Presence and the Mission of God | Life as Mission | October 30, 2022
Christian kicks off our series Life as Mission by talking about what God’s mission is and how God’s people begin to join in!
1 Peter 4:8-11 | How then should we live? | October 16, 2022
Christian continues our 1 Peter series by talking about our call to radical hospitality, offering all that we are and all that we have to serve others, just as Jesus did!
1 Peter 1:1-16 | How Then Should We Live? | September 11, 2022
Christian kicks off our 1 Peter series by talking about working out together how we live in the aftermath of our new birth in Jesus
Finding Jesus in the Stream- Ted Lasso | June 19, 2022
Christian uses the show Ted Lasso to preach about the story of Zaccheus!
Jesus is Lord over…Our Politics | May 1, 2022
Christian continues our series Jesus is Lord over… where we’re working out Jesus’s Lordship in a few key contexts. This week we turn our attention to the realm of politics, looking to Jesus’s political engagement in the gospels and today as the basis for our own political engagement.
The Things that Make for Peace | Palm Sunday | April 10, 2022
We kick off Holy Week by looking at Jesus’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday in Luke 19:28-44. Jesus weeps for the people because they settled for ease and calm when Jesus wants to bring true peace, shalom. Christian helps us see that the Cross is the means by which Jesus repairs the damage of Sin in us and our world.
Mutuality | Practicing the Kingdom | March 13, 2022
Christian continues our series looking the early church’s life under the Lordship of Jesus by looking at 1 Corinthians 6 and talking about mutuality, a community focused on maximizing the good of others.
The Authority of Jesus | Jesus is Lord | February 6, 2022
Christian wraps up the first part of our semester-long discussion about what it means that Jesus is Lord. Because Jesus is Lord, He has authority over our whole lives to build them as He will. He does that we and all Creation might flourish as He always intended.