View Details
A Handbook for Modern Rebellion, part 10: The Rotten Treasure
View Details
A Handbook for Modern Rebellion, part 9: Disfigured Faces
View Details
A Handbook for Modern Rebellion, part 8: The End of All Enemies
View Details
On Non-Violence: Interview with Sister Rosemary
View Details
On Non-Violence: Interview with Preston Sprinkle
View Details
A Handbook for Modern Rebellion, part 7: The Cycle of Violence
View Details
A Handbook for Modern Rebellion, part 6: The Broken Oath
View Details
A Handbook for Modern Rebellion, part 5: Divorce and the Broken Covenant
View Details
A Handbook for Modern Rebellion, part 4: Extreme Measures
View Details
A Handbook for Modern Rebellion, part 3: When Anger Becomes Sin
View Details
A Handbook for Modern Rebellion, part 2 : The Offending Salt
View Details
A Handbook for Modern Rebellion, part 1: Blessed are the Nobodies
View Details
Forever Again, part 1: Dinosaur Bones and a Divine Dance Party
View Details
The Only Thing That Matters, Really, part 5: The One Who Never Left
View Details
Midweek Podcast: Book Review: The Wounded Healer
View Details
The Only Thing That Matters, Really, part 4: The One Who Wandered
View Details
The Only Thing That Matters, Really, part 3: The Perfectionist
View Details
The Only Thing That Matters, Really, part 2: The Failure
View Details
Midweek Podcast: Encountering God's Love Through Prayer
View Details
The Only Thing That Matters, Really, part 1: The Most Important Thing
View Details
Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great!, part 2: Go ahead! Throw your vote away!
View Details
Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great!, part 1: …And the city officials were thrown into turmoil.
View Details
Midweek Podcast: Book Review: The Furious Longing of God
View Details
Midweek Podcast: Checking in with Van City Youth
View Details
Midweek Podcast: Book Review: How (Not)To Read The Bible
View Details
The Gifts of the Spirit for the Work of the Kingdom, part 10: Five Stories
View Details
The Gifts of the Spirit for the Work of the Kingdom, part 9: Keep Asking
View Details
The Gifts of the Spirit for the Work of the Kingdom, part 8: Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs
View Details
The Gifts of the Spirit for the Work of the Kingdom, part 7: Broken Fingers
View Details
The Gifts of the Spirit for the Work of the Kingdom, part 6: How to Prophesy
View Details
The Gifts of the Spirit for the Work of the Kingdom, part 5: The Voice of Kindness
View Details
The Gifts of the Spirit for the Work of the Kingdom, part 4: Healing
View Details
The Gifts of the Spirit for the Work of the Kingdom, part 3: Witness
View Details
Midweek Podcast: A Prayer Meditation on The Lord’s Prayer
View Details
The Gifts of the Spirit for the Work of the Kingdom, part 2: The Wait is Over
View Details
The Gifts of the Spirit for the Work of the Kingdom, part 1: Closer
View Details
Nothing Burdensome, part 6: The Church Rule of Life
View Details
Nothing Burdensome, part 5: To Reject Excess and Embrace Simplicity
View Details
Nothing Burdensome, part 4: To Defy Consumerism and Embrace Family
View Details
Nothing Burdensome, part 3: To Reject Aimlessness and Embrace Purpose
View Details
Nothing Burdensome, part 2: To Defy Compromise and Embrace Orthodoxy
View Details
Nothing Burdensome, part 1: To Live for Something and Not Something Else
View Details
The Death of Christian Art, part 4: The Spiritual Discipline of Art Appreciation
View Details
The Death of Christian Art, part 3: What is “Christian” Art?
View Details
The Death of Christian Art, part 2: All the R-Rated Content the Bible has to Offer!
