One of the great questions that all of humanity is asking on some level or another is this one:
What is God doing?
What's He up to? How does He fill up His time? What keeps Him busy?

f it's true that you can measure a person's values by how they spend their time, then, paying attention to what God does is a great way to get to know His heart.

Paul was a master at cultural contextualization, and even from a prison cell, he was able to identify 3 crucial questions for the Christ-follower to consider as we attempt to share the Gospel in our world.

Jeff Rudder is one of our Strategic Leaders at VTL. He's been on staff at Young Life for years, and we're so blessed to have him as a part of our teaching team.

You'll want to stick around after the bumper for Jeremiah's one-of-a-kind Fike-inspired Lead-Shepping. You're welcome.

Life if filled with ways complet the phrase:
I am _________.

As we launch into this Ephesians series together, the Apostle Paul is going to give us 7 questions to steer us towards the right answer.

We’ve covered lots of unusual characters from the pages of our Bible in this UNUSUAL SUSPECTS sermon series. Perhaps none is more unusual than this week’s highlight.

When Jesus had a mountainside’s attention, and the opportunity to announce what would distinguish his leadership, he chose to speak about this week’s Unusual Suspect.

Spoiler Alert… You are intimately acquainted.

Who would imagine that one of the greatest enemies of the early church could become one of its greatest advocates? In the words of DJ Khaled... GOD DID!

King David was not anyone's first pick for King of Israel.
Maybe the fact that he was an unusual suspect himself made him all the more collaborative in his leadership.

One of David's great collaboraters was a Levite named Asaph.
He was really quite something...

It's hard, sometimes, to put ourselves in the sandals of the human beings that walked alongside of Jesus in His day... to make sense of the cultural, political, and social landscape that they were traversing. But, Jesus wasn't living in obeyance to any of the cultural norms of His day. And, it freaked a lot of people out.

Maybe none moreso than "the woman at the well", this week's Unusual Suspect.

We’re blessed to have Jeff Rudder continue in our UNUSUAL SUSPECTS series… filled with characters most of us would never have chosen to play such significant roles in the narrative of the Bible. Jeff’s eyes were drawn to the guys Jesus chose to be His disciples.

What did He see in them?
Why did He call them in, up and out?
What does that have to do with you?

Anyone Jesus pays attention to... we should pay attention to.
Anyone Jesus shines light on... we should shine light on.
Even if they are an unusual suspect.

This week, we'll talk about how Jesus made a meal of a moment when a person who shouldn't have any faith in Him at all exhibits the most faith Jesus has ever seen... and we'll have to ask ourselves if we have faith like the Roman Centurion.

Most of us know the story of Judas Iscariot, the traitor who traded His relationship with Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. We know what Judas was... but, have we ever stopped to consider what he wasn't?

In this UNUSUAL SUSPECTS series, we're taking hard looks at some of the ordinary people that did some extraordinary things. Judas fits that description perfectly.