How should Christians live in a world that looks more and more like Athens in the first century (or Babylon)?

Our homes — including the people with us — form us; our habitats are set up to produce habits. The church, the house of God, is a habitat for humanity.

To 'learn something by heart' requires practice. Jesus invites us to practice his words as we build the 'house' of our life on him as a solid foundation, until we learn his way of life by heart.

As Paul walks through Athens he finds a city that is 'very religious' — that is built to produce a certain sort of worshipper. Paul says God has made us to inhabit time and space so that we might "seek him, and perhaps find him," but the architecture of our lives is so often set up so that we find other deforming gods.

Can we pray with confidence that God can answer our prayers?

What does it really mean to have a relationship with God?

Ryan begins a three week series on how and why we pray.

A life with the 'eyes of our hearts enlightened' is marked by hope that Jesus will reconcile all things, in heaven and on earth, making all things new.

The throne room in Revelation provides a vision of the posture and words followers of Jesus are invited to participate in as worshippers who dwell before the throne, that shape us as a worshipping priestly people on earth.