Life Center

Most of us treat work as something to get through, not something with meaning. This message walks through Genesis and the rebuilding of Jerusalem's walls in Nehemiah to ask three simple but pointed questions about the work in front of you — questions that hold up whether you're clocking into a job you love or one you can barely stand.

Genesis says work showed up before anything ever went wrong — which changes what a hard Monday actually means. The Bible to show work as a partnership with God, not a punishment or a paycheck to chase.

Today we unite together in a guided prayer service to pray for Spokane and all those affected by the fires. With thousands of people evacuated and many people uncertain of their futures, we are leaning into God and praying in unity for help and healing in our community.

"My soul glorifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior." Those words come from a teenager facing the hardest, most humiliating season of her life — pregnant, unmarried, and staring down a wave of gossip and scrutiny most of us can't imagine. And yet praise is the first thing out of her mouth.

Jonah ran, got thrown overboard, and prayed one of the most honest prayers in the Bible from inside the belly of a fish. No matter how far you've run, this is a story about a God who's never too far away. Turning back around starts with a single honest prayer.

Hannah had a husband who loved her and a home full of provision — but she also carried a grief no one else could fix. Her raw, unfiltered prayer in 1 Samuel 1 shows what happens when we stop holding it together and bring our rawest emotions to God. It's an honest look at what desperation does to a person, and where it might be leading you.

A teenage king is handed absolute power and one open-ended offer from God: ask for anything. He asks for a discerning heart instead of wealth or safety, and Michael Wittwer unpacks why that request changes everything, and what it looks like to pray the same way today.

"The Lord is my shepherd." Which means, if that's true — I'm not. David wrote Psalm 23 as a shepherd, a giant-killer, a king — and he still chose to see himself as a sheep. That choice changed how he prayed, what he feared, and how he faced the darkest valleys of his life.

Esther faced a choice that could cost her life, and her first response wasn't a plan — it was a fast. Zach Lewis walks through Esther chapter 4, exploring what it means to pray with your whole body when the stakes feel impossibly high.

Most people treat prayer like a fire extinguisher — something you grab in an emergency. Daniel treated it like oxygen. Three times a day, every day, even when a law was passed making it punishable by death. What makes someone that consistent? And what happens when they are?