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Paul's response to his current circumstances serves as a testimony to the impact that the gospel has in the darkness.
Chapter 1 continues with Paul pointing out the church's partnership with the Gospel. Not only do we partner with the Gospel, but we also partake in its grace.
In many of Paul's letters, he writes to the church to correct them and warn them about bad behavior or teaching. But in his letter to the Philippians, he is not addressing any specific thing. This is a letter of encouragement and gratitude.
In this final chapter, this morning the preacher will once again pronounce life as “hebel.” But in the midst of the confusion, he will give us a warning: Don’t waste your life.
Mike Rima shares the mission of Convoy of Hope and how God desires to use us to meet the needs of our community.
We learn, grow, study, and prepare - still, we cannot control the circumstances of life. The Preacher helps us reflect on this in chapter 9.
In chapter 8 the preacher wants us to think about how to interact with leaders and the cost of bad leadership. How do we respond to bad leadership, what are its consequences, and how do we have hope under bad leadership?
The preacher tells us two ways pride manifests in our lives: We are people with too little self-awareness and too much self-sufficiency.
Chapter 7 begins with the preacher advising us to be sober, present, and wise. We must remind ourselves the reality of the world is that God is sovereign, we are not.
One of our values is "we are becoming people who walk in honesty and authenticity.” Three members of our church body share how God has worked in their lives in this area.
The preacher brings up ideas surrounding greed and reminds us that it is a wicked thing. Greed harms the poor and the greedy. How can we protect against it?
Chapter 5 begins with the preacher focusing on the practice of sacrifice and warns that obedience is better than sacrifice. Similarly, our outward practices of worship can easily be done with other motives, we need to check our hearts as well as our priorities.
In the rest of chapter 4, the preacher looks at the futility of three areas of relationships; people as competitors, people as companions, and people in crowds. And does the gospel speak to all of this apparent meaninglessness?
Chapter 3 continues by examining injustice and oppression. How does the world view these things, and how does scripture understand them? Finally, what are we to do about them?
It is hard to see what some things are because we are too close to them. God sees the big picture now, and we cannot see the big picture yet- we can make the most of what we can see.
In the second chapter, the Teacher explores pleasure and happiness. What does it mean to pursue the good life? He asks, "Do we find meaning, satisfaction, and happiness in the pursuit of pleasure?"
What lens do yo view the world through? The Preacher's lens is "human wisdom" . Human wisdom teaches us that the world is broken, that we are broken, and that we need more than human wisdom.
Ecclesiastes chapter 1 continues with the preacher asking what is good for and concluding that work is unprofitable - that the created world has futility built into it. We are called to have Christ be the foundation of our work. Only this will last.
As an introduction to the book of Ecclesiastes, we look at 3 questions: Who wrote it? What does "hevel" mean? Why are we studying this book?
Jesus "appears" in Matthew 2 as we celebrate Epiphany Sunday. He confronts a wicked ruler and threatens his power, he draws curious pagans through their own false religion, and he challenges those who give their allegiance to him to trust in God's plan even when it is hard.
We continue our values series exploring the value of submitting humbly to scripture. Three members of our body share testimonies of how they have experienced this value in their lives.
Peter ends his letter by discussing the true grace of God - encouraging us to stand firm in it. God's grace gives us rest, God's grace makes war on the enemy and God's grace transforms our lives.
Chapter 5 starts with Peter giving some advice regarding leadership: Elders suffer, Elders shepherd, and Elders serve.
Chapter 4 continues with an encouragement to Christians to rejoice in sharing in Christ's suffering and to not be surprised by persecution.
Peter begins chapter 4 by telling us that "the end of all things is near." What does this tell us about how we should live?
Peter encourages us to be both devoted to good and ready to defend what we believe when it comes to how we engage with those outside the church.
Chapter 3 begins with a passage that, at first glance, appears offensive to the culture in which we live today. It is also a passage that the church has abused for it's own end. What we need to ask is - what is the command, and how do we faithfully live it out today?
How do we relate, as citizens of a heavenly kingdom, to the culture that we find ourselves traveling through as strangers? What we see in Christian households is a subtle rejection of the Greco-Roman order and a reshaping of what it means to be a part of society through the lense of allegiance to Jesus.
