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Blessed are the Pure in Heart from 2022-02-21T16:00
From the Series, “Sermon on the Mount”. When Jesus announces the arrival of God's Kingdom in Matthew 5, he starts with a list of "God sees you" to those who feel unseen –...
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Blessed are the Merciful (Kevin Still) from 2022-02-14T14:00
From the Series, “Sermon on the Mount”. God reveals His character through His actions and through His Word and through His Son. Mercy is one of God’s characteristics that reveals His heart and p...
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Hunger + Thirst (Stephanie Lee) from 2022-02-07T12:00
From the Series, “Sermon on the Mount.”
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
Matthew 5:6
The question is ‘What do you want for your...
Blessed are the Meek from 2022-02-02T18:00
From the Series, “Sermon on the Mount.” What if the American Dream and The Way of Jesus are incompatible? Why is the power grab, hustle culture the expected norm if it is a pointless path to now...
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Blessed are those who Mourn (Kevin Still) from 2022-01-24T14:00
From the Series “Sermon on the Mount”. In His longest recording teaching, Jesus spoke to a rag-tag group of miscreants about the Kingdom He had come to establish inside their hearts. Most of the...
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Blessed are the Poor in Spirit from 2022-01-17T16:00
From the Series “Sermon on the Mount.” What is the good life? The blessed life? The happy life? The life of meaning, depth, and purpose? What is that like, and who gets it? Is it the one who doe...
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The Sermon on the Mount: Who Are You Becoming? from 2022-01-10T15:00
From the Series “Sermon on the Mount.” We’re all becoming somebody, consciously or subconsciously. Voices pull us in every direction, telling us who we should be. So how do we determine the voic...
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Advent: Where is your Hope? (Meredith Perryman) from 2021-12-20T14:00
As believers, our hope should cause us to walk and talk and live with an obvious difference- no matter our circumstances. So what exactly is our hope? Tonight we look forward by looking backwar...
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Advent: Peace (Crista Merrell) from 2021-12-13T10:00
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Advent: Joy (Brian Jenkins) from 2021-12-06T16:00
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Advent - Love (and Lament) (Kevin Still) from 2021-11-29T15:00
For those who dread the Christmas season, be encouraged. The grief, angst, disappointment, loneliness many of us sense this season speaks precisely to why Jesus came -- to bring light to the dar...
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Preparing for Advent: Selah (Stephanie Lee) from 2021-11-23T12:00
The word itself causes us to pause and consider what God may be saying even when we don’t fully understand. Individually and collectively exhaling and leaning into the arms of our Father will he...
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Acts: Teaching Team Q&A from 2021-11-15T14:00
From the Series “Acts.” The Teaching team hosted a panel discussion overviewing questions submitted by Citizens on the book of Acts.
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Acts: Paradoxical Hope from 2021-11-08T15:00
From the Series “Acts.” Despite the way things feel and seem at times, and against all odds, we can have hope in hopeless situations. We can have hope when things look horrible. Faith isn’t meas...
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Reconstructing Evangelism from 2021-10-26T13:00
From the series "Acts." Evangelism has become a dirty word. Our generation believes that sharing one's faith in Jesus is antiquated at best; at worst, it is wrong. So how...
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Acts: Hope in Resurrection (Thad Norvell) from 2021-10-18T20:00
Despite being hunted, beaten up, and locked up, Paul is at peace and unshaken because he has rooted his hope in the resurrection of Jesus, which lit the flame of God's redemption of all of ...
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Acts: Scripture through Our Senses (Stephanie Lee) from 2021-10-11T16:00
God gave us our five senses to help us experience Him, His world and His scriptures. The Lord uses our prayerful imaginations to energize scripture reading and to help us to remember that much o...
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Intentionally Simple + Wholeheartedly Generous. from 2021-09-27T16:00
From the Series “Vision v.2021.” It isn’t enough to have a correct mindset or orthodoxy of the church. We need a proper orthopraxy of what it means to live as the church in the Way of Jesus, in ...
