Before I became a Christian, I had a concept of God. I knew there was 'something more' but I had my own ideas of what that looked like. But once I was confronted with the holiness of God, it literally brought me to my knees and changed my life. The prophet Isaiah could relate - the same thing happened to him in Isaiah 6.

As human beings, it's a constant battle for us to figure out our 'place' in relation to God. It's a battle because we're always scrambling to be number one, to be the driver, to get to tell God how He should and shouldn't act. But God is the only truth that holds all of existence together. And me? I'm just a fickle, selfish, lukewarm human being who truly has no control over anything at all. God reveals His holiness to Isaiah and as we submit ourselves to Him, He'll reveal it to us too.

Join us this week as we walk through Isaiah 6 together.

This week, we begin a new sermon series called The Gospel Centered Life, beginning in 1 Corinthians 15:1-11. As Christians, the gospel should be so central to our lives that we cannot imagine life without it. The good news that we are free from the penality of our sins should cause us to rejoice so loudly that we can't help but spread it to others. But what does that actually look like?

Some of us have been Christians for our whole lives and yet we couldn't honestly say that the gospel is part of our DNA. It has its times and spaces, but our thoughts and actions are more often the opposite of how God calls us to live.

Some of us are brand new to the faith and wonder what that looks like in their lives. What will we have to give up? What will we gain? Join us over the next number of weeks as we journey together though The Gospel Centered Life.

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Genesis 11:1-9 is not some story about a group of people who built a tower that God didn't like. It's a story about what the human heart looks like - a heart that is always striving to be bigger than God.

If you don't believe me, take a look at social media these days. Take a look at how many people are promoting themselves, pointing you to themselves, making themselves the ones that dictate how you should live, dress, act. This isn't a slam against social media or anyone who uses it, but it is just one example of what happens when our pride and misplaced hierarchy in our own lives takes place. Pride within oneself is the exact opposite of how we are created to live.

Want a more extreme example of what it looks like when sinful pride takes over? Read the news. Every war, every act of violence, every person who is taken advantage of. It all boils down to the tower of babel - the tower that humans build to be the same or better than God. Listen in this week as we hear from guest pastor Kingsley Lai as he walks us through how relevant the tower of Babel really is.

Offering something of ourselves or our possessions is a very tangible way of re-dedicating ourselves to God. After all, the only reason we have the ability to possess these gifts is because He has given us the means to steward them in the first place. The process of giving something back to God's kingdom is a sanctifying act that reminds us of our place in this world. We don't get to call anything our own, we are recievers of these gifts and giving back is the best way to say thank you. Join us this week as we wrap up our summer series on worship, with a walk through 2 Corinthians 8:1-9.

Have you ever wondered why we say "this is the word of the Lord?" after the main scripture passage for the sermon has been read? Tune in this week and find out!

Join us as we learn more about the benediction as part of our mini sermon series on Worship.

All through the book of Exodus, we learn how God has set up boundaries to keep His people at a distance. There are rules (and rules and rules) about what His people must do in order to be able to come even a little bit near Him in the temple. Because He is Holy and perfect, anything (or anyone) who is not holy or perfect will die if they even glimpse at His holy presence. But God made a way for us to be close to Him and that is through Jesus Christ's sacrifice on the cross.

When we take our bread and wine each Sunday, we are participating in a physical symbol of the spiritual practice of God's communion with us through Jesus. Through this communion, we eat, drink and remember what Jesus has done for us and how God loved us so much that He made a way for us to be with Him forever. No more distance and only eternity in His presence.

Join us this week as we walk through an often misunderstood part of reformed Christian practice and that is the practice of confession. Why do we need to confess our sins? Why does God need to hear from us when He already knows what we've done and what we're going to do next? Does God just love to rub our noses in it? Nothing could be further from the truth. As we'll hear, God's grace is most beautifully demonstrated as we come to Him with repentent hearts. In order to know that grace, we need to humble ourselves in front of our holy and perfect God and the only way to do that is through the regular practice of confession. Join us as we hear from Pastor Mark as preaches through Hebrews 12:18-24 and learn how God invites us to come to Him and leave unburdened and assured of our eternal salvation.

Worship is so much more than just showing up on a Sunday morning. When we worship together, God is literally and actively communicating with us through song and through scripture. The God of the entire universe absolutely loves to commune with His people, so much so that He created us for such purposes and He calls us into His presence as a family. Each Sunday, our spirits are shaped and molded by the living word, letting us connect to the One who gives us true rest. Communal worship acts as a balm of protection in a weary and individualized world and our souls thirst for it. Join with us we begin a new series, Worship: What Are We Doing Here And Why

Do you believe that there is a constant battle for your soul, each and every moment of your life? It may sound dramatic, but it's true. Think about how hard it is to make the right choice sometimes. How much temptation you are faced with on every level in every waking moment. How everything and everyone is trying to get you to pledge allegiance. Trying to seduce you into to pledging your likes, your subscribes, the items in your shopping carts, your feeds. Everything wants your worship. It wants control of you.

But that's not "just the way it is". That's actual, real spiritual battle. There's a war going on and you and I are in the middle of it. Every time we choose something that is against God's good design, we choose sin. And, as the Bible tells us, the wages of sin is death, the death of our souls. True self-control can come from only one place, and it isn't from within. Tune in this week to hear from Pastor Mark on what true self control really is as we walk throught Titus 2-11-14 together.