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Restraining God

This Sunday Pastor Jeff continues our sermon series “From the Cradle to the Grave: Lessons from the Life of Mary.”  The passage we’ll study contains a particularly poignant lesson for us as we approach the New Year and reflect on how to make the most of whatever adversity we currently face.  Start the New Year […]

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God’s Plan For My Life

We often find ourselves wondering, “What is God’s plan for my life?” – and the answer often alludes us, which is enormously frustrating because if God has a plan for us, we want to know it.  So that’s what we’re going to talk about this Sunday, as we come to the fourth installment in our […]

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Game of Thrones

This Sunday Pastor Jeff resumes our sermon series on the Old Testament book of Daniel, as we explore a vivid story about a king who went mad and lost his throne, only to recover it again.  Why should we care?  Because there’s so much we learn from that king’s experience about how to find our […]

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This Sunday Pastor Jeff launches a new sermon series based on the Old Testament book of Daniel.  Daniel contains some of the most colorful stories found anywhere in the Bible, each of them very relevant to our lives today.  This Sunday we’ll start with a story that challenges to think deeply about our sense of […]

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Unto Us a Child Is Born

This Sunday Pastor Jeff begins a four-week series based on a famous Christmas prophecy found in Isaiah 9:6.  There Isaiah identifies four amazing ways the gift of Jesus can lift and transform our lives.  This week we’ll unwrap and explore the first incredible gift.  It’s something you really need, but might not ever think to […]

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Who Am I? – according to Jesus

How do you see yourself?  What’s your core identity and how does that affect how you move through the world?  Those are the questions we’ll grapple with this Sunday as explore one of the most famous and surprising encounters with Jesus in the Gospel of John.

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Lessons from Science for Faith

On Sunday Pastor Jeff will wrap up our Faith & Science sermon series inspired by Dr. Francis Collins’ best-selling book “The Language of God.”  This week we’ll explore how a Gospel story, coupled with two powerful experiences from Dr. Collins’ life in science, can help us find God’s will in our life.  If you want […]

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How Did God Create Human Life?

As we continue our faith and science sermon series, this Sunday we’ll take a look at the debate between those who believe God created human life on a single day versus those who believe God created through the process of evolution.  We’ll explore what’s at stake in this debate, but then move beyond it to […]

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What Should I Do?

What is God trying to accomplish in and through you in the present global crisis?  With everything discombobulated, is there any rhyme or reason to your present circumstance?  This Sunday Pastor Jeff will share the answer that God gave him in a dream this week – an answer drawn from one of Jesus’ least familiar […]

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Didn’t See That Coming

Once there was a man who felt called to do something really important in life.  He threw himself into it with passion and accomplished something great!  But then his life's work was destroyed.  What did he do next?  Join us on Sunday to find out -- and in the process, learn a very important lesson […]

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The Circle of Life

Fear plays a big part in our lives – fear of living and fear of dying.  This Sunday we’ll explore an epic Old Testament Scripture that invites us to develop a more confident, hopeful view of both life and death.  Join us to learn something important about yourself and about God.

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Magical Mystery Tour

Last week we talked a bit about finding God’s will in our lives.  This week we’ll take that conversation deeper, exploring a powerful spiritual principle embedded in an obscure Old Testament story.  Our attention was drawn to this story by a dream God gave to someone in our congregation.  For some reason, God wants us […]

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