Episodes
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Joshua E3 - Marching
The Lord gives Joshua a strange battle plan to take Jericho. His plans and timing often don't align with ours. But as we march, all of heaven is marching with us to tear down the strongholds in our lives. Check out our Story of God podcast feed to find all the messages in one place. Spotify:...
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Joshua E2 - Purifying
Before Israel fights their first battle, God tells Joshua to circumcise all the men. This strange plan reveals to us that God has always wanted a holy people. Before great victories come a time of preparation and purification. Check out our Story of God podcast feed to find all the messages in…
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Joshua E1 - Entering
Moses is dead. But Joshua has something better than Moses, he has the God of Moses. He promises to be with Joshua as he conquers the land. Just as Israel escaped Egypt through the Red Sea, God stops the Jordan River so Israel can cross into the Promised Land on dry ground. He is the same God from...
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Crowned
Humanity seems insignificant on the cosmic scale, but to the Lord we are cherished and prized. God has crowned humanity with glory, honor, and dominion. Even though we led creation into sin and death, the gospel tells us that a perfect man has come to reign over God's world.
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Follow Me E5 - Andrew, Philip, Nathanael, & Peter
John's gospel shows us a different picture of Jesus calling his first disciples. Beginning with John the Baptizer, the Jesus movement takes off as people begin to tell others about Jesus.
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Follow Me E4 - Matthew
Jesus comes as doctor for our souls . He isn't intimidated by our sin, but is drawn to us in love. The story of Matthew reveals to us that Jesus is an expert doctor who turns tax collectors into apostles.
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Follow Me E3 - Lazarus
The story of Lazarus teaches us that there is something stronger than death: Jesus, the resurrection and the life. Even when our story seems like it's over, we can hold onto hope. Our God specializes in bringing dead things to life again.
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Follow Me E2 - The Rich Young Ruler
Mark 10 tells the story of a wealthy young man who had obeyed all the commandments. Yet Jesus tells him if he wants to be saved, he still lacks something. He invites him to sell everything and follow him.
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Follow Me E1 - The First Disciples
The Book of James warns us that belief without action is dead. In today's sermon from Mark 1, Jesus calls the first disciples. Belief in Jesus promotes four actions: leaving, following, joining, and fishing.
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Prayer For the Rest of Us E4 - Fasting
In God's upside-down kingdom, emptiness is the key to fullness. And weakness is the path to God's strength. We fast as a way of rejecting the world so that we can encounter God.
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Prayer For the Rest of Us E3 - Adoration
The first ask in the Lord's Prayer is that God's name would be made holy. There's a power in music, song, and even in our body language. We exist to worship God, and when we do, things shift in the spiritual realm.
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Prayer For the Rest of Us E2 - Watch & Pray
Jesus and the apostles call us to sober-mindedness. It's our responsibility to watch and pray in the midst of this intoxicating world. Many of us are intoxicated by sin, trials, idols, and our screens. We need to slow down our lives so that we come to a place of real connection with the Father.
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Prayer For the Rest of Us E1 - Getting Started
A survey by Crossway found that only 2% of Christians are very satisfied with their prayer life. The truth is that nobody is naturally good at praying. But like the apostles, we can grow in prayer. It begins with a joy in God.
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Journeying with Jesus
Proverbs 3:5-6 is one of the most well-known passages in the Bible because it provides a framework for us to navigate life. When we steward our hearts, minds, and actions, God will take care of steps.
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What Is the Block?
Missionary and guest speaker, Lauren Wiberg, shares about how to overcome the blocks that hinder us in our walk with Jesus.
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Pride & The Spirit of Offense
Offense is a demonic trap from the enemy. Learn how you can be free from the spirit of offense and see restoration and reconciliation brought to broken and damaged friendships and relationships.
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Deuteronomy E3 - The Choice Is Yours
Deuteronomy is a crossroads, a moment of decision. Israel is offered a choice: life or death, victory or defeat, blessing or curse. And the same decision is before us today. Choose life!
