In lives full of activity, tension, and strife, we can be tempted towards two traps - we either withdraw from our culture out of the sense of being overwhelmed, or we withdraw from Jesus as we set about trying to order the world around our individual notions of right and wrong. In this sermon, Pastor Adam illustrates how Jesus calls us to wakefulness and engagement in anticipation for His coming kingdom.

When Jesus arrives in Jerusalem, he confronts the Jewish rulers. His accusation is that they're pretending to be all about God but their hearts are really invested elsewhere. They're pretending. In this sermon, Pastor Adam shows how the same places pretense used to hide for them are the same places pretense hides for us today.

God is on a mission to bless the world, but Jesus is profoundly disturbed when His people fail to embrace that mission. In this sermon in Mark, Pastor Donny describes the dire consequences of fruitless faith.

Sometimes, everything seems like a ploy for power. Politicians volley for our votes, celebrities demand our attention, and we even seek acclaim for ourselves. In this sermon, however, Pastor Adam explores Mark 10 to unpack how Jesus' views on power upend the expectations of the rich and poor alike.

Have someone ever been too busy to meet with you? Oftentimes, big, important people are inaccessible to average humans. If Jesus is infinitely important person, we would expect the distance between our Lord and ourselves to span an eternal distance. However, using Mark 9, Pastor Adam Mabry shows that Jesus is the kind of leader who wants passionately to commune with His disciples.

In this guest message, Pastor Donnell Jones of Grace Covenant Church in Washington, DC explores what it means to take up one's cross to follow Jesus in the context of our modern world.

Is it possible to respect Jesus' authority and still fail to understand the true nature of his Kingdom? If we fail to see him not as a powerful despot, but rather as a trusted shepherd, then we absolutely miss something essential to Jesus' nature. In this sermon, Pastor Adam uses Mark 6 to show that Jesus is not only the one we obey, but also the one we can follow with joyful peace.

We all have urgent needs, but what do we do when God takes His time to meet those needs? In this sermon, Pastor Donny explores the stories of Jairus' daughter and the woman with the issue of blood to show that in our times of urgency, Jesus may ask more from us than we plan to give, but he will also give us more than we can ever imagine.

We all have urgent needs, but what do we do when God takes His time to meet those needs? In this sermon, Pastor Donny explores the stories of Jairus' daughter and the woman with the issue of blood to show that in our times of urgency, Jesus may ask more from us than we plan to give, but he will also give us more than we can ever imagine.

When Jesus first confronts the religious leaders in his day, it showed just how different kingdom life is from a life characterized by religion. In this sermon, Pastor Adam explains how religion and the gospel have very different things at their core.