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Practical insights and reflections from our sermon series
Wonder: How Small Things Pull Us Toward God
When we started this series, Psalm 8 kept pulling at us: a sky that feels infinite and hands that reach down to shape a single life.
Read ArticleWoven: How God Enters the Mess and Holds Our Threads
We opened with Eden not as a distant myth but as a mirror for the moments when we make God an object to be inspected.
Read ArticleCredo: From Creation to New Creation — What We’ve Discovered Together
We began this series tracing that simple, stubborn claim: the world God made is good. When we sit with that conviction together it changes how we...
Read ArticleThe Big Relief: What Grace Does When We Stop Bargaining for Worth
We started this series facing a pressure almost everyone feels: the constant calculus of earning our place.
Read ArticleWhat Are You Looking For: Purpose, Passion, Place — A Practical Faith
We opened the series by naming a hunger that feels modern and urgent: the ache to know why we’re here.
Read ArticleEmbodied: Why Our Fleshful Lives Matter Right Now
We began this series by insisting something many of us have been taught to forget: God didn’t intend our physical lives to be a merely temporary...
Read ArticleCome Follow Me: What It Looks Like to Be Chosen and Changed
We started this series with a startling image: a stranger on the shoreline—unexpected, decisive—and a handful of ordinary working people who simply...
Read ArticleUnexpected: How God Chooses the Low Road to Make Us Whole
We started by looking squarely at a claim that feels almost offensive when you think about it: the way God saves and leads is not upward — it goes...
Read ArticleEpiphany: When Power Meets the Poor in Our Hearts
We noticed how the Magi arrive with maps, questions, and gifts—and immediately unsettle the centers of power.
Read ArticleMerry ChristMESS: Grace Shows Up in the Middle of Our Brokenness
We started with a familiar story that refuses to be sentimental: Eden. What felt like a simple wrong choice turns out to be a rupture in identity —...
Read ArticleEmotional Jesus: When Feeling Leads to Doing
When we started tracing Jesus’ emotions together, the first thing that struck us was how physical his concern felt — not a polite sympathy but a...
Read ArticleCatching Smoke: Learning to Live Beyond the Now
Life starts this series with a simple observation: much of what we chase feels like vapor. Ecclesiastes names it hevel—breath, smoke—things that look...
Read ArticleThrive Turns 10!: Devotion That Makes a Home Out of a Gathering
We started by reading Acts 2:42–47 and the word that kept ringing in our ears was proskartereo — the stubborn, steady kind of devotion that turns...
Read ArticleMisquoted: Reclaiming Prayer, Presence, and Practical Faith
When we put those words back into the Sermon on the Mount, the first surprise was how ordinary and stubborn they are: keep asking, keep seeking, keep...
Read ArticleJourney Through Life: Pilgrimage That Keeps Going
We started this series by admitting something we rarely say out loud: the Christian life is a long walk, and most of us will not arrive at the final...
Read ArticleLive No Lies: How Truth Reorients Our Hearts for Freedom
We started by naming the enemy of our joy—not as a conspiracy theory, but as the habitual distorter of reality.
Read ArticleForevermore: How a Crucified and Risen Lord Reorders Everything
We started with a hard truth: the God we encounter in Revelation is not a distant algorithm or an abstract principle.
Read ArticleEchoes Of Eden: How Jesus Re-orders Power, Community, Rest, and Creation
When we began this series in the wilderness scene of Luke 4, we put our shoes in the dust with Jesus and watched what happened when power met hunger.
Read ArticleResolve: Small Truths That Clear the Way for Big Reconciliation
We started this series by looking hard at something we usually point outward: the real culprit in many broken relationships is us.
Read ArticleThe Songs Of Christmas: How Singing Shapes Our Seeing
We began with a psalm that refuses to let the present mess be the final word. Psalm 98 pushes against despair not by offering a quick fix but by...
Read ArticleThank Gourd: Gratitude as a Relationship That Heals
When we first sat with the story of the ten men in Luke 17, one image kept returning: need erases the lines we draw.
Read ArticleCovered: From Fig Leaves to True Honor — A Friendly Summary
Shame often begins as a small, private tug — a reach for something outside the relationship we already have with God.
Read ArticleJoy For Every Situation: Seeing What Lasts When Everything's Shifting
Joy, in these messages, was not sold as a mood to chase. We began by learning that what looks like happiness is often hostage to circumstance; the...
Read ArticleThe Story Of Us: How Ordinary Failure Becomes God’s Workmanship
We started with a startling paradox: from the first scene we are pictured as creatures made to reflect the divine, yet we stumble straightaway into...
Read ArticleWisdom: How We Learn in Success, Sorrow, and Community
Life keeps giving us the same two exams: the high points where success sings and the hard places where everything seems to break.
