Do you ever feel that the salvation given to us should only be saved for "big" sins? Unknowingly, do you put a limitation on what you can be redeemed for because of your past, your imperfections, your constant failures? What holds us back from going to God and finding wonder and the beauty in what He has done for us? Listen as Lauren Ludlow, a member of Epicentre's preaching team, speaks truth about the lack of conditions Jesus puts on redemption and the celebration that follows. This is not about tears and perfume, but the saving grace found in Jesus's love.

Do you need all the freedoms in your life to worship Him? We pray and we fight for different freedoms. But do you believe your God to be limited in giving you joy by the circumstances in your life? Many Christians around the world would say, "No."

Out of Egypt, the Israelites were rescued from slavery and then presented with a set of new rules and laws. These laws dictated all aspects of society to be governed by; a representation of God's commitment to his people. Listen as Pastor Chris Rattay explains the purpose of the Ten Commandments and the importance of following them today.

To take up your cross refers to the specific suffering a follower of Jesus embraces as they go on the mission, confronting all types of evil in a community with the love and power of Jesus. Are you prepared to take up your cross?

How do you change the status quo? Where do you start and who do you begin with? Often, change is so entangled with judgment that we forget judgment isn't the end. It is merely a tool that is used to break down hearts and walls. Without repentance, it only brings pain and great suffering. Listen as Pastor Chris Rattay shares how Jesus chose to break the status quo followed with an opportunity for wrongdoers to repent, bringing a shalom-based change for the wronged and wrongdoers alike.

The foundation of oppression is untruth. People [within the church] are told and believe that they are less than human. That they will never measure up to the success of society, pitted against an invisible, unattainable goal by which their every being is measured against. But Jesus offers a different story, a new story, based wholly upon the fact that in the kingdom of God, every person is of the same value as the other. There is NO ONE greater than the other.

“As God sets up a nation of Shalom, He sets up a political system to serve people through fairness and justice. He sets up the economic system to serve people through shared wealth and generosity. He set up the religious system to worship him and obey Him. He also set up the system of the prophets so they would be the ones who would check all the systems so they could call those out who began to move away from God’s heart & values. We can see that God intended for all the systems to prioritize people over production. To prioritize people over money, people over excessive comforts.”

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How does the church respond to the countless acts of violence and hatred that are happening across America right now? What action should it take? Is there a right answer? Listen as Pastor Chris Rattay speaks from his heart with honesty and humility on the position of the church and its people. Listen as he lays down his fears before Jesus in prayer of the hurt within our brothers and sisters in Christ, for our cities, and what we as a church should do in the face of unprecedented times.

We engage with this world with a self-focused perspective – we just can't help it.

We will never join Jesus in what he is doing if all we do is lament and gawk at how bad the world is. E. Stanley Jones, a missionary to India, rightly observed the early Christians who were oppressed and persecuted did not say in dismay, "Look at what the world has come to." Rather, the early Christians said in great hope, "Look at what has come to the world!" Jones said that the early Christians saw not only the ruin but the resources for the reconstruction of that ruin. They saw that not merely did sin did abound, but that grace did abound much more.