Matthew 5:3-5:3 | The Sermon on the Mount is widely considered the greatest sermon ever preached by the greatest person who ever lived. The sermon begins with eight beatitudes that describe the good life according to Jesus. The first is about the poverty of spirit. Without it, no one enters the Kingdom of Heaven.

Romans 5:9-5:11 | We are reminded of what God has done, is doing, and will do so that no matter what you're facing, you can have joy this Easter.

Romans 5:6-5:8 | Have you ever wondered why the world seems so messed up? And what God is doing about it? This Good Friday message explores the love of God and his solution for a messed up world.

Psalm 46:1-46:11 | Written in a context and state of great upheaval, utter chaos, conflict, distress and war, the psalmist both describes and experiences God in some pretty remarkable ways ... ways that result in peace, still and calm ... ways that you and I can also experience and then describe to others - so that they, too, might experience The Lord Almighty, Jesus Christ, our hope, strength, hope, and peace.

Habakkuk 3:17-3:19 | It can be easy to fall into the trap of allowing our circumstances to control how we think and feel. However, the book of Habakkuk reminds us that we can rejoice no matter what is going on. God is always at work, our salvation is secure and he will not abandon us.

Lamentations 3:1-3:66 | Hope springs from truth rehearsed. What is the truth we are to rehearse and how do we rehearse it? In the depths of his suffering, Lamentations 3 reveals how Jeremiah was able to pivot from hopelessness and grief to hope in the faithfulness of God whose mercies are new every morning.

Lamentations 2:1-2:22 | We wrestle with God's presence, or lack thereof, in the midst of our suffering. Is he there? Does he care? What about the sin I know is in my own life? Lamentations 2 helps us understand how we should respond to sin and suffering in light of God's response to it.

Lamentations 1:1-1:22 | The smoldering ruins of Jerusalem set the stage for the Book of Lamentations. What brought about their destruction, why are devastating poems in the Bible, is it right of God to afflict His people like that, and how does all of this affect His people and our world today?

2 Chronicles 36:11-36:21 | Learning a new language can be difficult but it's necessary if we want to be able to communicate in different ways. In the same way, learning to lament well is necessary if we want to communicate with God even in our pain. We begin this new series looking at how we can lament to God and how we should be lamenting over our sin.

2 Chronicles 36:11-36:21 | Over the course of Lent, we are going to learn a new language together. A biblical language: The language of lament. Lament provides us the opportunity to talk to God through the pain, whether it's a lament of circumstances in our own lives or lament of the brokenness around us in the world.