Jesus doesn’t condemn us for the messes we've made. He forgives us! But he doesn’t want us to sit there in our mess. Jesus taught that the way out of our messes isn’t to believe our way out but to follow him. When we follow Jesus, we follow him...

It’s easy to look down on others who are a “mess” and judge them. But what if we’re looking at the wrong standard if we’re always comparing our lives to the lives of others. What if we’re all mess in need of the same thing?

Jesus didn’t come to make bad people good. Jesus came to make dead people live. How do you keep living after you die? That’s what Easter is all about. And this isn’t just something for church people. Easter is something for all people, including you.

When God refuses to act the way that Jonah expects

God to act, he isn’t just frustrated with God. He’s furious with

God. Yet in the most unexpected ending to this story, God hammers

home the theme—the theme that God is unrelenting in his grace...

By this point in the Jonah story, God should be

done with everyone. Not only should he be out of patience for

Nineveh, but he should also be out of patience for Jonah. But when

Jonah finally reluctantly obeys God, he seems to take delight in

the...

“Grace” is the unrelenting love of God for people

who don't deserve it. Yet for many people, grace is still an

abstraction. And it's not the life-changing force it can be. In

this message, we will discover that grace is a strange thing...

The Jonah story ends so abruptly that it feels as if someone tore a page out of the Bible. While the story of Jonah is complete, the story of grace was not yet complete. In this message, we’ll discover exactly what role Jonah played in the story of...

Jonah was running from God. And he was running from

him for an interesting reason—he was running from him because he

found the mercy of God to be troubling. But why? How can God’s

relentless mercy for people who do not deserve it be so

troubling?

Jonah is one of the most well-known stories from

the Bible… thanks, in part, to Pinocchio. And it’s often dismissed

as a fable or mythology. But even a casual reading reveals this

story has much less to do with a big fish than it does the...

Raising children is one of life’s greatest

challenges. And because your kids’ ages are always changing, the

unique challenges are always changing along with them. In this

message, we’ll give practical advice on handling all of the key

stages of...