Paul wrote some of the most joy-filled words in the Bible from inside a prison cell. That's not a coincidence. In this message from Philippians 1, pastor John Orozco unpacks why real joy was never about our circumstances lining up, it's...

You've probably seen it: on a coffee mug, a bumper sticker, maybe cross-stitched on a pillow. "Choose joy." But what if that phrase is actually setting people up to fail?

Nearly two thousand years before "joy" became a...

In Matthew 8, a Roman centurion, an outsider with no religious standing, runs straight to Jesus in his moment of crisis. Jesus calls it the greatest faith he's found in Israel. So why do so many people today run away from the church instead of...

A desperate father takes his son to Jesus and asks for him to be healed of a demon that plagues him and causes him seizures and Jesus takes the opportunity to not only show his divinity, but offers us an important lesson and poses an important...

Peter told Jesus he would never walk away. A day later he denied even knowing him, three times. Then, days after the resurrection, instead of running toward the risen Christ, Peter went back to his old fishing boat.

Why do we retreat after we fail?...

Most of us are waiting for clarity before we take the next step. But what if certainty isn't what faith actually requires?

In this message from Mark chapter 8, pastor Steve Ingold looks at a healing story that happens in stages, and what that...

Where is God when a child has been moved from home to home, with no one who has chosen to stay? Pastor Chris Stockhaus shares his own family's story of fostering and then adopting their two sons, and what the Bible has to say about God's...

Most of us picture God as serious, powerful, maybe a little intimidating. But what if that picture is missing something? In this message from Luke 15, pastor Chris Stockhaus walks through three parables Jesus tells back to back, and in every one...

Most of us have wondered where God is. Maybe not in a dramatic way, but a quiet sense that we used to feel closer, and we don't quite know how to get back.

When we ask that question, we usually start in familiar places. Church. The Bible...