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Since the beginning, the church has gathered together to give thanks. Paul even says its God's will for us to be a grateful people. This week Pastor Jason Jackson explores why gratitude is essential to the Christian life and how we can cultivate it in our lives and in our life together.

The book of Acts tells the story of the rapid spread of the Gospel and the growth of the church. This incredible multiplication of people and places was supported and sustained by the church's hospitality. Pastor Jason Jackson unpacks what makes Christian welcome unique and invites us to continue to embrace others in way that puts God's hospitality on display.

As the series on how the early church grew together continues, Pastor Glenn Packiam examines what it means to be devoted to the breaking of bread. The breaking of bread is a metaphor for the life of the church. Bread, like much of church life, is ordinary. Yet, in the hands of Jesus we become like bread that is blessed, broken, and given for the life of the world.

There are few if any accounts that are more compelling and more challenging than those of the early church sharing their resources in Acts 2:44-45 and Acts 4:32-35. Pastor Jason Jackson illustrates how their acts of simplicity and generosity grew out of their devotion to the apostles' teaching, community, communion and prayer and were inspired by the Spirit.

Fellowship-God's design of us is to be active participants in the community of God by being in fellowship with God and fellowship with one another.

What does it mean to be the Church? How do we grow together as the people of God? In this new series, Pastor Glenn Packiam helps us learn from key practices of the early church, as we see it demonstrated in the Book of Acts.

Even those who don't believe in God recognize evil in some form; there is something insidious at work in the world. But what are to do about it? Preaching from Ephesians 6 in this conclusion of the series, Pastor Glenn Packiam helps us understand what it means to put on God's armor and to participate in His work through prayer.

Paul's statements about husbands and wives, parents and children, and slaves and masters have been misused by some and maligned by others. Pastor Jason Jackson demonstrates from Ephesians 5:21-6:9 how we've missed Paul's revolutionary instructions. Paul calls us to live in a new way in an old world by submitting ourselves to each other in love regardless of our status within the systems and structures of the world. In doing so, we partner with God to reordered the world according to his kingdom.

What do we do about the disorder of the world around us? We are tempted to disengage or condemn the darkness. Pastor Glenn Packiam shows how Ephesians 5 gives us a picture of how we, as the children of Light, can participate in God's re-ordering of the world, through wisdom, understanding, and the in-filling of the Spirit.