The ascension is the key to the Christian life! The ascension made all the effects of Jesus’ risen life available to us and every believer in every time and place. The ascension is also when the ministry of Jesus shifts from simply being the ministry of a single man to a global community. We’ll explore all these aspects of the ascension of Jesus this Sunday.
Read MoreThis week's story invites us to encounter the living Jesus on our own journeys. Jesus promises us that even after he is ascended, “You will see me” (John 14:20). But we often miss the risen Jesus in our every day lives. This story shows us the many reasons we may miss him, but also invites us to ways that we have our eyes open to him more and more.
Read MoreGuatemalan poet Julia Esquivel wrote a poem called “They Have Threatened Us with Resurrection.” It may sound strange that the message of Easter may be threatening. Everything Jesus is and everything Jesus taught is true and now grasps us with authority, and we will follow him wherever he leads. This Easter, let’s come expecting to meet with the risen Lord.
Read MoreAs we have journeyed together through the book of Luke for the last 16 months, we have heard Jesus say again and again that he must go to Jerusalem. Now finally, on Palm Sunday, we witness the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem and the beginning of the terrible and wonderful drama of the cross and resurrection.
Read MoreOur preacher this Sunday is Dr. Wesley Hill. He is the author of the books Washed and Waiting and Spiritual Friendship, and is a frequent contributor of articles to the journals First Things and Christianity Today. Please welcome him to our community!
Read MoreThis week, we look at how Jesus celebrates and welcomes the littlest ones in our society, and how he not only affirms their value, but teaches that we are supposed to become like them! We’ll explore what that might mean for our daily lives.
Read MoreRevolutions are often won and lost on battlefields by armies. Usually, the stronger soldiers and the superior firepower wins out, but the revolution of the King looks different in our world. This week, we'll look at Luke 19, where we see another unlikely participant in the ongoing movement of God’s kingdom becoming manifest in our world.
Read MoreThis week, Luke tells the example of another person Jesus meets along his path: a blind impoverished beggar. And yet, this man who is portrayed as a model disciple. We’ll look at why this blind beggar is the model disciple and what it would mean for us to become like him too.
Read MoreThis week, we're exploring the well-known story about Jesus’s encounter with a rich young ruler. This is a story about money, yes, and it is also a story about grace and our inability to save our own lives.
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Read MoreThe man described in our text this week is subject to the highest of defilements: a Samaritan who was also a leper! It's a scandalous story because Jesus not only heals this man (along with 9 others) but then holds him up as an example of faith because of his response to Jesus.
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Read MoreThis week, we welcome author of A Praying Life, Paul Miller, to speak with us. He'll be sharing on Luke 16:19-31, and Jesus's focus on the toxic danger of wealth without generosity.
Read MoreThis week we'll be looking at a passage from Luke 20, and together we will remind ourselves of our allegiance to Jesus and his Kingdom, and take up our call once again to be an embassy of his Kingdom in the world.
Read MoreThis week we’re beginning a short 3-week series called the Generosity of the King. We’ll be looking at three passages from the gospel of Luke that focus on Jesus' teaching about money, wealth, and generosity.
Read MoreThis week to finish our 5-week series on parables, we’ll be looking at perhaps the most famous parable of all. This is the third of the “Lost Things" parables that Jesus tells in Luke 15: The Story of the Two Lost Sons.
Read MoreIn the parable of the four soils, Jesus displays the generous nature of God and the failing human responses. God sows His precious seed into our lives despite our hard hearts, shallow faith, and cluttered lives.
Read MoreThis week, we're looking at Luke 15, a very famous chapter in the book of Luke that includes three of the most well-known parables of Jesus. This week we’ll be looking at the first two: first, the parable of the lost sheep, and then second, the parable of the lost coin.
Read MoreIn our parable for this week -- the parable of the Seed and the Leaven-- Jesus explains that the Kingdom of God is indeed a force of power that can have dramatic impact in the world, but it is a small, unexpected, un-dramatic power. We'll explore the implications of this power in our lives, and how Jesus is the center of it.
Read MoreThis Sunday we conclude our study of The Call of the King, being challenged by Jesus to evaluate our lives to see if we are His followers.
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