Downtown Hope

Have you ever wondered if God is still at work in the ordinary moments of your life? In Acts 8, a deserted road becomes the setting for an unexpected encounter that changes everything. What looks like a chance meeting serves as a powerful reminder that the risen Jesus is still pursuing people. Join us as we discover what happens when we stop asking, "How can I bring Jesus into my world?"...

Psalm 43 is raw. The writer is overwhelmed, asking God where he went. But somewhere in the middle of the struggle, he talks himself back. Not by pretending everything is fine, but by reorienting, choosing to remember who God is. In this episode, Josh Young is going to walk us through what that journey looks like and how joy isn't something you feel your way into; it's something you find yo...

Sometimes the most spiritual thing you can do is slow down and actually see the person in front of you. In this episode, we're looking at Acts 3 and asking a simple but uncomfortable question: who have you learned not to see?

The story that unfolds through Luke’s second letter to Theophilus is not primarily about   something so concrete as the church and its tangible acts - rather it’s about an Actor, an unseen protagonist, whose force is felt like a blowing wind. Acts is about the way of this Wind - how the Holy Spirit of God, filled and led Jesus’ first followers in sparking a global movement that blew against the co...

Most of us believe the Holy Spirit did something remarkable two thousand years ago. We're just not sure he's doing anything like that now. At least not in our lives. At least not lately. In this episode. we're opening the book of Acts, and we're going to find out whether the current is still moving and what it looks like to get in it.

100 years after God’s people had returned from exile, their hope of an abundant restored kingdom had not been realized, and their devotion to God became deficient.  We all find ourselves deficient in our devotion to God at times.  The question is why? Join us as Joey closes out our series  Fault Lines  through  Malachi 1:6-14 , to discover what causes our devotion to wane and how we can be restore...

In the midst of exile and spiritual drift, God speaks through the prophets with a simple but challenging command: “Consider your ways.” This week we’ll explore how pride hardens our hearts, how repentance leads to renewal, and how God’s Spirit empowers His people to rebuild what has been broken. Through the messages of Obadiah, Zechariah, and Haggai, we’re reminded that God is still making all thi...

If you've been praying and waiting and nothing has moved, this episode is for you. Habakkuk 2 has a word for people in that place. A word about posture. About where to position yourself when the silence has gone on longer than you expected. Invite a friend.

A day is coming that will reveal what we've actually been trusting. Not what we say we trust. What we actually run to. Zephaniah saw it coming 2,600 years ago. And underneath the warning he buried something we almost missed.

Many of us live like love has to be earned, and once we fail enough, it runs out. But in Hosea 11, we meet a God whose love is not based on our worthiness, but on His unrelenting mercy. Join us in this episode as we discover the love that refuses to let go.

Have you ever known someone or been someone, who on the surface appears to have it all together, but underneath is slowly dying inside? That’s not a new phenomenon. In the days of the Old Testament prophets, God’s chosen people look like they had it all together, but underneath were fault lines. But these prophets are God’s mouthpiece! And God uses them to reveal what’s gone wrong in the hearts of...

We don’t move on from the Gospel, we live under it. Join us in this episode, as we follow Jesus to the cross and see Him raised to the crown, and discover what that means for how we live. That’s not just His story, it’s our pattern. The cross saves you. The crown leads you.

In this episode, we’re closing out our journey through the Gospel of Mark with a simple but honest question: What happens after the resurrection? Because the story doesn’t end with an empty tomb. It moves forward through imperfect, unlikely people… people a lot like us. If you’ve ever felt unqualified, not ready, or unsure what your next step is, this one’s for you.

He is Risen!

On Palm Sunday, the crowds shouted “Hosanna!” as Jesus enters Jerusalem—but within days, the crowd would be shouting “Crucify him!" In Mark 11, Jesus uses a fig tree and a disrupted temple to reveal a deeper truth: outward appearance isn’t enough. God desires real faith.

Two men encounter Jesus in Mark 10. One walks away. One throws everything aside and follows. The difference isn’t intelligence or sincerity, it’s what they’re holding onto. In this episode, we’ll look at Bartimaeus and the question his story leaves us with, what are you still gripping that Jesus is asking you to release?

There is a devastating disfiguration of the world- whether bombarded buildings, diseased bodies, impoverished communities, broken relationships or toxic churches- the shape or figure of the world, our city, even our lives, is not what they ought to be.  In this episode, Joey walks us through Mark 9:2-8, where Jesus offers his disciples a dramaturgy of an ancient event that both reveals his identit...

In this episode, we’ll look at a turning point in Mark’s Gospel. Peter correctly identifies Jesus as the Messiah, but quickly discovers he doesn’t fully understand what that means. Jesus reveals that you cannot see Him clearly until the cross comes into focus. Join us as we explore what it really means to see Jesus clearly—and what it means to follow Him.

Join us for this episode , where Jesus opens a man’s deaf ears and frees his tongue. It’s a powerful picture of what happens when the King restores what’s been shut down. The question is simple, what might He want to open in us?

When Jesus taught us to pray, “Your kingdom come… on earth as it is in heaven,” He was giving us a vision. A vision of heaven breaking into real life, real homes, real neighborhoods. In this episode, we’ll explore what it means for heaven to overlap with Annapolis, and how that overlap happens through formed disciples. Join us this Sunday as we ask: What would it look like for Annapolis to look a...

In the story of Jesus feeding the 5,000 (Mark 6), we see the compassion of the Good Shepherd. Jesus not only sees the needs of the crowd—He invites His disciples to help meet them: “You feed them.” In this episode, we’ll explore what it means to look to Jesus, trust His provision, and participate in what God is doing around us. Join us as we learn how Christ meets our needs and calls us to be His...

We all have the tendency to adopt ideologies we believe will give us an ultimate sense of security in the chaos of the world (entrusting ourselves to a lower god or spirit).  Join us as Joey walks us through Mark 5.1-20, where Jesus encounters a man with a lower spirit, and we discover the severity of the mercy Jesus offers as the Son of the God who is the Most High.

Jesus invites His listeners to hear a story before offering an explanation. The seed is the same. The response is not. And a simple but unsettling question sits beneath it all: why doesn’t it work for everyone? Join us as we discover the answer to this question.

We all want to belong. But what if belonging isn’t about who you sit next to—it’s about who you walk with? In this episode we’ll be in Mark 3:31–35, where Jesus redefines family and invites us into a community shaped by obedience, grace, and shared life. Come explore what it means to not just show up, but to be formed together as God’s family.

Have you ever read a story in the Bible and thought, “Man, I wish I could have been there to see that”? Using a technique called Biblical Imagination, we are going to try and do this as we examine the well-known story of Jesus healing a paralytic brought to Him by some very caring and even more determined friends. We will also learn some valuable lessons from the five major characters in this dram...