Recovering Prayer | Part One
Brandon Alred Brandon Alred

Recovering Prayer | Part One

How’s your prayer life? If that question makes you sigh, you’re not alone. Maybe prayer isn’t something to perfect or dutifully perform. Maybe it’s the life-giving response to the God who is already with you.

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Recovering The Bible | Part Two
Brandon Alred Brandon Alred

Recovering The Bible | Part Two

In a world crowded with our words, preferences, and interpretations, Recovering the Bible means listening to the voice of the risen Christ who still speaks to us here and now.

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Recovering The Bible | Part One
Brandon Alred Brandon Alred

Recovering The Bible | Part One

What is the Bible for? Many of us have a complicated relationship with Scripture—it has been misused as a tool of exclusion, harm, and control. But what if Jesus is right, and the Word of God is actually a good gift meant to give us life? Recovering the Bible begins with receiving God’s word, not as a weapon, but as a locus of divine encounter where we are formed into a liberated people of hope.

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Recovering Worship | Part Two
Brandon Alred Brandon Alred

Recovering Worship | Part Two

In God’s gift of worship, we are caught up in a counter-liturgy that makes us a different kind of people — a political alternative to the world.

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Eve | God with her in faith
Collin Cornell Collin Cornell

Eve | God with her in faith

Eve is best known as the Bible's Original Sinner—but she is also and more importantly the Bible's Original Believer. In the face of loss and hardship, she continues to recognize and testify to God's goodness and God's help. She names her son Cain, saying, "I have produced a man with the help of the Lord" (Gen 4:1).

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Shiphrah & Puah | God with her in resistance
Brandon Alred Brandon Alred

Shiphrah & Puah | God with her in resistance

It can feel as if nothing can stand in the way of tyrants and empires. Yet Shiphrah and Puah remind us that God sees the oppression, sees us, and invites us to join the emancipating God—even in small acts of resistance.

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Tamar | God with her in life’s messiness.
Brandon Alred Brandon Alred

Tamar | God with her in life’s messiness.

We like to think life with God is neat and quiet. But Tamar shows us otherwise. She refuses to stay in her place or accept her lot—and in the drama, the scandal, and the silence, God is with her, bringing about a story more redemptive than she could have imagined.

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Love and Money
Chantal Avery Chantal Avery

Love and Money

Money can be all consuming, a never ending cycle of desire. But Jesus invites us into a way of living free from greed, reflecting God’s divine philanthropy as the church.Generosity:

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The Church & Money.
Brandon Alred Brandon Alred

The Church & Money.

A Jesus centered life moves our concern from possessions to people.

Generosity:

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God & Money
Brandon Alred Brandon Alred

God & Money

Jesus invites us to reimagine our relationship to money and how we spend our lives.

Generosity:

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A Reminder of the Good Shepherd
Jordan Rhea Jordan Rhea

A Reminder of the Good Shepherd

In John 10, Jesus reveals that he will sacrifice his body for the sake of his sheep. Let's spend this morning marveling at simplicity. We get to be God's sheep because we have a good shepherd.

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Whose Bright Idea Was This?
Rev. Jacob Breeze Rev. Jacob Breeze

Whose Bright Idea Was This?

This sermon explores four stories in Acts to demonstrate that Jesus Christ is the active and living Lord of the Church. He is the one leading the mission. His challenge and summons to the Church is: Catch up with what I am already doing.

Eunuch Acts 8:26-38

Paul Acts 9:1-16, 26-27

Peter Acts 10:9-20, 27-35, 44-45; 11:1-4, 17-18

Antioch Acts 11:26; 15:1-19

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Beloved.
Collin Ross Collin Ross

Beloved.

In the face of the human concern of image curation, God fully knows us and calls us beloved (not cursed).

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Sex & the Church.
Brandon Alred Brandon Alred

Sex & the Church.

Is there such a thing as a healthy Christian sexual ethic? Many of us have shed shame-based teachings, but are still searching for something life-giving. What does sex look like in light of resurrection?

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LGBTQ+ Inclusion & the Church.
Brandon Alred Brandon Alred

LGBTQ+ Inclusion & the Church.

Let’s navigate a hard conversation about sexuality and the Church—one marked by generosity, curiosity, and deep engagement with Scripture. Our hope is to cultivate an imagination for what a Jesus-centered life looks like within a global Church that is fracturing under the weight of theological disagreement about LGBTQ+ inclusion.

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