We’ve looking at different ways that Jesus saves us. What does Jesus save us from? What do you need saved from? I was hiking last week,...

Jesus is first and foremost our Savior.  During Lent we are looking at all the ways Jesus saves us, many of them based on historical...

Often, it can feel like Jesus is a nice, but distant, person. Or that he’s a harsh judge. But first and foremost, Jesus is our savior....

Our leadership team had a rich discussion on why they or anybody would invite someone to church. If you don’t regularly invite others to...

Our last shape in this series is the semi-circle, the shape made by a pendulum swinging back and forth. We’ll use this shape to talk...

The life of a disciple is always about relationship. This Sunday we’ll use the triangle to look at our three primary relationships: God,...

This Sunday our vocabulary shape is a circle, giving a method for discernment and growing as disciples using situations and issues that...

Last week we looked at Jesus’ core teachings of love God & people, pour out & fill up, and unity with God and others. It’s simple, but...

When I was a kid and unchurched, I thought being Christian was all about making yourself believe certain things about God. Christians so...

On Christmas Eve 97 people experienced candlelight and the telling of the Christmas story with light. It was a powerful experience of God...

We’ve been hearing the Christmas story from the gospels of Matthew & Luke, of a baby being born in Bethlehem, of shepherds, and angels,...

I know the difference between getting by and really living. There have been seasons in my life when I was plowing forward as fast as I...

Cold & flu season is upon us and it got me, not bad, but with enough of a cough to make leading worship pretty difficult. I am so...

We tend to see what we look for. When I was pregnant, it suddenly seemed as if there were pregnant people everywhere. It wasn’t true, I...

It’s actually pretty scandalous, God being born. That is messy business with pain, discomfort, chills, and exhaustion. But it was the...

Our Christian influence is felt strongest when we build others up. It starts with hearing God’s call. God calls each of us uniquely, to a...

This week we’ll hear from Bishop Cedrick via video, on the stuff in our lives and the ways Jesus’ influence impacts our time. Bishop...

On social media, influencers are people with millions of followers who sell time to corporate sponsors, making millions of dollars. I can...

This is perhaps the toughest week.  Next Tuesday all the rhetoric, the positioning, the discussion will be over and votes will be cast....

Compassion transforms the world and we can only hold hard-lined positions when we have no lived experience of the issue. Immigration is...