. We alone are God's image in the world. Nothing made by human hands. Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Pastor Nathan kicks off our 10-week series speaking on the first commandment: "You shall have no other gods."Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Pastor Nathan unpacks the glorious promise of Ascension: because a human body has been taken up into Heaven as a part of God, we need no longer fear that God cannot be present or active in our own human bodies and human experiences through the Holy Spirit. Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Guest speaker from Bethania Kids, David Granner, shares about the amazing ways God is working through Bethania Kids in India.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Guest preacher Nate Veldhoff speaks from Colossians 3:15-17 and encourages us to live lives of radical gratitude.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Carole Metzger talks about the Resurrection Life as shown through radical forgiveness.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Melodie Marske guides us through the beginning of Acts, describing the practices of the first followers of Jesus as they reacted to the Resurrection of Jesus. Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus! Romans 8:1Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Hear from our Worship Arts Coordinator, Nate Veldhoff, as he shares how we experience God's grace through our humility.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Week 2 of our Lenten series, focusing on Ann Voskamp's book, "The Broken Way," and Matthew 25:31-46.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Week 1 of our Lenten series, focusing on Ann Voskamp's book, "The Broken Way," and John 12:1-20Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Pastor Nathan continues our series 'The Church at Worship' as he encourages us to celebrate and embrace the many different spiritual gifts in our community. We are also encouraged to engage with the mission of our church through the Spirit's gifting towards each one of us. Diversity is a strength.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
God is a giver, and can be known through the extravagance of Creation. We must simply open our eyes and slow down enough to marvel at the ordinary. There we will find God.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Multicultural Liason from Calvin College, Austin Channing Brown, brings a powerful message of how God worked in the book of Exodus on behalf of the oppressed.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
World Vision's Kathryn Compton describes for us a life marked by compassion. Followed by congregational Q & A with Kathryn.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Pastor Nathan introduces us to the earthed and earthy Savior.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
In this week's assigned readings, God offers a "blank check" of meaningful encounter with Him. So why did Ahaz refuse?Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
The traditional Scripture reading for this week describes desert places bursting into bloom. God's mission of transforming the world means transitioning broken and dry places into places full of life. Do you have something broken or dry in your life? We believe that identifying and leaning into this brokenness is a guarantee that you will find God at work. Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Week 2: Everyone's Invited The Kingdom of God is a place of hope and safety, where the prophets say, "the lion will lie down with the lamb." To orient our lives around this type of "unnatural" peace & safety means never giving up on hope, and always holding out a hand of welcome.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
On this first week of Advent, we prepare for the coming Christ. We are challenged to "get outside" and to see beyond our imaginative barriers that prevent us from engaging with God and seeing how he is working in our world.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Calm down. Relax. Trust God. Live your life.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
God and humanity were made for each other. We step into this identity, and it affects us not just as spiritual creatures, but what we do with our everyday lives.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Pastor Nathan reminds us of hallmarks of healthy communities of Christ - Humility, Honesty, and Healing. Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
LifePoint Church lead pastor Dave Collins asks us where God may be seeking to change our minds and hearts in order to have an impact for Christ on our community.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Rick Goetsch reminds us of the importance of building up the church through costly sacrifice. Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
To be a spiritual church, we must be both unified, and unifying. Teachability is a sign of maturity. The mystery of the Cross is our identity. Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Pastor Nathan marks our fall ministry launch with an overview of our new series, "The Church & the City," based out of I Corinthians. I Corinthians teaches us how to live in love—the Jesus way—in the midst of a city bent on accomplishment, intellect, and status.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
God's vision for a life lived with Him, and with others.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Pastor Nathan speaks encouragement, reminding us that the Father's great love has been given to us. We can put off that which is of the world, so we can experience who we truly are: children of God.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Pastor Nathan explains that the Christian life is not simply comprised of knowing the Truth, but DOING the Truth, and our acts of obedience, however small, bring God immense joy even as they usher God's future into our present.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Pastor Nathan kicks off our series on First John with an exhortation to accept the love of God, and move deeper into love, freedom, and generosity.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Pastor Tony continues his series on the wisdom of Proverbs. Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Pastor Tony guides us through a "family discussion" about how to keep a wise vision in the midst of a chaotic world.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
We have an obligation to be the place of encounter with God, but we also have an obligation to come to God's table and fill up so that we can pour out into the world.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
The people have blown it with the whole golden calf/idolatry situation. Moses begs God to enter back into their midst, and straighten things back out. Pastor Nathan explains how WE can be the answer to God's desire to realize His desires for the world. We can be the ones who take the grace and truth that God gives, and proclaim it to this hurting, messed up world.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Pastor Tony preaches about the people of ancient Israel creating an idol, and the need for a mediator between God and people. Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Pastor Adam talks about the Israelites' exodus from Egypt and how God demonstrates His power by caring for and protecting His people.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Sometimes we just need to get out of God's way.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
We see ourselves in the story of Moses' family. Like Moses' mother, we must resist the systemic evil of the world. We must insist upon being bringers of life. Like Moses' sister, we must sometimes wait and open ourselves to the possibility of a work of God. Like Moses himself, we must accept the calling of God in God's own time— even if it takes 40 years. Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Melodie Marske re-tells the story of Joseph to discuss how God can turn what was intended for evil into our good. Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
The way the Hebrews resisted their own slow genocide under Egyptian captivity becomes a model for living into our identities as God's people. We are called to clasp our hands in prayer, as a "step one" for disrupting the world's—and our own—systems of disorder that manifest in sin and violence.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Pastor Nathan Clair talks about the call of Abraham— how God's intervention in Abraham & Sarah's life creates a brand new reality. The only response to God's call is to jump up and follow, and be created anew. Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Pastor Nathan introduces our spring focus, showing how the stories of God working in the past point to the promise of resurrection and new life in the future. These stories of God working in dysfunctional families give us hope that God can work in and through anyone, even us.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Jesus' "Triumphal Entry" was ultimately disappointing to the Jews. Jesus was never the deliverer that was hoped for or wanted. Where do we need to reframe our expectations or Jesus? He isn't the King we want. He's the King we need.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Jesus asks Mary Magdalene "Why do you search for the living among the dead?" Jesus is risen! Do we have a resurrection mindset in our daily life? Are we focused on what is dead, or what is being made alive in the Risen Christ?Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Rick Goetsch tackles the hard saying of Jesus, "if your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away!" Is Jesus talking about self-mutilation as a spiritual practice? Rick unpacks this difficult saying with levity and nuance...and marshmallows. Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Pastor Adam reminds us that "right worship" happens in the context of right community. Jesus urges us to prioritize peace, harmony, and unity, even above things that seem "more spiritual" like going to church. Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Lead Pastor Nathan Clair urges us to remember Jesus as we move to celebrate Communion together as a church. Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
"Whatever a person's past, their future is as bright as the promises of God."Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)
Pastor Nathan Clair provides a quick summary overview of Habbakuk 1 and 2 as a vehicle for understanding the significance of Habbakuk 3—the call for a radical trust in God.Support the show (https://www.huronhills.org/giving)