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Where is Jesus? After His victorious resurrection and appearances to His earliest followers, Jesus up and disappeared. Literally. Forty days after Easter, Jesus ascended into heaven leaving His followers to live in a difficult tension. While He promised to be with us until the end of the age, He is also in a very real way absent. Together, we'll explore why Jesus' ascension is more than just a historic occasion, a miraculous event, or a doctrinal curiosity. It's actually good news with massive implications for apprentices of Jesus today.

The longer you live, the more uncertain life seems. From Romans 8:28-29, Al Abdulla explores why scripture says followers of Jesus can face their past, present and future with strong confidence.

Jason Hood shares with us from one of the great chapters in the Bible, Romans 8. Paul shows us what we receive from the Spirit: new life in sanctification, adoption, suffering, glory, and patience.

How does real Change happen in a believers life? How do we live free of sin’s enslavement? Many Christians try to control themselves with law centered mini-sermons. But is that what God has in mind for lasting transformation? From Romans 8:12-16, 26-27, Al Abdulla explores the role of the Spirit in our transformation and why delight must always precede discipline in transformation.

Shame has become an epidemic in our modern culture. Social media allows us to see the cropped lives we should be living, and aren’t. So we hide—from others, from ourselves, and from God. From Romans 8:1-11, Al Abdulla explores why Life in Christ rids us of our shame and while also giving us the power to overcome sin.

Do you feel the tension that comes when shedding off your old self and living into the freedom Jesus offers? From Romans 7:1-9 and 18-25, Rashad Clemons speaks truth into the honest struggle to live a Christian life and our longing for ultimate detention and renewal.

How do you find true freedom and transformation as a follower of Jesus? From Romans 6:1-7; 11-18, Al Abdulla explores why the Christian Doctrine of Union with Christ is key to finding our true selves leading to the freedom and lasting change that we long for.

Older generations were largely taught to distrust their emotions. Younger generations are taught to follow their emotions. Since we are made in God’s image, we are therefore emotional because God is emotional (Look at Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane). But what part do emotions play in our motivations and life decisions? From various Proverbs, and from Matthew 26:36-39, Al Abdulla explores the wisdom we all need to deal with the complex feelings of our psychological life.

Wisdom is the key to living life rightly— rightly ordered lives. Wisdom is the

Path of the Good Life. From Proverbs 5, Dave Lomas explores what sexuality actually means, and what God’s good intentions are for all of us.

Communication is a large subject in the book of Proverbs. Since life and death are in the power of words. The proper use and reception of words was critically important to the sages. From Proverb 26:17-28, Al Abdulla explores how our words can be healed so that our speech is healing to others.