07 – “The Kingdoms of Heaven” (Seeing Jesus)
May 28, 2023
Jesus stands trial before the kings of this world. Pilate represents Caesar, the ruler of the “Eternal Kingdom” of Rome. And, Herod...
06 – “Zacchaeus” (Seeing Jesus)
May 21, 2023
Zacchaeus and the crowd that judges him represent two kinds of injury: those who hurt others because of self interest and those who do so...
05 – “Healing and Hope” (Seeing Jesus)
May 14, 2023
Jesus said, “I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” He’s surrounded by scoundrels like Jewish tax...
04 – “Watchers + Seekers” (Seeing Jesus)
May 8, 2023
Jesus always responds to desperation. Always. There is not a single instance in the Gospels where someone comes to Jesus in dire...
03 – “The Devil in the Wilderness” (Seeing Jesus)
April 30, 2023
Jesus’ baptism is a crescendo of sorts, a crowning affirmation by Israel’s greatest prophet at the time AND Jesus’ Father in...
02 – “Mary” (Seeing Jesus)
April 23, 2023
As Jesus’s mother, Mary had a unique perspective. She saw him as few others did and helps us view the Son in all of his fullness. She is...
01 – “Through the Lens of Luke” (Seeing Jesus)
April 16, 2023
We all look through a variety of lenses to see things well. We sometimes even need glasses or corrective lens surgery to maintain that...
“The Great Reversal” Easter Celebration
April 9, 2023
On the first day of the week following Jesus’ death, the 8th day, his followers approached his tomb with disappointment. Their only goal...
14 – “The Way of Worship” (Follow: Finding New Life on Ancient Paths)
April 2, 2023
Jesus said that his Father looks for worshippers in Spirit and in truth. God’s pursuit of these worshipers begs a question. Will they...
13 – “The Way of Trust” (Follow: Finding New Life on Ancient Paths)
March 26, 2023
We all yearn for freedom. Yet, so many people find themselves enslaved to things like bad relationships, exploitive jobs, or addictive...
12 – “The Way of Grace and Peace” (Follow: Finding New Life on Ancient Paths)
March 19, 2023
The Apostle Paul often paired the concepts of grace and peace in his greetings as he wrote to the churches of the Ancient Roman World. The...
11 – “The Way of Blessing” (Follow: Finding New Life on Ancient Paths)
March 12, 2023
Blessing is built into Creation. Even though our world is marred by the evil evident to anyone paying attention, we are still blessed and...
10 – “The Way of Presence” (Follow: Finding New Life on Ancient Paths)
March 5, 2023
God arrested Moses’ attention with a bush that burned and was not consumed, a shiny object if you will. However, he commanded Moses to...
09 – “The Way of Waiting” (Follow: Finding New Life on Ancient Paths)
February 25, 2023
We all spend a considerable percentage of our lives waiting, whether for food, meetings, or that “next thing.” Most of us chafe at the...
08 – “The Way of Prayer” (Follow: Finding New Life on Ancient Paths)
February 19, 2023
The disciples who asked Jesus how they should pray had been praying their entire lives. The Psalms were their prayer book, and they lived...
07 – “The Way of Sacrifice” (Follow: Finding New Life on Ancient Paths)
February 12, 2023
Jesus taught that those who seek to save their lives will lose them, while those who are willing to lose them, or give them away, for his...
06 – “The Way of Resilience” (Follow: Finding New Life on Ancient Paths)
February 5, 2023
“I get knocked down, but I get up again” is the refrain of a popular song from the late 90s that celebrates resilience. It could also...
05 – “The Way of Interdependence” (Follow: Finding New Life on Ancient Paths)
January 28, 2023
This week, our series focuses on interdependence, what the Bible often refers to as unity, and why it is so important. God created humanity...
04 – “The Way of Truth” (Follow: Finding New Life on Ancient Paths)
January 22, 2023
This week, Pastor Bo Stern-Brady continues our Follow series that examines practices designed to help us follow Jesus along ancient paths...
03 – “The Way of Rest” (Follow: Finding New Life on Ancient Paths)
January 15, 2023
This week, we continue our series on what it truly looks like to follow Jesus by examining the practice of rest. In a nonstop, frenetic...
02 – “The Way of Beauty” (Follow: Finding New Life on Ancient Paths)
January 8, 2023
In our current sermon series, we are looking at ancient practices of the church that connect us to God in a deeper, richer way. This week,...
