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.   

The next sermon in our Open Invitation series focuses on what it means to be a good servant who is both ready and watching for the Master to return.  

The next sermon in our Open Invitation series brings a section about worry, security, and trust to a close. What do we "treasure" most with our time, our resources, our energy, and our focus? And, what do the answers to those questions reveal about our hearts? 

The next sermon in our Open Invitation series focuses on Jesus' teaching about worry. His repeated invitation is "do not worry," but why is that so hard for us?!? 

We're back in the Open Invitation sermon series! In this verse-by-verse journey through Luke's gospel, we pick back up with a parable about building bigger barns. 

In the final message from the series Radical Prayer, we're looking at examples from Scripture of when prayer led to a change in perspective instead of (or in addition to) a change in circumstances.