Everyday Church Sunday Messages

In one sense we are the most connected society that has ever walked the face of the planet. But that same technology which, at it's best, enables us to talk face-to-face with someone on the other side of the world, at it's worst, enables us to pretend that someone in the same room as us doesn't even exist. The connection that the online world claims to offer us is an illusion and it's a large factor in the growing "friendship recession" that is running rampant through the Western world. The Way of Jesus offers us a radical alternative to the loneliness of the modern, digital world — a way of living in community that fulfills the deep ache within us for meaningful connection with other human beings.Ancient//Future: Vision 2026Just as looking to the past to innovate for the future has a rich history in the field of human achievement, so there is a growing movement within the Jesus' Church who are taking to heart God's words in Jeremiah 6:16, “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls." It's time to relearn the ancient truths of God's word and rethink how to communicate them in our present day; to rediscover ancient practices from the Way of Jesus and reimagining them for our modern age.

We've been taught that faith is about a decision (choosing to trust in Jesus) and a destination (going to heaven when we die), but the Gospel of the Kingdom that Jesus preached seems to put a lot more weight on the part in between the decision and the destination than we sometimes do. The journey of faith — the way we walk out our apprenticeship to Jesus — is at the heart of being a Christian, and just as with any journey, a map and a path to follow are extremely helpful tools to help us on our way.Ancient//Future: Vision 2026Just as looking to the past to innovate for the future has a rich history in the field of human achievement, so there is a growing movement within the Jesus' Church who are taking to heart God's words in Jeremiah 6:16, “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls." It's time to relearn the ancient truths of God's word and rethink how to communicate them in our present day; to rediscover ancient practices from the Way of Jesus and reimagining them for our modern age.

This Mother's Day we brought together six women in our church family who are various stages of motherhood to get their perspectives on life and hear what God has taught them through the joys and struggles of being a mom.

The modern Western world is a very confusing place. Recent generations have become more and more adept at deconstructing age-old ways of thinking and living, but what is often missing is the ability to reconstruct the dismantled pieces into a workable framework for living in the 21st Century. This leaves many standing amid the rubble of a world that belonged to previous generations with no clue as to where to go from here. More than ever, a confused world needs a loving church that holds unswervingly to a set of kingdom convictions that have stood the test of time, and marked out God's people for two millennia.Ancient//FutureJust as looking to the past to innovate for the future has a rich history in the field of human achievement, so there is a growing movement within the Jesus' Church who are taking to heart God's words in Jeremiah 6:16, “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls." It's time to relearn the ancient truths of God's word and rethink how to communicate them in our present day; to rediscover ancient practices from the Way of Jesus and reimagining them for our modern age.

Most people in the Western world live life at a break-neck speed. The technology that was once predicted to expand our leisure has instead expanded our labor. This state of constant exhaustion and crippling anxiety is the enemy of life with God, but by practicing the ancient Way of Jesus, it is possible for us to find rest for our souls. This radically different way of life that stands in defiance to the cultural expectations and norms of Western society will require intentional and difficult choices, but it has the potential to meet the deep ache in all of us to slow down and simplify our lives as we find rest in him.Ancient//Future: Vision 2026Just as looking to the past to innovate for the future has a rich history in the field of human achievement, so there is a growing movement within the Jesus' Church who are taking to heart God's words in Jeremiah 6:16, “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls." It's time to relearn the ancient truths of God's word and rethink how to communicate them in our present day; to rediscover ancient practices from the Way of Jesus and reimagining them for our modern age.

What does it mean to follow Jesus in 2026 on the Central Coast of California? So many people feel stuck in their spiritual journey much of the time, but following Jesus is an ancient way of life that so many have walked before us, including Jesus' first disciples. What can we learn from their experience as we reimagine our discipleship and community life for the 21st century?Ancient//FutureJust as looking to the past to innovate for the future has a rich history in the field of human achievement, so there is a growing movement within the Jesus' Church who are taking to heart God's words in Jeremiah 6:16, “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls." It's time to relearn the ancient truths of God's word and rethink how to communicate them in our present day; to rediscover ancient practices from the Way of Jesus and reimagining them for our modern age.

