It’s difficult to read Acts 2:42–47 and not feel both inspired and impossibly challenged. The early church’s radical devotion—learning together, sharing everything, praying with fiery expectancy—often feels like an unreachable ideal, especially...

What made the early Church so powerful and world-changing. The answer is detailed in Acts 2:42-47: their stubborn devotion to teaching, radical generosity, prayer, and the breaking of bread. These weren’t just boxes to check, but the core convi...

It’s been just over a month since we launched our Acts series, so perhaps a quick recap is in order.We started by tracing our spiritual genealogy, looking back at the early church and asking what they believed about Jesus and themselves....

It is perhaps easy, in looking at the events of Pentecost in Acts 2, to reduce the Spirit’s arrival to spectacle—wind, tongues of fire, languages spoken and understood as if by magic. We tend to ask, “What were the signs?” But let's look deeper...

It’s been a few weeks since we started our walk through Acts, and perhaps a brief reflection is in order.We’ve traced the Church’s story from confusion and fear, stumbling through the aftermath of Jesus' ascension, to the radical transfo...

It is a curious thing, after centuries of Christian tradition, how one of the most extraordinary moments in the story of Jesus—his ascension—is so often overlooked. This week, we returned to the opening verses of Acts, asking not simply “What i...

Last week we found ourselves at the threshold of Acts, asking a deceptively simple question: what is the church? Josh Harrison reminded us that, despite all we've accumulated—practices, traditions, and ambitions—the essence of the church isn't ...

As we begin a new series in Acts, a brief recentering is in order. If you’ve spent any time in church, you’ve likely heard the phrase “Body of Christ” thrown around casually, as if it were merely a metaphor—a nice way to describe collective gif...

It’s been several weeks now since we first began tracing the Lord’s Prayer as a roadmap for attentiveness and expectancy in Advent. Along the way, we’ve rediscovered prayer not as a rote discipline, but as the core of our relationship with the ...

Three weeks into our Advent series, we've been tracing the ancient contours of the Lord’s Prayer, exploring what it truly means to wait with both attentiveness and expectancy—a posture Jesus not only commands but embodies. Beginning with our Fa...

Advent, as Josh shared, is more than the holiday season’s clutter and chaos—it’s a deliberate preparation for the arrival of the King. While culture grows busy, Advent invites us to make space, to nurture expectation and longing through prayer....

For the first time in nearly a year, we have stepped out of The First Gospel series and into Advent—not so much a season as an invitation. Advent comes to us as both a memory and a promise, a time to prepare our hearts for the arrival of Jesus—...

It’s been forty weeks since we launched our journey through the First Gospel series, tracking the thread of God’s goodness woven through every page of the Old Testament. Today, we reach the finale, as exile gives way to return—a story marked no...

It's been a little over two and a half millennia since Ezekiel found himself staring into a valley littered with dry bones—a vision both haunting and instructive. Why start here, in utter desolation? Because, as Josh Harrison reminded us, to tr...

"Exile" is not always a distant historical memory but, in many ways, the present condition of God’s people. Just as Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego found themselves relocated, renamed, and tempted to bow to powers not their own, so too are we d...

We are nearing the end of our First Gospel series, having traced Israel’s journey through upheaval, conquest, and exile under empires like Assyria and Babylon. This week’s meditation on Jeremiah 29 casts exile not as abandonment, but as God’s s...

Nearly everyone knows Jonah as “the guy swallowed by a fish,” but the real message of this ancient story is far deeper—and, perhaps, more unsettling. What happens when grace is given to people we can’t seem to love? What if God’s compassion ext...

We find ourselves, once again, tracing old patterns—cycles of faithfulness and failure woven through the story of God’s people. This week, as we listen to Micah, we’re reminded that God’s call remains remarkably unchanged: act justly, love merc...

Over the past several months, we’ve walked through the Old Testament—not as a collection of moral tales or distant history, but as a living, unified story pointing toward a singular hope. In our new “First Gospel” series, we considered how, wov...

This week, as we near the end of our Old Testament journey, we find ourselves in Isaiah 6, the year when King Uzziah died—a moment marked by grief, instability, and fear. It’s here, in the shadow of loss, that Isaiah encounters the living God. ...

It’s a story that feels both ancient and strikingly current: a nation in crisis, its people divided by idolatry, distraction, and the slow drift from what once made them whole. In this week’s sermon, we journeyed through the reign of Josiah—an ...

It’s been nearly seven months since we began our journey through the “First Gospel,” our name for the Old Testament—a title meant to remind us that God’s goodness did not begin with the arrival of Jesus, but has always been since before the daw...

In this week’s sermon, we took a step away from the noise and crowds of the “city gates” to sit with the voice of Wisdom in Proverbs 8. We found Wisdom—not as misty abstraction, but a living invitation—calling out above the everyday scramble, p...

It’s been several months since we began tracing the story of God’s goodness from creation through Israel’s history, so perhaps a brief pause for perspective is due. Having explored the rise and fall of kings and the pursuit of wisdom, we now fi...

Psalm 139 stands among the most intimate, vulnerable prayers in all of scripture—an invitation to dwell in the breathtaking reality that we are fully known, fully seen, and fully loved by God. In a world of ceaseless stimulation and performance...