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Deuteronomy E2 - The Faith Is Generational
Moses commands Israel to teach their kids and grandkids who God is and what he has done. The Faith has survived from Moses' day to ours because each generation of parents has owned the responsibility of discipling their children.
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Deuteronomy E1 - The Law Is Love
The book of Deuteronomy records Moses' final words to the Israelites at the border of the Promised Land. There is one God: Yahweh. All his commands are really one command: Love.
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The King of Glory
God is looking for a generation who will seek his face with clean hands and pure hearts. If we will open up to him, he will come in power and glory.
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In the Wilderness E5 - Phinehas
At the edge of the of the Promised Land, Israel is enticed into idol worship and sexual sin. When an Israelite man brings a Midianite woman into the camp, Phinehas kills them both and is approved by God. Stories like this teach us about our own battle with the enemy. Sin has to be put to death....
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In the Wilderness E4 - Balaam
Across the Jordan River from Jericho, Israel is camped in the Plains of Moab. The King of Moab hires a prophet to curse them, but instead he blesses them four times. This story teaches us that nothing can curse what God has blessed. Check out our Story of God podcast feed to find all the messages...
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In the Wilderness E3 - The Bronze Serpent
Israel becomes impatient in the wilderness. They rebel. God's judgment comes. They ask for mercy. God forgives. This pattern repeats again and again throughout Israel's wilderness journey. And it reveals to us one of the core ideas of the Bible: God has provided a priest for sinners. Check out…
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In the Wilderness E2 - Scouting the Land
Moses sends spies into the land, who find that it's just as good as God said it was. But they also find giants. Ten of the spies want to turn back to Egypt, but two believe they should move ahead and conquer the land. Their choice is the same as ours: will we turn back in unbelief or will we…
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In the Wilderness E1 - Welcome to the Desert
After spending a year at Mount Sinai, Israel sets out for the Promised Land. They have a salvation in their past and a promise in their future, but in between they have a desert. The wilderness is the "in-between" place, full of trials and tests. How we handle the wilderness determines whether or...
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Sex & Scripture
God's design for sex, gender, and marriage is radically countercultural today. But God's way leads to life.
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Walking Worthy
Paul tells the church in Ephesus to talk walk worthy of the calling they have received from the Lord. Paul's message in Ephesians 4:1-16 centers on two things: the ascended Christ and the thriving church.
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Alive with Christ
An encounter with Christ is a movement from death to life. We exist for union with the risen Jesus. We become united to him in baptism.
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Resurrection Sunday
The gospel is the news of what God has done for us in Jesus Christ. Because of his great love he has rescued us out of our sin and given us a brand new life.
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The Last Supper
The final night before the cross, Jesus offers his followers a meal. It's a meal of his own body and blood. And Jesus tells them to do it often in remembrance of him.
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The Greatest Commandment
The most important thing in our lives is that we love the Lord with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and that we love our neighbors as ourselves.
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Sermon on the Mount E6 - The Narrow Road & The House on the Rock
At the end of the Sermon, Jesus offers two striking analogies for how to find life. His way is like a narrow road, but it's real freedom. And obedience to him is like building your life on an unshakeable rock.
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Sermon on the Mount E5 - Treasure in Heaven
Continuing with his radically counterintuitive teaching, Jesus tells us not to worry about money and to seek heavenly treasure. Better than all the stuff the world offers to us is the Father's kingdom. If we seek the kingdom first, he will provide for everything we need.
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Sermon on the Mount E4 - The Lord's Prayer
At the center of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus teaches us to pray like he did. It's a prayer that is rooted in fellowship with God as Father. It's a prayer that co-labors with God to see his kingdom come into this world. And it's a prayer for the many needs we face each day.
