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Raegan Griffith kicks off our new series, Compelled, by exploring what took Peter from a young man who denied Jesus 3 times to ultimately being willing to lay down his life for the sake of the Gospel. Peter was COMPELLED by the love of Jesus and his life challenges us to look to Jesus and ask for revelation of His love that will compel us to live for Him.

What lies are young men being told in the culture and how can they step into the life God has for them? Ben Griffith talks to the young men of Youth of the City to unpack the lies culture places on men and the ways that they can step into deeper freedom, purpose and light.

In this conversation, Keithen and Raegan explore the idea that God has intentionally made us people of desire and wants to use that desire for His glory and our flourishing. However, we live in a world where technology threatens to distort our desire. How do we consecrate our use of tech so that our desires can truly be directed towards God?

How are the beauty standards placed on women pulling us away from the truth spoken over our bodies in scripture? In this teaching, Raegan Griffith speaks to the girls about how God views our bodies and the ways that beauty standards rob us of living in our identity.

Do our physical bodies have any bearing on one’s identity ? In a confusing cultural moment, Raegan Griffith exposes three lies of the enemy and opens the scripture to find the truth of our god given and unshakable identity.

To have a proper theology of the body is one of the most important dimensions to the faith of a young person today. Our vision is to open a dialogue about our bodies as a good gift from god, and the exact place where the gospel is fully embodied on the earth.

Life, Death, Resurrection, and Union. This is the pattern of the Gospel. We first receive this reality as an unmerited gift from God, and second we give our lives to live this pattern out in our lives. The End of the Story after our death is not floating away to a disembodied "heaven" somewhere else, but rather participation in the "New Heavens and New Earth". Jesus as our King in Revelation said, "Behold, I am making all things new." Keithen wraps up this series teaching that end of the story is a people redeemed and reconciled to God living in Union with him on the earth which has been purified from sin, satan, death, and hell. You want in ?

Is the Gospel about me? My salvation? My freedom? My healing? Or did Jesus come for something so much greater? In this teaching, Keithen leads us in a discussion about the Union of heaven and earth through the lens of the Family of God. Calling out the lies of Modern American Individualism, we read in the book of Revelation that God is rescuing and healing a family, that in turn joins him in rescuing and healing the world. This is the Church, and today we talk about how the Church is the Bride of Christ and eventually will inherit the earth made new, together.

Are we destined to live our entire lives following Jesus continually stuck in sin and never getting any better? Or is there a different and better story available? Phil Maberry leads us in a conversation about the New Self vs the Old Self from Ephesians chapter 4. Resurrection is much more than a one time event in the life of Jesus, but rather the pattern of new life we are invited to live in every day.

The next phase of the Gospel Series shifts this week to a two week conversation about Resurrection. What does the death and resurrection of Jesus mean for us, and what does this say about the nature of the world we live in? The reversal of death itself is an anchor of hope in the center of human history that points to the eternal power and authority of God. Raegan takes us in as we chat about the great reversal at the heart of the universe.