Emmaus Road Church | Fort Collins, Colorado

This series is a journey through the biblical story of discovering how God’s people are invited to participate in His holiness. God’s holiness doesn’t distance us from God, but invites us to experience and share in the beauty, goodness, and life-giving force of God. Holiness IS NOT just an ethic. It is the radiant beauty of God and an invitation for us to participate in God’s character. Scripture...

Today is Pentecost Sunday. This is the day we celebrate and recognize the coming of the Holy Spirit. In the Old Testament story of Israel, the presence of God was located in the temple. With the coming of Christ, the presence of God was now found in Him. Wherever he went, he brought the presence of God. With Pentecost, the Spirit of God indwells believers! May we experience his presence in us and...

Today is Ascension Sunday. The ascension of Christ to the right hand of God is a way of recognizing that Christ has been raised up or promoted to his place of authority over heaven and earth where he now fills the cosmos with his presence. The ascension is not a way of explaining his apparent absence in the world; it is about the cosmic presence of Christ filling the earth as he now rules over all...

In this fifth week of Easter, Pastor Andy Lucas preaches from Acts 16:11-34.  In this story a Gentile woman is recognized as a key player in the kingdom of God, a slave girl is set from demon possession, and a jailer heals the wounds of an inmate. The message is clear….in the uprising of Jesus injustice will be confronted and true peace (compared to Pax Romana) will come to bear on people’s lives...

Pastor Andy Lucas performs a dramatized amplification of the narrative found in Acts 2: 41-47. In doing so, he brings to light the early church's foundational structure of teaching, communion, fellowship, and prayer, and how this remains our foundation for corporate worship today.

Preaching from John 21:1-19, Pastor Andy Lucas show us how in the same way that a long night of fishing disappears with a big catch, Peter’s past failures had vanished with the forgiveness of Christ and the invitation to participate in his work. In the uprising of Jesus, we aren’t defined by our past, we are offered the simple invitation to “Follow him.” Our encouragement to each of us is to not s...

Pastor Andy Lucas Preaching from John 20:19-31 The uprising of Jesus is an uprising of fellowship! Sometimes we misunderstand fellowship as a sense of community among like-minded people. A sense of belonging among people who all paid their dues, believe the same thing, and have the same partisan persuasions. That isn’t fellowship. It might be camaraderie, but it isn’t fellowship. “Fellowship is a...

It was an uprising….not just in the sense that Jesus has risen, but now new things have the possibility of rising up! Usually an uprising refers to a violent revolt against oppressive leaders and regimes. This is certainly an uprising that confronts oppression, but in a different way! This is an uprising of hope instead of hate, love instead of violence, life and peace instead of hostility and dea...

We can’t be together for Good Friday this year. That’s a bummer. We thought long and hard about how to recreate our tenebrae service virtually. Eventually, we decided it couldn’t be done effectively through a screen. But it could be done at your home! So, for Good Friday this year, we’re publishing a podcast that will help you facilitate a tenebrae service in your home. There is a little bit for y...

Teaching from Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem from Luke 19:28-44, Pastor Andy Lucas demonstrates how the Palm Sunday parade is a parallel alternative to the parade of Pilate. In the same way, the Church is to be a parallel alternative city to Rome. The Church must be ready to challenge the prevailing assumptions about the life of empire because of their allegiance to Jesus as King. The Churc...

Teaching from Matthew 7:24-27 Pastor Andy Lucas reminds, the beatitudes are not instructions on how to live. Rather, they are an announcement of the kind of people that will be blessed by the arrival of the kingdom of God! Since the Church is to be kingdom people, then it also means that the Church should be good news to the poor in spirit, the merciful, the peacemakers. It means that the Church s...

Teaching on the Church as the Body in 1 Corinthians 12:12-26, the Apostle Paul reminds us that we are all in this (church, life, crisis, celebrations, whatever) together. Diversity in the body is to be celebrated, it is essential for a healthy functioning body, not something to be overcome to achieve unity. Since diversity is essential to the healthy functioning of the body, differences should not...

Preaching form John 8:1-11, Pastor Andy Lucas, challenges us with the power of Jesus' Word to break both personal sin and corporate sin. May we avoid the crowd mentality to blaming the accused in our society, and may we rather walk in the love and power of forgiveness that is offered in Christ.

May we renew way we think about the life and Gospel of Jesus. May we see its truth and potential with fresh eyes, unburdened by dust and grime of familiarity and false assumptions. May we receive anew its renewal and restoration in our lives and in our community. May we boldly become ambassadors of its authority, sharing it freely with all to whom the Spirit leads us. May we share it with authorit...

In the final week in our series on prayer, Rev. Dana Preusch guides us through three ways we may model our prayer: Help, Thanks, and WOW!

Continuing in our series of prayer, Pastor Andy Lucas encourages us that, when we pray, we bring greater expression of God's Kingdom into our situations, whether they reach our desired outcome or not. In this way, no prayer is wasted.

Beginning a series on prayer, Pastor Andy Lucas helps us consider the purpose of prayer. When then disciples asked Jesus how to pray in Luke 11, he gave them a prayer. He didn't give them a theory about prayer or an empty euphemism like, "Just talk to God." He gave them a prayer that he intended for them to pray. This prayer would help form them as disciples. "The primary purpose of prayer is not...

Concluding our series on Job, Pastor Andy reminds us that life will no doubt bring you pain. Maybe to varying degrees, but all of us will suffer, we will experience disappointment, heartache, heartbreak, and everything in between. When life brings you pain, pour out your lamentation unto God, He can handle it. But then also, learn to see the sheer gift of existence, for God is making all things ne...

Continuing our series from the book of JOB, God speaks and Pastor Andy Lucas helps us understand his message. God points out the complexity of the world in which justice is not as simple as bad things for bad people and good things for good people. God alerts Job to that which he may have lost sight of in the midst of his suffering — the gift of life!

Continuing in our series from the book of Job, Pastor Andy Lucas challenges us to partner with the work of the Holy Spirit rather than the unholy spirit. When we behold tragedy and seek someone to blame, we are doing the work of the accuser, but when behold tragedy and seek to help and to heal, we are doing the work of God.

In a new series studying the book of Job, Pastor Andy Lucas helps us consider whether our lives of faith is a "Quid Pro Quo" system — "This For That." We investigate what Job teaches us about the nature of suffering, tragedy, and the work of the Holy Spirit when bad things happen 

Teaching from Acts Chapter 10, Pastor Andy Lucas dramatically tells the tale of two conversions in dramatic, narrative form. We hear of the redemption God enacted in both Peter and Cornelius and how the Gospel of Christ is good news for both outsiders and insiders.

Pastor Andy Lucas teaches that Epiphany is a cautionary tale. Christ and His light can be within our midst, but we often tend to snuff Him out as He challenges the status quo. But for any who think of themselves as on the outside, Epiphany shines the light of good news. That any who is seeking is welcome to come and find Christ.

Pastor Grace Easton reminds how the birth of Jesus is a story of God redeeming our darkness into light. It is a story of hope for us all.

Teaching from Matthew's account of Mary and Joseph's angelic visitations and the moments leading up to our Savior's birth, we learn from the actions of Joseph. In spite of the conflict he is facing he chooses to trust God and follow the adventure.