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Graduate Level Community from 2021-09-20T13:00
From the Series “Vision v.2021.” We all know what community looks like at its worst, but what does it look like at its best? The good news of Jesus is that we can be reconciled to God, but it do...
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Vision v.2021 from 2021-09-14T10:00
From the Series “Vision v.2021.” When you think about church, what are some of the things that come to your mind? Jesus and the writers of the New Testament had very specific things to say about...
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Acts: Oil and Dew: The Evidence of Christ-like Unity (Kevin Still) from 2021-09-07T10:00
From the Series, “Acts.” After arriving in Jerusalem, Paul quickly finds his life mirroring Jesus’ own in ways most of us prefer to ignore or disregard for ourselves. Paul has entered, as he ref...
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Acts: Can We Be The Answer To Jesus'Prayer? from 2021-08-30T15:00
Speaker: Ben Rush
From the Series, “Acts.” With tens of thousands of denominations across the world, representing thousands of different opinions about thousands of subjects - why in the wor...
Acts: Can't Stop, Won't Stop from 2021-08-23T14:00
Speaker: Ben Rush
From the Series, “Acts.” We all know someone who claimed to hear from God to justify an action that God clearly couldn’t have instructed them to do. But, injustices cloaked...
Acts: Rediscovering the Essential from 2021-08-16T13:00
Speaker: Ben Rush
From the Series, “Acts.” In an individualistic culture captivated by relativism and addicted to busyness, how do we live and share the Way of Jesus? Where do we even begin?...
Acts: ...But Who Are You? (Kevin Still) from 2021-08-09T14:00
From the Series, “Acts”. In the story of Paul encountering the seven brothers of Sceva (Acts 19:11-20), interesting questions arise through the voice of an evil spirit. In the heavenlies, we wan...
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Acts: The Power of the Holy Spirit (Stephanie Lee) from 2021-08-02T10:00
Just as Jesus depended on the Holy Spirit to empower Him, we too are invited to receive power from the Holy Spirit to be His witnesses. In Acts 18:24-19:12 both Apollos and this small band of be...
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Acts: Hard Times and Great Risks (Crista Merrell) from 2021-07-26T16:00
In Acts 18 introduces us to characters in the biblical narrative who show us what it means to persevere in difficult, unsure, and uncomfortable circumstances to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ...
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Acts: One True King, Jesus (Thad Norvell) from 2021-07-20T20:00
In Acts 17, the early followers of Jesus are described as "...defying Caesar’s decrees, saying that there is another king, one called Jesus." Amid so many competitors for our attention...
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Acts: Spirit Led and Full of Praise (Stephanie Lee) from 2021-07-13T13:00
Worship is a way that God has provided for humanity to come into agreement with Him. Acts 16 is a window into Paul and Silas continually being led by the Spirit and using praise as strength and ...
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Acts: No Hero But Jesus; Jesus Is Enough (Thad Norvell) from 2021-06-28T16:00
Immediately after helping resolve one of the Church's first dramatic theological disputes, Paul and Barnabas disagree over something seemingly far smaller and decide to part ways. We'v...
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Acts: Freedom From Tradition, Freedom From Independence (Thad Norvell) from 2021-06-22T10:00
Acts 15 offers good news and a way forward for a Church that faces uncertainties, controversies, disagreements, and disunity — for a Church that knows it doesn’t have everything figured out.
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Acts: Unknown Expectation (Kevin Still) from 2021-06-14T17:00
From the Series, “Acts”. While we often respond to God and one another through earnest and vulnerable expectations, we may not always know how to name such expectations or pinpoint where they...
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Acts: From Different to Dangerous (Kevin Still) from 2021-06-07T15:00
From the Series, “Acts”. Luke, author of Acts, offers an interesting story in Acts 13 of Paul addressing a “false prophet”. Paul is harsh, to say the least, both to this character and to fals...
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Acts: The Who of the Early Church (Meredith Perryman) from 2021-05-31T12:00
From the Series, "Acts”. In Acts 13:1-3, we see how the ethnic and cultural diversity of the first century church should be reflected in our church today. But instead of a “fellowship of di...