Read ArticleEaster 2023: When an Empty Tomb Rewrites Who We Are
We started by holding a question in our hands: can an event from nearly two thousand years ago really change the way we live today? We’re honest...
Read ArticleFearful Faith: Learning to Live with Courageous, Tender Hearts
We began this series by sitting with a command that often feels like the most awkward family dinner rule: honor your father and mother (Exodus 20).
Read ArticleBe: How Rest Shapes Who We Are
Be still was the opener and it's still the hinge. We talked about how fretting — that slow, smoldering anger over who seems to be winning — doesn’t...
Read ArticleA Florida Christmas: Pilgrims, Promises, and the God Who Shows Up
We began with a strange Old Testament festival—Sukkoth, the seven-day week of palm branches and temporary booths that calls a people to camp out and...
Read ArticlePrayer Services: When Asking Changes Us First
Prayer feels awkward more often than not. We started this message by being honest about that awkwardness—the way it strips away our illusion of...
Read ArticleThe 7 Deadly Sins: From Broken Longings to Healing Practice
We began with a hard story about Amaziah and the tidy way success can convince us we no longer need anyone — not even God.
Read ArticleVulnerability: How Weakness Became Our Avenue to Grace
We opened this series learning that comfort in scripture is not a soft chair or a tidy answer; it’s someone drawing near and staying.
Read ArticleSimply Jesus: How God Gets Close and Changes the Way We Live
We began with a startling claim: the God who spoke to Isaiah shows up in flesh and bone. Mark opens like a bombshell—Yahweh becomes a person who...
Read ArticleJesus, I Have My Doubts: Honest Faith for the Sunday-to-Tuesday Life
We started this series by naming what many of us have felt but rarely say: doubt is part of faith, not its enemy.
Read ArticleThe Knew Normal: Known More Than Our Scorecard
We started this series by admitting something honest: we can spend an entire January making lists—fitness goals, smarter routines, career moves—and...
Read ArticleUntangling Christmas: When God Enters the Snarl to Reorder the Heart
We kept returning to Isaiah 2 because it names the tension we wake up to in December: a present city full of power plays, idols, and exhausted...
Read ArticleHabakkuk: When God Seems Unfair: Honest Complaint, Enduring Hope
We learned that faithful life can look a lot like naming what’s wrong out loud and bringing those raw words to God.
Read ArticleIdentity: Given as a Gift
We started this series by noticing something odd: Jesus shows up most often in places the world would call unremarkable.
Read ArticleKipona Aloha: How God’s Deep Love Shows Up in Real Life
We started this series by sitting with an arresting claim: God’s love became tangible in Jesus. That matters because it changes forgiveness from a...
Read ArticleNeighbors To Nations: How a Small Fellowship Reorients the World
We noticed early in Acts that the first Christians didn’t treat faith like a private trophy or a solo productivity project.
Read ArticleEaster 2021: When an Empty Place Rewrites Our Story
We started by looking squarely at the odd detail everyone else might have skipped: the first witnesses were women. That’s not decorative.
Read ArticleBreaking The Broken Mold: Meek Kings, Sacred Access
We come to the Palm Sunday parade and expect imperial splendor. Instead we notice a small colt, cloaks on the road, people whispering a prophetic...
Read ArticleFathom: How God’s Prior Choice Rewires Who We Are
We started the series by standing under a single, staggering claim: long before we ever turned toward God, God had already turned toward us.
Read ArticleStand: Faithful Distinctiveness in Exile
We started with Daniel and a very practical question: how do we know what’s around us well enough to live in it honestly without letting it become...
Read ArticlePrepared: Building on the Rock When Everything Shifts
We started with a simple, uncomfortable observation: no matter how neatly we write our plans, something will come along and rearrange them.
Read ArticleAn Ugly Christmas: How God Comes Into the Mess
We started this series by refusing the Hallmark edit. We read Hosea and watched a people whose story includes betrayal, prostitution, idolatry and...
Read ArticleJustified: Why Our Standing Before God Rewires How We Live
We started this series by reading Romans from the back forward — not as a gimmick but because Paul finishes the letter by naming real people in real,...
Read ArticleThe Blessed Life: Downward Grace, Upward Hope
Jesus starts the Sermon on the Mount with a surprise: blessedness begins not with self-sufficiency but with admitting need.
Read ArticleReplenish: How God Reorders Our Work, Joy, and Belonging
We opened this series by naming something ordinary that secretly weighs us down: we try to carry more than we were made to carry.
Read ArticleShift: Living the Gospel as Family, Not Franchise
True freedom, the first week reminded us, isn't a permission slip or a loophole; it’s a change in identity.
Read ArticleSpring Cleaning: Making Room for What Matters
We started this series with a simple, stubborn image: a jar, big rocks first. That picture stayed with us because it names a painful truth we all...