01 – “Listening to Jesus” (Follow: Finding New Life on Ancient Paths)
January 1, 2023
This is the first message in our new series, Follow: Finding New Life on Ancient Paths, where Pastor Brad talks about what it means to...
04 – “Illumination of Advent” (Illuminate) – Christmas Eve 2022
December 25, 2022
03 – “People of Light” (Illuminate)
December 18, 2022
During this third week of our Illuminate series, we focus on what it means for us to be People of Light. Jesus tells us in the book of...
02 – “Lighting the Way” (Illuminate)
December 11, 2022
At times, life seems dominated by darkness, chaos, and brokenness. And we appear bound to walk in it. But Jesus says, “I am the light of...
01 – “Waiting in the Dark” (Illuminate)
December 4, 2022
People feel more secure and active in the light. Darkness lessens our energy and activity. Moreover, things that “go bump in the night”...
021 – “Family and Friends Plan” (Romans: A Life of Faith)
November 27, 2022
Ordinary people matter to God. They did when Paul wrote Romans — in fact, the apostle mentions dozens of them in chapter 16 — and...
020 – “Bear With and Build Up” (Romans: A Life of Faith)
November 20, 2022
Echoing Jesus’ teaching, the Apostle Paul instructs us to go beyond bearing with one another’s weaknesses and actively seek to build...
019 – “How to Be Strong” (Romans: A Life of Faith)
November 13, 2022
This week, our series continues with a deep dive into a crucial five-verse passage that is dense and challenging. We look at how one can be...
018 – “Undebatable” (Romans: A Life of Faith)
November 6, 2022
This week, we continue our series in the first half of Romans 14. This passage contains some hard truths about what should happen when...
017 – “All We Need Is Love” (Romans: A Life of Faith)
October 30, 2022
Chapter 13 contains some hard truths about submitting to authority, our attitudes towards those who rule us (especially those we may not...
016 – “Two Kinds of Peace” (Romans: A Life of Faith)
October 23, 2022
During the last two weeks of this series, we’ve looked at the first two sections of Romans 12. This week, we look at the last section and...
015 – “We Are One” (Romans: A Life of Faith)
October 16, 2022
Paul specifies how Christians should live within a vibrant faith community. His main areas of focus? Faith, unity, and a clear sense of...
014 – “From, In, and For” (Romans: A Life of Faith)
October 9, 2022
Pastor Brad, unpacks the implications of Romans 12:1-2 in this stirring message, beginning with a question: What does it really mean to be...
“Reset” with Jo Saxton
October 2, 2022
In Matthew 16, Jesus takes his disciples on a trip to Caesarea Philippi. There he questions them, “Who do people say the Son of Man...
013 – What about Israel? (Romans: A Life of Faith)
September 25, 2022
As Pastor Alex points out, Romans chapter eight ends with a crescendo celebrating the loving faithfulness of God. It seems like a mic-drop...
012 – For the City Weekend (Romans: A Life of Faith)
September 17, 2022
In the second half of chapter eight, Paul reminds us that God has adopted us into his family as his heirs. Our identity is not based on...
011 – The Spirit is Life (Romans: A Life of Faith)
September 11, 2022
We all have the desire to be truly free. However, as Paul has written in Romans thus far, we aren’t really free if we are living...
010 – No More Hiding (Romans: A Life of Faith)
September 5, 2022
In Romans chapter 7, Paul expands upon the failure of the Old Testament Law to produce righteousness in us, and our sinful natures. The Law...
009 – For the Freedom Fighters (Romans: A Life of Faith)
August 28, 2022
Paul uses the word slavery 15 times through 23 verses of chapter six, and most often he’s referring to sin. When he tells his readers...
008 – Sin, Sinning, and Sinners (Romans: A Life of Faith)
August 21, 2022
This message spotlights a problem that we all have in common. We sense it. Things just aren’t right, not everything anyway. And though we...
007 – Faith and Suffering (Romans: A Life of Faith)
August 14, 2022
Within the first couple of verse in chapter five, Paul outlines chapters 5-8. However, in verse three he turns quickly to the question of...
006 – About Faith (Romans: A Life of Faith)
August 7, 2022
Addressing a mixed community of Gentile and Jewish believers, Paul seeks to offer them clarity. Some of the churches in Rome leaned towards...
The Need for Lament in Troubled Times – Soong-Chan Rah
July 31, 2022
005 – Believing, or Believing in? (Romans: A Life of Faith)
July 24, 2022
We all judge other people. It’s a very human thing to do but it’s not a Jesus thing. Why? Because judging others makes us a hypocrite....