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Acts: Unanswered Prayer from 2021-05-24T17:00
From the Series, “Acts”. In Acts 12, those who belonged to the church prayed earnestly for Peter's release, with intense passion, moments after the death of James. In the garden, hours b...
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Acts: Sex and the Illness of Abundance from 2021-05-17T11:00
From the Series, “Acts”. In the West, we openly talk about sex but avoid talking about money. The church in Acts is a family that loves generously by sharing time, energy, and money with anyo...
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Acts: Encourager from 2021-05-10T05:00
From the series, "Acts". In Chapter 11, we see Barnabas, who is called the "son of encouragement". Walking in the Way of Jesus is seeing your entire existence as an encourage...
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Forgiveness and Blessing (Kevin Still) from 2021-05-03T06:00
While a Partial Gospel views sin in the Garden and redemption on the Cross as the totality of our Christian experience, a Fuller Gospel reaches back to our Image-bearing purposes with God in Cre...
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Belonging to Jesus (Brian Jenkins) from 2021-04-27T09:00
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Acts: God's People, Our People (Thad Norvell) from 2021-04-19T05:00
From the series, "Acts". As Peter and the early Church continue to discover in Acts 10, the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus open the doorway to God's Kingdom for anyone and...
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Acts: Opposition as Opportunity from 2021-04-12T05:00
From the series, "Acts". Why is it that when some people face opposition, they’re resilient, while others completely fall apart? Roadblocks, detours, and closed doors are expected part...
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Resurrection Sunday from 2021-04-06T04:00
Resurrection is God’s rescue mission, and it all begins with Jesus conquering death with a tomb that’s empty. Resurrection announces that there is a new creation bursting forth, right here and r...
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Palm Sunday (Crista Merrell) from 2021-03-30T05:00
The Bible is meant to be read in three dimensions: understanding the text, knowing its historical significance, and seeing it all through the cultural lens of ancient Israel. Palm Sunday challe...
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The Family of God: What It Is and Is Not (Kevin Still) from 2021-03-15T05:00
Most of our misconceptions regarding the "Family of God" are steeped in the modern American ethos of do more and more things for more and more people, which is not the Father's he...
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Acts: The Relational, Reconciling God from 2021-03-08T13:00
From the Series, “Acts”. God is deeply and fundamentally relational, and because of this, he will use any means possible to be in a relationship with humankind, and that includes you. In Acts 8,...
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Acts: The Power, Cost, and Hope of Cross-Shaped Living (Thad Norvell) from 2021-03-01T05:00
From the series, “Acts”. The faith that has been handed down to us is not the result of a Church that won cultural and political battles over the centuries. It's an inheritance from men and...
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The Way of Jesus: Discernment from 2021-02-22T05:00
From the Series, “The Way of Jesus”. Our lives are no more than the combination of a million tiny decisions. How do we live with discernment and wisdom that reflects the way of Jesus in areas th...
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Acts: Taking A Step Towards Community (Kevin Still) from 2021-02-08T05:00
From the series, “Acts”. Acts 6:1-7 reports the first major conflict in the early church. The disciples' response reveals significant truths (and challenges) about God's hope to estab...
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Acts: Acknowledging Authority in the Age of Autonomy from 2021-02-02T09:00
From the series, “Acts”. We are, by and large, suspicious of any kind of authority, both good or bad. We fear the loss of our independent control, so we recoil with skepticism and negativity. In...
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Acts: Great Fear and Life Together from 2021-01-25T07:00
From the series, “Acts”. In Acts 5:12-16, great fear gripped the church after the deaths of Ananias & Sapphira. This fear resulted in the people of Jesus, gathered together, and signs and wo...
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Acts: A New Identity from 2021-01-18T05:00
From the series, “Acts”. In Acts 4:32-5:11, we learn to live in the Way of Jesus, and in the new identity that follows, through extreme generosity. The arrogance of accumulation, the conceit of ...
