We're a community that experiences and shares the subversive yet life-giving way of Jesus.
Paul and Silas sang hymns in the midnight of their prison cell, and Habakkuk rejoiced even when the fields were empty. Praise is a defiant light in the dark—a refusal to let despair have the last word.
Remembering what God has done -- fills us with thanks, hope, and strength
Instead of leaving how to know God, purpose, truth up to ourselves, the Bible is revelation from God.
Jesus is someone to experience, not just learned about
The divine can intersect with our human lives, God speaks – it's about listening and responding.
Serving the poor brings spiritual renewal to the helper
We commit our body and sexuality to God, because Christ died for our bodies, and his Spirit lives with in us, making our bodies temples for his glory
We ultimately work for God and his glory. This profoundly impacts how and why work.
We use the power of our words for God's glory. But that also means taming our tongues.
Being a spiritual influence and compassionate neighbor in the burbs
Blessed for a kingdom purpose, not just to enrich ourselves
God is creating a new kind of community in the land of individualism, nuclear families, and segregation
Cultivating a deep life of the soul in the land of busyness and consumption
Living like Jesus instead of just the Jones'
Sharing your personal transformation makes Jesus real to others; every story matters
Serving displays God's love in action; practical acts of love prepare hearts for the gospel
Eating breaks barriers; God draws people like Zacchaeus through presence and grace
Listening is evangelism; join what God is already doing; prepare to be interrupted
Conflicts are born out of fear and offer an invitation to step out of the ‘fear dance' draw near to God for our legitimate needs.
God loves the wrong people. Will we allow God's merciful and just character to grow compassion in our own hearts?
The destination of our journey being God Himself, and how our witness as holy priests will allow the whole earth to know his glory.
Jonah preaches a half hearted gospel, but reveals the deep mystery of God's purpose to partner with humans in the course of history. No matter what the people do, God never goes back on his covenant purpose to use this family to bless the nations.
Jonah's time in the fish is portrayed as a kind of death. But will this passage through death into new life change him? That's the big question explored in the last chapter of Jonah.
Jonah rebelliously flees the call of God, but saves the sailors. Even our evil can become an instrument of God's purposes.
After the resurrection, Jesus sends us out as his witnesses
Jesus is The King We Didn't Expect, But The King We Need
Obedience brings us into the heart of God's love
Responding to the times with intentionality and discernment, active not passive, and in discernment, following what God is stirring and doing.
Our identity in Christ: Dismantling the Lies - Embracing the Truth - Wearing the Crown with Security and Resolve
Journey inward (into interior castle) with Christ, confronting imperfections, recognizing God's presence within
Because of the suffering of Christ, we are empowered to live a life of surrender and through that, we can experience an abundant life.
We can personally experience God guiding us through his Spirit
The real presence of God filling/dwelling within us.
Our union w/Christ means that all that is Christ's becomes ours
God gave us a gift of his son that cannot repaid, and as an outflow, we give others that cannot repay.
God wants to be in union with us, and reached out to us
God gives us the most unbreakable, precious gift: His love. And we know the depth of his love because of the depth of his sacrifice: He gave us his one and only Son, even when we did not love him. We don't deserve his love, nor can we earn his love; God gives us his love simply out of his grace. All we have to do is receive his love.
Just as Israel was full of worry and anxiety under the oppression of Rome, we experience the oppression of worry and anxiety in our world today. It's no wonder that one of the greatest gifts God has given us is peace. Jesus is not just the Prince of Peace, nor does He keep peace to Himself as a possession. Rather, in His grace, Jesus has given us HIS PEACE by the power of the Holy Spirit. We can have His peace as a gift right now by just receiving it.
Practical steps to make room for Jesus in Advent
God calls us to a politics of love rather than fear.
What is Jesus' definition of leadership vs. the World's definition?
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