004 – The Emptiness of Religion (Romans: A Life of Faith)
July 16, 2022
Romans chapter one, verses 18-32, painted a bleak picture of a hopelessly broken and sinful humanity. Chapter 2 takes this even further,...
003 – Good News in Being Bad (Romans: A Life of Faith)
July 10, 2022
As we continue our series, we discover that Paul has some hard words for humanity. In Romans 1:18-32 Paul describes the reality of the...
002 – The Fire Inside (Romans: A Life of Faith)
July 3, 2022
Having greeted them, identifying himself, Paul offers his readers a formal introduction in the manner typical of an Ancient Classical...
001 – Slave Letter (Romans: A Life of Faith)
June 26, 2022
The Apostle Paul is a towering figure in the history of Western Civilization. Few would argue with his importance as a philosopher,...
A People of…Unity
June 19, 2022
Unity is a rare commodity. In fact, almost everything in our culture is designed to celebrate expressively individuality or provoke an...
A People of…Joy
June 11, 2022
Joy is a fruit of the Spirit, a distinct marker of the Christian life, and an important theme that presents itself repeatedly within the...
A People of…Truth
June 3, 2022
We live in confusing times. Never have we had more access to more information, but with more information comes more confusion. If we Google...
A People of…Freedom
May 29, 2022
The Bible says that, “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.” (Gal. 5;1) Pastor Jamie shares how we embrace that freedom as she...
A People of…Justice
May 22, 2022
We continue our People of the Kingdom series this week by looking at the topic of justice. In a world where the word “justice” is used...
A People of…Power
May 15, 2022
Empowered by God, Daniel interprets the King of Babylon’s dream, a prophetic vision of the world’s kingdoms. Each great empire is less...
A People of…Peace
May 8, 2022
Jesus said, “Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called children of God.” Isaiah calls Jesus the “Prince of Peace.” And...
A People of…Love
May 1, 2022
We know love when we see it in action. We know when we feel it, but still, love is notoriously difficult to define precisely. That...
A People of…the Kingdom of Heaven
April 24, 2022
In this first message of the series, we look at an idea that dominated Jesus’ preaching: the Kingdom of Heaven has come! Upon hearing...
Easter: A Place Called Home
April 18, 2022
In John 14, Jesus tells us that he will make a home where a godly people can live with their just and loving God. However, there’s a...
HumanKind Week 21: “Did You Say Donkey?”
April 10, 2022
While the story of Palm Sunday may be familiar to some, and a regular part of the Christian calendar, it offers some really confusing...
HumanKind Week 20: “Like a Child”
April 3, 2022
How do we lose the sense of wonder and awe that the world is a beautiful place for of good potential? Is it as simple as “maturing?” Do...
HumanKind Week 19: “Who Do We Welcome?”
March 27, 2022
Jesus told his people to love and bless everyone, even their enemies. Literally. Everyone. For most of us, that’s a practical...
HumanKind Week 18: “Why Do We Welcome?”
March 19, 2022
Why should Jesus’ people be welcomed as a transforming presence into a community that holds a low opinion of Christians? Popular media...
HumanKind Week 17: “It’s Like This”
March 13, 2022
Jesus described the Kingdom of God two ways: close to us and available. He also characterized it as priceless and desirable, so much so...
HumanKind Week 16: “I Doubt It”
March 6, 2022
Is doubt the opposite of faith? Or, is our struggle to believe more like indifference versus faith? As we’ll see in this message,...
HumanKind Week 15: “Freedom”
February 27, 2022
The Apostle Paul wrote, “For freedom Christ has set us free…” Without any further context, his statement begs the question: free...
HumanKind Week 14: “Come Holy Spirit”
February 21, 2022
This message unpacks an unusually intimate conversation, where Jesus offers his closest followers a high definition look at the coming Holy...
HumanKind Week 13: “We All Build a House”
February 13, 2022
Jesus wasn’t like any other teacher. In this message, we see that his audience agrees. They understood that he taught with an authority...
HumanKind Week 12: “Lost Things”
February 6, 2022
Have you ever lost something really precious? Maybe it was your phone, a treasured family heirloom, or even a loving relationship. We all...
HumanKind Week 11: “Pool of Siloam”
January 31, 2022
Do we see God as he truly is? Or, have layers of tradition, skewed values, or religious bondage distorted our sight? Jesus came so we could...