View Details
The Death of Christian Art, part 1: The Death of Christian Art
View Details
Always Winter, Never Christmas, part 4: What Qualifies as a Christmas Movie
View Details
Always Winter, Never Christmas, part 3: The Shell Hole
View Details
Always Winter, Never Christmas, part 2: The Terrible Cost of Christmas
View Details
Always Winter, Never Christmas, part 1: Always Winter, Never Christmas
View Details
An Alternative Society, part 10: An Empty Chair
View Details
An Alternative Society, part 8: The Things You (Actually) Care About
View Details
An Alternative Society, part 7: The Raven and the Vow
View Details
An Alternative Society, part 6: Who is fit to lead?
View Details
An Alternative Society, part 5: The Overlooked Demographic
View Details
An Alternative Society, part 4: The Greatest Disease
View Details
An Alternative Society, part 3: Community as Gift
View Details
An Alternative Society, part 2: An Alternative Family
View Details
An Alternative Society, part 1: The Story of Van City
View Details
Exodus, part 7: Getting the Slavery out of Israel
View Details
Hearing God, part 7: The Spirit Speaks through Creation
View Details
Hearing God, part 3: Intimacy Beyond the Fracture
View Details
Hearing God, part 2: Hearing God Through the Scriptures
View Details
God & The Whole Person, part 7: The Living Sacrifice
View Details
God & The Whole Person, part 6: The Body: Never Die
View Details
God & The Whole Person, part 5: The Body: Dying
View Details
God & The Whole Person, part 3: The Mind: A Heaven of Hell, A Hell of Heaven
View Details
God & The Whole Person, part 1: What do you want?
View Details
What We Believe (And What We Do Because We Believe It), part 7: Gender
View Details
What We Believe (And What We Do Because We Believe It), part 6: Sexuality
View Details
What We Believe (And What We Do Because We Believe It), part 5: Formation
View Details
What We Believe (And What We Do Because We Believe It), part 4: The Future
View Details
What We Believe (And What We Do Because We Believe It), part 3: Church
View Details
What We Believe (And What We Do Because We Believe It), part 2: Scripture
View Details
What We Believe (And What We Do Because We Believe It), part 1: "God"
View Details
The Long Winter Breaks 2022, part 6: How can this be?
View Details
The Long Winter Breaks 2022, part 5: Better than we’d dare to hope
View Details
The Long Winter Breaks 2022, part 4: Evil reigns. Or does it?
View Details
The Long Winter Breaks 2022, part 3: The Darkness That Is Us
View Details
The Long Winter Breaks 2022, part 2: The Messiah Who Saves and Judges
View Details
The Long Winter Breaks 2022, part 1: The Darkness at Christmas
View Details
Reclaiming Faithfulness as an Act of Rebellion, part 7: Epilogue: The Metamorphosis
View Details
Reclaiming Faithfulness as an Act of Rebellion, part 6: Why be here at all?
View Details
Reclaiming Faithfulness as an Act of Rebellion, part 5: The Code
View Details
Reclaiming Faithfulness as an Act of Rebellion, part 4: Return to Rat Park
View Details
Reclaiming Faithfulness as an Act of Rebellion, part 3: Snake Oil, Subscribers, and Church
View Details
Reclaiming Faithfulness as an Act of Rebellion, part 2: Destroyer of the gods
View Details
Reclaiming Faithfulness as an Act of Rebellion, part 1: Deconversion is the New Conversion
View Details
Escaping the Pit, part 2: The Agony and Ecstasy of Giving
View Details
James: Forgetting Your Own Face, part 11: James
View Details
James: Forgetting Your Own Face, part 10: Between Two Realities
View Details
James: Forgetting Your Own Face, part 9: Here’s to No Guarantees!
