Against the ‘cancel culture’ mindset that is so pervasive in our society - the way of Jesus commands us to a practice of reconciliation. We have been forgiven and reconciled to God himself and now we’ve been entrusted to echo that invitation to reconciliation to Him and to embody that message in our relationships. We each are to remember what God has done and now emulate that. Today, we look at how we can foster and build rhythms of reconciliation into our lives.

Life moves pretty fast and if we aren’t proactive to building intentional pauses into our lives, we’ll find ourselves caught up in our culture of speed, superficiality and washed out in distractions. The spiritual life of following Jesus calls us to a contemplative cadence in our living that affords us the opportunity to more deeply connect with others, with God, to sense His presence and hear His whispers in the way we should go. There are some biblical practices that we can engage in that foster such connection.

We wanted to take a night to remind ourselves of our calling as a church. So we’re leaning back into our “mission mash-up” - a full tilt look at the heart behind what we’re to be about as a part of The Church globally and through our church locally. A deep dive into how we choose to live out our mission and values that God has set before us in order to help move His kingdom forward.

A few times a year we seek to create space via a worship night for folks to have an extended time to connect in adoration to God and reach up to Him. Time to pause, to reflect, to pray, to sing and a time to be refreshed. We're thankful for friends from Ucity Church that helped craft this experience. Lean in again.

Habakkuk ends his book with a psalm of praise, despite the suffering about to be endured. How can we have the same hope in times of uncertainty and continue to worship, in spite of everything going on around us? Will we, like Habakkuk, be people willing to pray the prayer of revival when life gets tough?

Now that God has pronounced judgment will fall on the Babylonians, Habakkuk begins a taunt-song celebrating God's justice. But what is biblical justice? And how can we draw principles from this text on living justly?

Habakkuk continues his questioning as he wants to know why God would use evil people to bring judgment on His own chosen people. God’s response shows us that His justice will always prevail in His timing — not our own. Our responsibility in all of this is to pursue righteousness through faith.

As we begin our new series, Sovereignty in Uncertainty: A Study in Habakkuk, Pastor Lyle gives background information on the book of Habakkuk and explores how God deals with our doubts, and how we can approach doubt in such a way that still honors God and His character.

Each one of us must make decisions in life. In fact, research says that the average person makes approximately 70 decisions a day. That’s over 2 million in 80 years of life. We each want to get better at making good and godly decisions. So today, we’re looking at some wisdom from Proverbs and 5 key questions we should have at the forefront of our minds as we seek to get better in our decision-making. *book recommendation: Better Decisions, Fewer Regrets (Andy Stanley.)

Today we’re looking into wisdom around a 5-letter word each one of us has to manage: M O N E Y — everybody wants it, needs it, is trying to figure out how to use it, not lose it and how to get more of it. It’s something we all have to navigate and thus it’s imperative that we look into the Scriptures to see what wisdom God might have about it. We’ll examine 2 key financial filters we see in the Scriptures and 4 wisdom principles from the book of Proverbs.