For the next message in the series First Things First: Navigation in a Divided Nation we revisit a leader we've already looked at earlier: King Saul. Israel demanded a king, and God allowed them to have Saul. Now, in his first recorded political situation, Saul foolishly chooses to use the sacred in service of the practical.

Up next in our spiritual formation series First Things First: Navigation in a Divided Nation is a message that takes a look at one of the most common passages used when discussing how Christians should understand and interact with the people and systems that govern us.  

Up next in our spiritual formation series First Things First: Navigation in a Divided Nation is a message that calls attention to the anger and fear that are being purposely injected into our current political climate. How do we navigate this reality from the biblical perspectives on these two powerful human emotions? 

We're back into our Fall 2024 series of sermons called First Things First: Navigation in a Divided Nation. In this message, we take a look at an Old Testament passage about what a good and wise king should look like and then do the interpretive work of applying the general principles to our world today.  

We're taking a one-week break from our new series to hear from our Youth Pastor (Sarah Hodgson) as she brings a message about the mishaps that Paul experienced on the seas and in Malta... yet stayed the course with his mission. 

Continuing in our new series of sermons called First Things First: Navigation in a Divided Nation, this message takes a deep look at a moment in the history of the people of God when they were desperate for a new leader to end an internal problem of unethical political choices and also make their nation more relevant in the world around them. 

With this episode, we being a new series of sermons called First Things First: Navigation in a Divided Nation. In this series, we will be examining passages of Scripture relating to leaders and governments and asking how to best apply those to the current polarized political context of an American election season. To get started, this sermon lays out some general thoughts for the series, as well as looking to the Creation accounts in Genesis to learn about how God wants his world to be organized. 

Before we pause our Open Invitation series, we're finishing up Luke chapter 12. In this passage, Jesus uses two short—and seemingly unconnected—illustrations to make the point that we need to be observant of the signs of the Holy Spirit's work around us and cognizant of the fact that God will not delay his justice forever. 

The next sermon in our Open Invitation series explores an interesting passage in Luke 12 within which Jesus stops speaking in parables and reveals some things about himself that can be somewhat surprising.

The next sermon in our Open Invitation series helps us understand both the great privilege—and great responsibility—of both the areas of leadership we have, as well as being sons and daughters of God.