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Where's Jesus Now? Scripture: Hebrews 1:3b Runtime: ~6 min All week we've been reading one long, sweeping sentence — today we reach its main verb. The focus shifts from who Jesus is to what He has done: He has dealt with our sin, and He now reigns at the right hand of God. Two truths, both of them reassurance for a weary people, and for us. In this episode: What "purification for sins" would have...

Seeing God Clearly in Jesus Scripture: Hebrews 1:3a Runtime: ~7 min If you want to know what God is like, look at Jesus. Today's episode unpacks two rich images — Jesus as the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of His being — and what they mean for anyone whose picture of God has been shaped or warped by hurt, fear, or bad experiences. In this episode: The relationship between th...

Jesus at the Beginning and the End Scripture: Hebrews 1:2 Runtime: ~6 min Yesterday we saw that God has always spoken. Today Hebrews makes an even bigger claim: in these last days, God has spoken through His Son. Not another prophet in a long line — the Son Himself. We watch Hebrews stretch our vision of Jesus in two directions at once, forward to the end of all things and backward before creation...

God Has Always Spoken Scripture: Hebrews 1:1 Runtime: ~9 min We're all looking for something better — and the Book of Hebrews was written to people who felt that ache too. This week kicks off a brand new series tracing one message repeated across 13 chapters: Jesus is better. Better than angels, better than Moses, better than every sacrifice that came before. Today we set the stage — who these fir...

A Church That Multiplies Its Impact Scripture: Philippians 4:14–20 Runtime: ~5 min On the last day of the last week of We Dream, we see one very practical way the Philippians lived out their partnership with Paul: they gave, again and again, even when he was in prison. And Paul's response to their generosity reframes what giving actually is — not a transaction, but an act of worship. In this episo...

A Church That Shares the Mission Scripture: Philippians 1:3–11 Runtime: ~6 min Years after Lydia's riverside conversion, Paul writes to the Philippians from prison — and he's overflowing with joy, not despair. The reason: this church hasn't just watched Paul's mission from a distance. They've shared in it. Today we look at what real partnership in the gospel looks like, and what Paul prays over a...

A Church That Refuses to Hide Scripture: Acts 16:16–34 Runtime: ~7 min Light doesn't stay welcome for long where the darkness profits from the dark. When Paul frees an exploited slave girl from a spirit that made money for her owners, the backlash is immediate — not theological, but financial. Paul and Silas end up beaten and chained. And that's exactly where the light keeps shining. In this episo...

A Church Begins Scripture: Acts 16:11–15 Runtime: ~5 min If a movement as world-changing as the gospel were going to start anywhere, you'd expect a stage and a crowd. Instead, the church at Philippi began on a riverbank, with a conversation, and one woman named Lydia. Today we watch what it actually looks like when salt and light show up in an ordinary moment. In this episode: How Paul and his com...

Already Salt, Already Light Scripture: Matthew 5:13–16 Runtime: ~8 min Three weeks in, every dream we've named — worship, following, love — has been pulling in the same direction: outward. This final week of We Dream, we're asking what it looks like to be a sent church, one that doesn't stop being the Church when Sunday ends. It starts with two pictures Jesus gives His disciples, and a truth He do...

The Thing That Lasts Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:1–13 A church can be gifted, impressive, knowledgeable, generous, and active—and still miss what matters most. In 1 Corinthians 13, Paul reminds a gifted and ambitious church that without love, all their accomplishments amount to nothing. Gifts, knowledge, programs, buildings, technology, and even the structures we build to do ministry have an expir...

As Far As It Depends on You Scripture: Romans 12:14–21 What does loving someone look like when they've actually hurt you? Paul begins with a challenging instruction: love must be sincere. Not outward politeness covering inward resentment, but genuine love expressed through practical action. Bless those who persecute you. Don't repay evil with evil. Don't seek revenge. If your enemy is hungry, feed...

Children of Your Father Scripture: Matthew 5:43–48 Loving people who love us isn't particularly difficult. Jesus calls His followers to something far more radical: love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. Jesus isn't talking merely about people who annoy us, disagree with us, or live differently than we think they should. He was speaking to people who understood genuine oppression a...

The One Who Came Near Scripture: Luke 10:25–37 "Who is my neighbor?" It's a familiar question, but Jesus' answer refuses to give us the comfortable boundaries we might prefer. When a religious expert asks Jesus who qualifies as his neighbor, Luke tells us he's trying to justify himself. He isn't looking for a bigger circle of people to love. He's looking for the edge of the circle, the point at wh...

