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Send us Fan Mail Why has God given us His Spirit? As we conclude our Come, Holy Spirit series, Pastor Ericka invites us to consider a question that reframes everything we've been learning. Returning to Jesus' words in John 20 and Acts 1, this message explores the surprising connection between God's peace, the gift of the Holy Spirit, and the life to which we are called. Perhaps the...

Send us Fan Mail Complaining often feels natural, especially when life is difficult, disappointing, or uncertain. Yet in Philippians, the Apostle Paul calls believers to a different way of living—one marked not by grumbling, but by gratitude, trust, and faithful witness. In this message, Contain Your Complain, Rev. Dr. Samuel B. Reeves explores how our words reveal what is happening within our hea...

Send us Fan Mail Today we welcome Reverend Reggie Smith, who brings a message from Titus 3:4–7 titled, "From Cretan to Christian." Drawing from Paul's words to Titus, Pastor Reggie reminds us that our transformation is not achieved through our own goodness or effort, but through the kindness, mercy, and saving grace of God. In Christ, we are made new and invited to live as people ma...

Send us Fan Mail Today we continue our Holy Spirit series with a message from Elder Jeff Fisher, Chair of Madison Church's Elders. Preaching from Isaiah 44:1–5, Jeff explores God's promise of the Spirit's outpouring and what it means for our identity, purpose, and belonging. In a world where many wrestle with questions of who they are, where they fit, and whether their lives matter,...

Send us Fan Mail Happy Pentecost, the Holy Spirit is here! Jesus calls the Holy Spirit our “Advocate” and we are doing the work of the Spirit when we advocate, and He is choosing us to play a role in the Kingdom. Three different voices express this single message, two of whom belong to High School students. Together, they explore how the Holy Spirit’s constant presence empowers us to live life in...

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Send us Fan Mail In this Mother’s Day message, Pastor Ericka White explores one of the most personal and comforting truths Jesus ever spoke: the Holy Spirit is not merely a force to understand or a doctrine to debate, but a Companion to know. Drawing from John 14, Pastor Ericka invites us to see the Holy Spirit as “The Friend” Jesus promised would never leave us or abandon us. Before Pentecost bro...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when faith and doubt walk side by side? In this message from John 20, Pastor Mary Hulst explores the story often known as “Doubting Thomas,” inviting us to see him instead as Believing Thomas—and even Brave Thomas. We were reminded that questions are not signs of weak faith, but often part of a sincere and attentive journey with Jesus. In a world marked by uncertainty...

Send us Fan Mail Pastoring, encouragement, praying, singing, leading, and many more. The Spirit is the one who gives us gifts according to His grace. These gifts are meant for the upbuilding of the kingdom. The Bible is also explicit about what the purpose of these gifts are... in order to love! Every gift has been given to love those that we are in community with which builds the kingdom of heave...

Send us Fan Mail This week we used the Nicene Creed, an ecumenical testimony of what we believe, as a launching point for thinking about the Holy Spirit. The creed describes the Spirit this way: "The Lord, the giver of life." That is such a foundational way of thinking about the Holy Spirit when often we assume that this member of the trinity is only at work in the spectacular and the su...

Send us Fan Mail The Sunday after Easter is sometimes called "Low Sunday..." As Barbara Brown Taylor noted, this is because "The attendance is low and so is the adrenaline." It is the week after all the hype and the resurrection joy. But now it's a week later. So now what? Christ is Risen. Does it matter? Eastertide is a church season in which we might answer, "Yes.&q...

Send us Fan Mail Pastor Ericka shares a powerful Easter message as we walk through Mary’s encounter with the risen Christ. What begins in weeping becomes a powerful revelation: Jesus is alive, He is calling your name, and death no longer gets the final word. Join us as we discover how resurrection meets us in our grief, transforms our perspective, and invites us to live in the reality of new life—...

