This week, Amanda Davis covers 1 Peter 1:13-16

Where did you see God at work today?

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Micah 6:7-8

Andy remembers a story of a woman who came into a church he worked at in need of food, and how the church responded - and whether their actions were truly just.

“The church has to be a safe place to have a dangerous conversation.”

When Andy gives, he realizes that the relationships he’s formed matter. Giving and relationship are intertwined. Whenever we make the decision to give and invest, we see God move in every other area of our lives.

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For Amanda's first sermon, she dives into the importance of service, and what a life lived with that purpose looks like.

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As we talk about loving others as we love ourselves, we have a lot of things to overcome - mostly, ourselves.

Paul viewed himself fully as a servant of Jesus Christ - to him, that was his identity. If we did the same, we could avoid falling into all sorts of traps.

COVID has separated us from people and from having a mission. Andy talks about finding a way back.

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In Jordan's first sermon at our church, she dives into the parable of the talents, and what happens when you fail to live out the mission that God has given you.

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Keeping the Sabbath holy is a physical and specific act - we have to go out of our way to set it aside in order to worship the Lord.

As we enter a new series about the tenets that make up our church, Andy lays out three ways to make the most of your Sabbath.

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Andy points out that Elijah is much harsher to the prophets of Baal than we like to admit - the things Elijah said are so alarming that scholars later dialed it down, thinking surely Elijah could not have said something like this. But Elijah knew that God was with him.

Plus, Andy returns to baseball metaphors - twice! - because the Astros won 11 in a row. And, of course, he jinxes them immediately.

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Some of us are uncomfortable with the word “prophet.” But prophets are not people who have power, but people who rely on the message of God. We need to be able to rely on that message the same way.

Our call is to be a place of refuge from the brokenness of this world. God has given us gifts to share in community together. Because it is not a place that is the presence of God, it is in a community together in which we see God.

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The pandemic has taken a lot of things from us, and one of those things has been the ability to gather together and worship.

The story we listen to today shows how Solomon built a tangible place for God to be worshiped - but though that temple was grand, it was, like everything else, temporary. In the same way, we must use the symbols around us to point us to God - and not to make them too important as they are.

Andy shows us how to hold on to what we’ve inherited from the past, but also see the new thing that God is calling us to do.

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