Do you have a 2am friend? You know the one — the person whose name you'd dial at 2 in the morning when you're stranded on the side of the road, and you already know they'll show up. If you can't think of a name, this message is for you.
Here's a startling truth: Americans have never been more connected — and friendship bankruptcy has never been worse. Nearly 1 in 4 young adults between 20 and 24 have zero close friends. Among Gen Z, it's 27%. We're lonely, and most of us won't even admit it.
In week two of Adulting with Jesus, Pastor Timothy digs into one of the most breathtaking friendships in all of Scripture — Jonathan and David — to pull out timeless, practical wisdom on how to forge forever friendships.
You'll discover:
* Why God designed you with a human-shaped void that only relationships can fill
* Why you literally become like the five people closest to you
* What Jonathan's radical act of "binding his soul" to David teaches us about open-hearted devotion
* A simple IVT framework: Intention, Vulnerability, and Time
* What a covenant friendship actually looks like — and why it costs something
* And ultimately — the friend who tied himself to you first, at the cross
You are the friend of Jesus. Start there — and you'll find everything you need to go love others the way he loved you.

We've never been more connected — and yet loneliness is at an all-time high. What's going on? And what does it have to do with growing up in your faith?
In week two of Adulting with Jesus week 2, we dig into one of the most underrated parts of spiritual maturity: friendship. The people around you aren't neutral — they're either sharpening you toward Christ or slowly pulling you away. Scripture has a lot to say about that, and so does Jesus himself.
In this message, we'll explore:
* Why real friendship is harder (and rarer) than ever
* What God's Word says about the kind of friends who shape a good future
* The humbling question: are you that kind of friend?
* And the best news of all — you have a friend in Jesus who stuck closer than any brother ever could
Pulled from Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and John 15, this message is for anyone who's ever felt lonely in a crowded room — and for anyone who wants to be the kind of person who changes that for someone else.

Adulting is hard. Higher pressure, a more public stage, a brain that's still developing, and a gap between your income and the life you thought you'd be living by now. In week 1 of Adulting with Jesus, Pastor walks through why this season is uniquely difficult — and why Jesus' question to His disciples cuts right to the center of it: "Who do you say that I am?"

You don't drift into a mature faith. You grow into it. There's a difference between admiring Jesus and worshiping Him — between borrowing your faith and owning it.

Imagine waking up your first Sunday at college, two hours from home, and realizing that for the first time in your life the choice to come to church is entirely your own. Welcome to adulting.

In Week 1 of Adulting with Jesus, you're invited into a direct conversation with teens and twenty-somethings about owning your faith in a generation drifting from the church. Walk through 1 Timothy 4 and discover why great disciples are disciplined — and why the immense patience of Jesus makes that discipline worth it.

How should followers of Jesus think — and live — when it comes to LGBTQ questions? In this final message of our five-week series, Pastor Mike opens the Bible to walk through five of the most common questions people are still asking after weeks one through four.
In this message we tackle:

1. Why do so many Christians treat LGBTQ people worse than others?
2. Who am I to judge?
3. How can LGBTQ people lead fulfilling lives?
4. Can LGBTQ people go to heaven?
5. If I'm LGBTQ, what should I do?

Along the way, we look at what Jesus actually taught about judgment in Matthew 7, what Paul lists alongside sexual sin in Romans 1 and 1 Corinthians 6, and what John says about repentance, belief, and life as a real Christian in 1 John 1 and 3. We also push back on a uniquely modern American idea — that romance and family are the only real sources of love — and recover the Bible's rich vision of friendship, singleness, and Christian community.

Whether you're walking this road yourself, loving someone who is, or just trying to think clearly as a Christian in a divided culture, our prayer is that this message helps you hold onto the truth of God's Word and the grace of Jesus at the same time.

New here? This is week 5 of 5. Catch the full series on our channel — the earlier weeks lay the foundation for everything we cover today.

Some Christians have dramatic conversion stories. Others can only shrug and say, "I don't know — I guess I was just raised that way." Is the second kind of story really less of a miracle?

In this message from our "Bad Parents of the Bible" series, Pastor Steve introduces us to Eunice — Timothy's mom — and what she teaches us about generational faithfulness. She wasn't a super mom. She married outside her faith, compromised in ways she likely regretted, and still God used her to raise a pastor and missionary who would help shape the early church.