HumanKind Week 10: “Generous Forgiveness”
January 23, 2022
Friends of a paralytic man break through the roof of a home where Jesus is teaching. The house is so crowded that they could think of no...
HumanKind Week 9: “Loved Much?”
January 16, 2022
This week’s message comes from one of the most well-known stories in the Bible: a woman known to be a sinner washes Jesus’ feet with...
HumanKind Week 8: “Desperate Faith”
January 9, 2022
In Luke chapter eight, Jesus closest disciples ask, “Who is this…?” (v25) They had heard his singular teaching and seen his...
HumanKind Week 7: “Love Fills the Gap”
January 3, 2022
Jesus entered his public ministry with a special affirmation from God. It all began when the Lord traveled to a particular place, the...
HumanKind Week 6: “Who’s In? Who’s Out?”
December 26, 2021
Today, we continue our Humankind series, looking at the interactions and conversations that Jesus had with the humanity around him. Our...
HumanKind Week 5: Christmas Eve “Wondering + Waiting”
December 25, 2021
Christmas focuses on the birth of Jesus, and rightly so. However, the story has been told so often that it’s easy to lose the humanity of...
Humankind Week 4: Encounters with Jesus, “Under the Cover of Night”
December 19, 2021
In this series, we have been looking at encounters that various people had with Jesus. This week, Pastor Brad examines an interesting...
Humankind Week 3: Encounters with Jesus, “Healing Touch”
December 12, 2021
This week, we continue our Humankind series, looking at encounters that Jesus had with different individuals while he was on earth. This...
Humankind Week 2: Encounters with Jesus, “The Same but Different”
December 5, 2021
In Luke chapter 7, we see two encounters that Jesus has with two individuals who, in some ways, could not be more different. The first...
Humankind Week 1: Encounters with Jesus, “Come + See”
November 28, 2021
Our culture presents a false dichotomy: someone must be either religious (that’s bad) or they are spiritual (that’s good). The only...
Ecclesiastes, Week 6: Remember
November 22, 2021
In this final week of the Ecclesiastes series, we get to see how the author of this book concludes his message. He implores his readers to...
Ecclesiastes, Week 5: Certainty
November 14, 2021
Throughout this series on the book of Ecclesiastes, we have seen the writer wrestle with two tensions. On the one hand, the author reminds...
Ecclesiastes, Week 4: Contentment
November 7, 2021
This week’s message looks at our relationship with God and the circumstances within which we experience him. Ecclesiastes chapter 5...
Ecclesiastes, Week 3: Hands
October 31, 2021
This week’s message looks at chapter 4. This chapter generally focuses on some of the frustrations and attitudes around work. Verses...
Ecclesiastes, Week 2: Time
October 24, 2021
In Ecclesiastes 3, we see “the Teacher” reflect about time. He contemplates two categories, time and eternity, examining their impact...
Ecclesiastes, Week 1: Vapor
October 17, 2021
This week is our first study in the book of Ecclesiastes. It’s wisdom literature, but it’s unlike any other wisdom literature in the...
A People in a Place, Week 11 “The Aroma”
October 10, 2021
This message concludes our series A People in a Place with a look at two meaningful features from 2 Corinthians 2, verse 14: the triumph...
A People in a Place, Week 10 “Resurrection + Hope”
October 3, 2021
This week’s message begins with 1 Corinthians 15:1-4. In these verses, the Apostle Paul is expressing the core tenets of the Gospel, and...
A People in a Place, Week 9 “Paradox, Power, and the Cruciform Life”
September 26, 2021
This week, we continue our study in the book of Corinthians. We looks at several passages that have a counterintuitive message. Paul points...
A People in a Place, Week 8 “Mute Idols and a Talking God”
September 19, 2021
In 1 Corinthians 12, Paul is speaking to a group of people who worshipped idols before becoming Christians. In contrast to their old, mute...
Fall Launch “Rhythms of Shalom”
September 12, 2021
We see rhythms of shalom set forth in a letter from Jeremiah to the Israelites living in exile in Babylon. To the average Israelite,...
A People in a Place, Week 7 “More Good Than Harm”
September 5, 2021
In the passage for this message, Paul constructs an argument from the Corinthians lived experience that shows how what we call communion...
A People in a Place, Week 6: Love and Liberty
August 30, 2021
In 1 Corinthians 8 and Romans 15 Paul addresses a problem that can easily seem obscure to us today: whether or not people should eat meat...
