From the very beginning, humanity tried to cover its own shame — and from the very beginning, it was not enough. In Genesis 3, we see Adam and Eve reach for fig leaves, then hide behind trees, desperately trying to conceal what only God could fix.

The truth is simple but profound: the only thing that replaces guilt is innocence. You cannot make yourself innocent once you are guilty. But God, even in the moment of judgment, made tunics of animal skin to cover Adam and Eve — something innocent had to shed its blood to cover their shame. That is the picture of the cross.

Genesis 3:15 gives us the first promise of a Savior — the seed of the woman who would crush the serpent's head. That promise was fulfilled in Jesus Christ, whose shed blood is the only covering that truly works.

You cannot hide from God, and you do not have to. Come hear more this Sunday.

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The book of Zephaniah confronts us with one of the hardest tensions in Scripture: a God of fierce, consuming wrath and a God of singing, rejoicing love. Both are real. Both are coming.

Zephaniah makes clear that the Day of the Lord brings judgment on wickedness -- but it also brings the restoration of all things. The King of Israel, Yahweh himself, will stand in Jerusalem. He will gather his people, quiet them with his love, and reign in peace. The physical world will catch up to the spiritual redemption Christ has already purchased.

If God sees every injustice and will one day right every wrong, that is not a reason for fear -- it is a reason for hope. The call from Zephaniah 2 still stands: seek the Lord, seek humility, seek righteousness. The door remains open.

Join us as we walk through the Minor Prophets and discover the full picture of who God is and what he is doing in history.

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Are you asking Jesus to follow you, or are you following Jesus? That is the heart of this week's message from Luke 4-5, where two very different responses to Christ are on display.

The people of Capernaum wanted Jesus to stay and keep making their lives comfortable. Peter, Andrew, James, and John saw the power of Christ and left everything behind to follow him. One group wanted a genie. The other found a mission.

The gospel is not a vending machine. Jesus did not come to make your temporary life easier. He came to offer you eternal life, a new identity, and a purpose worth giving everything for. The question is whether you are humble enough to follow him or whether you want him to follow you.

Come join us and dig into what it truly means to be a follower of Christ.

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Genesis 2 gives us a picture of what was always meant to be — a world without shame, without hiding, without fear. A world where Adam and Eve stood fully exposed before God with nothing to hide, because sin had not yet entered the picture. That world feels impossibly distant when we look at the darkness around us today.

But here is the hope: what was lost in Eden is being restored. The same God who breathed spirit into Adam breathed the Holy Spirit onto his disciples after the resurrection (John 20:21-22). Through Christ, the last Adam (1 Corinthians 15), we can be reborn into the life that death stole from us.

The evil we see in this world is real. But it is not the end of the story. Christ is returning, and with him comes everything Eden promised. Join us as we walk through Genesis and rediscover the world God intended.

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What do you do when the world around you feels chaotic and God seems silent? The prophet Habakkuk wrestled with that same question, crying out to God over the wickedness he saw in Judah -- and God answered in a way Habakkuk never expected.

God's response did not remove the struggle. It revealed a plan far bigger than Habakkuk could see. And when Habakkuk chose humility over his own understanding, something shifted. His complaint became a prayer. His frustration became faith. His fear became worship.

Habakkuk 2:4 reminds us that the just shall live by faith -- not by following rules, not by having all the answers, but by trusting the God who sees the whole picture. Even when the fig tree does not blossom and the fields yield nothing, we can still say with Habakkuk: "I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation" (Habakkuk 3:18).

Come hear more from this often-overlooked book that has so much to say to us today.

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What happens when the spiritual realm collides with the ordinary? In Luke 4:31-39, Jesus is teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum and the people are already astonished at his authority over Scripture. Then a demon interrupts everything, crying out in fear, "I know who you are, the Holy One of God." The spiritual realm itself testifies to who Jesus is.

Jesus silences the demon with a word. Then he heals Peter's mother-in-law with a word. Divine authority over Scripture, over the spiritual realm, over the physical world, all on display in one passage.

And what is the response of the one who is healed? She gets up and serves. That is the model for all of us. When we encounter the mercy and healing of Jesus, the natural response is to love God and love the people around us.

Come study the Gospel of Luke with us and get to know who Jesus really is.

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Why is there something instead of nothing? The answer is not a what — it is a who. From the very first verse of Genesis, God establishes himself as the only explanation for existence itself: timeless, eternal, omnipresent, and the creator of all things out of nothing.

This week we opened the book of beginnings, exploring what Genesis 1 has meant to Jews and Christians across thousands of years of history. From Augustine to Justin Martyr, believers have wrestled with these ancient words — and yet every serious interpreter has landed on the same foundation: in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1).

The greatest discovery in Genesis 1 is not simply how the world began, but why. God created a functioning universe, made mankind in his image, and embedded the story of redemption into the very structure of creation — pointing us toward Christ.

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What happens when a nation turns its back on God after experiencing his mercy? The books of Jonah and Nahum tell that story across 100 to 150 years -- from a city that repented and was spared, to a city that returned to wickedness and faced destruction.

Nahum 1:7 reminds us that God is both just and good -- a stronghold for those who trust him, yet one who will not leave the wicked unpunished. That tension is not a contradiction. It is the full picture of who God is.

The connections woven through these two books point forward to Christ -- a Jewish prophet swallowed by the sea for three days, a ministry centered in Capernaum (the city of Nahum), and a crucifixion method rooted in Assyrian cruelty. The very empire judged in Nahum invented the instrument of our salvation.

Come study the minor prophets with us and see how every piece of Scripture points to Jesus.

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