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In this week's episode, I'm sharing a few exciting updates coming to the podcast experience.

Since these weekly recaps are adapted from the notes of Sunday's message, we're working toward a more engaging, audiobook-style experience that allows you to not only hear the message but feel the heart behind it. We're also introducing sermon guides designed to help us move beyond information toward integration, putting what we're learning into practice.

Then, we conclude our mini-series by drawing from Jeremiah 29:4–9; we explore the difference between passive and active endurance and what it means to remain faithful when circumstances don't unfold the way we hoped.

One Vote. Two Commands. Bible Reading Plan

In Part 1 of One Vote. Two Commands. we explore how our faith should inform our political participation without allowing politics to become our ultimate allegiance. Drawing from Matthew 22, we examine Jesus' teaching on our responsibilities to earthly governments and His two greatest commandments: love God and love our neighbors.

One Vote. Two Commands. Bible Reading Plan

In Week 7, as we conclude The Art of War, we turn to discipleship as the antidote to spiritual deformation. Drawing on Romans 7:24–25 and Jesus' invitation in Mark 8:34–37, we explore two essential movements in following Jesus: we must die, then live.

The Art of War Bible Reading Plan

In Week 6 of The Art of War, we turn our attention to the war within us. Drawing from Romans 7:14, we explore three realities of the human condition: identification, inclination, and incarceration. Along the way, we examine the goodness of God's instruction, what Paul means by the flesh, and how sin distorts our judgment, disorders our desires, and leads us away from life as God intended. 

The Art of War Bible Reading Plan

In Week 5 of The Art of War, we explore Judges 21:25 and how culture normalizes distorted ideas about freedom. We've been conditioned to believe that freedom means having no restrictions. But what if the very things we think make us free are actually keeping us from experiencing the life we want? We believe true freedom comes from embracing the right restrictions and letting Jesus transform our desires.

The Art of War Bible Reading Plan

In Week 4 of The Art of War, we explore how culture normalizes the lies Satan tells us about God by tempting us toward two extremes: protecting distorted practices in the name of religion or rejecting good principles because we’ve seen them practiced poorly.

Through Jesus’ confrontation over the Sabbath in Mark 2, we discover another response: reformation. Jesus neither blindly preserves nor carelessly rejects; He brings the practice back into alignment with its purpose.

The Art of War Bible Reading Plan

In Week 3 of The Art of War, we continue our conversation on spiritual warfare by taking a closer look at the enemy Jesus calls "the father of lies." While Scripture doesn't tell us everything we may want to know about Satan, it tells us what we need to know about his strategy.

Through Genesis 3, we explore three lies that continue to shape us: lies about who God is, lies about who we are, and lies about the good life. The lies we believe don't just affect what we think; they shape who we become.

The Art of War Bible Reading Plan

In Week 2 of The Art of War, we explore Jesus’ conversation in John 8 with a group of people whose confidence in their religious identity keeps them from recognizing what God is trying to change in them. Through association, assimilation, and affirmation, we examine how religion can give us a false sense of security without actually making us more like Jesus. 

You can be religious and still be deceived.

The Art of War Bible Reading Plan

Pastor Sean was away this Sunday, but the Word continued through Pastor Denisha Lyles, who shared a timely message on spiritual drift. In this week's recap, we're sharing the audio from that message and exploring how easy it is to slowly move away from the practices, priorities, and presence that once kept us anchored. Drift rarely happens all at once, which is why paying attention to the direction we're moving matters. Enjoy the message. 

Catch My Drift Bible Reading Plan

In Week 1 of The Art of War, using Ephesians 2:1-3 NLT, we explored three dimensions of spiritual warfare: the spiritual forces working against us, the cultural forces forming around us, and the disordered desires working within us. This message gives us a map for the weeks ahead as we learn to recognize and resist the forces that seek to deform us.

The Art of War Bible Reading Plan