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God has established a Kingdom in Jesus that does not reign through coercion, violence, or domination, but through love, mercy, and self-giving power. Church, today we are invited to declare where our allegiance belongs...

God does not lead His children into evil or delight in their suffering. He is the Father who walks with us, provides what we need for today, and works to redeem what evil intends to destroy. Church, today we are invited...

The good news this morning is that our God has been and is battling for us against spiritual forces that would overwhelm and destroy us, and He is victorious! However, because that evil is still at large in this world...

God sees that sin has made fools of us all. And we act out of our foolishness. And instead of abandoning us, He comes looking for us. Church, that's the gospel. Forgiveness begins long before we ever think to ask for...

Our Father knows what we need, delights to provide for His children, and invites us to become part of His provision for one another. Church, today we are invited to trust Him more deeply, share more generously, and...

God's will is not simply something that we wait to escape into, nor is it a secret plan for our lives. God's will is to bring the very life of heaven to earth. So, church, today we are invited to embody that life even...

God is more beautiful, loving, and trustworthy than we can imagine, and God longs to be known as He truly is. As God's people, we are being freed from false images of God and transformed into living reflections of...

The Lord’s prayer is NOT just a prayer script we repeat at church or in our own prayers. It CAN be those things, but it’s so much more as well. This prayer Jesus gives his disciples is a way of learning to become the...

Pentecost is the revelation of a slave-freeing, fear-healing, deliverance-dealing, all-embracing movement of God. Church, behold God's presence and power in your body, among our body, reaching forth in the world to call...

The work of God moves forward by the spirit of Jesus outside the gates, among the excluded and the marginalized, making peace until all fear is vanquished and all people find a home in god's community. To whom is the...

Jesus—the risen and glorious One—is Lord over all chaos. He calls us into a love that reaches beyond space and time. As we love one another, God’s glory breaks through, pushing back the forces of sin and death, drawing...

And what kind of shepherd is Jesus to us? He is the One who lays down his life for the sheep… the One who knows us and calls us by name… the One who shares our suffering and cares for us in our sorrows… the One who...

You’re not crazy if you feel like we’re living in a world on the brink of disaster, not in a world where Jesus is raised in victory. Can you relate? If so friends, we declare our need and we proclaim good news into...

Christ is RISEN. He is the first fruit, raised ahead of us, reigning with us until the last enemy, death, is destroyed. Church, in Adam all die, but in Christ we are all made alive. Be alive in Christ this Easter day.

<p>The cross of Christ reveals the horror of what we've done to the world, to each other and to ourselves; and in the same moment, reveals the depths of God's love for us and the potency of God's power to save us...