Continuing the series on the value of life, this message centers on 2 Peter 3:8 and Peter's letters, asking what it looks like to be found living peaceful, pure, and blameless lives as God's people while awaiting Christ's return.
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Opening the series on the core value of life, this message turns to Job 38, where God answers Job out of the whirlwind with questions about creation, reframing Job's frustration over his suffering against the vastness of God's work in the world.
Listen & readA guest speaker's second message on the value of lineage, using the giant sequoias of Yosemite as a backdrop for James 4:13-14, which describes life as a mist that appears briefly and vanishes, and asking how to make a short life count within God's larger story.
Listen & readBeginning the series on the core value of lineage, this message turns to 1 Corinthians 15, reflecting on how the church receives and passes on a tradition it did not invent, just as Jesus came not to abolish the law and prophets but to fulfill them.
Listen & readThe second message on the value of peace examines Matthew 10:34, where Jesus says he came not to bring peace but a sword, contrasting worldly peace with the peace of God and reflecting on how Jesus absorbed injustice rather than overthrowing Rome or the religious leaders.
Listen & readOpening a two-week look at the church's core value of peace, this message studies Philippians 4 and Paul's exhortation not to be anxious but to find the peace of God that surpasses understanding as an active force that guards the heart and mind.
Listen & readPart of a series on the church's four core values (story, peace, lineage, life), this second message on "story" turns to John 4 and Jesus meeting the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well, showing how the gospel takes root where the story of the cross intersects each individual's story.
Listen & readThe opening message of a series on the church's four core values of story, peace, lineage, and life, focusing first on story as the story of Scripture, tracing how the Bible emerged from a community over centuries and how it differs from other religions' sacred texts.
Listen & readThe final message in the summer favorite-verses series looks at the cave of Machpelah in Genesis 23, where Abraham mourns Sarah and insists on buying a burial place from the Hittites, securing a permanent claim in the promised land.
Listen & readContinuing the summer favorite-verses series, this message looks at Miriam's Song in Exodus 15 and the crossing of the Red Sea on dry ground, recounting God's deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt and the army pursuing them.
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