Before we can understand the full message of the Christmas season, we need to gaze at the beauty of God Himself. It is only when we understand who God is that we are able to respond to His coming with true joy.

Lost to most of us across culture and language is the powerful truth of Exodus 6: God proposes to Israel, His bride, and commits Himself to her and, by extension, to us as well. The promise of deliverance is the forerunner to the anticipation of intimacy and inheritance for the people of God.

Suffering and disappointment are part of the human experience, and Christians are not exempt from this reality. In fact, it's in the midst of the most powerful work of God that we often experience the formational work of suffering and pain in our lives. While we can't avoid suffering and disappointment, we can prepare ourselves for the inevitability of it and learn to sustain, and even grow, during those difficult seasons.

Our hesitation is no match for the plan of God. He works through imperfect people like us to accomplish profound things in our world. However, He also takes our response to His work seriously and asks us to submit to His Lordship. He can't be Savior unless He's also Lord.

In an LGBTQ+ world, how do we live as faithful followers of Jesus? What does the Bible actually have to say about sexuality, and what does it look like for us to live faithfully and lovingly in the modern world? This is the last of 4 Crossroads classes and has a mix between instruction and Q&A.

In an LGBTQ+ world, how do we live as faithful followers of Jesus? What does the Bible actually have to say about sexuality, and what does it look like for us to live faithfully and lovingly in the modern world? This is the third of 4 Crossroads classes and has a mix between instruction and Q&A.

In an LGBTQ+ world, how do we live as faithful followers of Jesus? What does the Bible actually have to say about sexuality, and what does it look like for us to live faithfully and lovingly in the modern world? This is the second of 4 Crossroads classes and has a mix between instruction and Q&A.

In an LGBTQ+ world, how do we live as faithful followers of Jesus? What does the Bible actually have to say about sexuality, and what does it look like for us to live faithfully and lovingly in the modern world? This is the first of 4 Crossroads classes and has a mix between instruction and Q&A.

When God appears to Moses in the burning bush, He declares one of the most powerful truths about Himself to us as His covenant people: He sees and hears us. There are times when it seems that God is far away and disengaged, and times when our prayers seem to disappear into the air. But the promise of the Bible is that God sees us, hears us, and is acting on our behalf, even when His timing doesn't match ours.

God is both transcendant and imminent. He is holy and yet close. He is the God in whose presence we must take off our sandals, but He also the God who invites us to come near. When we come to grips with this paradox, we begin to see the majesty of the salvation story and God's ongoing work of reconciliation in the world.