View Details
James: Forgetting Your Own Face, part 8: Show Me Your Friends
View Details
James: Forgetting Your Own Face, part 7: The Scorpion and the Frog
View Details
James: Forgetting Your Own Face, part 6: Firestarter
View Details
James: Forgetting Your Own Face, part 5: Chris Pratt, if You’re Listening…
View Details
James: Forgetting Your Own Face, part 4: Forgetting Your Own Face
View Details
James: Forgetting Your Own Face, part 3: The Terrible Fate of the Upstairs Man
View Details
James: Forgetting Your Own Face, part 2: Hell Razer: The Joy of Suffering
View Details
The True & False Self: Filled With All The Fullness of God, part 11: Epilogue: The Story Has Always Been Love
View Details
The True & False Self: Filled With All The Fullness of God, part 10: Memento Mori
View Details
The True & False Self: Filled With All The Fullness of God, part 9: The Cursed Self
View Details
The True & False Self: Filled With All The Fullness of God, part 8: The Person I Love the Least
View Details
A time of prayer and lament over America's staggering history of gun violence.
View Details
The True & False Self: Filled With All The Fullness of God, part 7: Father of Lies
View Details
The True & False Self: Filled With All The Fullness of God, part 6: The Rope That Ties Us
View Details
The True & False Self: Filled With All The Fullness of God, part 5: Know Yourself: When Jesus Appears so will You
View Details
The True & False Self: Filled With All The Fullness of God, part 4: How Am I Not Myself?
View Details
The True & False Self: Filled With All The Fullness of God, part 3: Dying With Your Head on a Chair
View Details
The True & False Self: Filled With All The Fullness of God, part 2: Peter is Dead. Long Live Grace!
View Details
The True & False Self: Filled With All The Fullness of God, part 1: Prologue: You, Together, Are that Temple
View Details
Various Teachings: From Holy Monday to the Harrowing of Hell
View Details
More of the Holy Spirit, 2022, Part 3: A Cynic’s Guide to Worship
View Details
More of the Holy Spirit, 2022, Part 2: But the one who prophesies…
View Details
More of the Holy Spirit, 2022, Part 1: Power(less)
View Details
Uncompromising Orthodoxy, Part 8: Epilogue: How to be (and Stay) Orthodox
View Details
Uncompromising Orthodoxy, Part 7: No Signs, Nor Wonders, At All
View Details
Uncompromising Orthodoxy, Part 6: Who Leads the Church?
View Details
Uncompromising Orthodoxy, Part 5: I Believe in the Holy Church, the Communion of Saints
View Details
Uncompromising Orthodoxy, Part 4: The Problem with Everything
View Details
Uncompromising Orthodoxy, Part 3: A Book You Can’t Get Rid Of
View Details
Uncompromising Orthodoxy, Part 2: Right and Wrong Things About God
View Details
Uncompromising Orthodoxy, Part 1: The Death and Rediscovery of Doctrine and Belief
View Details
The Long Winter Breaks 2021, part 5: The Long Winter Breaks
View Details
The Long Winter Breaks 2021, part 4: World Full of Hell
View Details
The Long Winter Breaks 2021, part 3: And the Darkness Will Be No More
View Details
The Long Winter Breaks 2021, part 2: The Christmas Paradox
View Details
The Long Winter Breaks 2021, part 1: Staring Into Darkness
View Details
2021 Vision Series, Part 4: It is not good for the man to be alone
View Details
2021 Vision Series, Part 1: A Decidedly Narrow View of the Whole World
View Details
Preaching The Gospel, part 4: Overthinking, Exploitation, and other ways Not to Preach the Gospel
View Details
Preaching The Gospel, part 3: What does it mean to be saved?
View Details
Preaching The Gospel, part 1: What is the Gospel?
View Details
You Were Dead: Letter to the Church in Colossae, part 17: Letters are Like That
View Details
You Were Dead: Letter to the Church in Colossae, part 16: An Ode to Powerlessness
View Details
You Were Dead: Letter to the Church in Colossae, part 15: On Becoming an Alternative Society (Part 2)
View Details
You Were Dead: Letter to the Church in Colossae, part 14: On Becoming an Alternative Society
View Details
You Were Dead: Letter to the Church in Colossae, part 13: Why not become all flame?
