Hope Begins With Jesus

Continuing the No Pain No Gain series in Mark 4, Trevie walks through the Parable of the Lamp, explaining how an apprentice has a role as Jesus is revealed as the light of the world that can't be hidden.

Opening the No Pain No Gain series in Mark 4, David walks through the Parable of the Sower, naming three enemies (Satan, the World, the Flesh) that try to keep the gospel from taking root, and pairing each one with a spiritual practice (Community, Scripture, Silence and Solitude) that helps it grow instead.

From Matthew 5:13-16, David shows that followers of Jesus are already salt and light by identity, not by effort. Staying in contact with Jesus as a Growing Follower naturally makes you an Engaged Follower who brings flavor to hard conversations instead of staying fearful and passive.

Opening the Can We Talk series, David walks through the first four Beatitudes (Matthew 5:1-6) as the heart postures, hearing someone's story, feeling their challenges, recognizing their reliance, discovering their pursuits, that make real curiosity about other people possible.

From Mark 12:28-33, the Great Commandment shows that proximity to Jesus as our first love is what makes real love for the people around us possible. Law without love produces religion; love flowing from nearness to Jesus produces flourishing.

In Matthew 22, Jesus tells the parable of the wedding feast. David walks through what the words in that story meant to Jesus original audience, then shows how understanding someone elses perspective is where real proximity, and a real invitation into relationship with Jesus, begins.

Using the story of the Good Samaritan, David looks at why getting close to people feels risky and how that risk reveals our hearts and calls us to give our time. Luke 10:25-37.

In this message from Leviticus 19:1-18, David opens the new Proximity series by looking at what it actually takes to move from religion to relationship. He walks through why holiness is what closes the distance between us and God, and why our love for other people is proof that the distance is closing. It is an honest look at why we can know a lot about Jesus and still keep Him at arm's length.

In Psalm 139:23-24, David closes his prayer by asking God to search his heart and point out anything that needs to change. This is the final message in the KNOWN series, and it asks what it looks like to actually respond once God shows you something. Being fully known by Jesus isn't something to fear, it's the path to freedom and everlasting life. Part of the KNOWN series on Psalm 139.

In Psalm 139:19-22, David turns from praise to a hard, honest prayer about the people who reject God. In a culture built on the idea that truth is just your own perspective, this message asks a harder question. Truth is not a perspective, truth is a person, and his name is Jesus. This is a message about choosing a side and letting that choice change you. Part of the KNOWN series on Psalm 139.

Does Jesus think about me? That's a question that haunts many of us — especially in moments when our own minds feel scattered, distracted, or broken. In Psalm 139:17-18, David declares a stunning truth: God's thoughts about you are precious, countless, and constant. This message explores why you matter to God, why His thoughts about you never stop, and what it means that He is always near. From AD...

What does it mean to be known before you were even born? In Psalm 139:13-16, David marvels at God's handiwork in the womb — the intricate, intimate way God forms every person. This message explores two truths: Jesus formed you (vv. 13-15), and Jesus has a plan for you (v. 16). Your identity doesn't come from how you see yourself. It comes from the One who knit you together and recorded every day o...

We all have limits. The tallest person, the lowest temperature, the smallest baby — even our biggest records have a ceiling. But David writes in Psalm 139 about a God who has none. In verses 7-12, he asks: is there anywhere I can go to escape God's Spirit? The answer is no, and that's not a warning — it's a comfort. God's presence isn't something to run from. It's where we find life, identity, and...

Psalm 139:5-6 reveals two gifts hidden in what it means to be completely known by God. The Gift of God's Hand surrounds us — behind us in the past, before us in the future, always present. The Gift of the Infinite invites trust rather than frustration when God's ways are beyond our understanding. David opens with a people-watching metaphor to show the difference between surface observation and the...

There is one who knows everything about you, even the things you hide, and still calls you to come and find rest. You are not just fully known. You are fully known and fully loved.

Lament is often seen as a bad thing, but it is the biblical response to suffering.

Masking our feelings when faced with 'the wreckage'—like grief or loss—that mask doesn't just feel heavy; it feels impossible.

Job’s fears did not keep bad things from happening, nor did they cause them, but Job’s response in those moments revealed how he worked through the tension and feeling wrecked by his circumstances.

Whether your life feels wrecked right now, it has before, or it does in the future. You may not know that there is a reason behind those moments. Suffering stings, but it serves a purpose.

The story of Joseph is the story of a man who waits and waits some more, but he doesn’t give up in the waiting, Joseph perseveres. Joseph’s story shows how to continue on with hope and move from the waiting place that feels like prison to peace, to Persevere.

Jesus’ priority is not your successes, especially not according to the world’s standard because it is your failures that do the most to form you. Jesus uses these moments as we are Shaped by Suffering.

The story of Joseph has similarities to Jesus and the places in the story that look like the end are a plot twist. Jesus' crucifixion looked like the end of Hope, but it became an Easter with Hope.

No matter how your past was created, by your choices or the choices of others, you don’t overcome the past by running from but by working through it, so that in Jesus’ hands he can bring healing and write a Redemption Story.

Ultimately, like each of us, Esau had a choice. To choose how he responded to what had happened. Your choice will determine if you are shaped by the past or defined by the past. When you Choose to Overcome the past, you are choosing forgiveness, freedom and hope.