“Chosen” A Partnership with World Vision
August 22, 2021
Dani Cole, Senior Church Advisor for World Vision in the Pacific Northwest, shared with us how a family crisis brought a dramatic change in...
A People in a Place, Week 5: “We Before Me”, the Alternative to Conflict + Courtrooms
August 15, 2021
The people of Corinth loved litigation loved taking one another to court over almost anything. So did the Corinthian Christians, a fact...
A People in a Place, Week 4: Immorality + Arrogance…in the Church
August 8, 2021
Something terrible was happening within the Corinthian church. There was some sort of sexual misconduct happening that even those outside...
A People in a Place, Week 3: United through the Cross
August 1, 2021
Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth, written mid-first century AD while he was in Ephesus, addresses growing cultural disunity...
A People in a Place, Week 2: Perfect Unity > Imperfect Preference
July 25, 2021
During this week’s message, Pastor Lane asks: “Who do you listen to? Who is the most influential in your life?” Those questions...
A People in a Place, Week 1: Love + Gratitude
July 16, 2021
This message begins a series on Paul’s letters to the Corinthians. Corinth was much like many contemporary cities: a mix of...
Hearing God in the Wilderness, Week 5: How Do I Hear God?
July 10, 2021
This week wraps up our series on Hearing God in the Wilderness by posing a key question, “How do I hear God’s voice?” At the core...
Hearing God in the Wilderness, Week 4: Listening to God on the Run
July 3, 2021
When Hagar, an enslaved Egyptian serving Saria (Sarah), is given as a surrogate to Abram (Abraham) by the childless Saria, she becomes...
Hearing God in the Wilderness, Week 3: Trust and Obey
June 26, 2021
God often speaks to us in the wilderness in unexpected ways. The story of Naaman in 2 Kings chapter 5 is a great example of this. Naaman is...
Hearing God in the Wilderness, Week 2: Slavery in the Wilderness
June 19, 2021
Pastor Brad points out three features of Exodus 19: a moment, a reminder, and a vision. First, Moses pursued a moment with God. As the...
Hearing God in the Wilderness, Week 1
June 13, 2021
We all go through wilderness seasons. They often aren’t pleasant, but Pastor Bo Stern Brady shows us that they can be a place of great...
Leviticus, Week 19 “Barriers + Tents”
June 6, 2021
To understand Leviticus, we must understand the world in which it first appeared. The book is part of a larger story, one about a God...
Leviticus, Week 18 “Disobedience and Mercy”
May 29, 2021
Last week’s message focused on the promises of prosperity and success that God made to Israel if they would follow his commands and...
Leviticus, Week 17 “Every Little Thing is Gonna Be Alright”
May 22, 2021
This week we look at God’s promises in Leviticus 26, where he tells his people of all the good things they can expect if they follow his...
Leviticus, Week 16 “This is Just the Womb”
May 16, 2021
In Leviticus chapter 25, God gives the Israelites two very special commands. First, he tells them that just like the seventh day of each...
Leviticus, Week 15 “Shine Like Stars
May 8, 2021
This week we have the opportunity to be captivated by the glory of a God who is searching for us like a lamp in the darkness. We encounter...
Leviticus, Week 14 “This Thing is Going Somewhere”
May 1, 2021
This week’s message demonstrates how the festivals outlined in Leviticus chapter 23 reveal God’s plan for humanity. The festivals that...
Leviticus, Week 13 “Take a Seat”
April 23, 2021
Chapter 23 of Leviticus speaks about the rhythms of life, with festivals and sabbath rest. This is echoed throughout the Scriptures, and...
Leviticus, Week 12 “When Heaven + Earth Are Perfect”
April 16, 2021
Leviticus 21 contains some seemingly odd prohibitions for the Israelite priests. Why was God so concerned about the everyday lives and...
Leviticus, Week 11 “When God Cut A Deal”
April 11, 2021
As we’ve seen, this series is about a God who is unlike any other gods and a people who are unlike any other people. In the past weeks,...
Leviticus, Week 10 “From Religion to Relationship”
April 4, 2021
Leviticus 16 might seem like an odd passage to use for an Easter message. However, this chapter is a wonderful example of how God used...
Leviticus Week 9: “Life and Death”
March 28, 2021
This week’s message teaches us about the practices surrounding bodily functions and what seems like some of the oddest passages in...
