WISDOM | Wisdom and the Fear of the LORD | April 7

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Sermon by Jake Blair on April 7, 2024.

How do we become people who build our lives on God’s wisdom rather than ruining them? How do we navigate life and all its complexities? How do we make sense of death and suffering? How about friendships, wealth, and decision-making? What about sex and marriage? 

These questions are where the Old Testament’s wisdom books come in. Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs depict how to navigate life’s complexity. Through poetry and narrative, the Bible shows us following Jesus is more than just acquiring knowledge. It’s about seeing reality the way God sees it and learning how to live within it—in short, it’s about becoming a person of wisdom.

This series is part of our Year of Biblical Literacy initiative.

WISDOM | Wisdom and the Fear of the LORD | April 7

Jake Blair

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Stand-Alone | Easter Weekend 2024

Good Friday sermon by Adam Gibson on March 29, 2024.

Our church family spent Good Friday looking towards the cross and Easter Sunday celebrating our Risen Savior! The Good Friday sermon, baptism videos from the Easter Gathering, and this weeks LifeGroup Guide can be found below.

Stand-Alone | Good Friday | March 29

Adam Gibson

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Ruth | The Story Behind the Story | March 24

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Sermon by Adam Gibson on March 24, 2024.

As we conclude the book of Ruth, we find out there’s more to the story. It’s not just about God’s faithfulness to Ruth and Naomi but about God’s faithfulness to His people throughout all time.

This series is part of our Year of Biblical Literacy initiative.

Ruth | The Story Behind the Story | March 24

Adam Gibson

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Ruth | The Risk of Hope | March 17

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Sermon by Jon Ludovina on March 17, 2024.

Last week in Ruth 2, we were introduced to a new character: Boaz, Ruth’s "kinsman redeemer." In chapter 3, we’ll see the risk Ruth takes to make sure God provides for her and Naomi.

This series is part of our Year of Biblical Literacy initiative.

Ruth | The Risk of Hope | March 17

Jon Ludovina

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Ruth | God’s Faithfulness in Your Faithfulness | March 10

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Sermon by Jon Ludovina on March 10, 2024.

Last week, we looked at Ruth chapter 1 and how, in roughly ten years, Naomi’s dreams of a better life are ruined. Chapter one then implicitly asks the reader, “How will God provide?” In chapter 2, we’ll see God’s invisible hand at work through seemingly ordinary faithfulness.

This series is part of our Year of Biblical Literacy initiative.

Ruth | God’s Faithfulness in Your Faithfulness | March 10

Jon Ludovina

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Ruth | Compromise, Bitterness, or Faithfulness? | March 3

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Sermon by Jake Blair on March 3, 2024.

Stories have the power to move us. They have the ability to affect us like facts, and bullet points can’t. A good story doesn’t leave us where it found us. That is especially true of biblical stories.

Over the next four weeks, we will journey into the true story of Ruth. Ruth is a story with ups and downs, conflict and loss, joy and laughter. There are compelling characters who we are meant to learn from both in good and bad.

It’s in this story that we are faced with a question we must all ask in our lives at one point or another, will we entrust ourselves to a sovereign and faithful God?

This series is part of our Year of Biblical Literacy initiative.

Ruth | Compromise, Bitterness, or Faithfulness? | March 3

Jake Blair

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Ghosts & Ancestors | Joseph | February 25

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Sermon by Jake Blair on February 25, 2024.

If you knew God was with you no matter what, what do you think your life look like? As we’ll see in our final week of the series, Joseph goes through pain, suffering, and exile, yet the Bible says, “The LORD was with him.”

Ghosts & Ancestors | Joseph | February 25

Jake Blair

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Ghosts & Ancestors | Aaron | February 18

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Sermon by Jake Blair on February 18, 2024.

This week, we look at Exodus 32: God's people have left Egypt, but as we'll see, there's still a lot of "Egypt" left in God's people. So, how can we faithfully follow Jesus when external and internal pressures compel us to make God in our image?

Ghosts & Ancestors | Aaron | February 18

Jake Blair

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Ghosts & Ancestors | Moses | February 11

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Sermon by Jake Blair on February 11, 2024.

This week, we study one of the most prominent characters in the Torah: Moses. In Exodus 3, we'll see how Moses' commissioning raises many doubts and objections and how God replies in a way we may not expect.

