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Andy Warhol, jello molds, shooting lasers into your eyeball and the reason God wants to prune your life to be more fruitful and beautiful.

Spiritual salsa, why oil lamps can save your life and the importance of engaging with God in His Word. It’s a new year, and if you want a new you, nothing will make a bigger and longer lasting impact than spending time with God. God’s Word is more cowbell for your life.

The Genealogy of Jesus in Matthew is often ignored and treated as a meaningless text to skip over to get to the “real stuff”. However, Matthew's Genealogy has much to offer. It looks back and looks forward all at the same time and reminds us of who God is. As we transition into the new year, it is important to do the same: look back, look forward, and be reminded of who God is.

2 stories, guitar building and blowing up a motorcycle. Christmas ties these things together because when God put on human flesh at the birth of Jesus it was His promise to never give up us. He is still at work.

When you meet a messenger of God the normal reaction is fear, but the coming of Jesus was an announcement of peace. Peace is more than the absence of war or mere tranquility. The peace of God is shalom, complete wholeness and well being. Join us as we learn what it means to find peace in the midst of our fear.

What does it really mean to “Be still and know that I am God”? Why God says “Enough! I am enough” and why it’s especially important during the season of Advent. Joins us as we explore Psalm 46 and some stories in the gospel of John.

This Sunday we moved forward with our series You Can’t Go Until You Leave by walking through the story of the Israelites and the golden calf in Exodus 32. In this story, the Israelites mess up. But God doesn’t abandon them. Exodus is a story about us too though. Through Jesus, our response to all of this must be, like Moses, to worship.

Smoke and fire, cheesecake and Sleeping at Last. What Exodus 19 teaches us about Gods desire for Israel and more importantly how God wants us to experience him today.

Sydney’s story, the parting of the Red Sea and how shame can be drowned in the sea. Jesus died to erase your guilt and rose again to give you a new identity. Part the Waters, Drown the Shame!

Kanye, excuses and why God loves to use ordinary people to do extraordinary things. Join us in Exodus 3 and 4 as we look at the call of Moses to help God rescue his people.

Work produces money and money produces one of two things: greed or generosity. From the front of the Bible to the back the generosity of God is constantly displayed with an invitation to mimic. Though we swim in a world often filled with entitlement resulting in greed, we are called into a life of gratitude that spills out generosity. Don’t believe the lie of just one more thing, believe in the ge...

What Napoleon Dynamite and a man born blind from birth teach us about how to invite others onto the spiritual dance floor. Chicken Little was mistaken, Jesus is still compelling.

First crushes, Brussels Sprouts, Lamborghini’s and why falling in love with Jesus is what we want to be about.

Our lives are dictated by the things and the people that we love, what we have fallen for. And we always fall for what we find beautiful. In Acts 16:11-34, we see the impact of this in the life of Paul as Jesus transforms his heart and relationships with others to show us that Different is beautiful. When we fall in love with Jesus, we fall for beauty, and we fall for different.

Did you know that in some cultures the appropriate way to greet a person is to ask if they’ve eaten yet? Today we explore Boodle Fights, why laying on the floor at an amusement park may be the most beautiful thing on earth, and the everyday radical hospitality that makes those who feel they don’t belong, belong.

Nurses, 5th grade trauma, illegal immigrants and why mercy matters. We’re all half dead hoping for a Good Samaritan; why we need one, how to be one.

What to do when God asks you to tie a grown man's shoes in Starbucks. John 13 and the greatest leadership lesson Jesus ever taught.

A special message from guest speaker Chris Conrad

Politics, money, contentment and the secret recipe for the worlds best chocolate chip cookies. Join us as we close out our series in Philippians chapter 4.