Unfiltered Faith Talks

In this series, we will explore the theme of serving God and serving our neighbors. Our journey begins with the Great Commission, where Jesus calls His disciples to go and make disciples of all nations. We will examine the significance of this call to service and how it applies to us today.

Paul travels to Athens where he speaks passionately about why he believes in Jesus and how that has given him hope. In a world where, we, as the modern church, must once again learn to share our faith with the world, how can our actions, a living embodiment of our faith, be starting place for those conversations? How can what we do be the way we begin to talk about what we believe and how that imp...

Today we hear about Stephen forgiving those who are taking his life as they are doing so. How can we, as the modern church, learn from Stephen’s model of forgiveness? What does it look like to engage in a prayer of lament? How does the process of reconciliation work?

We often think of the early church as a perfect group made up of perfect people that we must replicate, and then get frustrated when we can’t. We live in a different context than the early church, but that doesn’t mean we can’t learn from it. In fact, three practices of the early church can help us, in the current church, to continue to live in community despite living in a post-Christian world. W...

Often life likes to push us around. We get turned around and are unsure of what direction we should go. Sometimes we feel unrooted and as if there is nothing holding us where we need to be; it can be hard to keep putting one foot in front of the other. Today, we hear Peter's response to those who are unsure of what way they should go, when life tries to push them around in the aftermath of Jes...

The Book of Acts describes how the church continued its mission after Jesus' death and resurrection. It describes how the disciples went out and lived into the promises that Jesus made not only to them, but to all people, and how they shared the good news of those promises with others. This week we focus on trusting that the promises made by Christ were and are true, and how we live into trust...