Sojourn Woodstock

Joy is perhaps our greatest longing . . . joy in a relationship is the key to our deepest needs and is essential to true and lasting healing. There is only one eternal place where we find joy like this: in the presence and person of Christ.

The Gospel awakens us to the beauty of God and motivates us to live as witnesses to His work in this world.   We bear witness to the Kingdom through what we say and how we live. The good news of Jesus is shared and shown. In a world bent on separating secular and sacred, we declare that the whole earth is God’s, everything in it and that, because of Jesus, every moment, no matter how ‘mundane,’ ma...

God did not just tell us who He is, He drew near to show us who He is and to be with us.  In Christ, the divine is embodied, made known and made tangible.  We serve a God who can be seen, touched and experienced.  The gospel of Jesus and the good news of the Kingdom is not meant to simply be a message that is shared, it is meant to be revealed in power and made tangible in everyday life.  When jes...

It has always been God’s intent to declare His worth through a people who would reflect His glory throughout the world. Sin marred the image of God, but, through Christ, it is fully restored. It is God’s design to fill the earth with His image bearers and to scatter the church throughout all nations, so the whole world may behold the glory of God as it shines forth through the lives of people save...

At its core, the gospel is the Good News that God Gives. In Christ, God gives himself. And He does so in ways that should (and one day will) forever shock us. Our King, worthy of all honor, emptied himself (Phil 2:7). Christ came to be a servant of many (Matt. 20:28). Lowering Himself, he took on the form of a servant that He might bless others. Sin turns our souls inward, distorting our view of G...

To be a Christian, then, is to be born of God into a new family—the family of God!  As a family, we gather around our great commonality, the love of the Father.  As His children, we are called to live and care for each other as we celebrate His love for us. As God’s family, we are called to be devoted to one another, to share our possessions with one another and to walk through the joys and strugg...

Christ came to establish a community, united around Him and existing for His praise for all time. He has saved a people who, forever, belong to God.  Only together, as a people, do we model what He has truly accomplished. Christ moves us out of isolation and into a community where we exist together as the family of God. We were made to be in communion with God and each other. Yet sin, corrupting a...

Knowing God, changes us.  In being with Him, we become like Him. This process of transformation is often called ‘discipleship.’  A ‘disciple’ is someone who decides to be with another person, so that they may become like that person.  From birth, every person has been in the process of being shaped into the image of another.  Because of sin, we are all in the process of conforming our lives to the...

The gospel of Jesus wakes us up to life with God.  By faith in Christ, in his life, death and resurrection, we, though dead in our sin, are made alive to God.  The gospel is the good news that life with God is possible.  Knowing Him, is both the means by which and the purpose for which we have been Made New.  And knowing Him, changes us.  In being with Him, we become like Him. -Scripture-   Theref...