Why do you get yourself up and come to church on a Sunday morning? No doubt there are many good reasons. Ezra 6, as it leads us into the New Testament, suggests that we consider coming to church to celebrate.

After the discouraged Jews stopped working on the temple, the prophets speak to encourage the work. In response, the work resumes, but the Jews face bureaucratic challenges from government officials. As they navigate those challenges, we will see how...

Sometimes we don’t know what we think. Sometimes we know what we think, but we don’t know why we think it. Where do these thoughts that occur in our minds come from, anyway: from ourselves, from God, or from someplace else? Perhaps there are...

The Israelites have returned, so they get to the work of rebuilding the temple. As they do so, we'll see them dealing with issues that are as current today as they were then. How do they move forward with something new while honoring the past? What...

After hearing about how God stirred up people to return to Jerusalem from Persia, in this chapter we meet them. Along with over 100 names of people, we learn who they were, what had happened to them, and some of what they were hoping for with a new...

Then rose up the heads of the fathers’ houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, everyone whose spirit God had stirred to go up to rebuild the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem.

This week we'll hear from elders Scott Grant, Paul Taylor and Brian Shiu sharing how they see God at work in the past 18 months and moving forward.

Prayer is powerful, but prayer is not for the powerful. Rather, prayer is for the helpless. In the last part of The Lord’s Prayer, Jesus reminds us that we are all helpless, but his power of more than enough for us.

As our Father in heaven, God loves it when we bring our requests to him. With the well-known words, “Give us this day our daily bread,” Jesus invites us to place our trust fully in Christ as we depend on him to provide us with everything that we...

What do we do when confronted with the brokenness of our world and the brokenness of our own lives? We pray, “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done.” In these deep, powerful, and dangerous words, we express our longing to see heaven come to earth.