Ghosts & Ancestors | Moses | February 11

Jake Blair

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Ghosts & Ancestors | Leah | February 4

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Sermon by Jon Ludovina on February 4, 2024.

This week, we examine an oft-overlooked ancestor in the Torah, Leah. As we'll see in Genesis 29, Leah teaches us something profound about viewing reality outside of one's circumstances.

Ghosts & Ancestors | Leah | February 4

Jon Ludovina

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Ghosts & Ancestors | Jacob | January 28

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Sermon by Jon Ludovina on January 28, 2024.

This week, we look at Jacob and the question that seems to haunt his life: “Who am I?” As we’ll see in Genesis 32, God answers that question in a surprising way.

Ghosts & Ancestors | Jacob | January 28

Jon Ludovina

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Ghosts & Ancestors | Esau | January 21

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Sermon by Adam Gibson on January 21, 2024.

This week, we look at our first ghost in the series: Esau. As we will see, the Torah provides us with a cautionary tale -  the danger in trading what you want most for what you think you want right now.

Ghosts & Ancestors | Esau | January 21

Adam Gibson

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Ghosts & Ancestors | Abraham | January 14

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Sermon by Jake Blair on January 14, 2024.

How would you define "faith"? Church culture throws that word around a lot, but it's pivotal in understanding what the Torah and the rest of the Bible want to communicate to its audience. The Bible answers this by showing us the life of Abraham, "the man of faith," in the book of Genesis.

Ghosts & Ancestors | Abraham | January 14

Jake Blair

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Ghosts & Ancestors | The Two Paths | January 7

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Sermon by Jon Ludovina on January 7, 2024.

It’s often said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” 

As we look at the first five books of Scripture, stories abound of those who trusted God and those who did not. Some, through faith, went on to be ancestors who blessed those after them. Others proved to be ghosts that haunt their lineage with heartache and pain. 

As we learn to interpret the narratives in the Torah, both the negative and the positive, we’ll see how God works in the midst of it all and calls us into his story, inviting us to walk in the steps of our ancestors who came before us.

Ghosts & Ancestors | The Two Paths | January 7

Jon Ludovina

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Advent | Love | December 17

Sermon by Jon Ludovina on December 17, 2023.

Advent is Latin for "adventus," meaning "arrival," where we celebrate the arrival of Jesus over 2,000 years ago with the global, historic Church. For each week of the Advent season, we look at one thing Jesus has made possible for us through His birth. This week, we look at Love.

Advent | Love | December 17

Jon Ludovina

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Advent | Joy | December 10

Sermon by Jon Ludovina on December 10, 2023.

Advent is Latin for "adventus," meaning "arrival," where we celebrate the arrival of Jesus over 2,000 years ago with the global, historic Church. For each week of the Advent season, we look at one thing Jesus has made possible for us through His birth. This week, we look at Joy.

Advent | Joy | December 10

Jon Ludovina

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Advent | Peace | December 3

Sermon by Jake Blair on December 3, 2023.

Advent is Latin for "adventus," meaning "arrival," where we celebrate the arrival of Jesus over 2,000 years ago with the global, historic Church. For each week of the Advent season, we look at one thing Jesus has made possible for us through His birth. This week, we look at Peace.

Advent | Peace | December 3

Jake Blair

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Advent | Hope | November 26

Sermon by Jake Blair on November 26, 2023.

Advent is Latin for "adventus," meaning "arrival," where we celebrate the arrival of Jesus over 2,000 years ago with the global, historic Church. For each week of the Advent season, we look at one thing Jesus has made possible for us through His birth. This week, we look at Hope.

Advent | Hope | November 26

Jake Blair

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Stand-Alone | Celebration Sunday | November 19

Sermon by Jon Ludovina on November 19, 2023.

This week, we celebrate what God is doing as we hear baptism stories in our church family.

Stand-Alone | Celebration Sunday | November 19

Jon Ludovina

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Embodied | Q & A | November 12

Sermon by Adam Gibson on November 12, 2023.

In the final week of this series, we've chosen a few of the texts we've received throughout these seven weeks to discuss and answer from a biblical perspective.

Embodied | Q & A | November 12

Adam Gibson

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