What is life really all about? The average Christian might answer, "To have a relationship with God, so that when I die, I can go to heaven and be with him for all eternity." That's not a bad answer, but according to the pages of scripture, it's an incomplete answer. When Jesus discusses eternal life with his disciples in Matthew 19, he points out two key truths that the modern western church has almost completely forgotten — that all of history is heading towards the renewal of all things, and the rule of Jesus' followers.Ancient//Future: Vision 2026Just as looking to the past to innovate for the future has a rich history in the field of human achievement, so there is a growing movement within the Jesus' Church who are taking to heart God's words in Jeremiah 6:16, “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls." It's time to relearn the ancient truths of God's word and rethink how to communicate them in our present day; to rediscover ancient practices from the Way of Jesus and reimagining them for our modern age.

All throughout scripture God reveals himself as a God of new beginnings, but no more so than in the Easter resurrection story. The first Easter Sunday turned history on it's head as the new age of the kingdom of heaven was inaugurated and a new story began to be written for for all of creation.

Most followers of Jesus would agree that part of our call is to be witness to the good news that Jesus himself preached. But how do we do that in a post-christian culture that is increasingly hostile to christianity? Jesus, operating in a culture that ultimately killed him, had a very simple but effective way of reaching out to people who were far from God — he invite them to the table. He ate, he drank, he asked questions and created space for conversations that went beyond the shallowness of the weather and sports. What if we did the same?

Stories are hardwired into our brains — they are how we make sense of the world around us and our experiences within it. From ancient cave paintings and oral histories, to classic novels and plays, to blockbuster movies and TV shows, our culture is both understood and shaped by stories.It should come as no surprise then that Jesus came as a master storyteller. God created us as narrative beings and so stories are the perfect way for us to understanding the Kingdom of God.

Jesus comes to the last of his case studies on how his apprentices can live out a greater righteousness, and it's the most challenging of all. It centers on how we relate to those who oppose us and oppress us—our enemies—and how we are not just called to tolerate them, but to love them. After all, Jesus says, if we only love people we like and are like, how are we any different from the world?

As followers of Jesus it can be difficult to know how to approach the evil and injustice that we see in the world. On one hand we may feel a righteous anger when confronted with issues of injustice, but on the other, Jesus, in Matthew 5, seems to say that we should not resist evil people. What do we do with that? Understanding the cultural context of Jesus' examples of injustice will help us realize that he is not telling us to be doormats, but encouraging us to resit evil in creative ways, rather than responding in kind.

Today contracts and legal agreements are everywhere—so much so that we regularly sign our lives away without even reading what it is that we are agreeing to! But in Jesus' day an agreement was not bound by a pair of signatures on a piece of paper (or a Docusign link), but by the word of the parties involved. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus addresses the way that people had come to use oaths and vows as a way to manipulate one another using the reputation of God. Today we may not use oaths and vows in the same manner, but the underlying wisdom of God in this command speaks to an issue that we definitely face today—the way we use words to manipulate others and get our own way.

As John Mark Comer writes in the opening to his book, "Loveology", “In the beginning God created Adam. Then he made Eve and ever since we’ve been picking up the pieces.” There is so much beauty in the relationships between men and women, but there is also so much brokenness. One of the most obvious ways that this brokenness is seen is through the betrayal of an affair, but, as Jesus will show us, the underlying wisdom of the Torah command to not commit adultery involves bringing our hearts, minds, and bodies back into alignment with God's original vision for male and female relationships.

An inmate on death row. An abusive husband. A middle school bully. All examples of people who have struggled to get a grip on the human emotion we call anger. But of course we know there is a vast difference between murder and name calling... or is there? According to Jesus, those who are angry with someone else will be subject to the same judgment as those who take the life of another, but how can that be? How is anger the same as murder?

Have you ever wanted something so badly that you went to great lengths to get it? Jesus wants us to feel that way about righteousness — that we would hunger and thirst for it. Righteousness is a confusing word, but in the context of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount it simply means living in right relationship; doing right by God and by others. This was the way of life that Israel was supposed model to the watching world — being both salt and light — but where Israel failed, Jesus succeeded and invites his followers to join him in a new way to be righteous.

