Sunday Service

Come join us for Katie's ordination and installation service this Sunday at 10:15 am. Pastor Jonathan will give the ordination charge to Katie and Pastor Jason will deliver the ordination charge to the congregation. We will also have the opportunity to hear a brief response from Katie. Following the service, we will have a family meal. Come experience a service together that is focused on God's go...

We will be continuing our series on Jesus vs. Religion. Join us as we unpack the difference between Jesus and religion in the ways we "Respond with Compassion."

Last week we heard Jesus' invitation for the burdened to find rest in him. This week we see the Bible's call to be like Christ and bear one another's burdens. His victory creates a community and he calls us to be restored both in our individual life and our community life.

This week we will continue our series in the month of May on Jesus vs. Religion. Join us as we see the defining difference between Jesus and Religion when it comes to our vision of what rest really looks like.

Jesus vs. Religion is a four sermon follow-up to our journey through the Gospel of Mark. In this series, we will compare and contrast Jesus vs. Religion and demonstrate how our understanding of the difference drives our vision to find rest, live restored, and respond with compassion.

This week we will end our series on Mark with what some people call "the longer ending of Mark." Translations usually have a footnote informing Bible readers that verses 9-20 were not included in the earliest manuscripts. This dynamic raises all kinds of questions that can cause someone to have doubts about what the Bible really says and if we can really trust it. We will attempt to answer these q...

The resurrection has become such a familiar idea for so many Christians that we have become desensitized to it. Join us this Sunday as we celebrate the resurrection of Christ and pray that God will resensitize us to the shock and awe of this life-changing event.

This Sunday, we will continue our journey to the cross by reflecting on Mark 15:29–39. In this passage, we see the love and intentionality of Jesus—not only in His going to the cross for us, but also in how He endures and responds to the mocking, beating, and suffering along the way. And in that, we are reminded that the same God desires to meet us with His love right in the midst of our own situa...

To "stir someone up" means to provoke or inspire strong emotions or reactions in that person, often leading them to take action or feel a strong urge to respond in some way. This week, join us as we explore Mark 15:1-15 and see how the theme of Jesus vs. Religion plays out in how we are stirred, and how, as believers, we stir one another up.

This week we will see Peter, the disciple who swore with the most bravado that he would not fall away (v 31), now deny Jesus in the most detailed, repeated way. “I do not know this man of whom you speak,” he insists. This week we will explore this passage and ask in what ways Peter knows Jesus and in what ways he has failed to know Jesus. Along the way we will dig deep into what we know about Jesu...

Imagine pouring your heart into prayer, trying everything to connect with God, but all you get is silence. How do you handle that? A lot of us feel like God isn’t answering, and we start thinking either He doesn’t care or we’re doing something wrong. But what if there’s more to the silence? Join us this Sunday as we dive into Mark 14:53-65 and explore the hardship and beauty of God’s silence.

Our passage of Scripture this week has four separate scenes: (1) the betrayal of Judas, (2) the arrest of Jesus, (3) the scattering of the disciples, and (4) the fleeing of a young man. We will look at each scene and how they all speak with power in terms of our lives today. We will even think through how the betrayal of Jesus helps us walk through our own experiences of betrayal trauma.

Over the course of our journey through the book of Mark, we have been encouraged time and time again to go to God. To run to our heavenly Father for wisdom, for comfort, for strength, in the things we understand, and in the things we don't. And most recently, we've talked about what it means to not just go to Him and walk away, but to remain with Him and allow ourselves the opportunity to experien...

This Sunday, we will continue exploring the theme of Jesus vs. Religion by looking at Mark 14:12-21. In this passage, we’ll reflect on the beauty and challenge of trusting that “God is in control,” and how His provision enables us to find rest in that hope as we follow Him.

This Sunday, we will continue exploring the theme of Jesus vs. Religion by looking at Mark 14:12-21. In this passage, we’ll reflect on the beauty and challenge of trusting that “God is in control,” and how His provision enables us to find rest in that hope as we follow Him.

Two weeks ago, we looked at the message of Jesus from Mark about marriage and why the church should seek to preserve marriage at great cost. In part two, we now see why the message of the church is to preserve marriage at great cost, but not at any cost.

Many times we talk about money and the dominant image we use is what a blessing money can be. This week we will see the way that Jesus approaches money. Here is a hint: he talks about it as if we should handle it with a hazmat suit. Join us as we seek God's mind about money.

Last week, we saw the rich young ruler walk away from Jesus after hearing what he lacked, and what it would cost him to inherit eternal life. This week, we will look at Mark 10:28-31 and see the disciple's response to Jesus's words in verse 23-27. A response that points to two pitfalls we as Christians can get caught in today, that stop us from seeing and walking in the fullness of the beautiful c...

The Church speaks a lot about the need for servanthood, but we also assume a lot about servanthood. This week we have an amazing opportunity to do a deep dive into this topic and hear not just the teaching of Jesus, but see the heart of Jesus on servanthood.

We have come now to the third section of Mark's Gospel (11:1–15:9) in which we walk through the last week of Jesus’ earthly life. Chapters 14-15 will focus squarely on Jesus’ suffering and death, but first Mark tells us about three trips to the temple (11:1–13:37). The theme throughout this section is Jesus vs. Religion as Jesus confronts the Jewish religious system. There is so much in this passa...

This week we continue our Advent series on Jesus vs. Religion. We will see a conversation that will expose the religious gamesmanship of the religious authorities. Jesus' words will also graciously challenge our tendency to turn religion into a game as well.

The religious leaders have challenged Jesus to a battle of wits. They think they have him trapped in a verbal checkmate. But challenging the all-knowing God to a battle of wits will never end well. Along the way, we discover one of the main ways to discern the difference between Jesus and Religion.

In the 2010 remake of the movie Karate Kid, Mr. Han (Played by none other than one of my favorite actors of all time: Jackie Chan) responds to Dre Parker’s claim of being focused, by telling him, “your focus needs more focus”. Join us this week, as we look at Jesus’s response to the Sadducees in Mark 12:18-27. In this passage, we will see what it looks like to set our focus on Jesus in this coming...