Send us Fan Mail Palm Sunday begins that Via Delarosa, "the sorrowful way" that Jesus walked to the cross. At the beginning of the week, the people ran alongside Jesus on the road shouting, "Hosanna! Save us now!" In Lent we recognize hat is still the ongoing cry of believers today. But in Revelation 21, we see the answer to that plea. A day is coming when we will walk a road o...

Send us Fan Mail "This week we hear from our former director of administration and connection in a recorded video she made about a month before meeting her Lord... after a two year journey with cancer. In it, she reflects on 2 Corinthians 4 and Christian paradox of outwardly wasting away while being internally renewed day by day. Laura takes us through this text as it intersects with her expe...

Send us Fan Mail There are many different ideas about who Jesus was and continually is. Depending on who you ask you can get a million different answers, but let's explore who Jesus says that Jesus is! Once we've decided who Jesus is to us, then does this revelation change the way that we live? Dive into Matthew 16 with us as we reflect on these questions. 

Send us Fan Mail This Sunday Pastor Andrea kicks off the new Lenten sermon series "Facing our Last Enemy: Death and Resurrection Hope." She preaches out of John 12, where Jesus gives us an agricultural lesson about what must happen to the seed in order for there to be a harvest. "Unless a seed falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed," Jesus said. "But i...

Send us Fan Mail This Sunday we "vigil together" in worship as our sister and colleague is close to meeting her savior face to face. Pastor Andrea reflects on 1 Corinthians 15, which is where the title of the Lenten Series comes from... as Paul calls death our "Last Enemy." And yet, this is an enemy that Jesus has put under his feet through his own death and resurrection. Becau...

Send us Fan Mail When the world feels unstable and life reminds us how fragile it is, where do we turn? In this message from Psalm 90, Pastor Ericka explores Moses’ prayer, “Teach us to number our days,” and invites us to anchor our lives in the eternal God who is our dwelling place in every generation. When our days are placed in His hands, even fragile lives can be lived with wisdom, purpose, an...

Send us Fan Mail There are many different ideas about who Jesus was and continually is. Depending on who you ask you can get a million different answers, but let's explore who Jesus says that Jesus is! Once we've decided who Jesus is to us, then does this revelation change the way that we live? Dive into Matthew 16 with us as we reflect on these questions. 

Send us Fan Mail Nicodemus goes to see Jesus in secret and is told that to see the kingdom of God, one has to be born again. “How can this be?” Nicodemus wondered… this week we hold covenant baptism and the story of Nicodemus from John 3 together as two notes that can be in harmony with one another because the baseline that plays beneath them both is grace. In both conversion and infant baptism, w...

Send us Fan Mail It would seem that John the Baptist knew exactly who Jesus was... and yet when things did not go the way he had planned, and he is sitting in Herod's dungeon, he questioned everything he knew. John sent his messengers to Jesus to ask him, "Are you the one? Or should we wait for another?" There is a lot of heartbreak in that question. It represents some deep disappoi...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s message, “Could This Be the Messiah?”, we linger at a well with Jesus and a woman who never expected to be seen—let alone known—by God. Drawing from John chapter 4, this sermon explores what happens when we truly sit with Jesus long enough to be honest about our thirst. It’s a story of divine pursuit, unearned grace, and a Savior who crosses every boundary to offer livi...

Send us Fan Mail Who is this man that even the wind and waves obey him? Just as the disciples wondered we wonder today. Well, He's the one in the boat who cares for us, He is our Messiah so saves us from our sins and He is YHWH the one with who can still the waves. 

Send us Fan Mail This week we consider Nathanial's question to Phillip in John 1: "Can anything good come out of Nazareth? This question may have been a bit tongue in cheek, but it betrays a bias we often have against the ordinary and the unimpressive. Like Nathanial, we assume that God's Divine Truth must come from spectacular people or places or from centers of power, education, o...

Send us Fan Mail Today we take up the text of The Epiphany... where God's glory was manifested to the Gentiles for the first time. The magi from the east came on their long journey to worship Jesus. This is a fitting reality check for all of us who feel the cold, dark, circumstances of life settle back in after the warm, bright glow of Christmas. The same was true for Jesus.  The Magi's...