View Details
You Were Dead: Letter to the Church in Colossae, part 12: Shadows
View Details
You Were Dead: Letter to the Church in Colossae, part 11: You Were Dead
View Details
You Were Dead: Letter to the Church in Colossae, part 10: On Lacking Nothing
View Details
You Were Dead: Letter to the Church in Colossae, part 9: Contend
View Details
You Were Dead: Letter to the Church in Colossae, part 8: You are going to suffer.
View Details
You Were Dead: Letter to the Church in Colossae, part 7: Born Screaming
View Details
You Were Dead: Letter to the Church in Colossae, part 6: Yes. So I could be with you.
View Details
You Were Dead: Letter to the Church in Colossae, part 5: New Creation is Here
View Details
You Were Dead: Letter to the Church in Colossae, part 4: Hearing Your Monastery Bells
View Details
You Were Dead: Letter to the Church in Colossae, part 3: Grateful Enough to Show Up
View Details
You Were Dead: Letter to the Church in Colossae, part 2: To Bless or Curse
View Details
You Were Dead: Letter to the Church in Colossae, part 1: Don’t Take Summer Personally
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 84: A Mission for Failures
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 83: How to End Christianity
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 82: The Ironic Death of God
View Details
Simplicity, Part 4: Sin Is Not Ended by Multiplying Words
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 81: A Mess of Our Own Making
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 80: Time Traveling Vikings and the Power of Silence
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 79: The Remorse that Ruins
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 78: Feeling Yourself Disintegrate
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 77: The Awful Rock is the Diamond
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 76: The Swords We Wield to Defend Jesus and the Ears we Sever by Wielding Them
View Details
The Long Winter Breaks, part 4: The End of Hell
View Details
The Long Winter Breaks, part 3: Where Faith in Mankind Comes to an End
View Details
The Long Winter Breaks, part 2: The Christmas Axe
View Details
The Long Winter Breaks, part 1: Is the Good Lord Deaf?
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 75: The Church of the Agony
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 74: The Awfulness of People
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 73: Eat This Body, Drink This Blood
View Details
Jesus is Lord, Caesar is Not, Part 4: In America, Not of America
View Details
Jesus is Lord, Caesar is Not, Part 3: When Our Enemies Are No More
View Details
Jesus is Lord, Caesar is Not, Part 2: I Voted for Kodos
View Details
Jesus is Lord, Caesar is Not, Part 1: A Question of Masters
View Details
2020 Vision Series, Part 1: Make a Plan, Let it Go
View Details
Season of the Spirit / Season of the Flesh, part 7: Where Willpower Goes to Die
View Details
Season of the Spirit / Season of the Flesh, part 6: A New Creation: Goodness and Faithfulness
View Details
Season of the Spirit / Season of the Flesh, part 5: God is Patient, God is Kind
View Details
Season of the Spirit / Season of the Flesh, part 4: Anxiety and the Chaos Monster
View Details
Season of the Spirit / Season of the Flesh, part 3: Joy as an Act of Resistance
View Details
Season of the Spirit / Season of the Flesh, part 2: Apocalypse of Selfishness
View Details
Season of the Spirit / Season of the Flesh, part 1: Change is Like Death
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 72: Love and Politics
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 71: Destruction of Goats
View Details
Cries of the Oppressed, Part 19: Epilogue - The Long Road
View Details
Cries of the Oppressed, Part 16: Praying for Our City
View Details
Cries of the Oppressed, Part 15: Juneteenth and the Exodus
View Details
Cries of the Oppressed, Part 14: Prayer and Political Rulers
View Details
Cries of the Oppressed, Part 13: Praying Against Spiritual Forces of Racism
View Details
Cries of the Oppressed: Race & Justice with Mark Strong
View Details
Cries of the Oppressed, Part 10: The Hope for Freedom
View Details
Cries of the Oppressed, Part 9: Injustice, Empty Religion, and Destruction
View Details
The Cries of the Oppressed, Part 8: White Complicity and the Failure of Compassion
View Details
The Cries of the Oppressed, Part 7: Racism’s Marring of Honor and Glory
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 69: The Rapture, Conspiracy, and the End of the World
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 68: I Have Seven Bad Things to Say About You
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer. A transcript and links for this episode are available at www.vancity.church/conspiracy
View Details
Led by Levi Warren.
