How can we learn from John the Baptist as we prepare, like he did, for the coming of our Lord Jesus?

He came once as a baby. He's coming again as a Creator, riding on the clouds. The Advent season is about remembering Jesus' first coming so that we an properly anticipate his return!

True gratitude is proven in generosity. Paul believed that Jesus makes Christians generous. So how do we think rightly about what we have, and live as truly cheerful givers?

When we believe the Gospel and receive God's Holy Spirit, we join the front lines of a cosmic battle. Our life and relationships become the new territories to be won for Christ. But the enemy is cunning and we're not strong enough. So how do we be strong like God? How do we put on God's strength?

Guest teacher, Don Straka, opens Psalm 77 with us and explores what it means to lament in the presence of God.

If the Christian life is a life of "submitting to one another" (5:21) then how does that submission show up in the unique and various roles and relationships that we find ourselves in?

As a family that imitates God and loves like Christ, what does it mean to walk together as children of light, as wise, and as filled with the Spirit?

In the midst of Paul's practical and ethical exhortations, he anchors Christian ethics in a simple description of what it means to be and live as a Christian. Being a Christian is all about imitation, love, and substitution.

JB provides a report from his trip to East Africa, and we ask the simple question; Why go? Aside from wanting to be obedient to Christ who sends us, what motivates and compels us to go either to Africa or to our neighbor with the Gospel?

As a church, united in the Spirit, under Christ, what do we do now? What does this life in the Spirit look like and how can we put off the old life and live in the new life we’ve received?