Early on in the history of the church, fasting was tied to what Jesus and the early Christians called “almsgiving” — a practice that combined generosity, serving, and justice. On fasting days, Christians would take the food or money they would have spent on food and give it to the poor. Often, they would also give the time they would have spent cooking, eating, and cleaning up to serving the poor. This simple practice of giving away the money we would have spent on ourselves has the potential to transform not only the lives of the poor, but our own lives and communities as well.FastingFasting is one of the most essential and powerful of all the practices of Jesus and, arguably, the single most neglected one in the modern, Western church. Fasting is a way that we can integrate our whole body into life with God.

Fasting and prayer go together. Like two wings of a bird, together they take flight. You can pray without fasting, and you can fast without praying, but when you combine the two, there’s a noticeable amplification of our prayer before God. This comes as no surprise, since fasting is a kind of praying with our bodies. When the requests of our hearts are coupled with the yearnings of our bodies, something mysterious happens. Prayer is an umbrella term for the ways in which communicate and commune with God. Prayer involves both speaking and listening, fasting can play a key role in both.FastingFasting is one of the most essential and powerful of all the practices of Jesus and, arguably, the single most neglected one in the modern, Western church. Fasting is a way that we can integrate our whole body into life with God.

Our culture conditions us to long for, and even expect a comfortable life. But in the words of one elderly monk, "God sits at the summit of hunger, thirst, and suffering; the devil sits at the summit of the comfortable life." Jesus himself said, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.” Deep down we know that self-denial is the way we grow in every sphere of life — making uncomfortable choices in the short term that lead to long term transformation — but there is a battle raging within us between the part of us that wants to do the will of God and the part that wants to indulge our own selfish desires. Fasting is a powerful and practical weapon in this fight to grow in holiness.FastingFasting is one of the most essential and powerful of all the practices of Jesus and, arguably, the single most neglected one in the modern, Western church. Fasting is a way that we can integrate our whole body into life with God.

In the modern world, you are more likely to hear about fasting from a Muslim, Buddhist, nutrition expert, or fitness guru than from a serious disciple of Jesus. Most followers of Jesus in the West no longer fast; if they do, it’s rarely on a weekly basis, despite the fact that it was the common practice of the church for well over a millennium and a half to do so. Yet in his teaching on fasting in Matthew 6:16, Jesus said, “When you fast ….” Not “If you fast ….” He assumed his apprentices would follow his example by fasting. What if we are missing out on one of the most essential and powerful of all the practices of Jesus?FastingFasting is one of the most essential and powerful of all the practices of Jesus and, arguably, the single most neglected one in the modern, Western church. Fasting is a way that we can integrate our whole body into life with God.

Stories are hardwired into our brains — they are how we make sense of the world around us and our experiences within it. From ancient cave paintings and oral histories, to classic novels and plays, to blockbuster movies and TV shows, our culture is both understood and shaped by stories.It should come as no surprise then that Jesus came as a master storyteller. God created us as narrative beings and so stories are the perfect way for us to understanding the Kingdom of God.

Most people spend their lives pursuing, but coming up short on finding happiness. The whole entertainment industry in the West has been built upon this pursuit, but this search leaves so many feeling feeling unfulfilled because we are hardwired by our creator for a similar but yet deeper experience that scriptures call "joy".Advent 2025The build up to Christmas is a time of intense preparations, but we get so busy preparing our homes that we forget about preparing our hearts. Culturally we are more conditioned to prepare for the arrival of Santa than we are Jesus! But that's why for hundreds of years the church has embraced the season of Advent — an invitation to prepare ourselves for the coming of Jesus afresh in our lives again at Christmastime.

Instead of being simply the absence of conflict, the biblical idea of peace runs so much deeper. Peace is wholeness and completeness — it is the opposite of brokenness. There is so much brokenness in our lives and the world at large, but at Advent we look forward to Jesus' coming and return — the Prince of Peace who will one day heal brokenness at every level of society once and for all.Advent 2025The build up to Christmas is a time of intense preparations, but we get so busy preparing our homes that we forget about preparing our hearts. Culturally we are more conditioned to prepare for the arrival of Santa than we are Jesus! But that's why for hundreds of years the church has embraced the season of Advent — an invitation to prepare ourselves for the coming of Jesus afresh in our lives again at Christmastime.