When we become God's people we find ourselves at odds with our culture. How are we to relate to the world now that our allegiance is to Jesus?
This week as we begin 1 Peter chapter 2 we see that a call to holiness is a call to Christian community.
The process of becoming holy is the process of being remade in the image of Christ. Holiness requires intentionality, holiness grows from grace, and holiness creates love.
Peter is writing to people who have been chosen or elect. They are set apart. In this letter, Peter is framing our existence as people of God as being in exile.
One of our values is "we are becoming people who live in communion with God". Three members of our body share stories of how they have come to live more deeply in communion with God.
As we finish this book we are reminded that Jesus is coming back. That Jesus is going to return and we should follow him.
Chapter 21 ends with a look at a new Jerusalem. How can we view vocation and health in this context and in our daily lives?
The more we experience the kingdom of God now, the more we can trust that it is coming in greater ways in the future. John's vision of a new city describes future realities but also teaches us how to see the world God gives us today.
Revelation 21 gives us some insight as to what our inheritance will be like. We share in Christ's inheritance in three ways; it is physical, it is intimate, and it is free.
Revelation chapter 20 is a clarifying and comforting reminder that the people of God are safe in Christ. The people of God are safe in death, safe in tribulation, and safe in judgment.
Chapter 19 concludes with a judgment scene. We can look at this scene from three main views: The Judge, the battle, and us.
The first section of Revelation 19 is a vision of salvation, marriage, and new life together between Jesus and his bride in the kingdom of God.
Chapter 18 is where it all ends. All things materialistic and egotistic are judged. The chapter can be broken down into 3 distinct parts: Judgement, Laments, and an Angels Song.
Chapter 17 contains symbolism from the Old Testament and elsewhere in Revelation. How does this symbolic vision picture reality and what response from us does it call for?
Chapter 16 concludes another cycle of the story of God's victory over evil, his salvation of his people, and his promise to remove wickedness from his creation.
This section of scripture shows us God's wrath. It is an extension of His love. He will not stand for His creation and His people being harmed forever- one day his patient waiting will be done. Wrong will be made right.
Chapter 15 begins with John's visions overlapping with one another. The imagery in these verses reminds us of Christ's victory and that we should respond to his grace and goodness with worship- and pray for those who don't see it.
"Chapter 14 marks the end of another cycle of visions. This cycle began in chapter 12 with the anticipation of Christ's birth and ends here with the final judgment" - Greg Beale
In Chapter 12, the dragon was persecuting the people of God. In Chapter 13 we get more detail about how he does that.
Chapter 12 is meant to give us hope through an apocalyptic retelling of the Christmas story. It reminds us that our enemy is defeated.
Revelation 11 is one of the book's most complex and debated chapters. We finish the "pause" at the end of chapter 10 with the last trumpet. The chapter's message proclaims that the church's witness is dangerous, prophetic, effective, and for everyone.
Revelation 10 shows us that God's message is authoritative, inevitable, and bittersweet. As we figure out God's message to us in this text, we can consider what our response, as faithful Christians, should be.
This text in Revelation shows the frightening imagery in John's visions. It takes a look at the dark side of spirituality. This passage should wake us up to this bigger world and help us take our lives more seriously, motivating us to share the good news with others.
Revelation 8 invites us to embrace God's judgment. Why should we embrace God's judgment? Because it is just, it is an answer to prayer, and it is merciful.
In chapter 7 we see a great army, sheltered by God, shepherded by the Lamb, the resurrected Jesus. And He leads us out of exile and brings us to our true home.
How long until there is justice? How long until the resurrection? How long until God's people are complete? These cries resonate with us today as we often get impatient while we wait on God. But we can rest knowing that He knows exactly what He is doing.
Chapter 6 starts with John watching as the Lamb of God opens the first of seven seals. These seals are revealing God’s judgments on the earth through wars, famine, and death. How should we interpret the symbolism in Revelation and what does it mean for our lives?
Revelation chapter 5 shows us why Jesus is worthy of worship. He conquers through his cross, redeeming a people from out of all the nations, and restoring creation to the glory that it was meant to always have.
Chapter 4 gives an opportunity to learn about worship, The One who is worshiped, the ones who worship, and the worship itself.
On Easter Sunday, we take a look at Paul's explanation of what the news of the death and resurrection of Christ is. What does it mean if it is fake, and what does it mean if it is true?
