In the first message of the new series Four Mysteries, Pastor Fran Leeman explores how Jesus and Paul both call the gospel (the good news) a "mystery", and how our modern ideas of the gospel, being more transactional, do not do justice to the nature of this mystery.  What if the gospel is really the blazing, loving goodness of God revealed in Jesus Christ to make us new, make all things right, and restore to the joy of all things?

In this third message of his advent series Pastor Fran pairs up Mary's song in Luke chapter 1 with the the old carol God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen, and talks about how the seed of all victories can be seen in the Christ child in the manger, and how that seed is most powerfully seen and experienced when we allow the Spirit of Jesus to dwell in us and take us on a journey of change.

In this Advent message Pastor Fran explores how people with a nominal faith and "serious Christians" ask the questions (What Child Is This?), and suggests that we need to ask the question in a deeper way.  The goal of knowing who Christ is isn't so that we can be right , it's so that we can be transformed.  It's true that God was lying in the manger, but the child lying there was also the new human being.

As we begin the Advent season, Pastor Fran paints a fascinating picture of Mary the peasant girl and how God called her to a journey that did not unfold as she might have hoped and expected.  The same is true for us-- we do not know where the road will lead when we say "Be it done unto me according to your word", but when we say yes God catches us up into a story bigger and more glorious than we knew.

In this last message in the series, Pastor Fran talks about how the view of judgment and hell we've been taught eclipses out ability to hear the more profound meanings in certain Scripture texts, and how this is especially true when we come to the last two chapters of Revelation, where John is painting a profound image of God's mercy as the one who will always be saying, "Let everyone who is thirsty come!"

If you've heard modern preachers talk about the Book of Revelation, then you've herd plenty of talk about the coming Millennium, the 1000 year reign of Christ.  But the New Testament teaches that Satan has already been cast down and that Jesus is reigning now.  You're living in the reign of Christ that John describes, and his triumph is now your triumph.  The question is what does that change for us? 

Modern preachers like to paint pictures of a coming Armageddon and a Jesus who returns with a vengeance to kill evildoers.  In this message, Pastor Fran shows that this is an incorrect reading of Revelation 19, and that when we read it correctly we once again come face to face with the self-sacrificial love of Christ who leads us away from dominating power and into the power of love.

In this message Pastor Fran explains how John (who wrote Revelation) was critiquing the Roman Empire, which claimed to be the agent of the gods for the salvation of the world, and warns us of “civil religion”, which attaches God to national identity.  This message shows how Revelation may be the most relevant book of the Bible for the church today.

Pastor Fran explains that when John speaks of “the great tribulation”, he’s not referring to some coming seven-year period, but to the enduring and present tribulation of life in a fallen world.  All of us, as we live through the hardships of life and the temptation to live for ourselves rather than for goodness, are living in the Great Tribulation, but Jesus, the Lamb of God, has triumphed over this mess and is bringing us into the fullness of life,

In the second message in this series, Pastor Fran makes us slow down and see how the worship of God is at the heart of the Book of Revelation, and how when the slain lamb is unveiled on the throne of heaven, all of heaven and earth goes crazy with declaring his wisdom, goodness, and glory.