Leviticus Week 8: “Feasting on Freedom”
March 21, 2021
Leviticus 11 contains something that can seem extremely odd and arbitrary to the modern reader. This chapter contains a list of dietary...
Leviticus, Week 7 “Strange Fire”
March 14, 2021
Continuing through Leviticus, Pastor Alex Lessler teaches us about the consuming power of God. Sometimes we can view God as full of wrath...
Leviticus, Week 6 “And God Showed Up”
March 7, 2021
In Leviticus 9, we read about something unique. God tells the Israelites to make a specific sacrifice in a specific way so that God will...
Leviticus, Week 5 “Ordinarily Extraordinary”
March 2, 2021
This week in Leviticus, Moses anoints Aaron and his sons as priests in a public ceremony before the entire congregation of Israel. It’s a...
Leviticus, Week 4 “Guilt, Sin, and Shame”
February 21, 2021
Leviticus shows us how this wholly different God, who names Himself Yahweh, moves toward his people, the Israelites. They have just been...
Leviticus Week 3: “A Different Kind of People”
February 13, 2021
This week Pastor Alex Lessler demonstrates to us valuable lessons we can learn from the freewill offering described in Leviticus chapter 3....
Leviticus Week 2: “Show me the Minhah”
February 7, 2021
In the second week of the Leviticus series, Pastor Brad takes us a little deeper into the details of approaching God and much care the Lord...
Leviticus Week 1: “God in Search of Us”
January 30, 2021
Pastor Brad opened up this series on Leviticus by setting the scene. He answered questions that people often ask of this ancient text. It...
The Sh’ma, Week 4 – Loving with Muchness
January 23, 2021
In the final week of the Sh’ma series, Pastor Brad focuses on what it looks like to love God with our might (also translated strength)....
The Sh’ma, Week 3- “You are a Nephesh”
January 17, 2021
The Sh’ma commands us to love God with all our heart, soul, and might. This week, Pastor Brad focuses on the word “soul.” We often...
The Sh’ma, Week 2- With All Your Heart
January 10, 2021
Pastor Lane preached this week on the question, “What does it mean to love God with all your heart?” He talked about love, desire, and...
The Sh’ma, Week 1 – Listen and Love
January 3, 2021
In 2020, our lives were systematically and thoroughly disrupted. We lost the public and private rhythms that normally mark our days, weeks,...
The Time Between
December 27, 2020
The Advent of Jesus the promised Messiah brought great and disruptive changes to the lives of Joseph and Mary. They experienced God move in...
Christmas Eve Service
December 24, 2020
His Loving Presence
December 20, 2020
As Pastor Brad continues our Advent series, we focus on the fourth theme of Advent: love. Our culture affirms the value of love. We all...
The Joy of His Presence
December 13, 2020
This message is a beautifully honest sermon regarding the complicated nature of Joy. It teaches us that Joy is often found where we least...
Cultivating Hope
December 6, 2020
In the second message of our Advent series, Pastor Randy Remington focuses on the importance of hope. The coming of Christ in the past...
The Peace of His Presence
November 29, 2020
Pastor Brad kicked off our Advent series this week with a familiar story. He walked us through the birth of Jesus, but did so in a unique...
All Things New – A Future and a Hope
November 22, 2020
Pastor Alex concludes the All Things New sermon series with his message on Jeremiah 29:11. The focus of this sermon is the hope of God’s...
All Things New – Beyond
November 15, 2020
In this new sermon series, All Things New, Pastor Brad will be using the life of Abraham to flesh out our four core values (affectionately...
All Things New – Be
November 8, 2020
In this new sermon series, All Things New, Pastor Brad will be using the life of Abraham to flesh out our four core values (affectionately...
All Things New – Belong
November 1, 2020
In this new sermon series, All Things New, Pastor Brad will be using the life of Abraham to flesh out our four core values (affectionately...
All Things New – Behold
October 25, 2020
In this new sermon series, All Things New, Pastor Brad will be using the life of Abraham to flesh out our four core values (affectionately...
Acts Week 27 – “Holy Spirit Leading the Church”
October 18, 2020
In Acts chapter 28, Paul unexpectedly finds himself on the island of Malta. Though he may not have planned to be there, God is clearly at...
Acts Week 26 – “Chains Around Your Neck”
October 11, 2020
In Acts 26, Paul is called to present his case, his testimony, before two officials: the newly-appointed Roman governor Festus and the...
