99 CHURCH

When was the last time you looked in the mirror and left understanding God more? Or worshipped Him for creating something beautiful? Or praised Him for His artistic brilliance and genius? This week, Ying attempts to unravel God's greater plan and purpose for our physical bodies as His image bearers.

Ready...set...(dramatic pause). This week, Jon Yun speaks on the mindset we need to run and finish our spiritual race.

We see in the Gospels that Jesus has an affinity for the broken. This week, we allow Jesus to move us into the intersection of brokenness and beauty. As we do so, we find that Jesus's paradigm of brokenness and beauty is vastly different from the world's.

"If you grasp the love of Christ, you won't grasp at the other things to fill you". This week, Vanessa gives a unique perspective on lust and speaks on how grasping onto the love of Christ helps us escape the need to feel desirable to people.

In the New Testament, there is a sentiment that those who belonged to God are estranged from the world. Here at 99, we call ourselves "a church for the rebels and the runaways". We believe that this epithet speaks of our identities as people who belong to God-that in Him, we are rebels and runaways who are alienated from the world.

The cycle of forgetting keeps us in a stuck place. The practice of remembering moves us forward. This week, Morene Chow speaks on the importance of remembering the many ways God has moved in our lives and shares strategies on how we can set up modern day "altars" of remembrance.

San Francisco doesn't need another Sunday Service. It needs a covenant community. This week we dream for what it could be like if we were a church known for nothing else but our love.

What could revival in San Francisco look like? This week, we look back to 1967 during the Summer of Love, where God stirred an unlikely revival in the small neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury. We believe that the God who did it before can certainly do it again.

We cannot be an effective church in the city if we are unwilling to confront the harsh reality of gentrification. How do we care for our neighbors who are being driven out of the city? How do we support the most vulnerable in our communities? This week, we explore gentrification and ask what the Gospel has to say about it. The Gospel isn't the Gospel unless it's good news for everyone.

Every work of redemption begins with a word. What is God speaking to you at this very moment? The sad reality is that for most of us, the noisiness and busyness of our lives drown out the voice of God. But what would happen if we listened? This week, we interrupt our regularly scheduled plan to listen for the voice of God.