2024-12-22: The North Pole is the perfect place for Santa to live – it’s filled with snow, it’s mysterious, and most importantly, unreachable. Santa lives at a distance to keep the magic alive and comes but once a year to give presents to those who are on the nice list. Many believe the same about God. Instead of the North Pole, God is far away in a distant and unreachable heaven. The birth of Jesus tells us a different story about God making his home among us. Discover God’s incarnation and how we can experience God’s nearness during the season of Advent.

2024-12-15: Many of us believed in Santa when we were kids. Then there was that day when we "found out" the truth. Maybe it was a friend, an older sibling, something we overheard, or something we saw. We grew up in a moment. We no longer believed the make-believe stories we were told as kids. Isn't it interesting that many people who grow up with an element of faith in God have a similar experience? Is it possible that our culture has told us to "grow up", and stop believing in things you can't touch or see or prove? Is disbelief actually a sign of maturity? Or perhaps we lost something when we left our child-like wonder.

2024-12-08: "He's making a list and checking it twice, gonna find out who's naughty or nice…" Do these lyrics describe Santa or God? The "gospel of Santa" tells us that if we behave well enough, we’ll be rewarded on Christmas morning. Otherwise… coal. Could it be that we’ve allowed this performance-based, fear-driven mindset shape our view of the Father? The Gospel of Jesus tells us we are loved purely because we are His sons and daughters. We cannot earn God's grace and love. So, why do we sometimes find ourselves striving to get on God's "nice list"? This Sunday, we'll explore how embracing the "gospel of Santa" instead of the true Gospel affects our understanding of God and how we live our lives.

2024-12-01: Christmas is confusing in our culture. Everyone seems to celebrate it in some form, but it has become something very different than what God's agenda was at that very first Christmas. Is it possible that we've mixed our cultural values with the primary message and mission of God? In this series, we analyze different ways that we have projected cultural views and values upon the gospel of Jesus... possibly even replacing it with the gospel according to Santa.

2024-11-24: Let's try a thought experiment. Imagine someone you loved, and had given your life to be with, was only going to be with you for a moment longer. Now imagine that person was going to sum up everything they wanted from you after they were gone in one actionable idea. Would you lean in? Would you give significant energy in your life to that one thing? I think you would. I think we all would.

After Jesus' resurrection, he left us one thing to do. Are we doing it?

2024-11-17: Do you want to do things well? Do them right? Do them excellently? What if that value stops you from doing anything at all? When we choose courage over comfort we choose action over perfection. We give permission for failure because success is in risk-taking obedience, not in perfection. Join us this week as we explore how fear is faith in the wrong thing, and how true faith is following God without worrying about the results.

2024-11-10: When someone asks, "How are you?" we often respond with one of two answers: "I'm doing good." or "I've been busy." These responses can reveal something about us—either that we value independence and don’t need others, or that we find our worth in being productive. While strength and productivity are not inherently bad, they can sometimes contribute to a sense of loneliness. This Sunday, we'll explore how we can embrace those feelings of loneliness, seeing them as signposts that point us toward a deeper connection with Christ and with one another. To practice not doing life alone.

2024-11-03: It seems simple, but yet profound: The lives we live today are often a result of decisions we made yesterday (or earlier in our lives). Our relationships, our careers, our health, our successes, and our failures. What is true individually, is also true corporately. The experience of life together is the culmination of our past decisions and actions. So who do we want to be in the future? And what does that mean for us today? Join us this week as we start a 4 week series called "Family Values".

2024-10-27: In one particular study when non-Christian people answered why they rejected Christianity the results showed the primary reason was the behaviour of Christians. The primary reason had nothing to do with what the Bible says, or teaches, or any conflict with other world-views. The perception and experience that people had with those who claim to be Christian was one that made Christianity unbelievable. Even beyond that, many people point to the atrocities throughout history done by the church as another layer of motivation to reject Christianity. So… let’s talk about it. Join us for our last Sunday in the Problem of God series.

2024-10-20: Let’s be honest, many people don’t want to be a Christian because it has so many rules and seemingly exclusive demands. "What about freedom?" "Why do things have to be so rigid and intolerant?" Our world has a very unique idea of what freedom is and unknowingly we have bought into it. Is it true that a lack of restraint is true freedom? How is that working for us? Maybe what Jesus offers us is the pathway to true freedom.