If you want to see the power of hope in operation, just take a look at a child as they long for the day that they get to find an unwrap the perfect gift under the Christmas tree. Hope can sustain us, but the flip side of hope is waiting, and we aren't very good at waiting. Waiting reminds us that we are not in control of our lives — it's an affront to our pride — but it's in the waiting that God does his work.Advent 2025The build up to Christmas is a time of intense preparations, but we get so busy preparing our homes that we forget about preparing our hearts. Culturally we are more conditioned to prepare for the arrival of Santa than we are Jesus! But that's why for hundreds of years the church has embraced the season of Advent — an invitation to prepare ourselves for the coming of Jesus afresh in our lives again at Christmastime.

Even the most die-hard lovers of the holiday season would admit feeling stressed at some point at this time of year. Taking our already busy lives and adding an additional layer of shopping, parties, school performances, and food preparation often pushes us over from busyness (having a lot to do) into hurry (having too much to do). If we want to experience this time of year as the season of hope, peace, joy, and love that it was always meant to be, it's going to require us to take some steps to slow down, and become more present to those who are closest to us.

Stories are hardwired into our brains — they are how we make sense of the world around us and our experiences within it. From ancient cave paintings and oral histories, to classic novels and plays, to blockbuster movies and TV shows, our culture is both understood and shaped by stories.It should come as no surprise then that Jesus came as a master storyteller. God created us as narrative beings and so stories are the perfect way for us to understanding the Kingdom of God.

Everyone has the own idea about what the "good life" is and how to find it. It's what every advertisement is trying to sell us, but the good life can't be found in a new car or phone. Jesus' take on the good life shocked his first hearers. He taught that the good news of the coming kingdom of God is that the subjects of the kingdom get to experience the good life, but that it wouldn't look anything like they imagined...

Everyone has the own idea about what the "good life" is and how to find it. It's what every advertisement is trying to sell us, but the good life can't be found in a new car or phone. Jesus' take on the good life shocked his first hearers. He taught that the good news of the coming kingdom of God is that the subjects of the kingdom get to experience the good life, but that it wouldn't look anything like they imagined...

The idea of miraculous healing provokes so many different reactions among people. Some believe in it, some don't. Some run after it, some are afraid of it. Some want to experience it but are not sure where to start, and some are tired of praying for it with little to show for it. Join us for a conversation about this complex topic as we share stories of both healing and suffering, and get real about the joy and the pain of going after divine healing in our church community.

With so much pain and suffering in the world it's easy to wonder if God even cares. And if he does care, why he doesn't do something about it? The Bible's answer is that God does care, and that he has done something about it—he sent his Son, Jesus, not just to save the world, but to heal it. Healing is a sign of the now, but not yet kingdom of heaven—a preview of new creation in the present age.

Just like many of our favorite TV shows have a story arc that weaves its way through multiple episodes, so the first four chapters of Matthew's Gospel have an overarching meta narrative. It's easy to miss because we rarely read large chunks of scripture at a time and many of us are not that familiar with the Old Testament, but if we look closely we can see that Jesus is retelling and recreating of the story of Israel through his own life.

For many Western Christians, Sunday has become what Eugene Peterson called a “bastard Sabbath”—the illegitimate offspring of the Sabbath and a secular day off.Whether you practice Sabbath on Sundays, Saturdays, or another day of the week, it’s essential to remember God commands us to “remember the Sabbath by keeping it holy.” To keep it “holy” means to sanctify it, set it apart, and dedicate it to God for his special purposes. Sabbath isn’t just a day to sleep in, relax, and do whatever brings you joy (it is, but it’s more): it’s a day to worship. To reorient your entire life back to its center in God.In our final week of Sabbath, we elevate the Sabbath from a restful, joyful day off to a holy day of worship and delight in God himself.SabbathThe Sabbath is a 24-hour time period set aside to stop, rest, delight, and worship. It is the best day of the week. In our era of chronic exhaustion, emotional unhealth, and spiritual stagnation, few things are more necessary than the recovery of this ancient practice.

Timothy Keller has said, “Because the world is full of ugly things, we need the Sabbath to feed our soul with beauty.”Jesus himself said plainly, “In this world, you will have trouble,” but he also said his desire for his disciples was “that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be full.” Sorrow is inevitable in this life, but joy is not. In the Way of Jesus, joy is a gift, but it’s one that must be chosen and cultivated, day after day, as an act of apprenticeship to our joyful God.Previous generations often thought of the Sabbath as a somber, serious day full of religious duty and legalistic rules. Today, many people think of it as a day to chill, relax, or sleep. Both generations miss the essential truth – the Sabbath is designed by God as a day to give yourself fully to delight in God’s world, in your life in it, and ultimately in God himself.SabbathThe Sabbath is a 24-hour time period set aside to stop, rest, delight, and worship. It is the best day of the week. In our era of chronic exhaustion, emotional unhealth, and spiritual stagnation, few things are more necessary than the recovery of this ancient practice.

