For week 3 of our Ears to Hear series we discussed the ways that the Holy Spirit speaks to us internally and three ways that we can test and discern this voice.

For our second week of "Ears to Hear," we studied the central belief in the Scriptures that Yahweh is a speaking God and began to discuss what things need to be present in our hearts and lives, if we are going to hear him clearly and consistently.

Brandon Robinson talks about hearing the voice of God in silence.

Pastor Matthew talks about being prepared for your calling starts with grasping the love of Christ and being filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

For the conclusion of our Ancient Chaos series, we studied the role that obedience plays in our life of faith and what disobedience and sin does to us even after conversion.

For part 5 of our Ancient Chaos series, we studied one of the main ways that the gospel is presented and articulated in the New Testament - "the Kingdom" - and discovered the importance of interpreting sin through this important paradigm.

For part 4 of our series on sin, we studied in brief the sacrificial system, how it was a response to the destruction of sin, and how Jesus fulfilled this system with his death and resurrection.

For week 3 of our Ancient Chaos series, we studied the giving of Torah to the people of Israel and his promise of Shalom that was available to them, if they lived in covenant obedience to Yahweh. In this study and within this framework, we found that sin is not going against the arbitrary preferences of God, but violence against Shalom and the way things are supposed to be.

For week 2 of our series on sin and shortcomings, we studied Yahweh's ordering of the universe (Genesis 1-2) and Adam and Eve's act of sin (Gen. 3) that ushered in and inaugurated the reign of chaos in God's good creation.

Why is it important to understand the topic of sin? Why engage in such a study? For week one of our series "The Ancient Chaos" we sought to unpack and answer these questions and, in doing so, found that to the extent that we understand our sin and depravity is the extent to which we can understand the depths of God's grace.