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Inviting people to experience the reality of life in the Kingdom of God
Listening helps develop curiosity. It also puts us in this posture of wondering rather than assuming that we know. It's one of the most stre...
Life isn't a Halmark card.
T he Christian narrative provides a grand and sustaining vision through the difficulties that we face in life. It's not that we pretend to b...
In every single one of us, whether we realize it or not, there is a desire for something higher, wider, and deeper than anything this life o...
It's really hard to look at the world without wanting God to handle certain things in a certain way. We want God to make it easier for us to...
Another significant chapter in Israel's history occurred when the Babylonians conquered Israel in 586 BC. After that happened, thousands of...
While the anonymous woman in our story, perhaps part by personality, but certainly influenced by her life circumstances, had learned to live...
The danger in religion comes when our confidence, when our faith is transferred from the God with whom we are trying to connect and become c...
This is how othering happens. See them, hear them, think about them, label them, see it, hear it, and an inner dialogue starts to grow in th...
Our King Jesus is the almighty ruler of the universe. And our strength is not the physical power of this world. But our strength is in the i...
If new creation has any chance of reshaping and remaking us, then we have to do the hard work of listening. And here's the thing. If we are...
Children intuitively know that this world is amazing and amazing things happen in it all the time. Even kids in tough circumstances, any of...
Without identity restoration, rebuilding, we cannot have r econciliation with our brothers and sisters. And our reconciliation happens when...
This idea w hen Jesus envisioned his people, his family , he designed it so that each member would need each other. It's the picture that we...
Our current series is called practicing faith because faith works like a piano. We practice it. It slowly gets into us, and we are gradually...
Pr ayer begins with his daughters and sons interacting with Their very good F ather, being with their very good F ather. Imagine if all we d...
And so in our life of faith in Jesus, we have a similar choice to make as we did with the hypothetical violin. And if you're not into music,...
There's just something about love that feels too overwhelming, feels too vulnerable. It feels too simple, too easy. It feels even too good t...
What comes to mind when you hear the phrase t he God of the Bible? What's the demeanor of the God who lives in your head? How does he feel a...
Jesus incarnated the way of shalom. He taught us about it. He showed us what it does and how it drastically differs from the ways of this wo...
May this God of hope help us be lanterns of hope, in the world that we live, in the circumstances we are in, with the people we interact wit...
The step to take here is not to try to forget. The step here is not to try not to remember the event. To not remember what that person said...
So you're in the pool and you got a beach ball and it's full of air and you know, so obviously, in in our little example here, the air is ou...
“Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, harsh words, and slander, as well as all types of evil behavior.” Ephesians 4:31 Today’s verse is a...
Life in the kingdom of God is not a life of just not saying un wholesome things, but of saying things that spread God's grace out into the w...
Ultimately, work is not about how much money it brings into us. It is about how much of us we put into what we do. See, ultimately our work...
When you think of anger, where is it in you? How does it show itself? And maybe the most important question of all, what is the story behind...
One reason why the people of God are called to be mature is because our vocation, yours and mine in this world , is to be Jesus's representa...
Jesus is our model for attitude, and behavior, and perspective, and concepts. You see, only Jesus, is the whole package. Only Jesus is the w...
The Bible describes a hard-hearted person in Matthew 13:1 5 , This is Jesus speaking, “For this people’s heart has become calloused; they ha...
Did God really say you can't do this, or you can't do that? This kind of thought gets in our minds and then we nurture the thought. We culti...
The politics of the world matters; right, left, Democrat, Republican, conservative, progressive. But the church is a community of those whos...
Immaturity is one of the glaring problems facing the church in our country right now. Immaturity. Christian immaturity. Christians acting im...
You see, whether we realize it or not, we are all living a story. I know some of you in your mind, are in your head just saying, "No, I'm no...
Jesus comes though not to abolish the tedium of God's laws, but to actually live them out, to show us what a life lived by God's system unde...
I f I were to give you two words for the role of the prophets , they would b e, WAKE UP! Remember, they were a people who were to represen t...
Maybe the choices that you've made have screwed up your life. Maybe they've screwed up the lives of others. But regardless of which mistakes...
The story continues to unfold today as it has for thousands of years. God is creating a community that identifies as God's people and they a...
Our service on Sunday was a deep breath from the day-to-day crazy of our lives. Pastor Mike encouraged us to sit in this idea that God's inv...
In Exodus 14:13, Moses answered the people, "Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance that the Lord will bring you toda...
Was it Abraham and Sarah's choices that made a nation, a people, a world where a poor teenage Judean girl could answer an angel? Yes, I am t...
What is church about? Why does it matter? Does it matter? What are we attempting to communicate? What are we attempting to say to one anothe...
But when you think about it for a second, you think about what would have to be true about the world for us all to be walking around naked a...
We never outgrow the need for story. Yet we think we do, don't we? Especially when it comes to this book, we call the Bible. We have made it...
“This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them down. We know that his testimony is true. Jesus did many other things...
Inhale the victory of the cross and exhale the power of the resurrection. Maybe that gives us something in the thick of the suffering, down...
See, back in the beginning, when this whole thing started, Peter had gotten into this Jesus thing with the idea, with the dream of changing...
Friendships can be hard; that's just the simple point, they can be hard. We let each other down, we disappoint, we don't come through, we do...
Every person that professes to be a follower of Jesus Christ has a vocation and that vocation is bigger, more important, and more of a prior...
I believe Dallas Willard used to say, “a good practice was to doubt your doubts and believe your beliefs”; doubt your doubts, believe your b...