Real faith always results in tangible action. - Israel is responding to their faith in God by following Joshua and crossing the Jordan. They have a faith in God their parents did not and they act upon it. Rahab is miraculously a microcosm of this principle - even though she is a sexually immoral gentile caananite, she has faith in the Lord and takes tremendous risk to act upon that faith. 

Pastor Jim kicks off our Advent series with a message focussing on Tamar and how God is the Redeemer and Hope of the world.

Jesus made a way for you to hear the gospel. He came to you on your level. We can do the same when we deliver the gospel to the world in need. Meeting people in their context with honor, respect, love, and the truth of the Gospel. We can do this trusting the results to God.

God has spoken through his word. Followers of him must allow the word to form us and change us rather than imposing our own values upon the word and upon God.

The Age of the Church is God doing a new thing in the world - all peoples, all tribes, all tongues - everyone can have access to salvation, God, and the Kingdom. This turns peoples and cultures on their heads. It creates tensions, problems, and persecutions. This was true in Acts and its true for us today because we’re living the same story. 

Pastor Sam walks through chapters 1-12 qnd showes us how we are a part of the same story as Jesus and his apostles.

Pastor Jim Preaches a message on unity from the book of John.

The leper was a captive of both sin and the law. He was experiencing the effects of the curse of sin in his illness and the law had left him literally isolated and alone. Jesus steps into his mess and frees him from his illness and frees him from the prison the law has made for him. This is an amazing picture of Romans 6-8 and Jesus setting us free from the power of sin, death, and the law. 

Matthew has taken this famous healing story of Jesus and put it in a different place than the earlier Mark places it in the narrative. This is because Matthew wants us to see this aspect of Jesus’ ministry in connection with what surrounds it (the sermon on the mount) and the other authority narratives. 

Pastor Jesse, filling in for Pastor Sam teaches on Luke 12:13-21.