Passage: Romans 14:13–23 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Heaven Touching Earth – Diversity Honoring Others’ Convictions Conflict can make us myopic. We focus in on the areas of disagreement, and we want to prove that we are right…and they are wrong. And the greater our diversity, the more areas that we have to disagree about! The […]

Passage: Romans 14:13–23 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Heaven Touching Earth – Diversity Honoring Others’ Convictions Conflict can make us myopic. We focus in on the areas of disagreement, and we want to prove that we are right…and they are wrong. And the greater our diversity, the more areas that we have to disagree about! The […]

Passage: Romans 14:1–12 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Heaven Touching Earth – Diversity Honoring Christ Navigating diversity is hard. Whether it is different ways of doing church, or political views, or of sports teams, we should not let differences divide. Sadly though, America has not done a good job in navigating differences as 11 AM Sunday […]

Passage: Romans 14:1–12 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Heaven Touching Earth – Diversity Honoring Christ Navigating diversity is hard. Whether it is different ways of doing church, or political views, or of sports teams, we should not let differences divide. Sadly though, America has not done a good job in navigating differences as 11 AM Sunday […]

Passage: 1 Peter 5:12–14 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Heaven Touching Earth – Community Community—A Place to Belong and Be Real I have a question. “How have you helped or been helped to belong and be real here?” Over the past six weeks we have applied truths from 1 Peter to form our community as a […]

Romans 3:20-25a Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Heaven Touching Earth – Community Belonging to Jesus *due to technical issues, the first portion of this message is missing.  Being a community where people can belong and be real together sounds great! We all long for deep acceptance, to be known fully and loved fully. So just how […]

Passage: 1 Peter 5:1–14 (focus vv.1–11) Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Heaven Touching Earth – Community Being Real with Authority *due to technical difficulties portions of this sermon are missing.  “I love Jesus but hate the church.” Many people want to connect with the life-giving grace of God without the messiness of the church. Yet God’s […]

Passage: 1 Peter 5:1–14 (focus vv.1–11) Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Heaven Touching Earth – Community Being Real with Authority “I love Jesus but hate the church.” Many people want to connect with the life-giving grace of God without the messiness of the church. Yet God’s grace flows through means. In the face of suffering, persecution, […]

Passage: 1 Peter 3:8–4:19 (focus on 4:7–19) Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Heaven Touching Earth – Community Being Real with Suffering Can we be real about suffering? Sometimes we want to fix or ignore suffering; we focus on solving the problem or hope for things to work out in the end. Yet how should we respond […]

Passage: 1 Peter 3:8–4:19 (focus on 4:7–19) Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Heaven Touching Earth – Community Being Real with Suffering Can we be real about suffering? Sometimes we want to fix or ignore suffering; we focus on solving the problem or hope for things to work out in the end. Yet how should we respond […]