What's the gap between everything you know about the Bible and actually living it? In this teaching from Joshua 1:8 and Psalm 1:1–4, Pastor Kevin Cox identifies the bridge God designed to move us from knowledge to transformation — biblical meditation. This is not Eastern emptying of the mind, but the ancient Hebrew practice of zakar (remembering), hagah (inward reflection), and siach (going over a matter deeply) — a determined, disciplined engagement with Scripture that produces genuine insight, Spirit-illumined understanding, and practical application.

Using Proverbs 15:1 as a hands-on example, Pastor Kevin walks through five concrete meditation methods you can begin practicing this week. If you've ever felt stuck between knowing the truth and living it, this message is for you.

Most people who attend church regularly have never once been asked to do anything more than show up and give. Attend the service. Enjoy the experience. Fill out a connection card. Come back next week. It is a model built for consumers — and it has produced exactly what every consumer model produces: people who are passive, dependent, and completely unprepared for the life of discipleship that Jesus Christ actually calls them to.

In Week 4 of the Built series, Pastor Kevin Cox works through one of the most structurally important passages in Paul's ecclesiology — Ephesians 4:11–16 — and dismantles the consumer model from the inside out. This message exposes a centuries-old mistranslation that quietly reassigned the work of ministry from the congregation to the clergy, uncovers the Greek word katartismos and what it reveals about the true purpose of pastoral leadership, and confronts the doctrinal vulnerability that passive church attendance creates in believers who have never been equipped to stand.

The goal of the church, Paul says, is not a larger crowd. It is a mature body — every joint supplying, every part working, the whole structure building itself up in love toward the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. That body is not built by spectators. It is built by members.

What would it look like if a church stopped trying to improve on God's design and simply returned to it?

In Week 3 of the Built series, Pastor Kevin Cox takes the congregation deep into Acts 2:42–47 — the most concentrated portrait of the early church found anywhere in Scripture. In one passage, Luke gives us four devotions that defined the first Christian community: the apostles' teaching, fellowship, the breaking of bread, and prayer. These were not four programs running in parallel. They were four expressions of a single reality — a Spirit-filled community living in wholehearted surrender to its Head.

This message works through the Greek word proskartereo — the word translated "devoted" — and what it reveals about the difference between casual church attendance and genuine discipleship. It examines what koinonia actually means and why you can attend a small group for years and still feel completely unknown. It unpacks the dual meaning of the breaking of bread and the word anamnesis — the active, present-tense remembrance that makes communion far more than a ritual. And it traces the fruit that followed these four devotions in Acts 2:43–47: awe, radical generosity, favor with the city, and the Lord adding to their number daily.

The blueprint has not been updated. The question is whether we are willing to build by it.

Many Christians struggle with their identity in Christ. Because of that, they don't realize all that it means to be a child of God and the resources available to them to deal with distractions, struggles, disappointments and really life. Therefore, they’re constantly asking God for more of Himself, more power, more strength not realizing that they already possess the fullness of God. It’s not a matter of needing more of or from God. It’s a matter of positioning yourself to appropriate the resources God has already given you. We do this through saturating our minds with His Word so that we biblically understand who God is, His nature, promises, etc, then applying all that we learn to our hearts in obedience and walking in confidence and trusting in God through faith.

Every church claims that Jesus is in charge. The question worth asking — the one most churches quietly avoid — is whether He actually is. Not in the statement of faith. Not in the language used from the stage. But in the real, daily decisions that shape what a church preaches, how it spends its resources, what it prioritizes, and what it is willing to let go of when faithfulness costs something. 

In Week 2 of Built, Pastor Kevin Cox takes the congregation into two of Paul's most theologically dense letters — Ephesians and Colossians — to recover what the headship of Christ actually means and what it looks like when a church lives under it. 

Drawing from Ephesians 1:22–23 and Colossians 1:18, this message confronts the quiet inversion at the heart of so much contemporary Christianity: a church that honors Christ in its confession while functionally running on a different engine entirely.

The result of that inversion is not hard to identify — congregations that are numerically impressive and spiritually thin, members who know the songs by heart and cannot articulate the gospel, communities built for consumers rather than formed as disciples. 

This message calls the church back to the standard Paul sets without apology: that in everything, Christ must be preeminent. Not first among several priorities. First in a category of His own.

The modern church has inherited a model shaped more by the marketplace than by Scripture — a model built on experience, entertainment, and consumer preference that creates audiences instead of disciples.

This series is a return to the blueprint. Over eight weeks, we will ground ourselves in what Christ designed the church to be, call every member to full surrender to Christ and active participation in the body, and release this congregation into the mission it exists to fulfill — the making of disciples in Loveland, in Colorado, and to the ends of the earth.

On Resurrection Sunday we stood together at an empty tomb. We examined the witnesses, we weighed the evidence, The responses of those witnesses, and we were reminded that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is NOT a tradition we observe once a year — it is the central historical event on which the entire Christian faith stands or falls. We closed with an extraordinary promise: that because Jesus walked out of that grave, so shall we. The same power that raised Him dwells in every believer, and your resurrection is not a wish — it is a certainty.But a question naturally follows. Now that Resurrection Sunday has come and gone — now that the declaration has been made and the evidence has been examined — where do we go from here? What does an empty tomb actually demand of the people who believe in it? How does the resurrection change the way we live on a Monday morning, in the middle of a chaotic world, in bodies that are wearing out, facing pressures that don't let up?The Apostle Paul answers that question in a single verse. One verse that carries the full weight of 57 verses of careful theological argument before it. This Sunday we are going to live in that verse together — unpacking what it demands, why it carries that authority, and what it looks like in the daily, practical reality of a life lived in light of an empty tomb.

This Resurrection Sunday we walked through Mark 16 together and I was reminded of something that never gets old — the tomb isn't just empty. It's proof.

The same power that raised Jesus from the dead dwells in every believer. Your resurrection isn't a hope or a wish. It's a certainty secured by an historical event. He is risen — and because He is risen, so shall we be

Forgiveness is not a feeling. It is a decision. It is an act of the will, grounded in theology, commanded by God, and made possible only by the grace that has already been extended to you. You do not wait to feel like forgiving. You choose to forgive because God, in Christ, chose to forgive you.

In a world that relentlessly chases happiness yet remains anxious, unstable, and dissatisfied, Scripture offers a far deeper and lasting joy—one that is rooted not in circumstances, but in the presence of God.In Psalm 16:8–11, we examine David’s confident declaration of joy, stability, and hope, even in the midst of uncertainty. This passage reveals our responsibility to intentionally set the Lord before us, the blessing of God’s nearness, and the resulting joy that flows from walking daily in His presence.We will explore how:1. Keeping God at the center of our lives produces spiritual stability2. The nearness of God brings deep, unshakable joy and security3. Resurrection hope, ultimately fulfilled in Jesus Christ, frees us from fear and despairTrue and lasting joy is found not in what God gives, but in who God isWith rich New Testament connections and practical applications, this message encourages believers to press into God daily, abide in Christ, and experience the fullness of joy that only He can provide—both now and for eternity.Whether you are weary, searching, or longing for deeper spiritual joy, this teaching calls you back to the only source that never fails: the presence of the Lord.“In Your presence there is fullness of joy.” — Psalm 16:11