One of our goals is to be a growingly generous people. So every year we take 3-4 weeks around the holidays to press into generosity; to think on God’s generosity to us and to talk about how we can grow in walking in the kind of generous love He shows to us every day. We call it our |giv| series.
Week 1: Generous Hearts (View Study Guide)
Week 2: Generous Rewards (View Study Guide)
Week 3: Generous Contentment (View Study Guide)
"Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you."
- 1 Peter 1:1-2
All three of our churches will take 14 weeks this fall to rally our family of churches to become the beautiful, God-glorifying, counter-cultural family that God desires His church to be. Peter uses the concept of living as exiles to help Christians connect and understand how to seek God’s kingdom and His mission no matter what level of hostility we find in the surrounding culture. Peter also helpfully hits on timely and practical issues like marriage, politics, community and suffering all within the context of living life as a regular exile.
To help facilitate LifeGroup discussion we'll be posting study guides for each week of the series. You can find each week's study guide here:
Again and again we are shocked by the events we see on social media and the news regarding race relations in our country and it seems that everyone has a particular stance and opinion. But in light of all of the tragedy, anger, and confusion what does the Bible say? It's time we had an honest conversation about race in America.
No matter who we are, where we're from, or what we've done, we all need Recovery. In this series, we explore how the gospel of Jesus brings us healing and hope from the seemingly unbeatable things in our lives.
Somehow we've been convinced that making disciples has to be something extravagant or extraordinary when the Bible would tell us it has a lot more to do with you just being an ordinary Christian in your ordinary life.
G.K. Chesterton said, “The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.”
In this series, we’ll look at the seemingly ordinary things in our lives that in light of the gospel and God’s mission are anything but insignificant.
What happened to Jesus during the last week of his earthly life? Jesus was betrayed, mistreated, rejected, scorned, beaten, and mocked, just to name a few. What was the purpose of these events? Why did Jesus insist on going through them?
This three-week series takes a look at the unholiest things ever done to the best man who ever lived. We explore how he can relate to us in our pain, and how we desperately needed him to die for our sake.
Unholy Week helps us think on and appreciate the cross, and what Jesus accomplished on it.
There’s no shortage of oversimplified narratives about gender, sexuality, and marriage. These days it seems that everyone’s opinion is the right one and if you don’t share that opinion, you’re the enemy. But what is actually true? What do we do when confronted with difficult questions and even more difficult situations? How do we love our neighbor without compromising what is true? For something as complex as gender and sexuality, we need something far bigger. Far richer. Far more nuanced. We need a theology of sex.
This series spends seven weeks unpacking God’s design for gender and sexuality in an effort to understand ourselves, love our neighbor, and live out our mission.
On January 10 we took time to dream and look towards the future of our church.
On December 20 our entire family of churches gathered for one city-wide Christmas Gathering.
For the launch of our church plant, we will be doing a series on the early chapters of Acts called The Plan. Our desire is to trace back Jesus' plan for the church to be a compelling, counter-cultural witness to the good news of Jesus on the Earth. There are a hundred different strategies for growing a church in the 21st century, but the only one we care about is the simple, revolutionary plan laid out in the New Testament.
