What is sin and how do we fight it? This fundamental question faces all Christians. Lent is a season for focusing on repentance, but what are we repenting for? What is the end goal? This week, Fr. Ben Williams preaches on the temptation of Jesus and how it relates to our struggle with sin. While the Christian life requires us to avoid the forbidden fruit of sin, it also opens a world of feasting on permitted fruit God has given us.

What is the significance of Ash Wednesday? Why do we smear ashes on our foreheads? These questions arise each year as we begin the Lenten season. It is a season that reminds us of our deep need for a Savior. But we don’t enter Lent as though we are weighed down with our sins and offenses. That is the beginning of the story, the bad news. But we keep the end of the story in mind, too: the good news that we can be and have been reconciled to God through Jesus Christ. Join Fr. Ben Williams as he leads us into the season of penitence.

What if you walked with Jesus and saw every miracle He performed? Do you think you would still struggle to believe? Or would He still seem like a regular person who happens to be a miracle worker? On the Mount of Transfiguration, the apostles Peter, James, and John witnessed Jesus in His glory. Like them, we can become so familiar with the ordinariness of Jesus that we forget He is the creator. This week, Fr. Ben Williams expounds on Matthew’s account of the Transfiguration to see just who it is we are dealing with when we deal with Jesus.

What does it mean to go and make disciples of all nations? In today’s world, it is hard to believe that there remain entire people groups who have never heard the good news of Jesus Christ. We often forget that the faith we confess has been handed down to us, often at great cost. This Sunday’s message comes from Matt Wright. Matt and his wife Cindy have been missionaries for over 25 years. Join us as we are challenged to get out of our comfort zones and obey the call to go.

How do we know that Jesus is God? How do we know that Jesus is the only way? January 18 marks the Confession of St. Peter. When Peter confesses that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God, Jesus responds by saying that flesh and blood had not revealed this to him. Anyone can introduce you to Jesus of Nazareth; only the Father can introduce you to the Son of the Living God.

What is the significance of the baptism of Jesus? This crucial question is often ignored, but it has important implications for every sinner. Join Fr. Ben Williams on this first Sunday of Epiphany as we wrestle with the implications of Christ’s baptism and how this helps us reimagine evangelism today.

Have you ever made a recommendation to someone who just didn’t get it? It seems that all the passion in the world doesn’t help others to see what we see. Just like our impassioned recommendations, we can let the responses of others keep us from shining our light in the darkness. As we kick off our Epiphany series on this special feast day, Fr. Ben Williams encourages us to remember that like the wise men from the east, God is already drawing those who are far off to His light through His church.

Have you ever been found somewhere you didn’t belong? Where do you belong? This week’s gospel passage is about the 12-year-old Jesus who stayed behind in Jerusalem after his parents mistakenly left him. When they finally found them, he was exactly where he belonged. Join Fr. Ben Williams this week as we consider the implications of living in God’s presence.

What does the incarnation of Christ have to do with shame? Whether we admit to the depths of our own shame or barely notice it, we all have it. Shame is one of the results of the fall. The story of redemption, however, offers a reversal of those results and the good news is that Christ’s incarnation is the means of that reversal. On this first Sunday of Christmastide, Fr. Ben Williams encourages us that, rather than living in shame, we can be clothed in Christ.

How many times have you heard the Christmas story? The story of Christ’s incarnation can become so familiar to us that we lose the impact of just how scandalous it must have been. This week, we wrap up our Advent series on Awaiting the Light with Mr. Brian Denker, who leads us in imagining this old story anew. Join us as we consider the scandal of the incarnation.