On this second Sunday of Advent, we consider how Isaiah’s longing invites us to wait with hope until our truest desire comes into focus so that we might respond accordingly. 

On this first Sunday of Advent, we are invited into the transformative experience of waiting.

This week we address the radical new reality Christ ushers in and how it redeems work as worship and subverts cultural hierarchy’s. We also hear testimonies of the transformative power of discipleship to Jesus within the context of marriage, parenting and vocational calling. 

This week we discover the high calling and deep destiny God has in mind for children, parents, and how our Kingdom identity in the workplace can glorify Jesus.

This week we explore how the call to to mutual submission and Christ-like love challenges and transforms the husband and wife relationship specifically, and gender relations more broadly.

This week we explore the crucial role wisdom plays in our discipleship to the way of Jesus, call into question which spirit is animating our lives, and meditate on the power of song and thanksgiving as expressions of God alive in us.

This week we slowly begin digging into the qualities that characterize God’s people as we “practice resurrection” and surrender, to be transformed into individuals— and then a community— that make a habit of “walking the way of love”, modeled for us by Jesus.

What role does Scripture have in our lives as apprentices of Jesus? The library we call “the Bible” can connect us to God and form us into people of love, but distraction, hurry, lingering mental maps from our family of origin and other influences can hinder our experience with these ancient texts.

This week we explore one of the most crucial aspects of being a disciple of Jesus: the role of the mind in the active, ongoing process of transformation; what it looks like and how we are called to partner with the Spirit of Christ to experience it.