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Acts: Nationalism, Racism, and Prayer from 2021-01-11T05:00
From the series, "Acts". In Acts 4:23-31, the early church prays, and God answers. How do we pray for America? Will our prayers lead to revival, or do they wear God out? Christian Nati...
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The Way of Jesus: Promises (Crista Merrell) from 2021-01-04T06:00
From the series, “The Way of Jesus”. God is the consummate promise keeper, but even the most faithful of us reach a point of needing to reach deeper into our faith and into scripture to find hop...
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The Way of Jesus: Prayer from 2020-12-28T05:00
From the series, “The Way of Jesus”. We pray to know God, imitate Jesus, and rely on the Holy Spirit. In Luke 18, Jesus highlights a prayer mindset that is persistent and humble. A prayer model ...
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Advent: Love from 2020-12-22T06:00
From the series, “Advent”. The first advent was motivated by love; to seek and save the lost. Advent living is loving God and neighbor - carrying out Jesus’ first advent mission - emotion plus a...
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Advent: Joy (Stephanie Lee) from 2020-12-14T05:00
From the series, “Advent”. Joy is the unshakable awareness that God is good and He is with us. Joy isn't a simple feeling of optimism or a personality trait, nor is it a slave to circumsta...
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Advent: Peace (Thad Norvell) from 2020-12-07T13:00
From the series, “Advent”. Peacemaking is Advent living because it recognizes that the fullness of God’s peace is not here yet, but it hopes for it, and not passively; we hope for and anticipate...
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Advent: Hope (Kevin Still) from 2020-11-30T10:00
From the series, “Advent”. As God's children, we were not created to crumble before harsh realities, nor were we made to dull ourselves to personal or social adversities. Rather, we were de...
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The Way of Jesus: Gratitude from 2020-11-23T10:00
From the series, “The Way of Jesus”. Every day, we can grumble or we can live with gratitude. Nothing is deserved. Everything is a gift from God. The only adequate response to all life’s gifts i...
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The Way of Jesus: Silence&Solitude from 2020-11-16T09:00
From the series “The Way of Jesus”. We live in the chaos of an over-busy, hurried, digitally distracted, and noisy world. The practices of silence and solitude enable us to thrive in spite of ch...
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The Way of Jesus: Consider Your Foundation (Meredith Perryman) from 2020-11-09T06:00
From the series, “The Way of Jesus”. Spiritual practices are important and good. They are tools that can grow us, change us, and deepen intimacy with our Father. However, unless our foundation...
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The Way of Jesus: Dangerous Rabbis + Distorted Thinking from 2020-11-02T05:00
From the series, “The Way of Jesus”. Real transformation means we have to abandon the false rabbis of tradition, legalism, movement, and self. When we leave those empty trappings behind, escape ...
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The Way of Jesus: Live Like Jesus Lived from 2020-10-26T06:00
From the series, “The Way of Jesus”. How do we live like Jesus in the moment-to-moment events of our lives? Beyond our assumptions, biases, and the white noise of cultural Christianity ...
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The Way of Jesus: Be Like Jesus from 2020-10-19T05:00
From the series, “The Way of Jesus”. To become like Jesus, our lives must be increasingly saturated by the presence and power of Jesus. As disciples of Jesus, we are learning to have the mindset...
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The Way of Jesus: Be With Jesus (Thad Norvell) from 2020-10-12T09:00
From the series, “The Way of Jesus”. Jesus invites us to follow him into a way that can seem burdensome, if not impossible - a life of enemy-love, irrational grace and justice, and divine power....
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The Way of Jesus: Disciple from 2020-10-04T19:00
From the series, “The Way of Jesus”. What does it mean to be a disciple of Jesus? To be an apprentice, a student, and a learner of Jesus? A disciple of Jesus builds their life on these three goa...
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Acts: Influence>Power (Crista Merrell) from 2020-09-27T12:00
From the series, "Acts". How does the church engage in this cultural moment? Through the activity of the early church in Acts 4:1-24, we see that fire makes an impression, the presence...