Acts Week 25 – “Plot Twist”
October 4, 2020
In Acts chapters 22-24, Paul has a hard time. He’s almost flogged, but his Roman citizenship keeps him from that. Then he’s put on...
Acts Week 24 – “Mistaken Identity”
September 27, 2020
In Acts chapter 22, Paul is accosted by a mob. Despite the chaos around him, Paul remains level-headed and even uses the situation to...
Acts Week 23 – “Confidence in Uncertain Times”
September 20, 2020
In Acts chapter 20, Paul says goodbye to his friends from the city of Ephesus. Though his words were meant for them, what he says gives us...
Acts Week 22 – “The Religion of the Empire”
September 13, 2020
In Acts chapter 19, there are two things happening that are also happening in our own day: a fire and a riot. The beginning of the chapter...
Acts Week 21 – “The Intellect of the Empire”
September 6, 2020
While Paul is in the city of Athens, he spends time in the marketplace, the center of ancient life. He starts debating with some...
Acts Week 20 – “Three Kings”
August 30, 2020
In Acts chapter 17, Paul and the believers in the city of Thessalonica encounter an angry mob. Driven by jealousy, the Jews in that town...
Acts Week 19 – “Why I am a Christian”
August 23, 2020
Almost 100 years ago, the famous British philosopher, Bertrand Russell, wrote an essay entitled Why I Am Not a Christian. He presented the...
Acts Week 18 – “Testing God”
August 16, 2020
In Acts 15, the church faces a major dispute. Some of the Jewish Christians have been telling the Gentile Christians that in order to...
Acts Week 17 – “More than Meets the Eye”
August 9, 2020
In our modern, rational world, we are often convinced that what we see is what we get. It’s hard for our minds to make sense of the...
Acts Week 16 – “To What Do We Belong?”
August 2, 2020
In Acts chapter 11, we are first introduced to the church in the city of Antioch. Antioch was a large metropolitan area in the ancient...
Acts Week 15 – “How Could You!?”
July 26, 2020
After Peter’s encounter with Cornelius and the coming of the Holy Spirit upon the Gentiles, the Jewish believers have some serious...
Acts Week 14 – “When the Walls Come Down”
July 19, 2020
In this passage, Peter goes to Cornelius’ home. Cornelius understands the significance of the religious and cultural barriers that Peter...
Acts Week 13 – “Guest or Host?”
July 12, 2020
In this part of Acts chapter 10, God does two unexpected things. First he speaks to Cornelius, a man who fears God but is not a Jew. Until...
Acts Week 12 – “Enemy Love”
July 5, 2020
In this second section of Acts chapter 9, God appears to a man named Anainas and sends him to Saul. Ananias is hesitant. He’s heard about...
Acts Week 11 – “The Anatomy of Conversion”
June 28, 2020
In Acts 9, we read about Saul’s conversion. While we might not all experience the same dramatic type of encounter with Jesus that causes...
Acts Week 10 – “On the Outskirts”
June 21, 2020
The story of Phillip and the Ethiopian Eunuch in Acts chapter 8 is a great demonstration that the Gospel of Jesus is for everyone. In this...
Acts Week 9 – “Resist, Adopt, or Syncretize?”
June 14, 2020
In the first part of Acts chapter 8, three responses to the Gospel are clearly laid out. Saul illustrates the first response. He is...
Acts Week 8 – Radical Reconciliation and a “Contrast Community”
June 7, 2020
The early church wasn’t perfect. They had their problems, and those problems are a lot like the ones facing us today. There was...
Acts Week 7 – Radical Transparency
May 31, 2020
Acts chapter 5 tells a strange tale. As people in the early church are willingly selling their possessions in order to provide for other...
Acts Week 6 – Three Parts Played
May 24, 2020
In this week’s passage we find the story of Peter healing a lame man. This miraculous event caused quite a stir. Pastor Brad explains...
Acts Week 5: This Is What that Means
May 17, 2020
Last week, Pastor Brad talked about how the Holy Spirit descended on the disciples on the Day of Pentecost. They were filled with the Holy...
Acts Week 4: What Does This Mean?
May 10, 2020
In Acts chapter 2, God’s promise to the disciples is fulfilled. The Holy Spirit is poured out on them. A great wind blows through the...
Acts Week 3: First Things First
May 3, 2020
The second half of Acts chapter 1 gives us a glimpse into what these disciples did while they were waiting for Jesus’ promise of the Holy...
