God Helps Those Who Help Themselves Week 2 of Series: Half-Truths There are times you can help yourself, and you should—God is counting on you to do so. But you will find in life, if you haven’t already, that there are times you cannot help yourself. There are things from which you cannot save yourself. Thanks […]

Everything Happens For A Reason Week 1 of Series: Half-Truths Usually, when we say “everything happens for a reason” when something bad has happened to someone and we seek to console by assuring them that God has a reason for bringing about, or allowing, the suffering. We look at why this is a half-truth.

The Return of the King Week 7 of the Series: The Cross Because of the spiritual and physical nature of the resurrection, our perspective on life can be filled with hope in the wholeness and healing that is to come.

The Sword Flashed At The Cross Week 6 of the Series: The Cross The world lives by the sword of death, yet the Kingdom of Christ reverses the world’s foundational values. We can’t live by those values on our own power. Only through trusting and committing to His path will we be able to find a […]

The Feast Before the Cross Week 5 of the Series: The Cross The Lord’s supper gives us a foretaste to our future. We are bound together not by any common demographics but by the good news of being recipients of Christ’s Passover of Death in our lives.

The Cleansing Leading Up To the Cross Week 3 of Sermon Series: The Cross Jesus overturned more than the moneychangers, he overturned the distorted sacrificial system of the temple and opened a way into the presence of God for everyone. Jesus causes a decision: either we crown him or we kill him off. In order to […]

The Mountain Prior to the Cross Week 1 of the Series: The Cross The transfiguration is more than a flashy miracle to convince the Disciples, it involves a significant worship that the disciples are going to need as time goes on. Worship’s point is so that we realize at our core that are loved by […]

The Ransom of the Cross Week 2 of the Series: The Cross Jesus was a willing victim who was put to death due to our brokenness.

The Turning of the King Week 7 of the Series: The King During the pivotal account in Mark 8, Jesus acknowledges that he is the King that is yearned for but that his calling will be to the cross. We must reflect on the challenging word to give up ourselves in order to find our […]

The Power of the King Week 5 of Series: The King Just as the disciples faced a violent storm on the Sea of Galilee, we face many storms in life but through relationship with Jesus we have been given the power to be seen through. Jesus faced the ultimate storm on the cross for us; […]