Did you know that women and mothers have been the primary bearers and spreaders of the faith?

Delivered 5/12/2019

Primary source -- Rodney Stark. The Rise of Christianity: How the Obscure, Marginal Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Religious Force in the Western World in a Few Centuries.

Bryan Lair from Trinity City Church preached for us on what he's learned in 10 years of Church planting.

Delivered May 5th, 2019

Jesus's disciples ask Jesus if a man was blind because of his own sin, or the sin of his parents. We do the same thing today. Why does pain exist? Is it the individual's fault, or the fault of others? But Jesus has a much better answer.

Delivered March 31st, 2019

On its surface, the story of Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch seems uneventful, but if you dig a bit deeper, its revolutionary. Hear about the first non-Jewish follower ofJesus ever recorded. He was neither Greek nor Roman, but Ethiopian. This was the beginning of a global expansion unlike the world has ever seen.

Delivered 3/24/2019

If you were going to make up a resurrection story to begin a false religion, this is the last story you'd make up.

Delivered 4/21/2019

In one of the most fascinating episodes of the New Testament, the Apostle Paul finds himself sharing the message of Christ with the Athenian philosophers. He stands on the Areopagus, the same hill on which Socrates made his famous last defense—only to be executed.

Socrates was executed for "corrupting the minds of the youth" by rejecting the Greek gods and being something like a monotheist. Paul also rejects the Greek gods. He's also a monotheist. And he's asked to give a defense for his faith. What does he say?

In one of the most brilliant speeches in the Bible, Paul contextualizes the Christian faith not only to Athens, but to that very hill, from an event 600 years earlier.

Delivered April 28th, 2019

Why did the people worship Jesus and then call for his execution just 5 days later?

In this message, we dive into the backgrounds of the expectations the people had for Jesus—like, what's the deal with the palm branches? The donkey? How does Rome fit into all this?

Delivered April 14th, 2019