What if a big part of God's redemptive plan for the world required you to ask for grace from others? And when we say "grace", we don't just mean asking for more patience or understanding from others. We mean truly allowing others to rearrange their hearts, lives, and priorities to love us as God has called them to! Most of us will resist the idea. After all, isn't being a Christain all about loving others? But what if learning to open ourselves up to love was equally part of living a faithful life to God? Through the courage of Ruth, we will see how living as God has called us to live involves receiving love.

We might have sung the words of the old Sunday school song, "Jesus loves me! This I know!" But most of us had sung these words before life happened. They sounded true to us as kids, but then we grew up. And now, it seems like the more that life happens, the harder it is to see. Before we knew it, our love for God had grown as cold and distant as we perceived His love for us to be. Yet, a Moabite woman living thousands of years ago shows us that God's love for us is unwavering, relentless, and fiercely loyal. Will our souls ever reawaken to this love?

This Sunday we are going to tell a story! It is full of uncertainty and pain, fear and loss, disillusionment and bitterness. But like all good stories, we will find hope and loyalty, and a love that never quits. For our second Sunday of lent, we will dive into the life of someone married to a man whose name means, "My God is King", but whose life seems to work out as anything but that. It will leave us asking the question, "If my God is my King and He is in control, then why has my life worked out the way that it has?" She will ask this question, but before her heart is locked away in total bitterness, a relentless love from an unlikely hero will come to rescue her.

Join us this Sunday as we begin a new series, entering into the season of Lent, seeking to better understand its themes and significance by looking through the lens of a single and widowed woman from the margins: Ruth.

Unity is found when we are on the same page about what God is up to. Join us as we conclude our series on unity and the Nicene Creed by discussing the works of the Spirit, past, present and future.

We spend most of our life trying to understand God's will for us so that we can make the right decisions. Sometimes trying to discern His will for our lives can be like trying to listen to a concert with earbuds in. We can see it happening all around us but we are unable to internalize it. We want to do what He wants, so why is it so hard to discern His will? What if God's will isn't so much something we try to follow as it is something we become? What if it is more about being whole than making choices? Join us as we explore 1 Corinthians 2:9-16 this Sunday!

Actually, you've already lived through one! Usually, the question, inspired by fear, gets poised something like this, "Are you ready? Because if you're not, you'll be in trouble because it's coming!" But the apocalypse, as Paul reminds us in 1 Corinthians 15:20-28, is about God rescuing a hopeless humanity. Instead of bringing death, God will do away with death. The apocalypse is about God's love for your triumphing over all your darkness. Jesus' rescue of your heart was an apocalypse that has already happened. This is why you can say you have lived through God's apocalypse. Or rather, you have been made alive because of it.

We have always heard that God became human like us. But did we stop having something in common with Jesus after His resurrection? Did He go back to being just God, finally shedding off all that we had in common with Him, while we just stayed as the humans we always were? Or did his resurrection mean that we will forever and always have something in common with Him? The answer to this question is the reason Paul says that "against all hope" we will never truly be lost even when we are convinced that we will never be found.

Why does it matter that God is both Father and Son? What do we miss out on when we lose sight of this fact? What does "begotten" mean anyway? Join us as we explore these questions, hoping to fall more in love with the essence of God along the way.

The secret to trusting God is knowing that you cannot comprehend Him. It's counterintuitive. We know! But because we know that God is good, the creator of all things both visible and invisible, our inability to understand what God is up to becomes evidence for us that He's got us.