Date: Sunday August 3, 2025

Scripture: Proverbs 30:7-9

Speaker: John Garner

Series: Money Talks

One of the reasons we're more often managed by our money than managers of our money is because we fail to see it as a tool entrusted to us by God. In this message, our friend John Garner teaches through the ancient, gutsy, counter-cultural prayer from Proverbs 30:

"Give me neither poverty or wealth"

#money #wealth #greed #covetousness #possessions #materialism #consumerism #jesus #gospel #idolatry #poverty

Date: Sunday July 27, 2025

Scripture: Matthew 19:16-24

Speaker: Rony Mikhael

Series: Money Talks

The Rich Young Ruler rejected Jesus' invitation because he couldn't imagine allowing anything to supplant his wealth as his true god. In this message, Rony asks us whether wealth has the same power over us.

#money #wealth #greed #covetousness #possessions #materialism #consumerism #jesus #gospel #idolatry

Date: Sunday July 20, 2025

Scripture: Luke 12:22-31

Speaker: Thomas + Miriam Vanderkruk

Series: Money Talks

Jesus has more to say about money than almost any other subject - so you'd think we'd trust that He knows what He's talking about. This week's message is a conversation with Tom + Miriam - newlyweds learning to trust God to provide.

#parables, #gospel, #jesus, #church, #money, #wealth #possessions, #consumerism, #materialism, #coveting, #greed

Date: Sunday July 13, 2025

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 5:10-20

Speaker: John Hilber

Series: Money Talks

Ecclesiastes is a collection of practical, realistic wisdom sayings that most of us ignore at our own peril. In this message, we see that we're not the first ones to struggle with the power of our possessions. God's ancient people were just as torn, just as tempted to find their identity in their possessions. This, we learn, is 'vanity'.

#money #wealth #greed #ecclesiastes #covetousness #possessions #materialism #consumerism

Date: Sunday July 6, 2025

Scripture: Joshua 7:1-26

Speaker: Lane Fusilier

Series: Money Talks

Why do we do what we do? It's because all of us have disordered desires. If we're greedy for money, and if we'd disobey God in order to have more of it, it's because we don't love what we think we do. This message is an invitation to reflect deeply on WHY money has such a hold on our hearts.

#money #wealth #greed #covetousness #gospel #church #achan #desire #disorderedloves #augustine

Date: Sunday June 29, 2025

Scripture: 1Kings 12:1-16

Speaker: Mike Mileski

Series: Money Talks

In a world of Ahab's, will we be a Naboth? In this ancient scam, the wealthy King Ahab and Queen Jezebel take advantage of a man with much less, and have him killed in order to seize his property.

Most of us won't be involved in something so cruel or underhanded. But this story forces all of us to ask: What are we willing to do to have what we want? What would we not do? Whose suffering will we tolerate if it means having more, or nicer things?

#greed, #money, #wealth, #possessions, #jesus, #gospel, #church, #hamont

Sunday, June 22nd, 2025

Scripture: Genesis 1:26-28; Revelation 22:3-5

Teacher: Nathan Tomes

In this wrap up to our series on Creation, we're challenged to think of the Image of God not as some ability that we have that animals don't, but as an identity and a calling. It's two things not one, and it makes a huge difference for how we relate to ourselves, one another, and the world.

#imagodei, #identity, #calling, #vocation

Sunday June 8th, 2025

Teacher: Dr. John Walton.

Moderator: Mike Mileski

In this final lecture, Dr. John Walton addresses the ancient context and language of Genesis two. What does it mean that humans were created "from dust"? Was Eve really formed from Adam's rib?

Dr. Walton also answers questions submitted by conference attendees.

Teacher: Dr. John Walton.

Moderator: Mike Mileski

In this lecture, the first of our The Lost World conference, Dr. John Walton orients us to the ancient meaning of Genesis one. What is God trying to communicate in this story? What makes this passage so important? What does it NOT say?

Following his lecture, Dr. Walton answers questions submitted by conference attendees.

Sunday, June 15th, 2025

Scripture: Isaiah 45:18–23; Philippians 2:9–11

Teacher: Dr. John Hilber

One of the thorny issues in Creation Conversations is the fact that many ancient Near-Eastern cultures told stories that greatly resemble what we read in Genesis. For some, this suggests that maybe Genesis isn't a reliable account of Creation after all.

Did ancient Israelites plagiarize the Babylonians, Canaanites, Mesopotamians? What beliefs did they have in common? What's unique about the biblical Creation account, compared with others'? How is our faith helped by knowing what other cultures were saying - before Genesis - about Creation?

#Genesis #Creation #Israel #Hebrew #Mesopotamia #Babylon #Canaan #hermeneutics #interpretation