Bible Text: Matthew 21:23-32 | Preacher: Danny Steis | In our church, who is more welcome and who is valued, the insider or the outsider? I think the answer is sometimes painfully obvious and I don't know how to fix that problem. There's no easy one-fix solution. Certainly, spending time with outsiders is a way to gain perspective. But even further, sometimes the content of our worship can give us perspective: what we sing about, what we celebrate, what we preach about.

Bible Text: Matthew 20:1-16 | Preacher: Christopher Ingram | Jesus' parable of the laborers in the vineyard calls us to reject the attitudes and behaviors that don’t testify to God as the author of all good things. When we begin asserting our position, our rank, our tenure, our maturity before God, we forget the Gospel that welcomed us here and welcomes everyone to the church.  God’s love is a free gift to all, and none of us deserved it.

Bible Text: Romans 14:1-12 | Preacher: Christopher Ingram | In a world that is pulling the church apart with subtle and explicit forces, it find a way to hold together in the midst of its diversity of conviction and commitment.

Bible Text: Genesis 1:11-10; 26-28, Romans 8:16-23 | Preacher: Christopher Ingram | When your world is formless and empty, when you are swamped and overwhelmed, remember that God takes the chaos and calls forth order and purpose that is strengthening the relationship of love that nothing in all creation could ever sever.

Bible Text: Exodus 3:1-15 | Preacher: Christopher Ingram | Moses is a lot like us, less than eager to speak the truth and more than eager to leave the task to someone else. Sometimes, though, the task is ours and we must be the agents of God.

Bible Text: Romans 12:1-8 | Preacher: Christopher Ingram | God has given us Spiritual gifts as members of the body of Christ. When the body of Christ is healthy, when it is vital, with each part working for the good of the whole, its efforts can be directed more and more out into the world and be transformational – moving the world from deformity to conformity to the very mind of Christ.

Bible Text: James 1:1-4 | Preacher: Christopher Ingram

Bible Text: Genesis 32:22-31 | Preacher: Tarvick Linder | The story of Jacob wrestling a stranger in the night is a reminder how we, in our own struggles with ourselves, our world and with God, do not have stories that end in defeat. Instead, with eyes of faith in what God has done in Jesus Christ, can see that our story is just beginning as those born again through him.

Bible Text: Isaiah 55:1-5 | Preacher: Jessamine Gaul | Whatever emptiness that you bear, whatever hunger that you carry deep within your soul, rest in the knowledge that God welcomes that posture and that Jesus came not just to give us life, but to give us abundant life to the full.

Bible Text: Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52 | Preacher: Christopher Ingram | Though we can’t always plan when, or how, it is in our witness that our lives will tell their own little stories that speak volumes more than thousands of our words ever could. How will your life tell the story of the kingdom of heaven?