Nehemiah 1 is a foundational passage for Newsong – it reveals how God can use the painful moments in our lives, and how vision emerges from relationship. The broken structures around us are not the end of the story – let's come together in faith and start building.

Jimmy Bae continues our Renaissance series with one of the all-time great passages. Psalm 23 is a picture of new life, and how God equips us to walk through every season.

Love how this teaching was not the traditional Easter passage, but still a perfect picture of what Easter is all about: God going to the borders to show his love and bring healing to the misfits of this world.

One final question for our Elements conversation: What does it look like to be truly rich in this life? Dave Gibbons wraps up the series with a message about the soils, showing how the most fruitful life is productive as it perseveres in the face of injustice.

Only Patricia could connect Chocolate Meat, Cubism and Jesus. Along the way, she also deconstructs some of the childish thinking that religious people might have about spiritual maturity. Praying we all allow Jesus to wash our eyes so we can truly see.

God doesn't want us to become more religious; he's inviting us into a life where we dance with him. Spiritual maturity is learning how to translate the truth into love, with the Holy Spirit leading our interactions with those around us.

Our Elements series would not have been complete without digging into Philippians 3. Jimmy helps uncover the three attributes of mature faith defined here, so we can "move forward into maturity" with the mind of Christ.

Our Elements series is about how spiritual maturity is not just knowing a bunch of fancy words – it's living them out. So perfect that Linda brought it back to John 15 to show us what it looks like when these truths come to life.

When you hear the word "Elements," you might think our new series is just focused on the basic foundations of our faith. But these truths are taken to another level when we operate with the mind of Christ, using wisdom to apply them in every context of life.

"He’s the God of relationship, not just the God of outcomes. We are called to experience the heart of God even before the fulfillment happens." Thank you Courtney for sharing this message and your story! Hopefully this prayer helps carry us into the Lent season: “Even in the waiting, I’m in.”