Read ArticleEaster 2020: When Evidence, Mercy, and Identity Meet the Risen Jesus
We started with a simple scene in John 20:11–18: a stone rolled away, linens left behind, a folded face cloth.
Read ArticleUpside Down Kingdom: When the King Gives Everything
We started with the shock that the Messiah announced in Mark 8 is not a victorious general but a man who walks toward rejection, suffering, and death.
Read ArticleSeculous: When So-Called Sufficiency Meets the Gospel
We started this series by naming something we all recognize: our calendars can become confessionals. We described the odd religious life of modern...
Read ArticleStoopid: Turning Our Hands Toward True Wisdom
We started this series by looking squarely at foolishness—not to shame, but to name it. The book of Proverbs helped us see that a fool isn’t a...
Read ArticleThis Is My Year: Glory in the Cross, Love in the Rubble
When Jesus pointed to the cross as his glory he turned our expectations upside down. We expect glory to look glossy, victorious, and...
Read ArticleGod With Us: How Close Reality Changes Everything
When we started tracing this phrase—God with us—we expected familiar comforts: warm metaphors about mountaintops and victory.
Read ArticleUnoffendable: Learning to Let Go Without Losing Ourselves
We began this series by naming something we all know too well: quickness to take offense has become normal, even a badge of moral seriousness.
Read ArticleQuestions For God: When Doubt Opens the Door
We started this series by asking a blunt question: why does God seem hidden? That question can feel accusatory, but one surprising answer we found...
Read ArticleThings Jesus Never Said: How His “No” Frees Us to Live Differently
We started with a blunt image: two roads that look opposite but lead to opposite places. One path looks easy, broad, and democratic — do what feels...
Read ArticleHope For a Hopeless World: Living Under No Condemnation
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. That sentence from Romans 8:1 changes how we see ourselves in a way that is...
Read ArticlePray: Holding Promise, Replacing Our Scorecards
Prayer kept coming back to the idea that it's not a magic formula but a promise we can clutch. Paul’s prayer language in Ephesians reminded us that...
Read ArticleMastermind: How the Gospel Rewires Our Thinking
Our lives can look normal on the outside and be quietly shackled on the inside. We talked about how patterns of worry, insecurity, envy, and...
Read ArticleStop Going to Church: Becoming the Body That Shows Up
We used to treat church like an event: an hour on Sunday, something to check off, maybe a playlist worth remembering.
Read ArticleAfter This Life...: How Resurrection Reorders Everything
We started this series by facing a question most of us tuck into the corner: what if we could be certain about what comes after death? That...
Read ArticleEaster 2019: How Honest Questions Became a Doorway to Belief
We start where the Gospel starts—honesty about our resistance. The man we call “Doubting Thomas” wasn’t being cute or contrarian; he was realistic in...
Read ArticleKing Jesus: Choosing the Throne That Changes Everything
What the crowd cried on that first Palm Sunday was not a polite greeting but a verdict: a decision had been pressed upon them.
Read ArticleRed Letter Challenge: Living Jesus’ Words Together
We started this series with a simple, almost embarrassing observation: too often the solutions Jesus laid out are not hidden mysteries but things we...
Read ArticleJonah: When Mercy Breaks Our Rightness
We started by watching Jonah bolt for Tarshish and found the story asking a blunt question about who we think we belong to.
Read ArticleKeep The Change: How the Gospel Actually Shapes Our Next Move
We started this series with Paul’s hard, honest forward-motion in Philippians 3 — not as a pep talk but as a posture.
Read ArticleChristmas 2018: When Randomness Meets Promise
We read Luke 2 and notice how the first chapters of the Christmas story are strangely mundane—an imperial census, a long trip, a birth in a feeding...
Read ArticleAdvent Conspiracy: Reordering Our Hearts Around One Treasure
We started this series by looking at a deceptively simple Jesus line: where your treasure is, there your heart will be also (Matthew 6:19–21).
Read ArticleSmall Things Big Difference: Practicing the Little Rhythms That Shape Us
We started with a picture of Zerubbabel staring at rubble and delay, and it felt oddly familiar. We live in seasons where progress looks slow or...
Read ArticleTwisted: Untangling Prayer, Mercy, and Our Hopes
We started this series by looking at Jesus’ promise in John 14 and discovered one stubborn thing: our prayers tell us more about ourselves than they...
Read ArticleShape: Becoming Who God Made Us to Be
We started this series by hearing an arresting sentence: we are God’s workmanship (Ephesians 2:10). That language refuses the idea that we are...
Read ArticleGalatians: Gospel Freedom for the Rest of Us
We started this series by being reminded that the gospel arrives as rescue. That’s a sentence we can say around a coffee table without sounding like...