Jesus' words to the Church at Laodicea are heavy, but not hopeless. His rebuke to the church is filled with love and shows His desire to draw near to us.
Jesus has a message for the church of Sardis. He warns that there is no halfway Christian. Jesus gives all of himself to us and he requires the same in return.
In this message to the church of Thyatira, we see Jesus paying attention to the outward actions of Thyatira. How does this reconcile with our belief that salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone?
In the message to Pergamum, Jesus has some thoughts about tolerance within the people of God. How can we apply Jesus' warnings to the church of Pergamum to our lives here, today?
The message to the church at Smyrna is a meditation on death and the posture that Jesus intends us to have toward it.
What can we apply to our lives from the commendations, corrections, and warnings to the church of Ephesus?
In Revelation 1, John breaks out two big ideas that we need to practice building out trust in: What God is like, and Who we are because of Him.
The assumptions we make about how John wrote the Book of Revelation will skew our understanding of it. Using the Old Testament as the key to his writing process gives us some insight into how to study this book.
Take a look at four questions regarding the book of Revelation: Who is the author? Who is the audience? When was it written? And, why was it written?
Before we can understand a book, we have to understand its genre. The book of Revelation is 3 different genres- apocalypse, prophecy, and it's a letter.
Look back on 2023 and hear from members of the church and how God moved in their lives throughout the year.
Over the years the candles of the Advent wreath have come to represent the four gifts we receive from God- Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love.
Advent is a season of waiting, of feeling the discontentment that comes from promises that have yet to be fulfilled. Then Jesus comes to fulfill these promises.
Good news is good for different people in different ways. Mary's song tells us that the good news changes all of us.
Simplicity and generosity are expressions of the very character of God. God is a generous giver and His generosity is on full display at Advent, as he gives himself to us in his son.
Silence and solitude is a discipline that helps us gain mastery over our interior life and experience God's peace.
Spiritual disciplines are more than practices of the soul. Fasting sets aside our bodily desires to focus on allowing God to spiritually transform us.
What do we have to gain by setting aside regular, holy time? God’s original design for our week has a built-in answer to the modern problems of burnout and hustle culture - encouraging us to take purposeful rest to give God the first of our time.
Reading and studying the Bible can be a worthless pursuit if we are not bringing the truth of God's word into our hearts and minds.
A regular intake of the scriptures fosters a relationship with God, creates confidence in the gospel, and equips for teaching.
Take a look at the spiritual discipline of continual prayer. Learn how to add this practice to your daily life and the impact this makes on our lives.
Learn how prayer can transform us into being more like Jesus by praying regularly and expectantly.
We take a look at the Biblical importance of meeting together as we continue in out Transformation Series.
We take a look at where we are going over the next 11 weeks in our Transformation series.
This week we have some open mic time to share about the ways that God has taught us through the study of Genesis.
We finish our study of the book of Genesis this morning with a look at God's faithfulness, forgiveness, and hope.
We take a look at Jacob's blessing of his sons and how their character creates the foundation of the identity of the tribes of Israel.
Jacob is about to die and he summons his sons for his final words. He adopts Joseph's two sons as his own and demonstrates to us the character that God has formed in him over his long life.
Jacob moves his family to Egypt - which seems like a step away from God's plan. But it's actually an integral part of God's plan for his family.
Scott walks us through the climax of the Joseph story and God's heart for reconciliation.
Joseph meets his brothers again after 20 years apart and we take a look at how undealt with sin will destroy you.
Joseph models for us how we should respond when God reveals his plans for the future to us.
Jake Nelson points out three reasons why we can trust God in his sovereignty in this story of Joseph's time in prison.
Joseph begins to rise in favor in the midst of his slavery only to fall deeper into the pit - all within the purview of the sovereignty of God.
What can we learn about suffering, and ultimately about the gift of salvation in Jesus, from this strange interruption of the Joseph story?
We are back in Genesis this week with the beginning of the story of Jacob's sons, primarily Joseph.
We gathered with Doxa, All of Life, and Transform Ministries to worship together at Riverstone Park. Zak encouraged us to make the pursuit of God's presence a priority in our lives.
We wrap up 1 Thessalonians this week with a look at Paul's final instructions on how to live as a right-side-up people in an upside down world.
