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Ultimately, all of the images and illustrations used in the Song of Songs are used to describe one thing. It's this one thing, this one idea, that will wrap this series up. The poems in this book all capture the joy, the complexity, the intensity, of this thing that we call love. We dive into the deeper meanings of different types of love and go back to the greatest and first love.

Song of Solomon speaks to and inspires us regarding our most significant relationships. There are things like attentiveness to the needs of the other; appreciation of beauty, fidelity. There are certainly, principles embedded within the Song of Solomon which can be extracted and applied to our earthly relationships. But the Song of Solomon goes deeper than the superficial exchange between two pass...

Even in the darkest nights and toughest times, our lover can be found. There will be days that feel like nights... dark, cold, and lonely. There will be times when you're just out of sorts, moments when you feel like you're 'missing' someone, or something but you're not sure who or what. And in those moments there is one who says, "If you seek ME, you'll find me." Listen along to "Seek and you wil...

The wisdom of being encouraged to not awaken love before it's time is not implying that we should to dismiss our sexuality. This is not repression, the rejection and denial of feelings in shame rather this is waiting to awaken love, acknowledges the inherent God given value in the act of sex. Listen along to Sunday's Message taught by Pastor Grant Bruscoe.

Why do a series at church on the book of Song of Solomon? It is precisely because of our society's obsession with romance, love and sexuality, that indicates something must be said. Something is off. Not in that we are sexual - God made us that way. Our inordinate obsession and deep crisis of unrealized expectations seems to indicate that we're missing something. We've wandered into the woods, and...

As we open this Old Testament book of the Bible, we will start with going under the surface to ask, "What's really going on here?" There has always been a lot of confusion and misunderstanding surrounding this book, why it's in the Bible and how/if we can apply the text, to name a few things. We're diving into this series and the Bible to understand this book and how it can reshape our understandi...

This is where Acts chapter 28 opens, it's like a scene from Survivor. They're on the beach, Paul builds a fire, he gets bitten by a snake but doesn't die. The whole beginning of Acts 28 is crazy. And of course, the people on the island are impacted by the gospel. Just like every where else the gospel went, even here, and even when it's on accident, people are blown away. Listen along to our series...

In Acts 27 the ship that Paul is traveling on encounters a storm. A physical, literal, storm. But what we see in him; what we learn from him; in the middle of this storm, has direct application to the storms that we face, and we face very real storms. We have money storms, and relationship storms, marriage storms, parenting storms, business storms, emotional storms. Storms are a very real part of...

What if, in life's unexpected, unwanted, most challenging, and most confusing circumstances, we had a faith that completely redefined our emotions, or our responses, or even our perspective? What if our faith could leak into those times when we lose the game. When we didn't get the promotion, when people don't stay loyal, when things didn't work out. A faith like that would be game changing. Which...

Sometimes the tension builds in our lives, doesn't it? In circumstances and in instances, the pressure builds and stress compounds. And then, there's that moment; that moment when, "Ok. Everything is going to be alright. And you breathe." That's what we hope today's message accomplishes for you. And in the breathing, to know it comes from confidence in Christ and today we look at where this confid...

The Ephesian Church worked very hard to walk in obedience to God; however, their work took first place in their lives. The moment our working and doing become void of our loving Jesus and one another, our work will all be in vain. In John 14 Jesus says, "Remain in my love... love each other in the same way as I have loved you." Listen along as Generations Pastor Grant Bruscoe teaches out of Acts 2...

One of the reasons we're studying the book of Acts is that this book shows us real and authentic Christianity; and that is something we desperately need. Maybe you're wondering, "What does a random story about a random group of people rioting have to do with me?" It's because people were making their own gods, idols. But how can something a mere mortal has made give us care, love, and protection....

We light a candle, to remind ourselves on the darkest day of the year, that in the darkest moments of life, regardless of where they fall, we have a Savior who enters in that darkness and joins us, redeems us, and renews us. This Christmas celebration is an announcement in the dark and cold of winter, that light and life are growing again and it is a symbol of what God can, and will do, in you.

We now come to Acts chapter 18 where the gospel continues to spread and be preached in new places to Jews and Gentiles alike. A new player comes on to the scene, Apollos, a Jew who spoke and taught accurately the things of Jesus but still himself needed to grow in his knowledge and understanding of the way of God. We can learn the things of Jesus from the most eloquent speakers, but until we dive...

Athens, it was the intellectual and cultural capital of the world. Paul went to reason in the marketplaces and synagogues there, to bring the gospel to the people there. He comes up against two very distinct people groups with very resolved beliefs and accepted social structures. But Paul was bringing them something new, a REAL God, to them, an unknown God. Listen along as Brad teaches through the...

In Acts we have seen the beginnings of the church as they spread across the known world with new ones springing up in cities everywhere. We come to Acts chapter 17 where 2 of the apostles come to 2 cities, Berea and Thessalonica. "... the Jews there were more noble than the rest." Listen along to hear the unpacking of why they were more noble due to their great faith, submission, and humility.

The Romans didn't care about this 'Jesus' being another God that people worshipped. People everywhere worshipped all sorts of gods. Why would one more matter? But the Jews understand something in the language that the Romans do not. And this small nuance, this little detail, makes all the difference in the world. When Paul presents Jesus as the Christ, as the Messiah, he's presenting him as KING....

Looking at our text for the day out of Acts 16 has really solidified for Brad personally, WHY he is a Christian. We look at 3 different stories of people and how they encountered the power and grace of Jesus in their own individual way. The Gospel showed them a life that was more meaningful than the one they were living.

One of the often overlooked aspects of the gospel's increased popularity in the world was WHO the people became, the people who started following Jesus. It turns out that there was something about their lives - something about WHO they were, that drew people in. How can we daily become individuals and a community like this? It all starts with the gospel

There are several different types of blindness: physical, spiritual, mental, but all of them mean having a lack of sight. Jesus came to heal every part of us, including our ability to see ourselves and others as He does. Pastor Keith Jenkins from Beaverton Oregon taught an engaging and challenging message on the power of a touch of God healing all our forms of blindness.

From the beginning of this series we've been studying the book of Acts to learn the history and beginnings of the first church so we might duplicate it today. What if we lived like they did? Not just behaviorally, but with the sense of the gospel of Jesus Christ resting on our shoulders to carry to the world. In today's message Brad focuses on the culture then and the culture of our world today an...

We all know we need change in areas of our lives, but we just can't seem to change ourselves. We can't seem to make ourselves into the person we want to be. The amazing thing is, not matter what we've done and will do, we will never "out-sin" God's grace. "Everyone who believes is freed from everything." Now that's a transformational message. Listen along to this message about 3 Dimensions of the...

If you wanted to strip the power from the church, quite possibly the best way to do that would be to distract us from the unseen aspects of what it means to be a Christian. "Everything we see is not everything that is." The Holy Spirit of God is among us and is our guide in life, but there is also an active enemy of our souls who is trying to be that distraction to us. But Jesus has victory throug...

President and CEO of World Vision is with us today talking specifically about the famine in East Africa how children specifically are endangered in this crisis. We as Christians are the ones called to be Jesus' hands and feet as He intended us to help change our world. Children in war-torn and famine stricken countries may just be someone else's kids, but their God's beloved children and when we c...

It's a normal thing to question how any why the Bible is relevant to us today and the lives and stories we live out. Should it be a part of our story? Today in our study on the book of Acts we come to chapter 12 and unexpected circumstances. We all encounter unexpected circumstances in our lives; how do we respond to those circumstances? When we respond to unexpected circumstances with unexpected...