Read ArticleMy Big Fat Mouth: When Our Words Reveal Our Hearts
When Paul wrote from chains and a cramped house, he didn’t model denial of hardship so much as a reorientation of where his life’s center sat.
Read ArticleDivine Direction: Wisdom That Shapes Our Becoming
When we first sat with Colossians 3, the point landed like a quiet correction: God is in the business of formation, not blueprints.
Read ArticleOvercomer: Running Our Own Race Toward a Different Name
We opened this series by looking squarely at the way comparing ourselves to others corrodes contentment and reroutes energy meant for faithful...
Read ArticleEaster 2018: What Changes If Jesus Really Rose?
We came to this message with honest doubts and worn-out questions, the kind that sound convincing at 2 a.m. when everything else feels fragile.
Read ArticleSelfless: How Being Less of Ourselves Lets Jesus Speak Through Us
We started this series by looking at the bewildering flip the early church lived: people who had been hiding behind locked doors suddenly stood up...
Read ArticleI Choose: Choosing God’s Priorities Over the Noise
We started this series by looking straight at the exhausting habit of living for applause instead of for God.
Read ArticleGuest Speakers: How Other Voices Taught Us to Live Like Jesus
We noticed, week after week, that the guests didn’t come to teach us a new technique. They came to remind us of an ever-present reality: the Spirit...
Read ArticleCarols: Presence That Turns the World Upside Down
God with us is not a pretty poster line; it is a habit of entering the places we’d rather avoid. When we sit with Matthew 1 and hear the name...
Read ArticleDifferent: How Hard Times Refine Who We Are
We began the series by facing a truth we don’t love to admit: hardship isn’t proof that God isn’t real, it’s often the place God uses to show us what...
Read ArticleThe Solas: How Grace, Faith, and Scripture Reorder Our Restless Lives
We started with a stark picture: spiritually dead people going through the motions—moral striving, emotional highs, religious busyness—none of it...
Read ArticleThe Way: How Jesus Shapes Everyday Paths
We started the series with Micah’s vision and the shocking claim that following Jesus is more than a rescue ticket — it’s a pattern of life.
Read ArticleHow To Be Brave: Learning to Live with Courage in the Ordinary
We started this series with a simple, stubborn promise: fear will not be the final governor of our choices.
Read ArticleRest: Relearning How We See Our Lives
We began this series where Paul begins in Romans: nothing of lasting spiritual change happens until our way of seeing things shifts.
Read ArticleMy Story: Small Choices That Rewire Our Everyday Faith
When we started this series we wanted to test a simple idea: small, regular choices change the narrative of our lives.
Read ArticleI Want to Believe But: Believing When God Isn’t On‑Demand
We came into the series carrying a common assumption: God should act like the rest of our on‑call services.
Read ArticleThe Genius of Jesus: How He Rewrites Our Way of Being
When Jesus goes into the wilderness and refuses the shortcuts the devil offers, we see a different kind of strength: one that chooses relationship...
Read ArticleGod Never Said That: Rethinking the Myths That Shape Our Faith
We started this series by looking at the friendly lie that God’s main job is to make us happy. That idea sounds harmless—who wouldn’t want joy?—but...
Read ArticleFoundations: Trusting the Story That Holds Us
We started this series by saying the smallest, bravest sentence we know: I believe. That line isn’t an intellectual checkbox for us; it’s the posture...
Read ArticleThe Gift of Christmas: How God Shows Up When We Least Expect It
We started this series by standing in Isaiah’s strange vision (Isaiah 11) and noticing how the future doesn’t behave like a spreadsheet.
Read ArticleLive It Up: Looking Up, Filling In, and Going Out as a Way of Life
We started this series circling a surprisingly simple move—look up. When Jesus looked to the Father, his whole life found rhythm: purpose, rest, and...
Read ArticleHow Grace Changes Everything: Grace as a Way of Life
Trials showed up in every message like heat under the smith’s hammer, and we learned to read them differently.
Read ArticleThe Reason For God: When Identity Breaks and Grace Repairs
We started this series by looking straight at that Genesis moment (Genesis 3:1–15) where something small — a bite, a choice, a question — exposes a...
Read ArticleA Light Has Dawned: When a Little Shoot Rewrites Our Fear
Hope in Isaiah doesn’t arrive as fireworks or triumphant slogans. It starts with a small, almost laughable image: a shoot sprouting from the stump of...
Read ArticleGifted: Living as People Given What We Cannot Earn
Everything we have—salvation, breath, opportunities, skills—arrives as a gift, and that reshapes how we react to ordinary moments.
Read ArticleThe Biography: Settled Presence, Spirit Power, Ordinary Saints
We began this series with Jeremiah’s hard but hopeful word to exiles: don’t circle the wagons and don’t surrender your identity — move in, build,...
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