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Spring always springs forth from winter. In the spring season of the soul, we experience new life, hope, growth, and renewal. And while springtime is meant to be enjoyed, we must be careful not to squander it. Spring is a time to sow seeds, dream again, and pursue God wholeheartedly. This week, we explore the spiritual season of spring, and how God calls us to posture ourselves in the midst of it.

On the journey of life, we go through many different seasons. It's important to know what season God has put you in, so that you can work with Him, instead of against Him, in all He's doing in you. One way to better understand the different types of seasons we find ourselves in, is by observing the seasons of nature.This week, we explore the spiritual season of winter, and how God calls us to posture ourselves and respond in its midst.

Can we really "hear God's voice"? In this week's session, we discuss the very real doubts and insecurities we may have around our ability to hear God speaking to us, and then dive into a practical workshop around understanding the various ways God may already be speaking to us. We also demystify the "prophetic" and discuss how we can start having the faith to give what we are hearing from God to others in love.

Our "Key Questions" series for the summer has been addressing the raw and real questions that we need to ask ourselves that end up defining our lives and our faith. In this week's sermon, our very own community member Joseph Ilustrisimo shares about 5 "powerful questions" - ones that are the right questions to ask and that change the trajectory of your life - that he has asked and how God has specifically moved in his life to answer them. It's a powerful and personal set of testimonies that he shares!

This week, we continue our summer series "Key Questions" and dive into the hot button topic of deconstruction. It's something that many of us are either in process of, or have gone through, yet so rarely discussed in the church. This week, the sermon mostly consisted of an activity and discussion prompted by various statements about deconstruction in the style of Jubilee's Spectrum series, which has been omitted from this recording.

We kick off our new sermon series for the summer, Key Questions, that's focused on the deep questions that cut us to our core that end up defining our lives and our faith. Many of us don't think about these deeper questions simply because we don't have the space or time to. This week, Dan taught on how we can cultivate that through the eremos, the places of wilderness that Jesus often withdrew to be alone with God, and also shared some of his personal testimony about what the eremos has looked like in his life.

Have you ever felt stuck in life? Many of us know that Jesus came to offer us life in all of its fullness. We want to live, but we don’t know how. Instead, we find ourselves stuck in our numbness and apathy. How do we get unstuck and move toward the life that Jesus promises us?

Have you ever tried to help God? We often have a hard time trusting in God and His timing. We end up striving in our own efforts to do what only He can do, often making a mess of things. This week, we explore what it looks like to live out of trust instead of striving.

With the rise of Artificial Intelligence, we find ourselves asking, “What is uniquely human?” AI can write sermons, it can write songs, it can generate images and videos. And yet, as incredible as AI is, there is one thing AI will never be able to do. AI will never be able to replicate the face-to-face experience of human connection. The feeling of being present with another human being. The sense of connecting deeply to another soul. This week, we take a look at Scripture’s exhortation to the Church to never stop meeting together and why our gathering is so important.

One of the most pressing issues in the church today is the topic of women in church leadership. Can women be pastors? Can women hold leadership over men? This week, we dive into the story of Scripture to discover what God has to say about this topic.