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Sermon on the Mount E3 - Love Your Enemies
Jesus offers some of his most counterintuitive teaching at the end of Matthew 5. He teaches us that his kingdom comes through humble, sacrificial love. Instead of resisting our enemies, we are to love them, because that's what the Father does.
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Advice from Jesus' Best Friend
In 3 John 2, John writes his desire for his audience to prosper. God desires that we flourish in every area of life: financially, physically, mentally/emotionally, and spiritually.
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Sermon on the Mount E2 - The Religion of the Heart
Jesus does not lower the bar from the Old Testament law, he actually elevates it to the level of the heart. The righteousness God wants is not an external performance, but an interior reality. The New Covenant offers us a new heart.
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Sermon on the Mount E1 - The Upside Down Kingdom
Jesus is the New Moses, teaching on the mountain. He is the New David, ushering in God's kingdom. And he opens the famous Sermon on the Mount by describing those who are truly blessed: the poor in spirit. This is the great key to the spiritual life and the gateway to God's kingdom breaking into a...
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Rising Church E3 - Peter
Peter denies Jesus, and decides to go back fishing. But it turns out Jesus was fishing for him. Peter's restoration is a reminder that our failures are not the end of our story. And the best days of our walk with Jesus are still to come.
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Rising Church E2 - Lazarus
Faced with the death of a beloved friend, Jesus announces that he is the Resurrection and the Life. What Jesus does for a Lazarus is a picture of what he wants to do for every person in the world. We can believe with hope for our lives, our church, and our world because Jesus specializes in...
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Rising Church E1 - Bartimaeus
Bartimaeus' name means "son of honor". But when Jesus found him he was a blind beggar outside of Jericho. The promise of this story is that when we cry out to Jesus he hears us and makes us new.
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Advent E3: Love
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the sacrifice for our sins. This is the message of the gospel. Love is not only the beginning of our walk with Jesus. It's also the pinnacle. Spiritual gifts come and go, but our love for him will last forever.
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Advent E2: Hope
We live in an age of despair, where cynicism and criticism are easy. Hope is hard. But real hope is possible because of the arrival of God's Son. Isaiah prophesied a sunrise for those living in the land of darkness, because a Child is born and a Son is given.
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Advent E1 - Joy
This time of year we like to talk and sing about joy. But is lasting joy even possible in real life? In Christ, we are given a gospel of joy that nothing in this world can take away.
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Sinai E8 - Cloud Culture
The Israelites depart from Mount Sinai with the newly constructed Tabernacle. The Cloud of God's personal presence is in their midst as they move through the wilderness. They move when and where the Cloud moves. And they camp around the Cloud when it stays still. They orient their entire culture...
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Sinai E7 - Seeing the Glory
Moses prays one of the greatest prayers in the Bible: "Lord, show me your glory!" And God answers. Yahweh appears before Moses on Sinai, declaring his own name and identity. When Moses comes down the mountain, his face is radiating with the glory of God. Check out our Story of God podcast feed to...
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Sinai E6 - Tabernacle, Law, & Sacrifice
God gives Moses precise details for how to build the tabernacle, various laws for the people follow, and specific instructions for the sacrifices. These are the terms of the Sinai Covenant. For the first time since Eden, God brings his own personal presence and glory to live among humanity. Check...
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Bearing the Image
The primary goal of every human is to be God's image. Everything else we do is the overflow of that singular calling. We become the image by crucifying our flesh and beholding him.
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Sinai E5 - The Golden Calf
Moses is receiving the Law on top of Sinai, but the Israelites down on the ground get nervous and impatient. They decide to make a golden calf and worship it as their new god instead. Although the covenant is broken shortly after it began, Moses the Mediator asks God to have mercy on them. Check...
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Sinai E4 - The Ten Commandments
On Mount Sinai God gives Moses the Law. The Ten Commandments are at the heart of God's Law. And God himself carves them on tablets of stone. Through them God reveals his heart for how we should live as his covenant people. Check out our Story of God podcast feed to find all the messages in one...
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