Paul gives the Thessalonians some new information about something that we have come to call "the rapture."
Paul begins talking to the Thessalonians about distinctive marks of God's people - their sexual ethic, their work and their generosity.
Paul uses 3 family metaphors to explain how he proclaimed the gospel to the Thessalonians.
Pastor Jared Lyda of All Of Life Church shares an Easter message from Revelation chapter one.
Esau's genealogy is a bit difficult to understand. We take a look at a few things we might glean from it.
We take a very sobering look at the horrific story of the rape of Dinah in Genesis 34 this week. This sermon contains content about sexual violence.
Jacob reunites with his brother and we take a look at what we can learn about forgiveness.
Jacob, Rachel and Leah are all looking for meaning in their lives in different places and from different things.
God begins to allow Jacob to reap the bad fruit that he has sown in order to transform him into a new man.
Jacob is a schemer from a family of schemers. He will scheme his way into something that God had already promised him in Genesis 27.
Moses goes out of his way to show us that Isaac is a lot like his father Abraham in our passage this morning.
We take a look at God's choice of Jacob over Esau and what it means to be the firstborn son.
The story of Abraham's servant finding a wife for Isaac helps us understand how to discern God's will.
We start off the new year with a look at grief and loss and how we can prepare to experience it well when it comes.
We'll explore two ideas that are connected to Christ's incarnation that we don't think about enough: glorification and the beatific vision.
For the 3rd Sunday in Advent we'll look at Jesus' incarnation as the way that God ultimately reveals himself to the world.
We take a look at the disturbing story of God asking Abraham to kill his son as a sacrifice.
All of the characters in these next 2 chapters in Genesis make a mess of things. God though is faithful to his own character and makes sure that his plans are successful.
We take a look at the strange and disturbing story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah this week in our study of Genesis.
God comes to Abraham and Sarah to teach them some valuable lessons about his character.
Abram & Sarai follow the expected sexual ethic of their day in order to have their need for a son met. It ends up causing a lot of pain and brokenness for all involved.
We celebrate our birthday by accepting members, appointing a deacon, affirmation an elder and hearing stories about what God is doing in our church.
Abram turns back to trusting in Yahweh to be the source of his blessing in his dealings with his nephew Lot.
We are finally back in our study of Genesis after a long break. We begin to look at the story of Abram this week.
We gathered with Doxa, All of Life and Transform this Sunday to celebrate Jesus together and have a panel discussion about unity among Christians.
We take a look at God's Kingdom, what it is, when it's coming and how we can be a part of it.
We finish the letter to the Colossians this week with a look at the need for Christian community in the life of the church.
Paul moves on from how the Christian community in Colossae should interact with one another in the household to how they should interact with the people outside the community.
We finish the household codes this morning with a look at Paul's directions to masters and slaves and ask the question, "does the Bible condone slavery?"
We continue to take a look at the section of Colossians called the "household codes" this week with a look at parent and child relationships in the church at Colossae.
We take a look at the first section of the household codes in Colossians this week: husbands and wives.
After looking at things God's people should "put off" last week we will look at Paul's instructions for behaviors and attitudes that we should "put on."
Paul highlights two characteristics of the Christian community that should mark God's people as different from the world around them.
Paul continues to identify the church with
Christ as we move into chapter 3 of our study of the
letter to the Colossians.
This week in our study of the letter to the Colossians we learn a little bit about the false teaching that was going on in Colossae and how to apply some principles to our walk with Christ today.
Paul begins in earnest his argument against the false teachers in Colossae this week in our study of the letter to the Colossians.
Peter Lublink, Executive Director of Bethany Kids, talks about the ministry he helps to lead and the way that Paul encourages us to love in the letter to the Colossians.
Paul drills down into how the cosmic nature of the work of Christ applies to the Colossians - and us!
Jared Lyda of All of Life church delivers a word of celebration that we have been saved from sin and death at our 4 church gathering at McEuen Park.
We'll take a look at some poetry from Paul this morning in our study of the letter to the Colossians.
This week we begin our study of Paul's letter to the Colossians. We read the book and take a look at the context.
We take a look at spiritual warfare and Joanna Adams shares her testimony of deliverance from spiritual oppression.
On our last week of our vision series we take a look at Paul's counsel to dwell on things that are good and beautiful.