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
Practicing the Way - Scripture, part 5: Putting the Bible to Memory
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
Practicing the Way - Scripture, part 4: The Problem of Authority
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
Practicing the Way - Scripture, part 3: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
Practicing the Way - Scripture, part 2: Political Cartoons & Rattlesnake Worship
View Details
Practicing the Way - Scripture, part 1: You Are Not In Control
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
Miniseries - A Litany Against Fear, Part 3: This is Our Wilderness
View Details
Miniseries - A Litany Against Fear, Part 2: The Repurposing of Our Suffering
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
Miniseries - A Litany Against Fear, Part 1: The End of Existential Dread
View Details
The Daily Office features observations from the Scriptures, as well as meditations for contemplation, worship, and prayer.
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 67: How to Spot Fake Leaders
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 66: Conform, Deny, Dismiss
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 65: The Curse of the Fruitless Tree
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 64: What Was Jesus Like?
View Details
Developing a Rule of Life, Part 4: Epilogue: Do Not Befriend the Devouring Lion
View Details
Developing a Rule of Life, Part 4: To Live By a Code
View Details
Developing a Rule of Life, Part 3: Satan in the Smartphone
View Details
Developing a Rule of Life, Part 2: Dimensions of the Rule
View Details
Developing a Rule of Life, Part 1: A Rule of Life
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 64: A Special Twist of Paradox
View Details
More of the Holy Spirit, Part Eight: On the Discipline of Spirit-Filled Worship
View Details
More of the Holy Spirit, Part Seven: Does God want to heal people?
View Details
More of the Holy Spirit, Part Six: Speaking in Tongues
View Details
More of the Holy Spirit, Part Five: Eagerly desire all of it (especially prophecy)
View Details
More of the Holy Spirit, Part Four: Hearing the Holy Spirit
View Details
More of the Holy Spirit, Part Three: How is Jesus "with" us?
View Details
More of the Holy Spirit, Part Two: "But you will receive power..."
View Details
2019 Vision Series, Part 4: To Give Ourselves Away
View Details
2019 Vision Series, Part 3: To Defy the Pandering Masses
View Details
2019 Vision Series, Part 2: To Destroy the False Self
View Details
2019 Vision Series, Part 1: To Practice the Way of Jesus
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 61: Mercy (But Also Judgement)
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 60: Go and Point Out Their Fault
View Details
Practicing the Way – Community, Part Five: Formation Through Imperfect Community
View Details
Practicing the Way – Community, Part Four: Integrity and Flakiness
View Details
Practicing the Way – Community, Part Three: Honor and Contempt
View Details
Practicing the Way – Community, Part Two: A Controversial Notion of Family
View Details
Practicing the Way – Community, Part One: The Only Way to Follow Jesus
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 59: Sometimes it's Better to Drown
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 58: Our Identity in a Complicated World
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 57: The Secret of Power
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 55: But how will the king rule? (2 of 2)
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 54: But who will be king? (1 of 2)
View Details
Practicing the Way – Naming Your Stage of Apprenticeship, Part Five: When You Try and When You Stop Trying
View Details
Practicing the Way – Naming Your Stage of Apprenticeship, Part Four: First Half/Second Half
View Details
Practicing the Way – Naming Your Stage of Apprenticeship, Part Three: Where You Do Not Want to Go
View Details
Practicing the Way – Naming Your Stage of Apprenticeship, Part Two: And at the End: Love
View Details
Practicing the Way – Naming Your Stage of Apprenticeship, Part One: Purgation and Beyond
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 53: Crowds, Signs, Bread, and the Process of Apprenticeship
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 52: What Jesus Learns From A Pagan
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 51: The Heart is a Sewer
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 49: A Gift From Poverty
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 48: Severed Heads and Phony Kings
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 47: The Inevitability of Rejection
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 46: Parabolic, Part 2
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 45: Parabolic, Part 1
View Details
Practicing the Way – Fighting the World, the Flesh, and the Devil, Part Twelve: Spiritual Warfare Q&A, Part 2
View Details
Practicing the Way – Fighting the World, the Flesh, and the Devil, Part Eleven: Spiritual Warfare Q&A, Part 1
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 44: Signs, Pagans, and Blood
View Details
Practicing the Way – Sabbath, Part Five: Sabbath as Rest
View Details
Practicing the Way – Sabbath, Part Four: Sabbath & Your Humanity
View Details
Practicing the Way – Sabbath, Part Three: Sabbath as Rebellion
View Details
Practicing the Way – Sabbath, Part Two: Sabbath as Rhythm
View Details
Practicing the Way – Sabbath, Part One: Sabbath as Resistance
View Details
Practicing the Way – Fighting the World, the Flesh, and the Devil, Part Ten: Everyone is going to have to die.
