In Mark 12:1–12, Jesus tells a parable about tenants entrusted with a vineyard who refuse to give the owner what belongs to him. Through this story, Jesus exposes the danger of treating God’s gifts as if they were our own. Everything we have—our lives, our resources, our opportunities—has been entrusted to us by God. This message explores what faithful stewardship looks like and calls us to respond to Jesus, the Son whom the Father has sent, with trust, obedience, and open-handed lives.

In this final message of our This Cultural Moment series, we look at Jesus’ closing words in Gospel of Matthew 7:13–29 and ask what it really means to be committed to Him in an age of competing truths, political pressures, and cultural storms. Jesus warns of wide roads and narrow gates, false prophets and real fruit, shaky sand and solid rock—and calls us to build our lives on Him alone. In a world demanding our allegiance, this sermon invites us to fierce loyalty to Jesus, discernment shaped by His Word, and a foundation that can withstand every storm.

In a world quick to hate, mock, and cancel, Jesus calls His followers to a radically different way: enemy love. In this message from Matthew 5:43–48, we explore what it means to move toward those who oppose us with compassion, pray for their good, and reflect the heart of our Father in heaven.

In this sermon from Psalm 5, we explore the biblical practice of lament—the way God’s people have responded to injustice, violence, grief, and evil for millennia. In a culture trained toward reactivity and outrage, Scripture offers a different path: bringing our anger, questions, and cries for justice to God first.

What if our prayers have gotten smaller—not because God is limited, but because our confidence has?
Paul reminds us that God is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine—and that our prayers are meant to lead to His glory, not ours.

What if the deepest need of your life isn’t more effort—but more fullness?

In Ephesians 3, Paul prays that the church would have power to grasp and experience the immeasurable love of Christ—and be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

This message explores:
Knowing vs. experiencing God’s love
What it means to be rooted and established in Christ
Why fullness comes through the Holy Spirit
Why this life is meant to be lived together

If we’re going to seek God first, we’re going to need strength that doesn’t come from ourselves.

In Dwell, we continue walking through Paul’s prayer in Ephesians 3 and discover that prayer is not just something we do—it’s how Christ makes His home in us. As we ask God to dwell in our hearts, He strengthens us from the inside out, forming a life that is rooted, steady, and deeply connected to Him.

This message asks a simple but searching question: Does God feel at home in us? And it invites us into a deeper, more honest, and more powerful prayer life.

Kneel is a call to begin the year not with self-improvement, but with surrendered, dependent prayer before a loving Father who has already redeemed us and made us His family.

In this week’s message from our Christmas at Evanston series, we turn to 1 John 4 to explore one of the most familiar—and most formative—claims of the Christian faith: God is love. Not as a vague sentiment or emotional response, but as God’s very nature, revealed fully in Jesus.

Joy isn’t something we chase—it’s what grows when God draws near.
In this message, we reflect on Luke 2 and the good news of great joy that Jesus brings to those who need Him most.