If you begin a journey just a couple of degrees off course, you can end up hundreds of miles away from your intended destination. Where did things start going wrong for the Israelites, and how did they end up where they did at the end of the book of...

As we dive into the story of the time of the Judges, we’re going to start at the end. The ending of this story is a very dark and unremittingly tragic tale. Women are viewed as property, innocent bystanders are targets of aggression, needless violence...

When you’re in the middle of a mess, your emotions can easily get the better of you and make your mess even messier. In this message, we’ll learn that there will be a day in your future when this mess is nothing more than a story to tell. And the part...

Many people assume Christian life is all about avoiding messes. But if you dumb Christianity down to being all about avoiding trouble, then your faith will be all about your performance. This way of thinking, ironically, sets you up for another kind...

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...