A great way to engage in honest, caring, face-to-face conversations about difficult issues is to do so over a meal. Here Pastor Derrick discusses Biblical examples of what it means to “come to the table."

In this message our two lead pastors – one white, one black – sat together before us as brothers, engaged in honest, loving dialogue as they shared their hearts and stories around the hot-button topic of race and racism.

Race relations continues to be a significant issue in our culture. Today’s message is a roundtable discusssion between Pastor Keith, and Brel and Meylon Clark. Their dialogue sheds fresh light on the challenges and opportunities of living out our “unity in diversity.”

God calls us to go beyond simply declaring His truth to actually living His ways. He calls us to be a holy people – to be different from the world. Our goal is not to get people to adopt our Christian values (right and good as they are), but rather to win them to our Lord, that they would come to know Him, His gospel and His life.

Immigration is another hot-button topic among politicians and in the media. Rather than letting our political leanings color our viewpoints, let us consider how God’s Word speaks into this issue, and how it should guide our response.

Pastor Keith presents a frank discussion of homosexuality, including arguments for it (both outside and inside the Church), what the Bible says about it, and how Christians can cut through the angry rhetoric while standing firm and showing the love of Christ to everyone, homosexuals included.

Homosexuality and same-sex marriage are much-discussed topics in the “culture wars,” and we will address them in next week’s message. But first we must deal with the broader area of sexual sin. Here, Pastor Keith discusses God’s purposes in human sexuality, and the consequences of going our own way.

God has called us to think beyond ourselves and invest our resources and even our people to advance His kingdom to the “uttermost parts of the earth.” Today we break from our Culture Wars series to hear reports from several missionaries serving in India and Bulgaria.

For more than four decades, a woman’s right to an abortion has been both the law of the land and a deeply divisive cultural issue. How are we as Christians to respond to this issue while shining the truth and light of Christ into the world?

On Independence Day Weekend, we addressed not a specific cultural concern, but a principle that underpins and drives all of the issues we will be looking at over the next several weeks. At the heart of every cultural debate we find the word “freedom.” But what does “being free” really mean?