Elijah was a faithful man of God. But in this story, we will see him in a very dark place -depressed, anxious, and suicidal. Many of us will recognize some of the feelings he experiences. We will come to see that faithfulness to God often includes...

What is the state of your heart? And does it match the words of your prayers? This week in our “Prayers for the Moment” series, we’ll look at two examples of honest prayer from the heart. The hope is that we are encouraged to not withhold the...

This week we're going to take a look at Luke 18, a chapter that has a few parables and narratives on prayer. What we will see is prayer from the vantage point of the powerful and the seemingly powerless. And how no matter which side you are standing...

The prophet Daniel lived in unsettled and uncertain times—times resembling those in which we ourselves are living. The question is: how should we pray during such times? How should we pray when the times are unsettled and uncertain? Daniel’s...

In the Bible, there are prayers of asking, prayers of confession and lament, ones that praise God for what he has done, will do, or simply for who he is. But in Habakkuk 3, a most unusually prayer takes form. The prophet realizes the situation and...

The people of Israel, having returned from Babylonian exile, gather together to pray. The prayer walks through the history of the nation of Israel. From the beginning God had pro-vided for them abundantly, but the people kept turning away from him....

Each of us has a story. Parts of it are awesome. Parts of it are awful. Sometimes, it’s a confusing mix of awesome and awful. Is there a way for us to make sense of it all? Moses and the Israelites manage to put a few things together in Exodus...

In our final message of the "One Kingdom. Indivisible." series, we arrive at the end of the story. In Revelation we see the ultimate destination of the kingdom of God. When Jesus returns to complete his work of redemption, the kingdom of God will...

In our fifth week of the One Kingdom Indivisible series we arrive at the era of the church. This is the story of the kingdom of God that we are living out: followers of Jesus, united in Him, living out their faith within an earthly political realm....

This week we get to the hinge in the story of the kingdom of God -- the preaching of the gospel. The ministry of Jesus eventually makes clear that his kingdom is a spiritual reality which transcends our earthly kingdoms. When people attempt to force...