View Details
Practicing the Way – Fighting the World, the Flesh, and the Devil, Part Nine: Goodbye, Cruel World!
View Details
Practicing the Way – Fighting the World, the Flesh, and the Devil, Part Eight: (Do Not) Do What You Want, Pt. II
View Details
Practicing the Way – Fighting the World, the Flesh, and the Devil, Part Seven: (Do Not) Do What You Want
View Details
Practicing the Way – Fighting the World, the Flesh, and the Devil, Part Six: Sawing Down the Serpent Tree
View Details
Practicing the Way – Fighting the World, the Flesh, and the Devil, Part Five: God of Evil
View Details
Practicing the Way – Fighting the World, the Flesh, and the Devil, Part Four: The Devil and Culture
View Details
Practicing the Way – Fighting the World, the Flesh, and the Devil, Part Three: Interdimensional Evil
View Details
Practicing the Way – Fighting the World, the Flesh, and the Devil, Part Two: Father of Lies (Part II)
View Details
Practicing the Way – Fighting the World, the Flesh, and the Devil, Part One: Father of Lies
View Details
2018 Vision Series, Part 1: Faithfulness as an Act of Rebellion
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 43: Brood of Vipers
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 42: A Problem With Tradition
View Details
Practicing the Way – Eating & Drinking, Part Eight: The Dinner Table as The Altar
View Details
Practicing the Way – Eating & Drinking, Part Seven: A Brief History of the Bread and the Cup
View Details
Practicing the Way – Eating & Drinking, Part Six: Proclaiming the Lord's Death
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 41: The Secret Of The Easy Yoke
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 40: When Jesus Isn't Who You Thought He'd Be
View Details
Practicing the Way – Eating & Drinking, Part Five: The Spiritual Discipline of Celebration
View Details
Practicing the Way – Eating & Drinking, Part Four: Church Around a Table
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 38: Everyone Will Hate You
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 37: And now, o' reader, what about your faith?
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 36: The Suffocating Quarantine
View Details
Practicing the Way – Eating & Drinking, Part Three: Justice and Injustice
View Details
Practicing the Way – Eating & Drinking, Part Two: Neighbor
View Details
Practicing the Way – Eating & Drinking, Part One: A Secret Weapon
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 35: The Heavy Load of Faith
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 34: The Chaos Miracles
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 33: Outsiders and Second Thoughts
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 32: Authority and Acceptance
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 30: Wait... That's the ending?
View Details
Practicing the Way – Forgiveness, Part Four: Appendix: On Asking Others to Forgive You
View Details
Practicing the Way – Forgiveness, Part Three: Memory Redeemer
View Details
Practicing the Way – Forgiveness, Part Two: The Cost of Unforgiveness
View Details
Practicing the Way – Forgiveness, Part One: Forgiveness
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 28: There are only two options
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 27: Summarizing the Old Testament
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 26: The One Who Knocks
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 25: Freedom From Concern
View Details
Practicing the Way – Fasting, Part Three: To Stand in Solidarity with the Poor
View Details
Practicing the Way – Fasting, Part Two: To Pray With Your Body
View Details
Mid-week podcast: How should those who struggle with body image or eating disorders approach the spiritual discipline of fasting?
