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Jonah: Out Resistance & The God Who Pursues Us // Jonah 1:1-17 - Naseem Khalili 02.11.2026 39:12 ↓

The story of Jonah begins by him being called to preach to Nineveh, one of the world’s most insidious and evil empires. Invited to Nineveh, he flees to Tarshish and “from the presence of the Lord.” The Hebrew term translated “presence” here is the word for “face.” Jonah cannot look his God in the face and so flees the exact opposite direction to modern day Spain. What happens when we run from the...

A Sanctuary For The City: A Tale Of Two Offerings // Mark 12:41-44,14:3-9 - Chris Nye 26.10.2026 35:49 ↓

Last year, at our 25th anniversary as a church, we collectively committed to a higher participation in the mission of Imago Dei. Our commitment was through October of 2027. This October, join us as we celebrate all God is doing through A Sanctuary for the City and encourage one another to continue our commitment to His purposes.

Kingdom Responsibility: Entrusted With A Part // 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 - Amreitha Jeeva 19.10.2026 40:00 ↓

How often have we stopped to consider how our daily life contributes to the purposes of God? How does our work, parenting, singleness or marriage, further the purposes of God? How can a “sober judgement, in accordance with the faith God has distributed” help us see our life’s purpose? All we do either furthers or detracts from God’s purposes in the world. How can we develop a new imagination and a...

Kingdom Responsibility: Entrusted With A Church // Acts 16:13-15 - Chris Nye 12.10.2026 40:57 ↓

The conversion of Lydia in the book of Acts tells us of a woman whose heart was “opened” by the gospel message and it changed not only her life but the life of the early church. How does her story help us see God’s desire for his church? What is the difference between a community being “a church” to “our church?” God has entrusted all who call him Lord with responsibility to contribute to a local...

Kingdom Responsibility: Entrusted With A City // Acts 17:22-28 - Chris Nye 05.10.2026 37:49 ↓

Did God have anything to do with where we live? Paul tells the Athenians that the very God who made the world drew out lines of our dwelling places. “God did this,” he says, “so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us” (Acts 17:27). Many modern Americans look at a city like Portland and ask, “what will it give me?” But the Christ...

Kingdom Responsibility: Entrusted With A Church // Matthew 16:13-20 - Chris Nye 21.09.2026 39:49 ↓

We have a small part to play inside the vast kingdom of God. Still, in remarkable grace, God has given “the keys to the kingdom of heaven” to his church, the gathered believers who confess his name. What does it mean to be entrusted with this set of keys? From Peter to Paul, it seems like the early Christians did not use the “keys to the kingdom” to lock the community behind gates, but to unlock t...

The Priority Of Prayer: In The Evening // Psalm 63:5-11 - Naseem Khalili 14.09.2026 34:26 ↓

In the end of Psalm 63, David says, “On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night.” The “watches of the night” is not the place where God is absent as we sleep, but the place wherein we can find God. To seek God at the end of the day or through the night is to invite God into to transform our restlessness to peace. How does prayer work in the night?

Practicing Justice: Celebration // Mark 2:23-28 - Chris Nye 24.08.2026 43:03 ↓

Worship, sabbath, and praise as a way of justice and life. When we pause to rest, we are allowing God to act. Rest is a form of resistance to the machine of productivity and an invitation to us to hear God’s Spirit that would lead us into loving action for our neighbors. Rest admits that we are not the primary ones bringing justice.