When we come to the table, we get to participate in the unity that God is. Jesus said, "I am in the Father and the Father is in me." And in that bringing us into unity, he "abolished in the flesh the enmity..." So now we can participate fully in God's forgiveness and forgiveness of one another.

Pastor Nick lays the foundation for our series on communion. We will approach the table in reverence and in remembrance. Not proud or scared, but ready to commune with God.

Revelation 5 tells us that heaven recognizes the blood of Jesus as the way that God redeemed us. How I live everyday now needs to center around this truth. Our consciousness has been cleansed and we are made right with God. Do these truths hit a wall in my life or do they touch everything around me?

Kelly Hoyt unpacks the excitement of God's New Covenant coming to us. Not the Jews only, but Gentiles. Walking through the history of God revealing Himself through covenants, we see how God has been working this plan for all of time to make the Holy Spirit a gift to all believers.

We can so easily have a gospel that is a white-washed tomb. Knowing Jesus in light of his full sacrifice is where we overcome.

In John 3, we see Nicodemus experience the wonder of the work of the blood for us. So much that he has a hard time believing it. Will we believe it?

The thief on the cross leads us in a startling approach to Jesus: in Jesus' and his own lowest moment, he requests of a favor of Jesus. What deep joy the thief must have felt, and then upon his entrance into heaven. God wants liberated disciples to go out from the church.

Jesus says his flesh is true food and his blood true drink. We can have eternal, or perpetual life, simply by experiencing this. Let us not be a people who think this is only for the forgiveness of sins!

The previous system of needing to cleaned and re-cleaned and only the High Priest entering the Holy of Holies was blown up when Jesus gave up his life. Now we are temples (1 Cor. 3:16) and we don't need a place to worship God (John 4). We may now draw near, because we are already accepted by God.

The blood of Jesus has covered a multitude of sins and wrongs in our world, and God has invited us into the place of travailing prayer with Jesus to live in it. Through our cries and longings, God gives us his heart, and our voices cry out to him in it.