Spiritual gifts can often be misconstrued as supernatural gifts that only a few people have. But did you know that everyone in the body of Christ has at least one gift? We are all empowered to strengthen the church and advance God's kingdom, but sometimes we don't feel it. In today's sermon, we talk about what we can do for more spiritual gifts to show up powerfully in our life.

For some of us, the whole idea of a 'supernatural' God may be uncomfortable. We may have been hurt or put off by certain things we may have seen or heard, and yet, we yearn to see God's manifest presence in our lives. This week, we begin a series on this topic and examine why the time that we're living in now is the time that the prophets of the Old Testament--the same prophets who saw signs, miracles, and heard direct words from God--is most jealous of.

Today, Missionary Jon Moon shares how he and his wife Stephanie and two young sons came to decide to leave their “American dream” life in California to move to Guatemala. Jon shares about how he came to feel compelled to proclaim the good news of Jesus. How good is the good news to you? Listen to his invitation to learn why the feet of Jesus’ disciples are beautiful in the eyes of God.

Why do we brag? We might do it to get more likes from social media, or to get validation from others. Two thousand years ago, the reasons for boasting might be the same, although what people bragged about was probably very different from what we take pride in today in front of our friends and peers: for example, circumcision. Paul called out this need to boast in the law and warned the Galatians why having one foot in the world and one foot in Jesus could actually enslave them. Instead, he gave them only one reason for boasting, and one reason alone so they could start living in true freedom.

Have you ever been tired or burnt out on Christian life? Loving others and serving God is not always easy. The average pastor is in ministry for just 7 years--even they are not immune to growing tired from serving God. Today, we learn from Galatians 6 on how to unlock our full potential to run and not grow weary.

What if the reason for our spiritual stagnation was that we were looking at everything all wrong? What if the standards by which we judged our spirituality were skewed? Surprisingly, this can happen even to the very religious, and sometimes especially to the very religious. In today's sermon, the apostle Paul sets us straight and equips us with a new yardstick by which to measure ourselves.

Everyone knows they need to change, but change can prove elusive, especially if it's not just cosmetic. How do we become different from who our experiences, upbringing and genetic makeup have made us when that's all we have to work with? That's why real change needs to come from the outside. Today we'll learn about the greatest outside catalyst for real, deep, meaningful change that a person can experience.

A strange incident involving King David, a widow of Saul, and the Gibeonite survivors foreshadow the cross of Christ, which would not come for another thousand years, in a surprising way. As we reflect on Christ's sacrifice this Good Friday, 2 Samuel provides a different facet from which to be thankful.

Palm Sunday is a bittersweet day to mark the start of Holy Week. Imagine Jesus coming into Jerusalem and seeing the crowds roll out the ancient red carpet of palm leaves and chants calling Him their savior--only to see the same people reject Him just days later. Had they reflected on Psalm 118, they would know that the stone they would reject would become the cornerstone--and realize that Jesus came to save them from something much bigger than even the Roman empire.

Paul is passionate about hammering this point in for the Galatians: we must not live as slaves, but everything should point to Christ, or else we'll burn out and get paralyzed by our own sense of worth and legalism. To really nail this message in, he drops this bomb on the Jews: keeping the Law for your salvation means Hagar is your mother, not Sarah. All followers of Christ must know that the promised legacy of Abraham and Sarah is freedom, not slavery. What are the things that you place your sense of worth in that keep you bonded in slavery and apart from God?