God is calling us to intentionally pursue the unity that he has created through the power of the Holy Spirit in the church. We want to take that call seriously.
The scriptures loudly proclaim both that we are to give away what we have and that God doesn't need our stuff. We take a look at how both of these ideas should inform our stewardship.
This week we look at John's call in his first letter for Christians to walk in the light: in honesty & authenticity.
We continue to look at areas of our lives that Jesus is growing in us this week and focus on scripture and our relationship to it.
We transition this week from realities that are true about us as Christians to identities that we have to lean into as we mature in Christ.
We take a look at the reality that the Christian is empowered by the Holy Spirit and what his power generates in us.
This week we take a look at the reality that a Christian is loyal to the Son and what that looks like in practice.
This week is our first of three realities that are true about us if we are Christians. We are adopted by the Father.
We are starting off the new year with a series asking the question "Who are we and who are we becoming?"
We finished our Advent series this week with a look at our Jesus is the Prince of Peace.
Pastor Jared Lyda from All Of Life Church in Post Falls shares the 3rd attribute of the coming king: he is the Everlasting Father.
On the 2nd week of Advent we take a look at the 2nd attribute of the coming King: He is a Mighty God.
We begin the season of Advent this morning! As we prepare to celebrate the birth of Christ over the next four weeks we will be looking at 4 titles that he is given in Isaiah chapter 9.
What does it look like to be thankful? This week we take a look at Psalm 100's reason for thankfulness toward God and ways that we can practice thankfulness.
As we wrap up the first section of Genesis we will take a look at the Tower of Babylon and how that incident affects the world we live in today.
Our 2nd major genealogy in Genesis kicks off a discussion of Yahweh's disinheriting the nations and putting them under the supervision of the sons of God.
A terrible act of violence is committed in Noah's family as we end the flood story. We'll take a look at what possibly happened and how we can learn from it.
As the flood rages on the earth God remembers Noah and confirms his commitment to humanity through a covenant.
We begin an overview of the narrative of Noah's flood this week and take a look at God's faithfulness in the midst of judgment.
We take a look at the 2nd event that brought sin and destruction to the world as we dive into the weird story of the Watchers in Genesis 6.
We celebrated our 3rd birthday this Sunday. Zak shares from Paul's prayer for the church at Ephesus his hopes for us as we look to the future.
Why yes, yes we are working through a genealogy this Sunday. What's with this common biblical genre and what is Moses communicating through it in chapter 5?
Moses wraps up the unfortunate story of Cain with a look at how his unrepentant heart influenced his descendants in Genesis 4 this Sunday.
Adam and Eve's sin immediately spills out into the world and infects their offspring. We'll take a look at the sad story of Cain and Abel this week in our study of Genesis.
The humans have taken the forbidden fruit and chosen to follow their own path rather than God's. We look at what happens next this week in our study of Genesis.
Up to this point in the story, everything has been going right with the world. As we enter chapter 3 of Genesis though, the story takes a dark turn as sin enters into the creation.
Genesis chapter 2 is scripture's foundational text for wisdom about marriage. We will take a look at what it has to teach us this week in our study of the book of Genesis.
This week in our study of the book of Genesis we dive into chapter 2 and take a look at the Garden of Eden.
This week we look at the 7th day of the creation week, how Genesis 1 should make us think about the temple and the implications for our rest.
We celebrated our gathering in the park this week with our friends from Doxa, Transform and All Of Life. Pastor Mike Jacobs taught us from 1 Peter 1:13-16 on obedience in the Christian life.
This Sunday we wrap up our 3 week study on being made in the image of God. This week we look at being “fruitful and multiplying” and “ruling and reigning” as image bearers of God.
As we continue to explore the image of God this morning in the book of Genesis, we will take a look at how it is informed by gender and how it should shape our understanding of gender and sex today.
This week in our study of Genesis we will begin a three week look at what it means for humanity to be made in "the image of God."
Last week we watched God create three realms of creation. This week we will watch him fill them with life in our study of Genesis.
This week we explore days 1 through 3 of the creation narrative and see how God brought order to the different realms of creation.
This week we will be taking our 2nd step in the book of Genesis to look at the pre-creation chaos that proceeded the creation of the universe.