If you're a parent carrying guilt over your past — words your kids overheard, choices that shaped your family, seasons you weren't faithful — this message is for you. Christ has redeemed the things that you regret. Faith does not pass through perfect parents. It passes through forgiven parents. That's the only kind of parent God has ever had to work with.

In this week of our series God, LGBTQ, and You, Pastor Mike tackles five of the most common "but what about…?" questions that come up when Christians wrestle with the Bible's teaching on sexuality.
If you've ever sat through a message, read a Scripture, or finished a conversation about faith and sexuality and thought, "Okay… but what about this?" — this sermon is for you.

Questions answered in this message:
1. Does God make people LGBTQ?
2. Is it wrong to be LGBTQ?
3. Why is same-sex marriage wrong?
4. Can LGBTQ people change?
5. What's the good news for LGBTQ people?

Whether you live with same-sex attraction, love someone who does, or are simply trying to think clearly about what Scripture says, you'll find a careful look at the Bible held together with deep compassion — and the central good news that "Christ suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring us to God." (1 Peter 3:18)

What we place next to God, our kids learn to place above Him.
In the fourth week of our Bad Parents series, we walk through the full arc of Gideon's life — from a frightened farmer threshing wheat in a winepress, to the unlikely judge who routed the Midianites with 300 men, torches, and clay pots, to the cautionary turn at the end of his story. Along the way we see how faith grows step by step… and how compromise sneaks in the same way.

A few things worth sitting with:
* Faith is just believing what God says about you is true.
* Even shaky faith can take a step.
* Compromise isn't always wrong — but what we set beside God can quietly become a snare for the next generation.
* Jesus didn't almost rise. He rose completely.

What does the Bible actually say about gender, sexuality, and same-sex marriage? In week three of our five-week series "God. LGBTQ. You.", Pastor Mike opens Scripture from Genesis to Romans to answer one of the most personal and consequential questions of our day: Is God affirming?
This isn't a theological position to debate or a lifestyle to label — it's about people. Your friend. Your son. Your sister. The person sitting next to you in the pew. Maybe you. With roughly 1 in 4 Americans under 30 identifying as LGBTQ, this conversation matters in every home, every relationship, and every church.
In this message, Pastor Mike walks carefully through every key biblical passage on the subject — including the original Hebrew and Greek — and addresses the hard questions head-on:
* Genesis 1 & 2 — God's original design for gender and marriage
* Genesis 19 — The story of Sodom and what it does (and doesn't) say
* Leviticus 18:22 — How to read Old Testament law as a New Testament believer (yes, including the bacon)
* 1 Corinthians 6 & 1 Timothy 1 — What the apostle Paul wrote, and what the Greek word "arsenokoitai" actually means
* Romans 1 — A faithful reading of Paul's most direct passage
He also wades into the questions you may already be asking. Why would Jesus say this? What about Christian hypocrisy that picks and chooses convenient sins? Why doesn't God change my desires when I ask Him to? And the question that holds it all together — can we be saved?
Whether this message is brand new to you, brings comfort, or challenges what you've always believed, lean in. Take notes. Keep listening. There are two more weeks in this series, and every part of the plot matters.
If this is your first time joining us, please go back and watch Parts 1 and 2 first. The whole series fits together as one cohesive biblical and pastoral conversation.

Come unpack one of the most sobering parenting stories in Scripture: Eli the high priest and his sons Hophni and Phinehas (1 Samuel 2). Eli was a respected leader for 40 years — judge, priest, the man people from across Israel came to see. But while he led a nation, he failed to lead his own household. His sons stole from God's offerings, slept with the women serving at the Tent of Meeting, and treated holy things with contempt — and Eli's response wasn't enough.
This message wrestles with the tension every parent, grandparent, mentor, and leader feels:
* When is discipline too harsh? When is it too soft?
* Why does the authority that works at work fall flat at home?
* What happens when familiarity with holy things turns into contempt?
* Is it easier to keep the peace than to fight for the heart?
Eli finally spoke up — but the rebuke didn't match the sin, and his family paid the price. The good news? We have a Father who does not ignore what He loves. God steps in. God speaks the hard truth. And where Eli wouldn't say "my sons must die," our God said, "My Son will die for them."
Don't ignore what you love. Have the courage to have the conversation.