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Acts: Healing from 2020-09-20T23:00
From the series, "Acts".Why doesn’t God always heal people? Why are some healed and others live in agony? Why as a culture do we think that our own analysis is infallible and God’s wor...
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Psalm 103: Benefits of Early Church Devotion (Kevin Still) from 2020-09-06T17:00
The Spiritual Disciplines -- those things to which the early church in Acts devoted themselves -- mark our active turning away from the forces that deplete us and towards an already present God ...
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Acts: Devoted to Fellowship from 2020-08-30T20:00
From the series, "Acts". In Luke’s idyllic picture of the nascent church in Acts 2:42-47, we see a church devoted to four simple things. The most radical of the four? Fellowship. This ...
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Acts: The Good News, the Response, and the Results from 2020-08-26T20:00
From the series, “Acts”. What is keeping us from being aware of what Jesus is doing right now? In Acts 2:14-41, Peter preaches the gospel to the diaspora Jews. Those that didn’t recognize Jesus ...
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Acts: The Holy Spirit from 2020-08-16T12:00
From the series, “Acts”. When the early church was filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in tongues in Acts 2:1-13, the crowds responded in astonishment and ridicule. Does the church to...
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Acts: Devoted to the Word from 2020-08-09T12:00
From the series “Acts”. Disciples of Jesus are devoted to knowing, loving, and living the scriptures. Acts 1:15-26 shows us how to submit to God’s will and make decisions that please God in the ...
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Acts: Devoted Prayer from 2020-08-02T14:00
From the series, “Acts”. Disciples of Jesus live in community and are devoted to prayer. The early church in Acts 1:12-14 provides a model for praying during times of fear and uncertainty.
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Acts: Disorientation, Disappointment, and the Death of Expectations (Thad Norvell) from 2020-07-26T14:00
When Jesus died and then again after his ascension, his earliest followers faced the confusion and doubts that naturally follow the loss of "normal" and the death of expectations, yet ...
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Loving the Church (Kevin Still) from 2020-07-19T14:00
Presenting the Church to ourselves as Christ presents it to Himself is an act of Spiritual Warfare. We must see, behold, and love the Church as Christ loves her.
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Lifted Above the Fog (Stephanie Lee) from 2020-07-12T14:00
God’s desire for his sons and daughters is to live fully awake, seeing clearly, and fully alive in relationship with him, even in the fog and confusion of our world today.
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The Good Samaritan from 2020-07-05T13:00
In Luke 10:25-37, an expert in the Torah asks Jesus for his definition of a neighbor. Jesus responds in a parable, describing a neighbor as someone we become.
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Plankeyes and Biblical Confrontation from 2020-06-28T13:00
With his unique sense of humor, Jesus teaches us that our vision is impaired and that we are misguided when we judge others before honest self reflection and confession. Luke 6:37-42
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The Full Gospel (Meredith Perryman) from 2020-06-14T13:00
The Gospel is more than just a way to get to heaven. It’s about heaven invading every space on earth. It starts before the fall, at creation itself, and encompasses the restoration of all create...
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Moving Towards the Broken (Jason Johnson) from 2020-05-24T12:00
Jesus pursued us even when we were broken and lost. In the same way, we are called to look for and love the broken world around us. James 1:27
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Love One Another from 2020-05-17T12:00
We are both hurt in relationship and healed in relationship. Jesus lived in community and his call to follow him is synonymously a call to live in community with other students of Jesus. John 15...
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The Good Shepherd from 2020-05-10T12:00
Jesus offers to be our good shepherd who calls us by name, leads us out, and goes ahead of us. As students of Jesus, we are learning to recognize His voice. John 10:1-11
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The Good Shepherd from 2020-05-10T12:00
Jesus offers to be our good shepherd who calls us by name, leads us out, and goes ahead of us. As students of Jesus, we are learning to recognize His voice. John 10:1-11
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The Good Shepherd from 2020-05-10T12:00
Jesus offers to be our good shepherd who calls us by name, leads us out, and goes ahead of us. As students of Jesus, we are learning to recognize His voice. John 10:1-11
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