Have you ever wondered if there's more to the incarnation than just Jesus being born so that he could die for us later on? In this message Pastor Fran explores what it means that the joy of God has erupted into the world with the birth of Christ, endured the cross, and is now restoring joy to all his creatures.

In this message, Pastor Fran talks about the things that get in the way of seeing each other as the gifts that we are to each other, and about how religion and certain expressions of Christian faith often inhibit significant relationships instead of cultivating them.

In this message, Pastor Fran talks about how crucial fresh starts and second chances are to the forward movement in our lives, and dispels some of the terrible pictures we've been given of God as being stingy when it comes to forgiveness and second chances.

In this first message in the series, Pastor Fran challenges us to reclaim beauty as the central framework for our faith, and shows us how a faith not centered in beauty can't bring real life.

In this sermon, Pastor Fran explores the mysterious questions surrounding our quest to find our real identity, and unpacks how discovering that we are the "Beloved" of God holds the key to that journey.

In this message, Pastor Fran challenges many popular Christian ideas about eternity... what the point is, how we get there, and whether God will ever give up on any human being.

As we look to emerge from the places pain and loss have trapped us in our lives, what would Jesus say to us? What would he tell us about how to move forward the freedom and wholeness he came to bring us? Pastor Fran answers these questions with clarity in this message, and then invites Diane Balaja to illustrate these truths with her own story of pain and awakening.

In this sermon, Pastor Larry leads us into taking a look at the struggle to understand what it really means to be human.

In this message Pastor Fran explores Matthew chapter 9 where Jesus quotes these words of the Old Testament prophet Hosea: I desire mercy, not sacrifice!  Religion always goes bad when we see God primarily as judge, and make religious precepts more important than the needs of people.

In this message Pastor Fran discusses the human struggle to discern who God is, the revelation of God's divine love upon the Cross, and our need to let the nature of this "cruciform" love reprogram our very ideas about love itself.