This week we continue our sermon series called "By Their Fruits You Will Know Them: 8 Core Characteristics of Authentic Followers of Jesus" by exploring what Jesus said about End Times and how that should affect our lives right now. From this we'll draw a third great characteristic of authentic followers of Jesus. Join us […]
The Bible tells us that God is love, and that we should love as God loves. So what does "love" mean in the Biblical sense? What does it look like to love the way the Bible envisions? Those are the vital questions we'll explore this Sunday.
One of our most urgent human questions is, "What is God like?" Our answer to that question has a monumental impact on our state of mind and how we conduct our lives. This Sunday, as we continue our inductive study of the New Testament book of Colossians, we'll explore a passage that paints one of the Bible's most […]
This Sunday we continue our sermon series on "Women Who Shaped Our Faith -- Six Powerful Gospel Stories." In this week's Gospel story, we'll encounter a woman who deliberately broke a sacred religious rule in the presence of Jesus. She did what was strictly forbidden. How would Jesus respond? And what can we learn from his example? This sermon is critical for […]
This Sunday Pastor Jeff resumes our sermon series entitled “Called Together,” as we continue exploring various questions about what it means to be church together. We’ve already explored why you need us, and why we need you. Now this week we’ll explore why the world needs us. Given the way many churches are these days, […]
As we celebrate Black History Month, we are excited to welcome LaShawnda Crowe Storm to share her thoughts about how to prepare ourselves and center ourselves to do justice in the world in the same way Jesus did. LaShawnda leads the Lynch Quilts Project, a community-based effort to examine the history of racial violence through the […]
Conversations about race and racism are at the heart of American culture today. Just this past week, the Supreme Court issued a major decision prohibiting affirmative action. This Sunday we’ll wrap up our sermon series on the Bible & Justice by grappling with the challenges of racism. We’ll look at the big picture story of […]
Jesus had a dream – a dream about what churches in his movement would look like. Do you know where his dream is found in the Bible and what it entails? This Sunday we’ll explore Jesus’ dream and grapple with whether we have the courage to fully live into it, step by step, collectively together. […]
The Bible contains a lot of prophecies about the future that have given rise to various theories about what the future holds. Have you ever wondered what you should believe about “end times”? Clearly earth is a mess, but where’s it all headed? Will it eventually end? If so, when and how? This Sunday we […]
