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01/17/2021 – Refresh: Pandemic Edition – Part Three - Community Colossians 3:1-14. Of the four topics in our annual Refresh series, "Community" might be the most challenging to talk about in this current cultural moment. How do we encourage and foster community when...

01/10/2021 – Refresh: Pandemic Edition – Part Two - Discipleship Luke 18:9-14; Matthew 19:16-22. In a previous "Refresh" sermon series, we defined discipleship as "everything we do that shapes our habits and thoughts to be more and more like Jesus." In this message,...

01/03/2021 – Refresh: Pandemic Edition – Part One - Kingdom Matthew 4:17; 5:3, 10; 12:22-28; Luke 9:57-62; 13:18-21. Every January we begin the year with a look back at our first ever sermon series; a series where we tried our best to describe who we wanted to be,...

12/24/2020 – Christmas Eve - The Signs of the Season – Part Four - Light America loves its Christmas Lights. It’s a love affair that began way back in 1882 when Edward Johnson first hung a strand of 80 hand-wired colored lights and put them on a Christmas tree in the...

12/20/2020 – The Signs of the Season – Part Three - Words Matthew 2:13-20. So far in our Advent series "The SIgns of the Season", we have investigated the Christmas symbols of the Tree and the Cup. This week we turn our attention to another slightly obscure symbol....

12/13/2020 – The Signs of the Season – Part Two - The Cup Luke 2:22-35. Last week for Part One of our Advent series "The SIgns of the Season", the Christmas symbol we investigated was the Christmas tree. This week we turn our attention to a slightly more obscure...

12/06/2020 – The Signs of the Season – Part One - The Tree John 1:1-18. Today we begin our Christmas series, The Signs of the Season. Each week we will talk about a symbol of modern, American Christmas and explore its deeper meaning. In this first installment, we will...

11/22/2020 – Abundance – Part Four - Water into Wine John 2:1-11. In this miracle, Jesus takes what is completely common and ordinary – water – and He transforms it into something extraordinary. But this story is about something more. As John tells, us, this whole...

11/15/2020 – Abundance – Part Three - Parable of the Talents Matthew 25:14-30. The world's myths tell us that there is never enough, and we will always need more. Jesus life and ministry destroy these myths with a worldview of absolute abundance, a worldview of more...

11/8/2020 – Abundance – Part Two - The Parable of the Sower Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23. What does Jesus' story about a farmer who sows seed on four different types of soil (three of which are unproductive) have to teach us about the Kingdom of God? To watch this message on...