The Resurrection is essential to Christian faith, hope, and love. So why is it that it so very often fades into the background? Without a resurrection, there is no hope. But in Christ even death is gain. The resurrection is the foundation for our faith and the future victory of Christ over death. This week, as we finish looking at 1 Corinthians chapter 15, remind yourself of the hope of the gospel glimpsed in the resurrection of Jesus Christ ..read more

The book off Malachi confronts the Israelites returned from exile. Malachi searches the hearts of Israel's hope, worship, and relationships with the question, "where is the fer of the LORD among His people?" In this two part series we hear the same question directed at us in the 21st century. Have we decentered God? Have we dethroned Him? Do we hold out hope for Him to work for justice beyond what we can see? Listen to the message of Malachi as God speaks through His word to call us again to "genuine worship and expectant faith."* * The title for this series is drawn from E. Ray Clendenen's in ..read more

The book off Malachi confronts the Israelites returned from exile. Malachi searches the hearts of Israel's hope, worship, and relationships with the question, "where is the fer of the LORD among His people?" In this two part series we hear the same question directed at us in the 21st century. Have we decentered God? Have we dethroned Him? Listen to the message of Malachi as God speaks through His word to call us again to "genuine worship and expectant faith."* * The title for this series is drawn from E. Ray Clendenen's introduction to Malachi in Haggai, Malachi New American Commentary Series ..read more

In the book of Ephesians, the Apostle Paul writes from prison to remind the church of the massive scope of God’s blessing. Paul aims to encourage and refresh the Christians in the church of Ephesus. Join us in looking at the opening of His letter to the church at Ephesus, and see how richly God has poured out every spiritual blessing in Christ to the praise of His glory ..read more

The Sermon on the Mount is the greatest collection of Jesus’ teaching that we have recorded for us in God’s Word. In many ways, this Sermon is an expansion of how the Gospel writers summarize Jesus’ teaching: “Repent! For the Kingdom of God is at hand.” One of the great themes running through the Sermon on the Mount is the “God-Centered Life.” Jesus doesn’t use these exact words, but the picture He paints of the righteousness, the sincerity, and the focus of a follower of God clearly presents a life that is careful to remain centered around God and His Word. Listen this week as we explore just ..read more

There are countless things in our lives that can hurt us if we do not handle them carefully. We need instruction from a trusted source of wisdom to navigate the pitfalls that life presents us. God has given us instruction in His word to help us live a full and blessed life. Join us this week as we look at Proverbs 3:1-12 at some of the instruction which God has given and how it can produce a positive effect in our lives ..read more

Jesus ministry centered around the Kingdom of God, particularly His teaching. So far in Mark's gospel we have heard little actual teaching on the Kingdom of God. But in our passage this week Mark records Jesus teaching on the Kingdom with 4 parables. Listen this week as we hear from the Lord Jesus about the Blessed Burden of Kingdom Work and the confidence that God's people can have in working alongside God in His Kingdom ..read more

What Mark has shown until this point in the ministry of Jesus is a wide response to Israel's Messiah. Some follow Him closely, some come out to be healed but don’t follow Him, some decide that He has to be killed. How does one man, one message, get so many different responses? Why does this same good news today sound to some people like a death sentence, and to others like the cure from death they have been searching for? Jesus teaches a parable that connects these two ideas. God’s good news that never changes, and the very wide human response to it. If we listen to Jesus carefully as He teach ..read more

What do we do, as Christians, when we come up against opposition? If we are faithful witnesses to the work of God in our life—we will come up against opposition. How can we as Christians be prepared, how should we respond, when we face opposition? In Mark 3:20-35 we are confronted with two rounds of opposition to Jesus ministry. Join us as we will look at this opposition and see how Jesus responds. As we look at how the Lord Jesus responds to opposition to His ministry we will learn how to glorify God when opposition and slander comes to us as we minister the gospel of the kingdom in our own l ..read more

As we come back to our series through the book of Mark, we are looking at one the seams in the book. Our passage today is a bridge between the first section of Mark's gospel and the second. In this bridge passage we are reminded of what has come before in Mark's book, and we are given hints about what is coming in the second section. The second section will force us again ad again to ask the question "Who are the followers of Jesus?" Listen in this week as we see from God's word what it means to follow Jesus, as well as what it means to reject Him ..read more