Acts Week 2: Waiting, Wishing, and Witness
April 26, 2020
This week, we begin our study of the book of Acts in chapter one. Within the first 11 verses, Pastor Brad notes four things that are...
Acts Week 1: Dazed and Confused
April 19, 2020
In the coming weeks, we’ll be diving into the book of Acts. However, the book of Acts is a sequel to the book of Luke. In order to set us...
Easter Sunday – Revive
April 12, 2020
The book of John comes to a climax in chapter 20. The book began with a reference to Genesis (“In the beginning”) and has detailed 7 of...
Waypoints, Week Seven: The Resurrection of Faith
April 5, 2020
John chapter 11 contains another of Jesus’ miracles. Jesus is told that his friend Lazarus is sick. We’re told that Jesus loves Lazarus...
Waypoints, Week Six: Seeing Isn’t Always Believing”
March 29, 2020
John chapter 9 relates the story of the healing of a man born blind. Jesus heals this man in a unique way. He doesn’t just touch the...
Waypoints, Week Five: Walking Through the Storm
March 22, 2020
Last week, Pastor Brad talked about John chapter 6 and the feeding of the five thousand and how many stopped following Jesus after he gave...
Waypoints, Week Four: A Lifetime of…Bread
March 15, 2020
In this week’s sermon, we examine one of the most well known of Jesus’ miracles: the feeding of the 5,000. Jesus has this huge crowd...
Waypoints, Week Three: Jesus Picks a Fight
March 8, 2020
In the book of John we see seven miracles highlighted. John does this to have us see clearly who Jesus is, believe in him, and by believing...
Waypoints, Week Two: Will You Take Him at His Word?
March 1, 2020
When we see Jesus for who He really is, and come to believe in Him, we enter a quality of life that is unique, tangibly better, insanely...
Waypoints, Week One: A New Union
February 23, 2020
The book of John has one stated purpose: to demonstrate through the life of Jesus that he is the Messiah and the readers can have faith in...
Soul Care, Part 7: Soul Growth
February 16, 2020
As is the case with every other healthy organism, a healthy soul should be a growing soul. How do we help our souls to grow? The answer can...
Soul Care, Part 6: Renewing the Soul Week 2
February 9, 2020
Romans 12:1-2 is a familiar passage for many, but it’s an important one as we seek to care for our souls. This passage shows the...
Soul Care, Part 5: Renewing the Soul, Week 1
February 2, 2020
King Saul in the Bible is a great example of what can happen to a person who doesn’t care for their soul. Saul’s story starts out well....
Soul Care, Part 4: What a Soul Wants
January 26, 2020
Life can be as dangerous as an icy road. If we’re not careful, we can end up in a ditch, a place we don’t want to be. In order to avoid...
Soul Care, Part 3: The Soul’s Thirst for God
January 19, 2020
Our culture is obsessed with wellness. Despite that, we seem to be less happy than ever before. While wellness is a good thing, what we are...
Soul Care, Part 2: The Anatomy of the Soul
January 12, 2020
At the beginning of a new year, people often make goals and set resolutions for how they What is the soul? Our soul is like the operating...
Soul Care, Part 1: “What Good Will It Be…?”
January 5, 2020
At the beginning of a new year, people often make goals and set resolutions for how they would like to improve their lives. Most of these...
Love – The Fourth Sunday of Advent
December 22, 2019
Love is the final theme we’re exploring in this Advent series. Being loved and giving love are universal desires that all people have....
Joy – The Third Sunday of Advent
December 15, 2019
The theme of this third installment of our Advent series is joy. People have a deep desire to find joy or happiness. We all desire to be...
Peace – The Second Sunday of Advent
December 8, 2019
Peace is something that we all want, but it’s something that is so very hard to find. However, the Bible tells us that Jesus has come to...
Hope – The First Sunday of Advent
December 1, 2019
The Hebrew word for hope carries with it this idea that no matter how bad the present may be, there is way through it, because of a future...
Gratitude and the Generosity of God’s Protection
November 24, 2019
God generously gives us His protection, which is something we should be grateful for. However, there is a tension in God’s protection....
Gratitude and the Generosity of God’s Provision
November 17, 2019
Gratitude can be difficult in our modern world because we often live out of a scarcity mindset. We often think that there isn’t enough to...
Gratitude and the Generosity of God’s Presence
November 10, 2019
This time of the year, we are often reminded of the importance of gratitude. Gratitude is beneficial physically, mentally, and spiritually....