Continuing the series on vocation, this message turns to the second arena—church—working through 1 Peter 2, where Peter urges believers to put away malice and slander and be built together as living stones into a spiritual house, a sanctuary founded on Christ the cornerstone, justice, and righteousness. It closes with a conversation with Brandi-Michelle Rhodes on belonging and what members of a church owe one another.
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Continuing our series on vocation, we turn to Luke 3 — where John the Baptist tells the crowds, tax collectors, and soldiers to do their everyday jobs justly rather than abandon them — and see how working fairly and well honors the image of God in the people our work touches. Ben is then joined by urban planner Eliza, who shares how her faith shapes the way she designs more walkable, neighborly communities.
Listen & readWrapping up family and turning to the church arena of vocation, this message focuses on the Great Commission in Matthew 28, where the risen Jesus meets his disciples on a hill in Galilee and sends them to make disciples of all nations.
Listen & readContinuing the vocation series on family, this message turns to John 19 and the crucifixion scene, where Jesus, seeing his mother Mary and the disciple he loved standing by the cross, entrusts them to one another's care.
Listen & readRevisiting the three arenas of vocation (family, church, and neighborhood), this message focuses on family through Psalm 68, where God is father to the fatherless and sets the lonely in families, and includes Amy sharing her own story about family.
Listen & readConcluding the three arenas of vocation, this message turns to neighborhood, examining the parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10 and the lawyer's question about how to inherit eternal life and who counts as one's neighbor.
Listen & readContinuing the series on vocation, this Pentecost message turns to church as the second arena of vocation, focusing on Acts 1 and Jesus' ascension and promise of the Holy Spirit, sending his followers to be witnesses from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth.
Listen & readContinuing the series on how to live in light of Scripture, this message introduces the idea of vocation, the three arenas (family, church, and neighborhood) in which people collaborate with God, and focuses on family, reflecting on the weighty, imperfect human work of raising children.
Listen & readHaving finished the chronological journey through Scripture, this message begins a new series on who we ought to be in light of that story, opening with Psalm 8 and its wonder that the God who made the cosmos is mindful of humanity and crowns people with glory and dominion.
Listen & readThe final week of the chronological Bible series reaches Revelation, focusing on John the disciple's vision in Revelation 21 of a new heaven and new earth and the new Jerusalem, where God dwells with his people and wipes away every tear, with background on John's life and authorship.
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