The substitutionary nature of the death of Christ is in great dispute today. Many dismiss this as a barbaric and primitive notion. Others call it “cosmic child abuse.” Christians, however, call it atonement. Central to the Christian faith is the...

A man named Jesus hanging dead on a cross occupies center stage of the Christian faith. He had been executed like a common criminal in his day. To his fellow Jews, death by crucifixion was an abomination, a sign that he was cursed by God. To everyone...

As soon as they recognize Jesus, what’s the first thing they do? They go on mission. They have to tell everyone they can about Jesus. We long for our community to respond the same way to Jesus and His Gospel.

Jesus is right next to them, and yet they can’t see Him. Biblically, we’re convinced that apart from God opening our eyes, we are blind to spiritual truths. Our prayer is that our eyes and the eyes of our city would be opened and our hearts set...

Jesus unfolds the Scriptures and shows the two disciples how all of it was about Him. The Scriptures transform their hearts and ours as well. We want to read, study, preach, pray, believe, and live the Bible. As we do, we want to see Jesus and His...

You can’t read the seven mile road story and not see Jesus everywhere. He appears on the road, teaches the Scriptures, encounters their unbelief, and opens their eyes. The whole thing is centered on Him. We want our church to be the same way where...

Confused. Sad. Disappointed. Blind. Unbelieving. Those words not only accurately describe the men in the story, they describe us as well. We are broken people in a broken world. We long to be a people that recognize our need and encounter Jesus in...

The idea of a journey is an important one in the Scriptures. Spiritual life is rightly seen as a walk with God. None of us have arrived, but lets consider what it looks like to walk together.

So here’s how Matthew’s Gospel and our sermon series ends. The Resurrected, triumphant, sin-defeating, Satan-conquering, death-overcoming, sinner-saving, victorious Lord Jesus stands with his disciples on a mountain in Galilee. He’s standing...

As Jesus emerges from the garden, he’s no longer trembling and troubled, but composed and calm. He is unjustly arrested and brought to trial trumped up on false charges. His accusers move quickly, acting under the cover of night. They have...