We officially begin the book of Genesis this week and ask the question, "How did this all get started?"
This week we take a look at some other ancient writings that the early readers of Genesis would have been aware of in order to compare their similarities and their differences in our final introductory sermon for the book.
We will continue our introduction to the book of Genesis this week by talking about who wrote the book, when they wrote it and why.
This morning we will begin our deep dive into the book of Genesis taking a look at the book's purpose in relation to the rest of scripture.
As we wrap up our series on wisdom this morning we will be looking at different ways that we should be learning through the scriptures and some tools to help us do that.
This week in our Q&R series on wisdom we will be looking at how we should view the Bible as a tool for learning wisdom and what it means that it is inspired by God.
The book of Proverbs frames the search for wisdom as food that we each. We take a look at Brett McCracken's helpful book, The Wisdom Pyramid, and how we should be thinking about where we go for food.
We received several questions that all connect to the idea of how we should be learning wisdom, so we are kicking off our Q&R series with a look at the wisest man of all time: Jesus of Nazareth.
We finish up our study of the gospel according to Matthew this week celebrating the resurrection of King Jesus with our friends from All Of Life Church, Transform Ministries and Doxa Church.
We take a look at the crucifixion and death of Jesus and how this brutal reality gives us a multifaceted view into why Jesus died.
Jesus appears before Pilate and the crowds demand that he release Barabbas to them instead. Pilate asks a question that we all need to deal with: "What should I do then with Jesus?"
After Peter betrayed Jesus he wept. His sorrow leads him to repent of his sin and be restored. Today in our study of the Gospel According to Matthew we will look at how Judas deals much differently with his sin.
Jesus and Peter both undergo confrontational trials, but they respond very differently.
We've read Jesus' teaching on non-violence in the sermon on the mount. This morning in our study of the gospel according to Matthew we will see him act it out.
Jesus prepares for his coming betrayal by spending time in prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane. This passage displays the full humanity of Jesus in a powerful way.
Jesus transforms the Jewish passover meal by interpreting its elements to point to his sacrifice on the cross.
Jesus will share one final Passover meal with his disciples before he is betrayed and crucified. As the meal begins, he lets them know that one of them will be his betrayer.
Jesus' enemies won't stop until they have silenced him for good. We start to look at the plot to kill Jesus in the final days of his ministry in our study of The Gospel According To Matthew.
Jesus wraps up his message to his disciples about his return and the coming of his kingdom with a sobering word about caring for the marginalized.
Jesus continues to challenge us about the lives we live in expectation of his return in the famous parable of the talents.
Jesus continues to tell stories to help us understand what it looks like to be prepared for his return.
Jesus shifts his focus to the disciples' question about his return as we continue in our study of the gospel according to Matthew.
Jesus' comments about the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem spark questions from his disciples about the end of the world. We will begin to dive into this complex topic this week as we return to study of the gospel according to Matthew.
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Caesar Augustus is too busy ruling his own kingdom to realize that the true King is being born right under his nose. We look at distraction and apathy and how they blind us to the work of the Kingdom.
For the 2nd week of Advent we look at Mary's reaction to strange news from an angel and see what it looks like to approach God with open-handed faith.
The people of Israel were in a dark place at the beginning of the 1st century. There was very little hope and God was silent. We take a look at the story of Zechariah and Elizabeth for wisdom in dealing with doubt and waiting on the plan of God.
In the middle of a rough season with no end in sight, the Apostle Paul has some words of wisdom drawn from his own personal experience following Jesus.
After a series of interactions with the religious leaders in Jerusalem, Jesus publicly denounces their hypocrisy and warns the people against their influence.
Jesus' answer to a Pharisee's question, "What is the greatest commandment?" has become a foundational part of our understanding of what it means to follow Jesus.
The religious leaders continue to pepper Jesus with questions designed to trap him and diminish his influence with the people. The Sadducees' question about marriage this week will have the opposite effect.
After hearing Jesus' warnings to the religious leaders, they are more sure that they need to have him killed. This week in our study of the Gospel According To Matthew they ask him a trick question about the kingdom's relationship to political power that offers us insight into how we should be relating to it today.
Jesus continues to shock and challenge the Jewish religious leaders with cryptic stories during the week before his crucifixion. We take a look at a wedding feast and some unlikely guests in our study of the gospel according to Matthew.
