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Can you imagine what it would have been like to hear you were giving birth to the savior of the world? Mary's story is an incredible picture of God giving incredible purpose to unimportant people, and the courage to trust God's plans. Instead of denying God's call to give all of who she is, Mary responds by asking: "How is it to be so?". We are called to do the same. This sermon by Tyler Gorsline...

What is telling our story as humans? The Christ-Child or the consumeristic philosophy of this world? In Matthew 2, Jesus comes down to show us a new way to find the hope and peace we after. Herod pursued influence, power, control and wealth. Jesus paves a counter-cultural way for us.

Jesus' birth shook the foundation of how we understand our world. The rules were broken by the greatest story ever told. Tyler Gorsline looks at Matthew 2:1-20 and how Herod and the Magi responded to this good news. Asking the questions "who/what do you worship?", and how are we to flee idolatry and gifts that will never satisfy apart from Jesus.

Marriage. An incredible hope and source of pain. A union we experience with God (as his bride, the Church), with each other, sometimes lose, and many hope to have one day. A bond that we witness or don't while growing up and aren't sure about its power. In the midst of it all, a love song about Jesus in Philippians 2 invites us to understand the power of marriage. How like on our wedding day, Jesu...

Who are you? Who were you made to be? We spend most of our lives building the false self, which in turn, impacts negatively our relationship with God and others. God desires us to live into the “true you” and see your relationships flourish. In the kick-off to the “You + Me” series, listen in as we turn to Scripture and God’s teaching on finding the true you.

Tyler Gorsline bridges the space between our series on what Jesus did in the Book of Mark and our "You + Me" Relationships series this fall. If you look closely in the middle of God's work and our ministry is the core of who we are, our very own hearts, souls, minds, and strength. Lives that are often lost where we are, confused about why we are here, and in disarray about who we are. God's very p...

All of us have a desire to become significant and important. In the face of his key disciples fighting over position and status in the kingdom of God, Jesus reveals what true human greatness is and where it is found.

In this sermon, Ray Bakke dives deep into the scriptures in the genealogy and birth narrative of Jesus in Matthew 1-2. Ray "removes the stained-glass" and speaks to how these passages should inform our life and move us to love everyone in our city and the world around us.

Jesus is confronted by religious leaders of his day who were concerned about how His disciples did not wash their hands and follow their man-made traditions. Traditions can be a beautiful thing, especially if they lead to intimacy with God and others. Yet, Jesus showed the hypocrisy of the religious leaders devotion to rules over closeness with God and love for people. Watch Tyler Gorsline explore...

A man named Jairus approached Jesus and begged him to heal his 12 year old daughter. She was on her death bed, and Jesus entered right into the middle of this pain and brought resurrection. In this sermon, Tyler Gorsline explores how Jesus draws close in our trials, give us hope, heals us, and calls us to follow him as he does the same for others in our lives.

In this sermon from Mark 5, Tim Gaydos explores the story of The Demon Possessed man and how Jesus interacts with tormenting and mental illness.

When the women arrive to Jesus' tomb, two angelic figures ask them "Why are you looking for the living among the dead?" Jesus resurrection begs us to ask why we seek to find life in dead places, when Jesus died and rose again that we might have eternal life in him. Tyler Gorsline explored this question and what Jesus tells us about who he is as the "resurrection and the life" (John 11) and as "our...

What’s in a name? In this sermon from Mark 3, Tim Gaydos asks this question and explores what Jesus tells us about who we are, and where we find our worth and value.

Looking at Jesus' teaching on the Sabbath at the end of Mark 2, Tim Gaydos shows how Jesus, as Lord of the Sabbath, encourages us to live into the vision that God has had for humanity, to "rest" in the midst of a world that encourages more and more "work".

Can you feel it? The pain. That insurmountable brokenness in our world? The Shame, fear, guilt, lies, disunity, strife, and death that surrounds us? Do you hold onto a hope for healing in our world, and your heart, soul, mind, and strength? Unlike our world of products, vacations, and infomercials that promise to fix our lives with miracle remedies, Jesus bursts into Capernaum as our one true heal...

Jesus' first words in the Gospel of Mark proclaim that good news has arrived and the kingdom of God is near and now. He calls us to ask what we're turn towards and invites us to turn back to him instead. That we might be His followers while inviting others to follow Him with us.

In this sermon, Ray Bakke dives deep into the scriptures written in Iraq and Iran. Ray shares with us how these scriptures should inform our life and move us to love everyone in our city and the world around us.

In this sermon, Tim Gaydos introduces us to 'The Gospel of Mark'. The Gospel of Mark speaks to both the faithful and to skeptics. It speaks to the whole history of the world, and how by looking carefully at the person and story of Jesus, we find our place in it. Through Jesus' words and actions, we see how his life makes sense of ours.

We firmly believe that our call as a community is to give our first fruits to God in service to each other and our city. In this sermon, Tim Gaydos explores the different elements of what makes a community transformational and how we can best live into those elements.

Acts 2:42-47 paints a powerful portrait of the early Church as a community of believers that lived richly in fellowship with one another, resting in the power of Christ. In this sermon, Tyler Gorsline explores how we can better live into the example that the apostles give us.

We truly desire community & friendship, though we can be fearful to take steps towards it, particularly if it doesn't come easy or if we've been hurt. In it's place, we can pursue money, status, power or isolation - but what if we were given the gift of perspective? The opportunity to see what life looks like with and without community and friendship. In this sermon, Tim Gaydos explores Acts 2:42-...