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Pastor Rick gives a deeply insightful message on how the Spirit of God speaks to us and methods for discerning what is really from God and what is simply our own thinking. Learn to hear the whisper of God.

Our centering practice is to "Hear and Obey the Word and the Spirit." Michelle Jones explains how prayer can become a holy conversation with God.

Our centering practice is to "Hear and Obey the Word and the Spirit." In our context we fail to do this not because we lack access to the scripture or the content and resources. We fail to do this because of a like of desire. We must remember that the whole Bible points us to Jesus and seek him for renewed vision of grace and appetite for his word.

This fall we will take a deep dive into our first and centering practice: Hear and Obey the Word and Spirit with the series “How to hear God.” In this eight-week series, we will explore the how to hear the voice of God, the ways in which God speaks to us, and what that looks like in community. We dive in with the hope of becoming a community that listens to the God’s voice and has ears to hear Him...

Pastor Michelle Jones concludes our annual prayers series declaring: "may God bless us with just enough foolishness to believe that we can make a difference in the world, so that we can do what others claim cannot be done."

Pastor Alex Choi shares a deeply insightful message from Mark 2 showing that we are often quicker to assign guilt in places where Jesus instead offers compassion. He challenges us to become people who offer comfort instead of judgment.

Pastor Rick McKinley explains that Jesus is willing to make a scene to confront our broken and malformed definitions of power. Jesus flipped the tables to show us that the true power of God is marked by a concern for the oppressed, it moves us from outrage to advocacy.

Pastor Michelle Jones began our annual prayer series declaring us "Move us, Lord!" This week we looked at the encounter between Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4, asking the Spirit to move us from shallow to deeper.

Michelle Jones shares a deeply moving account of the resilience and celebration within the black church in the United States. This joy can only be described as supernatural in light of their suffering. Faith gives us the power to rejoice in all our trials.

Pastor Seth King explains his own process of coming to understand the significance of justice to the heart of God and the story of the Bible. He challenges us to go beyond merely adopting mainstream social justice with a Christian twist to really being shaped by the God who constantly moves toward the outcast and oppressed. Finally, we are pressed to honestly ask ourselves: "Where am I being invit...

Michelle Lang-Raymond shares a striking message on how we often like the idea of change until we see that it will require sacrifice. Sometimes we must give up if we are going grow and move forward into mature love.

To conclude the Saving Justice series pastor Seth King explains that justice in action looks like a life of radical generosity. He interviews three people in our community who have lived lives that stand out as examples.

The wilderness is not a comfortable place to be, but Christians for millennia have taught that it has the ability to transform us. In-between spaces have the ability to change us for the good and show us the things that control us and sabotage our peace. Finally, we see that in the midst of the pain of liminal spaces we can look to Jesus who entered the ultimate wilderness for us.

Pastor Rick McKinley looks at the life of King Hezekiah in 2 Chronicles 29-31 giving us a type case of how renewal happens. We examine the results it can produce in our lives and are confronted with the question, "what do we need personally and collectively for renewal to take place?"

Over the course of the pandemic we laid down some valuable faith habits, sometimes through no fault of our own because of lockdown and limitations. We also may have picked up some unhealthy and unhelpful habits that we don't want to carry forward in our lives. Pastor Rick McKinley shares how in the book of 2 Kings renewal came when God's word was restored to its ultimate place.

Between the threat of a deadly virus and the political division there have been many reasons to feel averse to hospitality. Pastor Bob Howard explains that when we see the way that Jesus welcomed us, it can fill us with deep love to wholly welcomes those we normally would not.

When you have lived in survival mode you know that it can serve you well, but if you remain there flourishing ceases to even be an option. Instead, you are always left waiting for the next attack. In the book of Jeremiah God promises a Messiah who will heal us and bring us into a place of thriving.

The pandemic and all of the recent turmoil put things into perspective. It stripped us of our illusions that we are able to control reality as our systems broke down on many levels. Isaiah 40 calls us to look to the God who keeps the cosmos in orbit, turn from our fragile idols, and see what really matters.

A series aimed at addressing and naming the loss and changes that have occurred over the last two+ years. It’s easy to move on and hope everything goes back to normal but this was not an interruption but a disruption. We picked up bad habits and laid down good ones, our faith changed, our spiritual practices suffered or floundered in faith or disappeared from church. Loved ones died, marriages end...

Dr. David Wilkinson is an astrophysicist and theologian at Durham University in the United Kingdom. He explains that science is a magnificent pursuit describing how the cosmos operates and discovering the principles behind physical reality but it cannot dictate the value, meaning, and purpose that we all long for.

We live isolated lives and are especially prone to avoid those we disagree with. The author of Hebrews challenged his audience to practice hospitality even in the hostile Roman culture. As we learn to welcome strangers into our lives we become reflections of the Christ who welcomed us.

What do you do when everything you have built your life upon is shaken? In this teaching from Hebrews, pastor Rick McKinley explains that God is willing to rattle our idols and shake up our attachments so that he can show us Mt. Zion; the one kingdom the cannot be shaken.