Jesus The King has finally come to his people and they are going to reject him. He tells the religious leaders this explicitly through a story about a vineyard in our study of the gospel according to Matthew this week.
Jesus continues in his conflict with the religious leaders this week as they question his authority in our study of the gospel according to Matthew.
As Jesus enters Jerusalem he makes a huge mess at the Temple, gets into an argument with the religious leaders and curses a tree. We explore what's going on in this strange section of the gospel according to Matthew.
Jesus makes his way to Jerusalem and is greeted by the people as the great King. We take a look at what's call the "Triumphal Entry" this week in our study of the gospel according to Matthew.
Jesus asks two blind men the piercing question, "What do you want me to do for you?" on his way to Jerusalem in our study this week in the gospel according to Matthew.
Jesus keeps teaching us about status and power in the Kingdom of God this week in our study of the Gospel According To Matthew.
Jesus continues to explain the economy of the Kingdom of God through the parable of the vineyard workers in the gospel according to Matthew.
Jesus continues his ethical teaching in the gospel according to Matthew this week as the subject turns to money.
How does a follower of Jesus navigate issues of marriage and divorce? As you'd expect it's counter-cultural. Jesus answers questions about this hot-button topic in our study of the gospel according to Matthew this morning.
All throughout our lives people are going to hurt us, offend us and treat us poorly. Citizens of the Kingdom of God have been given a very counter-cultural way of dealing with this reality.
In our context when two Christians can't get along it's easy for one of us to just leave and attend another church. That's not the way of Jesus. We'll learn what he thinks about conflict this week in the gospel according to Matthew.
Jesus answers the question "Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?" His answer goes against everything we believe as a culture.
Jesus give us a great example of choosing your battles wisely in his payment of the Temple Tax.
We hear from several members of our congregation on how God has taught them through the COVID pandemic on our first Sunday gathering since March.
The disciples are still on the fence about the suffering that Jesus is predicting for his life. We take a look at their questions and talk about weakness this week.
We are taking a dive into Jesus' mysterious transfiguration this morning with help from Pastor Joel Parries of Doxa Church in our study of the gospel according to Matthew.
Jesus gives the disciples more insight into what it means for him to be the Messiah and what it means for them to be his followers as we continue in Matthew 16.
Peter makes a confession in Matthew 16 that forms the basis of our faith. We are continuing our discussion of the gospel according to Matthew this week in chapter 16.
The religious leaders try to trick Jesus and the disciples are still confused about bread. We dive in to the first part of Matthew 16 this morning.
It seems like Matthew just told us this story and the disciples are reacting like they haven't seen this before. What's the point of this narrative and what can it teach us about ourselves?
In this strange COVID-19 season we celebrate Easter at home and have a discussion about Mary Magdalene at the tomb of Jesus.
We finish up our 7 Blessings in Revelation series this week with the final blessing and an encouragement from Jesus to keep on walking towards the Kingdom of God.
We are blessed if we keep the words of the prophecy of Revelation. What exactly are we supposed to keep? Zak and Jon discuss this in the 2nd week of our COVID-19 quarantine.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic we are recording conversations and broadcasting them online in lieu of our Sunday Gatherings. We are continuing this week in Revelation 20 talking about the presence of God.
We sometimes think of "heaven" as the end of a journey, but John's usage of the picture of marriage shows us that it's really just the beginning of our life with Christ in his kingdom.
It's easy to be distracted by everything in the world around us. Jesus calls us to remain alert and keep our eyes on him.
Those that die in the Lord are blessed? We take a look at this counter-intuitive beatitude in Revelation 14 this week.
As we dive into a brief study of the book of Revelation for Lent, John tells us that we are blessed because we choose to read it.
Habakkuk processes his discussion with God, and his realization that his circumstances will not be improving, by writing a song reminding us of God's character and our ultimate fulfilment in Him.
We continue our study of Habakkuk today looking at the 5 woes Habakkuk speaks against Babylon and how they relate to our society and our lives today.
Habakkuk models for us how to see the brokenness in our world and using it to move closer to God through honest questioning and reflection.
Paul is clear to Titus that one of his priorities should be to teach the Cretan church to be ready for, and devoted to, good works. Our service to our city is one way that God reveals himself to those outside the church.