Lance looks at the Ascension of Jesus, and the mission Christ left us on earth. We are the body of Christ. We have to live that!

We’ve been given the power to fill every thing in every way with the heart of Jesus. And we’ve got work to do.

“We cannot lament the way of the world if we are not doing anything about it!”

Ephesians 1:17-23, 2:4-7

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Today, Amanda asks us “how do we let the Creed change us?” Today’s section talks about the risen Christ, and how having a risen Messiah changed everything for a people who had waited hundreds of years.

Have you ever tried to change a tradition? It can be harder than you think.

1 Corinthians 15:1-8

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In the wake of hurricane damage, power outages, and a Presidential shooting, Lance talks about the reality of living in a broken world, and what to do as storms in our life come with greater frequency and greater intensity.

We may be living in a broken world, but no one can stand between us and God. No one can separate.

Romans 8:31-39

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Today we get to the fulcrum on which all our faith pivots - the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

His cross opens up the way to eternal life. And we must pick up our crosses daily to follow him.

Hebrews 2:10-18

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Today, Lance looks at Pontius Pilate, the only human mentioned in the Apostles’ Creed (other than Jesus), and reminds us that this is a real historical event. This really happened.

Pilate knows that Jesus is innocent, and he keeps trying to keep Jesus from being killed. But Pilate could not save him, because Jesus was here to give himself away - so that everyone would have have a way to the Father.

John 18:28-19:16

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In the heat of summer, we get to remember the gift of Christmas.

In Jesus, we seen the beauty in life, what life was intended to be. And because of that, we can be truly alive, and can fully live.

“The virgin will have a song and his name is God Is With Us” - the story of Christmas is a story we shouldn’t be thinking about just once a year.

Colossians 1:15-20

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When Lance left the hospital with his first child, he couldn’t believe they were sending him out without an instruction manual.

But in life, we are not without direction. God sent Jesus Christ to show us to be fully alive - for us, he IS the instruction manual.

Jesus is the exemplar of what it means to be divine. He made the face of God known on this earth - one of sacrifice, and self-emptying love.

And he taught us how to follow him.

Philippians 2:5-11

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On our next step through the Apostles’ Creed, Lance covers “God as maker,” and how the very presence of creation around us reminds us that God is always with us. The stars in the sky above us show us that our God never leaves the one behind.

Then, a trip to Homeboy Industries in California, where gang members find their way into the church.

Isaiah 40:10-14, 18-31

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As we begin a period of what the church calls “Ordinary Time” - though Lance thinks it should be called “Extraordinary Time” - we begin a series defining what we believe, guided by the Apostles Creed.

We start with the story of the Prodigal Son, but it’s not a story about a son. It’s a story about a father. A father willing to run to his son and welcome him home during a time when no one could comprehend something like that. And it’s about a God that Jesus taught us to refer to as OUR Father.

Luke 15:11-32

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When Nicodemus came to visit Jesus, he was confused about how Jesus was asking him to be “born again” - wasn’t the first time enough?

It wasn’t - but Lance reminds us that being born again is more than just a single moment, a story to look back to. What about the moments that are happening now?

Our call to faith isn’t a one-time thing. We don’t have to look back and say “that was the moment!” What about the moments that are happening now?

John 3:1-17

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