The idea of rest sounds wonderful, but in reality, rest is a radical, countercultural act of resistance to the powers and principalities of a world at war with God and his kingdom of peace. To practice Sabbath is to draw a line in the sand against all external (and internal) forces that would encroach upon your apprenticeship to Jesus and formation into his image. It’s to say, “This far you shall go, but no further.”SabbathThe Sabbath is a 24-hour time period set aside to stop, rest, delight, and worship. It is the best day of the week. In our era of chronic exhaustion, emotional unhealth, and spiritual stagnation, few things are more necessary than the recovery of this ancient practice.

Low-grade physical, mental and emotional exhaustion is the new normal for most people, but it’s not the way of Jesus — he offers us an alternative way to live. Jesus offers us “rest for our souls.” God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh. In doing so, he wove a rhythm of work and rest into the fabric of creation; rest that the Bible calls "Sabbath." This rest is not something we can buy or earn — we simply have to learn to stop.SabbathThe Sabbath is a 24-hour time period set aside to stop, rest, delight, and worship. It is the best day of the week. In our era of chronic exhaustion, emotional unhealth, and spiritual stagnation, few things are more necessary than the recovery of this ancient practice.

When Jesus called his first disciples he invited them to join him in sharing what he called the "good news of the kingdom." To this day, what has come to be called "evangelism" is a key part of what it means to be a follower of Jesus. But this is becoming an increasingly daunting prospect as our post-truth society has more and more issues with being told what to believe. Is there a way that we can reach people with the love of Jesus that is gentle, respectful, honest, invitational, hospitable, culturally relevant, and that actually works?Gospel of MatthewTo respond to Jesus’ invitation to follow him means to become his apprentices in life — learning from both his teachings and his lifestyle as we reorder our lives around being with him, becoming like him, and doing as he did. One of the key ways we do this is to immerse ourselves in the Gospels, the accounts of Jesus’ life written by his earliest apprentices. It’s an essential part of living life to the full as followers of Jesus the King. join us as we journey through the Gospel of Matthew together.

Despite the human propensity for conflict, we can easily see war as something that happens to other people in other places—certainly not here on the Central Coast of California. So why do often end the day feeling battered and bruised, if not in body then in spirit? Why is it such a struggle to follow Jesus? The answer of the Apostle Paul in Ephesians 6 is that we are actually in a war, we just don't realize it most of the time. It's not a war against flesh and blood, that doesn't make it any less real.Gospel of MatthewTo respond to Jesus’ invitation to follow him means to become his apprentices in life — learning from both his teachings and his lifestyle as we reorder our lives around being with him, becoming like him, and doing as he did. One of the key ways we do this is to immerse ourselves in the Gospels, the accounts of Jesus’ life written by his earliest apprentices. It’s an essential part of living life to the full as followers of Jesus the King. join us as we journey through the Gospel of Matthew together.

As the culmination of the story of the Hebrew Bible, the Gospel of Matthew contains many "hyperlinks"—imagery that directs us again and again to stories in the Old Testament that find their fulfillment in Jesus. The story of Jesus' baptism in Matthew 3 brings together the two most important narratives in the history of God's people—the Genesis story of creation and the Exodus story of redemption—as Jesus relives and recreates our collective story.Gospel of MatthewTo respond to Jesus’ invitation to follow him means to become his apprentices in life — learning from both his teachings and his lifestyle as we reorder our lives around being with him, becoming like him, and doing as he did. One of the key ways we do this is to immerse ourselves in the Gospels, the accounts of Jesus’ life written by his earliest apprentices. It’s an essential part of living life to the full as followers of Jesus the King. join us as we journey through the Gospel of Matthew together.

