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Continuing the "your kingdom come" series, this message connects the clean and unclean food laws of Leviticus 11 to a story in Acts, exploring holiness, the people of God set apart, and how the kingdom is both already here and still to come.

On the third Sunday of Easter and continuing the "your kingdom come" series, this message examines Jesus turning water into wine at the wedding at Cana in John 2, as a sign of God's kingdom breaking into the present world.

Continuing the series on the Lord's Prayer petition "your kingdom come," this Easter-season message turns to John 18 and Jesus' statement before Pilate that "my kingdom is not of this world," exploring what it means to pray that an other-worldly kingdom would come into this world.

Drawing on the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6 and Jesus' sending of the seventy-two in Luke 10, this message begins a series on the petition "your kingdom come, your will be done," exploring prayer and what it means for God's reign to come on earth.

An Easter resurrection message drawn from Psalm 118, focusing on humanity's universal need for rescue and the image of "the stone the builders rejected" becoming the cornerstone, pointing to Christ as the source of salvation and new life.

On Palm Sunday, marking the start of Passion Week, this message looks at John chapter 12 and Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, with encouragement to commemorate Holy Week practices like foot washing and Good Friday at home.

In this installment of the Lenten Sabbath series, guest speaker Brian (filling in for Ben) reflects on the idea of a final, eternal Sabbath rest, camping out in Psalm 16 verses 1 through 11.

In the fourth week of the Lenten Sabbath series, this message examines Sabbath as commandment in Exodus chapter 20, set at Mount Sinai where God gives Israel the Ten Commandments after delivering them from Egypt.

Continuing the Lenten series on Sabbath, this message turns to Exodus chapter 16 and the giving of manna in the wilderness, where God teaches newly freed Israel to gather a double portion and rest on the seventh day.

Week two of the Lenten series on Sabbath returns to the creation account in Genesis chapter 2, framing the seventh-day rest as the culmination of God's good work and Adam's call to tend the garden as an invitation to rhythms of rest.

Marking the first week of Lent, this message introduces a season-long focus on Sabbath and rest as a practice of dependence on God, beginning with the creation account in Genesis chapters 1 and 2.

Concluding the series on the church's four core values (story, peace, lineage, life), this message focuses on life by walking through the whole of John chapter 11, the raising of Lazarus from the dead.

Life: 1 Timothy 6

Part of a six-week series on the church's four core values (story, peace, lineage, and life) leading up to Lent, this message focuses on lineage, exploring family and faith heritage and how believers are grafted into the larger story of God's people.

Peace: Romans 5

Story: Acts 1

Drawing on seminary categories of theology, this message reflects on systematic theology and the doctrine of God's immutability, questioning whether God changes and contrasting Western doctrinal categories with the narrative of Scripture.

Galatians 4

Christmas Eve: Galatians 4

Following the Advent lectionary, this message looks at Matthew chapter 11, where the imprisoned John the Baptist sends to ask whether Jesus is the promised Messiah, with background on Matthew the tax collector and his Gospel.

Advent 2: Romans 15

Advent 1: Matthew 21

Exodus: What Now?

Exodus: Tabernacle II

With much of the congregation away at a church retreat, a fill-in speaker walks through Exodus chapter 32 and the golden calf, interweaving liturgies and prayers from the book Every Moment Holy, including ones for times of tragedy and suffering.