What we behold — what our heart loves and finds beautiful and compelling — will determine how we behave. The goal of this Advent series is to help us behold Jesus. Each week we’re going to look at an aspect of Jesus’ identity, and together thes...

What we behold — what our heart loves and finds beautiful and compelling — will determine how we behave. The goal of this Advent series is to help us behold Jesus. Each week we’re going to look at an aspect of Jesus’ identity, and together thes...

What we behold — what our heart loves and finds beautiful and compelling — will determine how we behave. The goal of this Advent series is to help us behold Jesus. Each week we’re going to look at an aspect of Jesus’ identity, and together thes...

The idea behind this series is simple: what we behold will determine how we behave. Each week this Advent, we’re going to look at an aspect of Jesus’ identity, and together these vignettes will give us a fuller picture of the On...

In his letters to the church in Corinth, Paul sets a pattern for planned generosity: 1) make a clear plan, 2) act with wisdom, and 3) be ready and eager to give.

By washing his disciples' feet, Jesus 1) demonstrated the magnitude of his love for us, and 2) left us a pattern of how to love one another. 

If there is a God and he is good, why doesn't he do something about the evil and injustice in our world? Why does he let it go on? Why does he seem distant? Why doesn’t he intervene? To help us try and make sense of a world filled with evil and...

The church is a messy place. Sometimes the church is a downright ugly place. Why would I want anything to do with the church when it’s the source of so much hurt and disillusionment? In this message, we explore three things we must do when we s...

In Romans 6:1-14, Paul gives us two reasons we cannot continue living in the pattern of our old way of life. 1) Our lives have been joined to Christ, and 2) We are no longer slaves to sin. 

Why doesn't God answer our prayers? This question is deeply personal for each one of us. To explore the question of unanswered prayer, we look at two things we know for certain to be true — His wisdom is higher than our own, and his heart is fo...

Isn’t the cross an act of cosmic child abuse? Behind this question is a bigger question about the character of God. We may imagine God the Father as angry, and wrathful at the drop of a hat. We may imagine him gaining some twisted form of pleas...

When we read Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth, we see a church whose attitudes and actions are sometimes indistinguishable from the Roman culture around them. The church in Corinth is messy and divided, but it belongs to God. The le...

When we read Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth, we see a church whose attitudes and actions are sometimes indistinguishable from the Roman culture around them. The church in Corinth is messy and divided, but it belongs to God. The le...

When we read Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth, we see a church whose attitudes and actions are sometimes indistinguishable from the Roman culture around them. The church in Corinth is messy and divided, but it belongs to God. The le...

When we read Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth, we see a church whose attitudes and actions are sometimes indistinguishable from the Roman culture around them. The church in Corinth is messy and divided, but it belongs to God. The le...

When we read Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth, we see a church whose attitudes and actions are sometimes indistinguishable from the Roman culture around them. The church in Corinth is messy and divided, but it belongs to God. The le...