We asked Joseph Jenkins, our music minister at Wayfarers, to teach this month's lesson. Joseph compiled many different Bible verses, some in Genesis 1, Exodus 3, Isaiah 6, 1 Peter 1, Acts 2 and a few beside, to walk through the idea of God being both holy and generous. It's a great survey with a lot of scripture readings so get out your Bible and listen closely to this message. 

Today we dive into a lesser known passage from the book of Isaiah. Chapter 18 dives into the sociopolitical landscape during ancient Israel's time by looking at the area of Cush and how it was seen as a point of hope for the people of Israel who hoped to form an alliance with Cush. Nick breaks down what this passage meant to him and how it can matter even today, in our current walk with God. 

Jacob Dooley is back to preach, and this time he's preaching from the book of Isaiah, continuing our sermon series throughout this rich book. Jacob speaks to the current trauma our city has endured and how the Israelite's received this precious prophecy of Immanuel during a time when their allegiance to God was at an all time low, and evil was rampant and cried out for justice to be served. It's a powerful sermon for helping us uncover the hidden joy of God's grace. 

This Sunday service we invited Dr. Greg Waddell, a professor of Mid-South Christian College and one of our members at Wayfarers, to begin our new year in the book of Isaiah. Dr. Greg spoke on Isaiah 6 and the calling that Isaiah experienced and how that can matter to our lives today. 

Back in November, we hosted a spiritual formation night with one of our members, Dante Baker, leading the event. It was super well received, so much so that we were able to get a recording of it put together for anyone that wants to listen. As this is part of our spiritual formation night at our church, we usually don't record these because they require so much participation from the audience and we feel its best to be in the room and get to participate physically with us as a church for these nights. Even so, we are overjoyed this one has become so popular and we hope that even if you can't participate in the action steps Dante lays out, you can get a taste of the beautiful heart that Dante has for God.  

Join us for our final week of Advent where Noah closes out the season with a look at how the love of God works in our lives. 

Join us this week for our third week in our Advent sermon series where Jacob Dooley re-contextualizes the concept of joy for us by diving into the 1st century history of the Jewish people and how eagerly and hopefully they waited for the coming Messiah. Jacob focuses on the story of Mary and her receiving the news of great joy that she would bear the Messiah.  

This week Noah works through the second week of Advent discussing the importance of peace and how much of a struggle that has been in the church of late. He lays out the Jewish idea of Shalom (the Hebrew word translated as peace), and teaches from John 16 on how Jesus taught his followers to rely on peace in the middle of conflict and unrest. 

This is a break from our regular weekly rhythms to focus specifically on the season of Advent. Each week we will be exploring a tension in the story of the Bible that is both resolved in Jesus the Messiah while also continuing till his second coming. Today Nick Griffin preaches on the subject of hope, which is the first of the four candles lit. Strap in! Advent is not for the faint of heart. But it might just give you some hope in these trying times. 

This sermon Nick preaches on the topic of God as fire within the Old and New Testament. In some ways this is a part two to his last sermon where he talked about God being light. Feel free to listen to that one in the archives and then give this one a listen as well!