Mars Hill

God has always been expanding our notion of who is "in" the family. God welcomes us to the King's table with healing and restoration - so that we can extend the invite to others. Here with move Inward so we can move Withward together. 

2 Corinthians 5:14-21

When Christ's love grips us we participate in his life and become a new creation with a new purpose - his ambassadors.

Acts 17:22-25

At the Areopagus, the apostle Paul notes the altars that the elite Greek thinkers and culture-changes have erected. His proclamation to them to choose Jesus is a proclamation to the Church today. What altars to which gods have we built? What does it mean that our Creator is the one, true God - and how will we respond?

Romans 12:1-8

Christians share a vocation, regardless of their "day job" status: building up the local Body of Christ. When we are faithful to this calling, we discover and make real unity, mutuality and diversity. We also confront three temptation: autonomy, withholding and comparison.

Ezekiel 37: 1-6

As we launch a new series, we look at a vision from the book of Ezekiel and examine the elements of our own spiritual expectation. What do we do when circumstances that seem obviously dead to us intersect God's vision and power? How will we answer: "Can this thing live?" in a time of personal, cultural and spiritual dryness?

2 Thessalonians 2:16-17

Romans 6:2-5, John 17:1-3

The audacious invitation of the Scriptures and the Creed is that the promise of the bodily resurrection and the life everlasting are secured for us in the future by the work of Jesus - but also available to us now. 

Matthew 18: 23-35

The parable of the unmerciful servant is about the power of forgiveness, but it’s also about the character of the king. Why is this part of the Creed necessary and how does it compel us to live today?

Exodus 13:18 and Ephesians 2:10

After dealing with the two descriptions the Creed uses for the church (holy and catholic), Tim and Troy offer two word pictures to describe the Church: an estuary and a work of art.

Romans 8:14-17

The Holy Spirit's work in creation, within you, and among us confirms that God is relational.