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I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. – Psalm 139:14 From your soon-to-be-second favorite Psalm, Alison shows how being fully known and deeply loved gives us radical freedom and saftey before God … even emotionally.

How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? – Psalm 13:1 Psalm 13 is a lament – but despite the fact that David’s circumstances don’t change over its 6 short verses, he is able to move from defiant doubt to defiant trust . Teaching elder Scott Hetherington shows us how.

God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. – Psalm 46:1 This Father’s Day, Ryan continues our Summer in the Psalms series with a message about finding refuge in God, and what it truly means to be still and know .

What is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? – Psalm 8 Ryan continues our Summer in the Psalms series with some big questions from Psalm 8: are we Everything , or Nothing , or … something in between?

As we begin our Summer in the Psalms series, Ryan Plantz explores Psalm 1 and the question we all wrestle with: What does the good life actually look like? Discover how Scripture points us beyond striving and achievement toward a life that is deeply rooted, flourishing, and sustained by God.

Ryan closes our series on the Seven Deadly Sins with a message on gluttony : the disordered use of food and drink to satisfy the hunger only God can fill. Potluck to follow.

Sloth is more than laziness—it’s the slow drift of a heart growing cold. Join Allison as she uncovers the hidden danger of apathy and challenges us to turn back toward the God who calls us to a life of love, purpose, and deep connection.

God is a righteous judge, a God who displays his wrath every day. – Psalm 7:11 Wrath is unique among the seven deadly sins because it is the only one that… isn’t a necessarily a sin. God gets angry too! This week, from the story of Job, Ryan illustrates the difference between righteous anger and sinful wrath.

Envy: the only one of the seven deadly sins that’s not even fun while you’re doing it . Why do we get bitter when others have it better – and how can we stop?

Greed rarely feels dangerous—but what if it’s quietly costing more than we realize? In this message from our Seven Deadly Sins series, Ryan Plantz explores how greed takes root in our hearts and how a life of generosity leads us back to true freedom, joy, and trust in God.

In this week’s message, Ryan Plantz explores the weighty topic of lust, revealing it not simply as a struggle of self-control but as a deeper failure to truly love others as God intends. Discover how Jesus invites us out of shame and broken patterns into healing, freedom, and a renewed vision of what it means to see—and love—people rightly.

Ryan kicks off a new series on the Seven Deadly Sins with a look at Pride - what quietly pulls us away from God and what it looks like to live differently. There’s more freedom on the other side than you might expect.

In this in-between Sunday, we step into the tension of disappointment and unanswered questions. As Jesus draws near—even when unrecognized—we’re invited to find Him in our pain and discover the hope He’s already unfolding.

He is risen! Join us as we celebrate the risen King, Jesus Christ, and explore Hebrews 10:19–22—discovering not only how He saves us from sin, but how He invites us to draw near with full access to the Father.

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand – Ephesians 6 This week, we end our jour...

In the penultimate message in our series on Ephesians, Ryan walks us through a difficult passage of Ephesians that has frequently been misinterpreted and misused. The passage speaks of the mutual submission that must exist between wives and husbands, but Paul isn’t just writing a marriage manual – he’s writing a manifesto for a new civilization.

Be filled by the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music in your hearts to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. – Ephesians 5 This sounds great… but there is often a huge gap between the way we know we should be living a...

The one who steals must steal no longer; instead he must labor, doing good with his own hands, so that he will have something to share with the one who has need. You must let no unwholesome word come out of your mouth, but only what is beneficial for the building up of the one in need, that it would give grace to those who hear – Ephesians 4 From Ephesians 4, Alison shares four ways in which our n...

There is one body and one Spirit, just as you too were called to the one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. – Ephesians 4 How is a raven the church like a writing-desk model house? Ryan answers this unusual question in today’s message about Paul’s call to unity and the church’s role as a preview of the king...

That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. – Ephesians 3:17 In this message from Ephesians 3, we’re reminded that God’s presence isn’t reserved for a place, but for a people—and that we experience His fullness together.

This was according to the eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and confident access to God by way of Christ’s faithfulness. For this reason I ask you not to lose heart because of what I am suffering for you, which is your glory. – Ephesians 3 Even as we suffer, even as we wonder why, and even as we doubt there being any good left, we can trust God...

For he is our peace, the one who made both groups into one and who destroyed the middle wall of partition, the hostility, when he nullified in his flesh the law of commandments in decrees. He did this to create in himself one new man out of two, thus making peace, and to reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by which the hostility has been killed.

You didn’t escape on your own — you were carried out. In Ephesians 2:1–10, we uncover the story of God’s rescue and what it means to stop performing and start living free.

From the I see you! cried during a kid’s game of kick-the-can to the metaphorical lenses offered to us by Paul in Ephesians, Scott shares about how we can change not just our knowledge of God but our very perception .

Before God tells us what to do, He tells us who we are. This week in our series The Triumph of God , Ryan walks us through the long and breathless sentence of Ephesians 1:3-14, and what it has to say about the old stories of our lives … and the new ones spoken by God.