Focus: The Gospel refuses to stay put. As persecution scatters believers and unlikely doors begin to open, God pushes His Church beyond familiar borders and comfortable assumptions. An Ethiopian traveler hears the Good News. A Roman centurion receives the Holy Spirit. Again and again, God surprises His people by showing them just how far His grace reaches. The Church discovers that God's mission is always bigger than its expectations. This week invites us to follow the Spirit beyond our own limitations and rejoice that no person is beyond the reach of Christ's saving love. Acts 8, 10

Focus: The promised Holy Spirit descends upon the disciples, transforming fearful followers into bold witnesses of Jesus Christ. Through the preaching of the Gospel, people from many nations hear the mighty works of God in their own languages and are gathered into one body through faith and baptism. Pentecost reminds us that the Church is born not through human effort or strategy, but through the power of God's Spirit working through His Word. This week invites us to receive anew the Spirit's gifts and to trust that God still creates faith and transforms lives through the Gospel today. Acts 2

Focus: Jesus is alive! There is forgiveness and freedom for all who repent, and this Good News needs to be shared! Our lives after Easter have been woven into Jesus' mission. We are His hands and feet, sent to embody and proclaim the Good News wherever we go. John 20; Acts 1

Focus: Jesus, the Messiah, is really Risen! If not for this fact, we would be like the disciples on the road who said, "We had hoped he was the one." But praise be to God! Christ is indeed risen, and because He lives, the threads of our lives are eternally woven together with His, safe and secure. Because He lives, we too shall live. Luke 24

Focus: The King, Jesus, the Messiah, the very Son of God, the Word made flesh, is rejected by his own people who say, "we have no King but Caesar." Our sinless King, forever woven together with our lives, hangs on a cross bearing our sins, and dies. Luke 23:26-49; John 19:1-30

Focus: Jesus asks the question that stands at the center of every life: "Who do you say I am?" Peter confesses Him as the Christ, yet soon learns that Jesus is not the kind of Savior many expect. He comes not first with earthly power, but through the way of the cross. This week invites us not only to confess Jesus rightly with our lips, but to follow Him faithfully with our lives. Mark 8:27-38

Focus: Jesus enters the wilderness, overcomes temptation, and then announces that the long-awaited promises of God are being fulfilled in Him. Good news for the poor, freedom for the captive, sight for the blind, and favor for the broken are no longer distant hopes—the Kingdom has come near in Jesus. This week calls us to turn from lesser kingdoms and receive the healing reign of Christ in our lives today. Luke 4:1-21

Focus: Before creation began, Jesus was. The eternal Word through whom all things were made has now stepped into our world in flesh and blood. He comes not from a distance, but near enough to be seen, touched, heard, and trusted. In Christ, God is not hidden. He is revealed, full of grace and truth. This week invites us to behold the glory of Jesus and receive the new life only He can give. John 1:1-29

Focus: God's promises never fail. After 70 years in exile, God used another King to return a remnant of His people to Jerusalem to begin to rebuild. Isaiah 40; Ezra 1

Focus: Even in exile, in the midst of the consequences for rejecting God, He is with His people. God especially blesses Daniel, and as He raises him up He encourages Daniel and Israel though His prophets and a promise that there is a future where they are restored. There is no where God's people can be sent or where they can go where God will not be with them. Jeremiah 29; Daniel 1