Sunday, December 16, 2018. The Gifts We Bring (Part 2). Luke 3:7-18. Pastor Bryant Anderson preaching. The second gift of the magi to Jesus was Frankincense, symbolizing his divinity. When we think of Jesus as divine, we often take that to mean that the human Jesus was god-like - but what if we have it the wrong way around? What if it means that God is like Jesus?

Sunday, December 9, 2018. The Gifts We Bring (Part 1). Luke 1:68-79; 3:1-6. Pastor Bryant Anderson preaching. The gift of gold from the magi to Jesus symbolizes his role as king, but we know he comes as a different sort of king than anyone in the first century - or today, for that matter - expects. What does it mean for us to name Jesus our king?

Sunday, December 2, 2018. Rise Up (Part 4). Luke 19:1-10. Pastor Bryant Anderson preaching. Salvation came to Zacchaeus on that day he scaled the limbs of a sycamore tree. But for Zacchaeus, salvation meant a radical change: actions and a way of life that will transform him into a completely new person.

Sunday, November 25, 2018. Rise Up (Part 3). 1 Kings 19:9-13. Pastor Bryant Anderson preaching. Prayer is more than talking to God. Prayer is the act of opening ourselves up to God, making room in our busy lives and chaotic hearts for the quiet presence of the holy.

Sunday, November 18, 2018. Rise Up (Part 2). Deuteronomy 26:1-11. It is a perfectly natural (and good) thing to be thankful for the blessings we experience in life, but if that is the full extent of our gratitude, then it will crumble when our blessings seem in short supply. Real gratitude goes deeper, to the very foundation of who we are and what God has done for us.

Sunday, November 11, 2018. Rise Up (Part 1). Matthew 25:31-46. Pastor Bryant Anderson preaching. The work of the church is less a series of tasks that we are called to perform, and more allowing ourselves to be transformed by God, and offering our lives as instruments of the work of God in the world.

Sunday, November 4, 2018. Miracles (Part 7). John 11:1-45. Pastor Bryant Anderson preaching. Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead and gives the lie to all our tacit assumptions about death and its power over us. It turns out that death is no match for the hope we have in Jesus.

Sunday, October 28, 2018. Miracles (Part 6). Mark 4:35-41. Pastor Bryant Anderson preaching. Jesus calms a storm and rebukes his disciples for their lack of faith. But their problem was not that they were afraid - we all experience fear when the storms of life threaten to overwhelm us. Where the disciples fell short was their failure to trust Jesus in the midst of the storm.

Sunday, October 21, 2018. Miracles (Part 5). Mark 7:24-30. Pastor Bryant Anderson. In this challenging story of an encounter between Jesus and a Gentile woman, we see quite a lot of ourselves in Jesus, but that's not a good thing. The real hero of this story is the unnamed woman, and what she is able to accomplish is nothing short of a miracle.

Sunday, October 7, 2018. Miracles (Part 4). Matthew 14:13-21. Pastor Bryant Anderson preaching. Jesus feeds the multitudes, but not because they're hungry. His reasons go much deeper than that, and they reach deep into some of our most pressing needs today.