As a 'place of worship' churches would do well to investigate what the Bible requires from us as worshippers. While there is much freedom in being 'those who worship in Spirit and in Truth', we still need to be refocused and redirected by God's word in our worship. Listen this week as we look at what it means to worship God rightly by seeing Him, savoring Him, and serving Him.

This week we take a step back from the Signs of Life series. Before considering membership in the Local Church, we are taking time to reflect on the organic membership of Christians in the Universal Church. Listen this week as we examine just a sliver of what the Bible teaches about our union with one another through Christ as Members of His body, and a few practical ways we can meaningfully participate in the Universal Church of God, the Body of Christ.

In this series, Signs of Life, we are looking at different practices of healthy local churches according to the Bible. One challenge for Christians today is knowing what teaching or teachers to trust. With so many options out there, how should Christians measure what they listen to? In the first message in the series, we are taking a look at what Paul urges His disciples Timothy and Titus about the kind of teaching they should give.

Why is Jesus rejected? Why in His own day was the carpenter from Nazareth sentenced to death? Why in our day is the teaching of this man not only rejected, but His historical existence questioned in part or in whole? As Mark unfolds the ministry of Jesus and the authority of the kingdom, He puts three stories together that highlight for us, the reader, the offense of the Kingdom of God. Listen to the surprising reasons that endure for the rejection of Jesus, from the Pharisees of His day to the agnostics of ours as we study the gospel of Mark together

Jesus came to Call us from death to life. But the people He chooses to call are often not the people we would expect. The Scribes were offended that Jesus would spend time with tax collectors and sinners. But in the call of Levi Jesus shows that His call is all of grace, and His company an expression of His mercy as he patiently shows us how to live. Listen this week as we explore God's gracious call in salvation and His merciful company with those He has called to Himself.

Mark begins with the announcement that something new is coming. The work of God in human history changes with the arrival of Jesus of Nazareth. In Mark's introduction the messenger that Isaiah prophesied promotes the expectation of the Kingdom of God, Jesus is prepared for the ministry of the Kingdom, and then He comes from this preparation with the invitation for all to enter the kingdom through repentance and faith. Listen this week to hear how God's kingdom is introduced by Mark and how God's Word calls us to respond.

Isaiah 52

Peter calls Christians to lives of holiness "in everything" they do. As we continue our study in this letter, listen as we ask why holiness matters and what it looks like.

Join in as we continue our study in 1 Peter. In this passage Peter reminds his readers, and us, that the salvation won by Jesus was foretold by the prophets in the Old Testament. Jesus is the Jewish Messiah who came to fulfill the Jewish Scriptures. What the prophets predicted, the apostles proclaimed--Jesus was crucified and raised from the dead. Take heart, our message is a message of victory.