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Happy Father's Day! This week Adam continues in Matthew 5v33-37. What if it's easier to try and control someone than it is to love them? What if Jesus knows this and wants us to have a different kind of heart and character? 

As we continue through Matthew verse by verse, Adam jumps right in to Matthew 5v27-32 and the subjects of sex and divorce.  Is Jesus anti-sex? Of what value are sexual constraint and boundaries? What if Jesus' words on sex are challenging and empowering to us all? What if healthy views on sexuality start with healthy views of humans as being image bearers of God? Listen in as we continue The...

This week, Adam continues the series in Matthew chapter 5 and the Sermon on the Mount.  Ever wonder if you have the ability to be good? Enter the Sermon on the Mount: Who is truly good? What if the beatitudes are about the availability of the with-God-life for anyone, even the motley crew sitting on the hill? What if failing to accomplish good is an invitation to want a different kind of good?

This week Adam continues in Matthew 4 as he looks at questions like Why was Matthew interested in God's openness to outsiders? And how can we apply that to how we grow as followers of Jesus?

What if we live our lives not on abstract truths, but on the stories we value? This week, Adam returns to the The Gospel According to Matthew and looks deeper at the temptations and how they can redirect vocation. 

Enjoy this wonderful message from Gay as she talks about compassion and suffering and shares a little from her life as a mother.

In the third week of this series, Adam continues working through Matthew one chapter at a time. What is the story Matthew is trying to tell? Who is this Jesus he's trying to tell his audience about? What's the life he's trying to introduce them too? 

This week we have the opportunity to hear from Hannah as she shares a very heartfelt message about a different way to view darkness.  What can we learn from darkness?  How does God show up in darkness? 

Matthew Chapter 2 Do you ever wonder if what you do matters? What if it does and you'll be quickly forgotten and you'll be easily replaced?  What if Matthew is trying to contrast two types of kings? or two types of followers? What if Matthew wants to remind readers about the many different forms of the with-God-life? This is week 2 of The Gospel According to Matthew. 

This week begins a journey through Matthew as Adam explores it one chapter at a time.  What's with the genealogy and what is Matthew saying about Jesus? How might we lean into God's invitation to live life with us? What problems might be leveraged as powerful reminders of the invitation to the with-God-life?

What meaning does the cross carry for you? What does it tell us about God? About Jesus? About what it means to be a Christian? How did the cross bring in a new passover? This Easter, Adam explores these questions and more as he looks at the cross and resurrection through the lens of Passover.

In the final week of The Character Project series, we hear from Tommy as he talks about what does it look like to finish well? Is it always a straight line  up and to the right? How do relationships and daily life play into that?

What's the future of local church? This week, Adam talks about his thoughts, how they've evolved, and offers gratitude and invitation for the future.

What is the story behind the Bible? What does a critical understanding of the Bible sound like? How does culture affect how accuracy and authorship are looked at? Adam spends time on all these questions and more as well as takes questions from others at Narrate.

In the second week of The Character Project series, Adam continues the discussion around character. What if one of the great differences with the way we think about moral character and the way Jesus talked about moral character has much to do with a worldview of the great individual versus the great community? What if moral character is a team sport?

In the first week of The Character Project series, Adam brings content from The Road to Character by David Brooks and asks the questions: What if what we get from life is who we become? What if what God gets from us is who we become? What if what others get from us is who we become?

In the final week of the Power of Bad series, Adam takes a look at how we view people.  Who embodies for you someone who is kind, gracious, compassionate, and trusting? Are they naive?  What if Jesus invites into a way of living that strives and fights for having a high view of people? What if Jesus' high view of people points to the heart of the Father and what it means to be a healthy human...

This week we hear from Hannah and Dr. Baumeister discussing questions asked by people from Narrate. After the Q & A, Hannah unpacks some insights from her life on how the Power of Bad shows up.

In the second week of the Power of Bad series, Adam takes a closer look at how relationships can be affected. What if the idea that bad is stronger than good has an even greater impact on relationships? What if, pound for pound, bad has more influence than good?

Have you ever noticed how easy it is to focus on, tell stories about, and live in fear of the negative? What if we are biologically predisposed to focus on the negative? In the first week of the Power of Bad series, Adam drills down on these questions and more.

In the final week of the series, we hear from Justin as he talks about slowing down. What would it look like to respond instead of react? How might we get there?

How do we develop a healthy relationship with the future? Does James suggest we shouldn't think about the future? Or is he suggesting we account for God as we plan for the future? What are the circumstances in your life where God is inviting you to plan AND defer to His will?

Continuing the second week of the series, Adam talks about his journey with centering prayer and then asks Hannah about her experiences during Q&A sessions.  How do we become the kinds of people who approach confusion with less fear, anger, and suspicion? How do we become like Jesus in the way we respond to the unknown from a place of trust? Romans 8v5-6  Galatians 5v16-23a

If Confusion + Attention = Growth, how can we become more hospitable toward and less afraid of  confusion? What if it starts with wanting God's will more than our own? This is week 1 of a new series titled "Confusion + Attention = Growth" What would it look like to live from a more surrendered self? Not a self that is defeated, depressed or disinterested but a self genuinely strivin...

Thank you for joining us this Christmas Eve! This week, Adam looks at the Christmas story with the question of "Before Mary was able to think about the myriad implications, was she confused?" How might the Christmas story encourage us to act more hospitably toward confusion? What if confusion, albeit difficult, is often the precursor to breakthrough? What if this also reminds us to not r...