Garden City Church

This week, Pastor Shaq Hager walks us through Exodus 23:20-33. Here we find God speaking to His people about an angel He'll send to lead them into the Promised Land, the home that God is preparing for His people. Pastor Shaq helps us see that the Promised Land foreshadows our eternal home and the angel of the Lord foreshadows our one, true Savior, Jesus. Join us as we continue our study of the Old...

We've come to Exodus 20, the Ten Commandments, in our study of the Old Testament book, Exodus. Pastor Dennis Allan walks us through God's commands and instead of trying to make sense of each individual command and what it might mean for us today, we talk about what the context of the Commandments teaches us about God's character and what God's purpose was in giving the Commandments to His people....

We continue our series on the Old Testament book, Exodus. This week, Pastor Shag Hager walks us through Exodus 19. The Israelites arrive at Mt. Sinai. Through this passage, Pastor Shaq reminds us that God reassures His people of His goodness and presence, even in the midst of their brokenness. And, as God is unchanging in His character, we can know that He is good to us, too, even in the midst of...

This week, Pastor Dennis Allan continues our series on the Old Testament book Exodus, focusing on the story in Exodus 17:8-16 of the Amelekites attacking the Israelites and Moses standing on a hill, with Aaron and Hur helping to hold up Moses' hands, as the Israelite army, lead by Joshua, defeats the Amelekites. Through this story we see the way that God's defends and protects His people, how He w...

This week Pastor Shaq Hager talks through how the God who personally reveals Himself to Moses, sets the Israelites free from slavery, and delivers the Israelites through the Red Sea is also the God who meets us in our trauma and heals it. In Exodus 16 the Israelites are on the other side of the Red Sea and entering their freedom. But, the trauma they endured as a people over 400 years of systemic...

This week we resume our series on the Old Testament book Exodus. Amanda Wagner walks us through Exodus 14, the story of the Israelites after being set free from slavery and oppression in Egypt, crossing the Red Sea. It's a story of God rescuing His people again, a story of the way that God is at work in the lives of His people, and evidence of God's supernatural capabilities and power. It's also f...

This week, Pastor Shaq Hager, as part of our Advent series, walks us through Matthew 3. It's the story of John the Baptist who has come to baptize people in the Jordan River, clearing the path for Jesus to begin His public ministry. People from all over the region of Judea and even some people from the city of Jerusalem, who had been deeply troubled by the birth of Jesus, come to John to repent of...

This is the third week of our Advent series and Pastor Dennis Allan walks through Matthew 2. Magi arrive in Judea and go to the palace in Jerusalem to inquire about the birth of the new king, a new king that he will try to kill, forcing Joseph to flee in the middle of the night with his family to Egypt. At the end of chapter two, Joseph and his family return to the region and settle in Nazareth. I...

In the second week of our Advent 2021 series, Pastor Shaq Hager walks us through Matthew 1:18-25, the moment when an angel appears to Joseph and confirms that the child Mary is pregnant with is, in fact, "...from the Holy Spirit." It's as Joseph takes time to reflect that God, through an angel, meets with Joseph, comforts him, and speaks direction to him. For this child isn't any child. This child...

This week, Amanda Wagner begins our Advent series by looking at Matthew 1:1-17. These seventeen verses contain Matthew's version of Jesus' genealogy. It's so much more than just a list of names. It speaks to the kind of Savior Jesus will be. He will be a Savior who fulfills both a priestly and a kingly role. He will be a Savior for Jew and Gentile, for men and women, for the righteous and unrighte...

Pastor Dennis Allan continues our series on the Old Testament book, Exodus. In Exodus 12:35-36 God plunders the Egyptian people who turn over their financial and material wealth to the Israelite people as they leave Egypt. It’s a staggering redistribution of wealth to a people group who had been oppressed and enslaved for hundreds of years. These verses create the framework for our conversation th...

Pastor Shaq Hager discusses the tenth and final plague recorded in Exodus 11 and then the story of the Passover in Exodus 12. The story of the Passover is really the foreshadowed story of Jesus, our perfect Passover lamb. The deliverance of the Israelites from slavery and oppression in Egypt finds its ultimate fulfillment in the sacrificial death of Jesus, whose body and blood accomplish once and...

Pastor Dennis Allan walks through the first nine plagues recorded in Exodus 7-10, following Pharaoh's hardening heart as a thread through the plagues narrative. In the New Testament book, James, the author quotes from Proverbs: "God opposes the proud, but favors the humble." These eight words become an interpretive lens to Pharaoh and God's response to his hard heart. Through it all, we see the wa...

Pastor Shaq Hager walks through Exodus 6 and the story of Moses confronting Pharaoh for the second time, all while having to deal with his own insecurities and doubts. Moses doubts his ability to represent God to Pharaoh and his ability to lead the Israelite people, who are unwilling to listen to Moses because of their own discouragement. For Moses and the Israelites, their ability to trust in God...

Pastor Dennis Allan continues our series on Exodus by focusing on the story of Moses confronting Pharaoh for the first time in Exodus 5 and demanding that Pharaoh immediately set free all of the Israelite people enslaved in Egypt, only to have Pharaoh reject Moses' appeal and undermine Moses' credibility with the Israelite people. At the end of the chapter Moses is frustrated, confused, and in pai...

Pastor Shaq Hager continues our series on Exodus by focusing on Exodus 4 and the story of Moses, God, and a burning bush. Moses was engaged in his regular, everyday work when God revealed Himself to Moses, inviting Moses into God's plan of liberation for the Israrelites in Egypt. But God didn't stop speaking or making Himself known to His people thousands of years ago. He still does it today. We j...

Pastor Dennis Allan discusses Exodus 2 and focuses on the way that four women engage in various forms of nonviolent civil disobedience in order to resist Pharaoh's unjust policy and how this becomes a template for how Christians can engage and resist unjust social and political policies today while not losing hope in God's ultimate victory.