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As we come to the end of our series, Compelled, Billy Sprague teaches how as we are compelled by Jesus, we are then commissioned to bring the gospel to the world. We are commissioned because Jesus trusts us, and then He prompts us into evangelism with His love and restores us when we fail.

This week, Matt Son takes us through the story of Exodus to show Gods faithfulness and reminds us that we now have relationship with the same God that freed the Israelites by parting the Red Sea! How does grasping the faithfulness of God lead us to a Compelled life?

This week, Silvia Navarro Valdez continues our Compelled series by sharing about the JOY of Jesus. She illuminates the beautiful truth that Jesus was a person of joy and life in God is a life filled with Joy!

What does it mean for our lives that the God who created heaven and earth pursues us out of love for us? In this teaching, Yvie Tafoya and Raegan Griffith unpack the powerful reality of a God who pursues us!

How does it affect our lives to understand the true character of God? In this teaching, Raegan Griffith shares about Jesus as the comforter and we hear a powerful testimony from Calum Dietzel about what it looks like when Christ breaks into our pain with His comfort!

We see in scripture that as we are compelled by who Jesus is, we will respond by wholeheartedly giving our lives to partnership with Him. In this teaching, Keithen Schwahn shares the heart and power that Jesus carries to bring freedom to those captive to sin. This realization leads to a life of freely confessing sin and contending for freedom for those captive!

We see in scripture that as we are compelled by who Jesus is, we will respond by wholeheartedly giving our lives to partnership with Him. In this teaching, Keithen Schwahn explores the reality of Jesus being our advocate and invites Youth of the City to not settle for living in scarcity and instead daring to dream with God for what is possible in a life of partnership with Him.

As we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus this Easter Sunday, we wanted to share a previously recorded teaching from a few months ago. Raegan Griffith shares about how Jesus contended against death in His resurrection life through the lens of her own personal story of the death of her dad and the way God met her in the midst of grief with profound hope.

Raegan Griffith kicks off our new series, Compelled, by exploring what took Peter from a young man who denied Jesus 3 times to ultimately being willing to lay down his life for the sake of the Gospel. Peter was COMPELLED by the love of Jesus and his life challenges us to look to Jesus and ask for revelation of His love that will compel us to live for Him.

What lies are young men being told in the culture and how can they step into the life God has for them? Ben Griffith talks to the young men of Youth of the City to unpack the lies culture places on men and the ways that they can step into deeper freedom, purpose and light.

In this conversation, Keithen and Raegan explore the idea that God has intentionally made us people of desire and wants to use that desire for His glory and our flourishing. However, we live in a world where technology threatens to distort our desire. How do we consecrate our use of tech so that our desires can truly be directed towards God?

How are the beauty standards placed on women pulling us away from the truth spoken over our bodies in scripture? In this teaching, Raegan Griffith speaks to the girls about how God views our bodies and the ways that beauty standards rob us of living in our identity.

Do our physical bodies have any bearing on one’s identity ? In a confusing cultural moment, Raegan Griffith exposes three lies of the enemy and opens the scripture to find the truth of our god given and unshakable identity.

To have a proper theology of the body is one of the most important dimensions to the faith of a young person today. Our vision is to open a dialogue about our bodies as a good gift from god, and the exact place where the gospel is fully embodied on the earth.

Life, Death, Resurrection, and Union. This is the pattern of the Gospel. We first receive this reality as an unmerited gift from God, and second we give our lives to live this pattern out in our lives. The End of the Story after our death is not floating away to a disembodied "heaven" somewhere else, but rather participation in the "New Heavens and New Earth". Jesus as our King in Revelation said,...

Is the Gospel about me? My salvation? My freedom? My healing? Or did Jesus come for something so much greater? In this teaching, Keithen leads us in a discussion about the Union of heaven and earth through the lens of the Family of God. Calling out the lies of Modern American Individualism, we read in the book of Revelation that God is rescuing and healing a family, that in turn joins him in rescu...

Are we destined to live our entire lives following Jesus continually stuck in sin and never getting any better? Or is there a different and better story available? Phil Maberry leads us in a conversation about the New Self vs the Old Self from Ephesians chapter 4. Resurrection is much more than a one time event in the life of Jesus, but rather the pattern of new life we are invited to live in ever...

The next phase of the Gospel Series shifts this week to a two week conversation about Resurrection. What does the death and resurrection of Jesus mean for us, and what does this say about the nature of the world we live in? The reversal of death itself is an anchor of hope in the center of human history that points to the eternal power and authority of God. Raegan takes us in as we chat about the...

Sin is not just an individual reality, but a corporate reality. Sin not only breaks our relationship with God, Destroys us, but also unleashes chaos in human relationships around us. Raegan Griffith guides us through a diagnosis of the broken nature of human relationships and how the gospel is the answer to the warfare, hatred, division, and violence of our world.

In our second teaching on SIN in the gospel series, we need to look at the effect that sin has on a person. John 10:10 says that the thief (satan) comes to steal, kill, and destroy. Sin is the relational betrayal of the love of God that ultimately leads to our death and destruction. Is this the inevitable end of the story? Keithen walks us through the story of Jesus taking the destructive power of...

Why is the world so messed up? If God created us for love and from love, why is there so much evil and chaos in the world? Pastor Ashley Anderson kicks off the second movement of the Gospel Series with a conversation about Sin and Separation from God. To understand redemption, we must first accurately diagnose the disease that is destroying our world and our very lives. Jesus comes to heal us, sav...

Why were we created? Does the Gospel message address the ultimate purpose of life, or is this only about getting out of this life and into the next? What was the intention behind God creating human beings on the earth? What does any of this have to do with Jesus? Keithen unpacks the concept of partnership with God as outlined in Genesis and carrying on through the entire story of Scripture.

Before Genesis 3, is Genesis 1 and 2. The Gospel Story starts not in our sin, but rather in the love of God and the identity we have as his daughters and sons. Raegan Griffith teaches us that our Security in our Identity can only flow from a Security in Relationship with God. When that relational security is fractured with him, the root of all insecurity emerges. The gospel is the story of God hea...

In our world today, there is SO MUCH CONFUSION around the message of Jesus. Who was Jesus? What was his mission? What was the result of his life and teachings? Is Jesus good for the world? In the middle of all of the confusion, we want to bring clarity. The Gospel is the TRUE story of God moving in Human History to heal creation, save humanity, and restore all things. Keithen Schwahn Leads us in o...

Hakeem Bradley from Bible Project unpacks Ezekiel 36 and 37.