Our series is premised on the idea that we live within a Story. The Psalms are prayers of people either rejoicing in or wrestling with what it means to be part of God’s story. But there is no Story apart from God’s revealing Himself and His...

As one theologian has noted, the Psalms are more than a collection of Israel’s prayers. They, in a sense, reflect a narrative quality: the Psalms begins with an affirmation of hope that so long as you meditate on the Law of the Lord, you shall bear...

One of our greatest fears is being alone; Truly Alone. Not the kind of alone where we get refreshed and gather our thoughts, but the kind of alone where we are discarded, abandoned and left to die. Simultaneously one of our greatest survival tactics...

This Sunday will conclude our series on the Book of Acts. Parts of this week’s passage will be familiar to us, others will be new. What’s most striking, however, is the fact that, two-thousand years later, the story continues. We have been invited...

The storms that we experience in our lives can cause us to doubt God’s goodness and sovereignty, and may even lead us to believe that we are living outside of God’s will. When this happens, we can become paralyzed by fear and doubt and can even see...

This week, we will see that after two years of prison at Caesarea, Paul will finally be transported - by ship - to Rome. On the way, they encounter a fierce storm, and the sailors see the ship’s lifeboat as their means of being saved. Paul, however...

In this week’s passage, Paul is still on trial in Caesarea. As he concludes his defense before King Agrippa, he appeals to Agrippa’s knowledge of the Jewish prophets to confirm that Paul’s message throughout his ministry was simply “what the prophets...

This week, Jim Pearce, Pastor of Visitation, shares what Lavished Grace looks like in our own lives.

This week we find Paul, once again, defending himself before a judge. This time, it’s King Agrippa. What’s unique about this scene is that one portion of his defense includes a recounting of his conversion story - from a life as a Pharisee, to a...

This week we will be looking at a scene in Acts where Paul engages a Roman governor on some pretty heavy topics, namely: righteousness, self-control, and judgment. This governor had a superficial knowledge of Christianity, but when Paul engaged him on...