View Details
Practicing the Way - Fasting, Part One: My Food Is...
View Details
Gospel of Mathew: The Eye. The Heart. The Master.
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 22: Your Treasure is Doomed
View Details
Practicing the Way – Discovering Your Identity & Calling, Part Seven: The Cycle of Dreams
View Details
Practicing the Way - Discovering Your Identity & Calling, Part Six: Unnatural
View Details
Practicing the Way - Discovering Your Identity & Calling, Part Five: Do What Thou Wilt
View Details
Practicing the Way - Discovering Your Identity & Calling, Part Four: The Outward Journey - Vocation
View Details
Practicing the Way - Discovering Your Ideneity & Calling, Part Three: The Shadow Side
View Details
Practicing the Way - Discovering Your Identity & Calling, Part Two: Who You Are (Not)
View Details
Practicing the Way - Discovering Your Identity & Calling, Part One: Death to False Self!
View Details
2017 Vision Series, Part 3: Epilogue - But How?
View Details
2017 Vision Series, Part 1: Practicing the Way of Jesus
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, Part 21: A Hunger Artist
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, Part 20: The Wrong Way to Pray
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, Part 18 – On Non-Violence IX: Bruxy Cavey / The Anabaptist Tradition
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, Part 17 – On Non-Violence VIII: Greg Boyd / Romans 13 & Government
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, Part 16 – On Non-Violence VII: Gerry Breshears / Home Invasion & Police
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, Part 15 – On Non-Violence, Part VI: Sister Rosemary / Loving Enemies
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, Part 14 - On Non-Violence, Part IV: Tim Mackie / Revelation & The Old Testament
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, Part 13 - On Non-Violence, Part III: Preston Sprinkle / History & Just War
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, Part 12: On Non-Violence, Part II: The (Surprising) End of Enemies
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, Part 11: On Non-Violence, Part I: The End of Retribution
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, Part 10: On Rejecting All Oaths
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, Part 9: Jesus on Divorce
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, Part 8: When to Gouge Out Your Eye
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, Part 7: Murder! (Anger!)
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, Part 6: Jesus vs. The Bible
View Details
Practicing the Way: Prayer, Part 6: A Life of Risk
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, Part 5: Good News for Worthless People!
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, Part 4: When God Becomes King
View Details
Dealing With Your Past, Part 3: The Narrative Script
View Details
Dealing With Your Past, Part 2: Fracturing the Motif
View Details
Dealing With Your Past, Part 1: A Problem With Heredity
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, Part 4: Enter the Tempter
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, part 3: The Identity of Jesus
View Details
The Gospel of Matthew, 1: Source Material Enthusiasm
View Details
Praciting the Way, Part 12: The Secret of the Easy Yoke
View Details
Practicing the Way, Part 11: Transformation - Holy Spirit, Time, Pain
View Details
Practicing the way, Part 9: Community in Conflict
View Details
Practicing the Way, Part 8: Broken Community / Broken People
View Details
Practicing the Way, Part 7: Transformation - Community
View Details
Practicing the Way, Part 6: Transformation - Discipline
View Details
A pastoral statement for Van City Church in the wake of the pain, distress, hatred, anger and fear left in the wake of the 2016 election season.
View Details
Practicing the Way, Part 5: Transformation - Teaching & Practice
View Details
Daniel and his friends are dragged off to Babylon, where they stand as an example of no compromise, even under the overwhelming pressure of exile.
View Details
If Proverbs offers a helpful formula for a life well lived, Ecclesiastes laments the exception to the rule. How do we, as followers of Jesus, find meaning and purpose in the often random cruelty of life?
View Details
Read together, Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes contain a great wealth of insight into what it means to live well in God’s world. But there’s a problem...
View Details
If suffering is inevitable even when mitigated, how does a follower of Jesus prepare for suffering? How do we find meaning and purpose in our suffering? How do we allow suffering to mature rather than destroy us?