Loved While We Were Enemies Scripture: Romans 5:6–11 What does Christian love actually look like, and where does it begin? As we continue the We Dream vision series, Lisa Scheffler introduces a week focused on Christ Fellowship's dream to see our neighbors loved and our enemies blessed. Before we can talk about how we love others, though, we have to remember where Christian love begins: with the l...

Draw Near Together Scripture: Luke 6:43–45; Galatians 5:22–23 Runtime: ~5 min Nobody has to talk a fig tree into producing figs. The fruit just tells you what the tree already is. We close out this week with Jesus turning from training to fruit — and the reminder that all our effort was never meant to manufacture what only God can grow. In this episode: Jesus' picture of the fig tree: fruit isn't...

Life and Doctrine Scripture: 1 Timothy 4:11–16 Runtime: ~5 min Paul tells Timothy exactly what to train in — and it's not technique or strategy. It's speech, conduct, love, faith, purity. And the goal isn't arrival, it's visible progress. Today we look at why Paul refuses to let Timothy separate what he believes from how he lives, and why that charge lands on every one of us, not just pastors. In...

The Value of Godliness Scripture: 1 Timothy 4:6–10; Matthew 11:28–30 Runtime: ~6 min Patience, humility, sacrificial love — none of it comes automatically. Paul told a young pastor named Timothy to train himself to be godly, the same word used for an athlete's training. But there's one crucial difference between us and the athletes: we're not earning a prize by our own strength. We're working alon...

Like Jesus Scripture: 1 John 4:16–21; Romans 12:1–2 Runtime: ~6 min It's hard to follow someone you dread. A lot of us carry a quiet sense that God is mostly disappointed, keeping a tally somewhere. Today we see why that fear has no place in a relationship built on mercy — and what it looks like to offer God our whole lives in response, not just the parts we think of as spiritual. In this episode:...

Day 1 — He Loved Us First Scripture: 1 John 4:7–12 Runtime: ~9 min Most of us are fans of something — a team, a singer, a show we could talk about for an hour. But fandom is admiring from a distance, and it's conditional. Following is different. It's walking in someone's steps and becoming like them. This week we're asking what it actually looks like to move from casual fan of Jesus to faithful fo...

Day 5 — Draw Near Together Scripture: Hebrews 10:19–25 Runtime: ~5 min All week we've watched the exiles chase one thing: getting near to God. The altar, the sacrifices, the temple foundation — all of it pointed toward something bigger. Today the writer of Hebrews names what that something is. Everything the altar pointed toward, Christ has become — and because of him, the invitation is simple: dr...

Day 4 — Bring All the Feels Scripture: Ezra 3:10–13 Runtime: ~6 min The foundation is finished — just the foundation, nothing more — and the whole community stops to throw a worship service anyway. Trumpets, cymbals, a shout so loud it carries for miles. But underneath the celebration, the older men who remember Solomon's temple in its glory weep aloud, right there in the middle of it. And nobody...

Day 3 — Costly, Not Casual Scripture: Ezra 3:7–9 Runtime: ~5 min Before they laid a single stone, the exiles camped out in flimsy shelters for the Festival of Tabernacles — a deliberate reminder that their ancestors had nothing but God in the wilderness. Then, poor and scraping by in a ruined city, they hired skilled craftsmen and paid to ship in premium cedar. Nobody would've blamed them for cutt...

Day 2 — Perfect Can Be the Enemy of Better Scripture: Ezra 3:1–6 Runtime: ~5 min A group of Jewish exiles finally makes it home to Jerusalem — and it's a wreck. Broken walls, burned-out houses, a pile of rubble where the temple used to stand. No good reason to celebrate. And yet the first thing they build isn't a house or a wall — it's an altar. In this episode: Why the exiles worshipped before a...

Psalm 95, Colossians 1, Ezra 3 & Hebrews 10 Narrated & Written by Lisa Scheffler | Series: We Dream Day 1 — More Than a Song Scripture: Psalm 95:1–7 Runtime: ~10 min We're kicking off a brand new series, and it starts with a question worth sitting with: what if the "better" we keep chasing was never about better habits or better focus, but about becoming a church shaped by real worship? Ov...

Another Harvest Scripture: Matthew 9:35–38 Runtime: ~5 min All week we've traced the generosity of God — mercy and grace poured out like new wine dripping from mountains, overflowing the vats — and seen that this generosity arrived in the form of a person. Today Matthew 9 turns the harvest image in a different direction: the harvest isn't the abundance God pours out anymore. It's people waiting to...