When God Came Close

For four hundred years, the Jewish people waited in silence for a Messiah — and every expectation pointed to power. A warrior. A political liberator. Someone who would finally overthrow Rome and set things right by force. Instead, God arrived as a newborn, born to an unremarkable teenage mother, laid in a feeding trough because there was nowhere else to put him. In this message from our Foundations series, Spencer walks through Philippians 2:5–11 to unpack why God chose humility over prestige — and shares a personal story from a recent ER visit about what it means to have someone show up and say, "you don't have to do this by yourself." If you've ever expected God to show up one way and gotten something else entirely, this episode is for you.