View Details
No matter what precautions you might take in order to avoid the lurking phantom of suffering, suffering will find you. Rather than run, medicate, or self-destruct, how does the disciple of Jesus learn to suffer well?
View Details
Our efforts to make sense of both a good and loving God as well as a world raved by evil our theodicy. Of course, every theodicy has holes, and is subject to a wide spectrum of disagreement within the global historic Church. Even so, one path must be taken if we are to choose a way forward.
View Details
As we traverse the pages of Job in search of an answer to the problem of evil we confront a reality as frustrating as it is beautiful: There are no easy answers. Though tidy conclusions evade our grasp, lament is always within reach. The invitation of God is to trust even in the face of evil.
View Details
As one reads through the ebb and flow of Israel’s successes and failures, the threat of judgment and the promise of hope… It all starts to feel like polishing the brass on the titanic. How long can we keep this up? How will Israel act as a rescuing agent when Israel herself is in need of saving? Isaiah has some of the Scripture’s most profound things to say about this problem, but accessing it is complicated.
View Details
A pendulum oscillating between judgment in the present and hope for the future, the words of the prophet remain in indictment of apathy today. As an intermediary between God and humanity, the voice of the prophet continues to convict as much as he instills hope.
View Details
Israel's story is marked by recurring instances of failure. Is failure an inevitability? The way we address failure shapes us over time and forms our portrait of who God is and who we are before him.
View Details
If the Bible is an authority over us, how is a story about war 3,000 years ago “authoritative”? When we read Israel’s history, in what way is it an "authority" in our lives?
View Details
Using the tragic story of Saul—Israel's first king—as a case study, we set out to uncover what the text reveals about failure, violence, and our own identities.
View Details
To answer the brokenness of the world Jesus comes with the kingdom of God, and he becomes the king through his death and resurrection.
View Details
In the next chapter of the story, humanity rebels against the king. Sin enters the picture and spirals out of control. And a story that many people write off as foolish because of a talking snake and a woman speaking parseltongue, turns out to be the most deep, profound, and intelligent insight into the human condition ever written.
View Details
The Bible is a story. A single, unified story about God, humanity, and the world, that points its readers to Jesus. As disciples of Jesus, we work to understand what the Bible communicates within the context of this great story.
View Details
John Mark Comer and Dr. Gerry Breshears discuss the idea of the Bible being “inerrant” or without error. The Bible is a library of books written by humans as they were led by the Holy Spirit. Does this mean the Bible has human errors or is it a flawless telling of the story of God? Is inerrancy a helpful, intelligent, and accurate way to talk and think about the Bible?
View Details
What does it mean to believe that the Bible is a divine word to God’s people? Does it require a belief that the book fell from heaven or that its origins are less than human? In this teaching we’ll explore a crash course on the history of the Bible and why it came into existence. It’s a covenant document, telling the story of how has rescued and redeemed a people, invited them into a covenant relationship, and given them the terms of the covenant relationship. That story all leads to Jesus and the family he invites all humans to join.
View Details
This week we tackle the question,What is the Bible for? What is this library of writings supposed to do in our life and community? We make the case that Scripture was designed to be read for formation, not just information. We are all being formed in a certain kind of person by our habits, our community, and our environment; Scripture is counter-formation. We read the Bible to consciously cooperate with God in shaping us into the image of Jesus.
View Details
What is the Bible? A lot’s at stake here. If we misunderstand what the Bible is, we’ll turn in into something it’s not. We’ll use and abuse it for our own ends. In this teaching, we make the case that the Bible is a library of writings that are both divine and human, that together tell a unified story which leads us to Jesus.
View Details
We have a problem with the Bible. More and more followers of Jesus in the west don’t read it, don’t now how to read it, don’t even like it, and frankly, take issue with it. So why do we follow the Bible? Because we follow Jesus. He is our authority, but he has mediated his authority through the Bible. And on its pages we discover the map to the life that Jesus has on offer.