Jesus was born into a world of all kinds of kings and kingdoms, but the heart of Matthew's gospel account is the good news that God's kingdom has arrived, and that Jesus is the true king of the world. That begs the question for both his original readers and for us today — what does it mean for Jesus to be king of our lives and of our world?Gospel of MatthewTo respond to Jesus’ invitation to follow him means to become his apprentices in life — learning from both his teachings and his lifestyle as we reorder our lives around being with him, becoming like him, and doing as he did. One of the key ways we do this is to immerse ourselves in the Gospels, the accounts of Jesus’ life written by his earliest apprentices. It’s an essential part of living life to the full as followers of Jesus the King. join us as we journey through the Gospel of Matthew together.

As we begin our journey through this biography of Jesus, Matthew takes the time to set his story in context by taking us through a genealogical list of names, tracing Jesus ancestry back to Abraham. It's easy to gloss over this introduction as boring and irrelevant, but if we do we'll miss some important ideas that our modern Western minds can easily miss.Gospel of MatthewTo respond to Jesus’ invitation to follow him means to become his apprentices in life — learning from both his teachings and his lifestyle as we reorder our lives around being with him, becoming like him, and doing as he did. One of the key ways we do this is to immerse ourselves in the Gospels, the accounts of Jesus’ life written by his earliest apprentices. It’s an essential part of living life to the full as followers of Jesus the King. join us as we journey through the Gospel of Matthew together.

The metaphor of the dove to describe the Holy Spirit is only found once in scripture — at the baptism of Jesus. But this key moment in Jesus' life gives us valuable insight into how the Spirit empowered him to fulfill his mission on earth, and how the Spirit works through us us we continue the work of Jesus in the world today.Join us for this teaching series as we encounter and explore the person, presence, and power of the Holy Spirit through the biblical metaphors of fire, breath, water and the dove.

Water is essential for life, so it's not surprising that one of Jesus most well known teachings on the Holy Spirit in John 7 uses the metaphor of water to describe his work. But this metaphor of water goes all the way back to the first page of scripture as we see the Spirit hovering over the deep and bringing creation out of chaos, a work that he continues to do to this day.Join us for this teaching series as we encounter and explore the person, presence, and power of the Holy Spirit through the biblical metaphors of fire, breath, water and the dove.

Every day we take 23,000 breaths, using the 1,500 miles of airways that we have in our bodies. Breathing is fundamental to life, but yet most of the time we don't even realize we are doing it. It's telling that breath is the key metaphor for the Spirit of God in both the Old and New Testaments—it's apt way of describing the life-giving nature of the Spirit's work in God's world.Join us for this teaching series as we encounter and explore the person, presence, and power of the Holy Spirit through the biblical metaphors of fire, breath, water and the dove.

Fire is perhaps the first metaphor that comes to mind when we think of the Spirit of God — it's right there when we think about the outpouring of the Spirit at Pentecost. But what does it mean for us to experience the fire of the Spirit as we walk out the realities of everyday life?Join us for this Holy Spirit teaching series as we encounter and explore his person, presence, and power through the biblical metaphors of fire, breath, water and the dove.

Despite the centrality of the Holy Spirit to the Christian faith, 60% of committed Christians believe that the Holy Spirit is a force to be wielded and not a person. In this introduction to our new teaching series we explore the work of the Spirit throughout the history of God's people in order to build up a biblical picture of his role in our apprenticeship to Jesus today.Join us for this Holy Spirit teaching series as we encounter and explore his person, presence, and power through the biblical metaphors of fire, breath, water and the dove.

Despite the centrality of the Holy Spirit to the Christian faith, 60% of committed Christians believe that the Holy Spirit is a force to be wielded and not a person. In this introduction to our new teaching series we explore the work of the Spirit throughout the history of God's people in order to build up a biblical picture of his role in our apprenticeship to Jesus today.Join us for this Holy Spirit teaching series as we encounter and explore his person, presence, and power through the biblical metaphors of fire, breath, water and the dove.

Stories are hardwired into our brains — they are how we make sense of the world around us and our experiences within it. From ancient cave paintings and oral histories, to classic novels and plays, to blockbuster movies and TV shows, our culture is both understood and shaped by stories.It should come as no surprise then that Jesus came as a master storyteller. God created us as narrative beings and so stories are the perfect way for us to understanding the Kingdom of God.And we can learn so much from the stories of others. Not just about them as people, but also about how God is working in our community today, and how he might want to work in our lives.With Everyday Stories we invite members of our church community to share part of their story and how they have experienced God working in their lives so that we all might benefit.

Stories are hardwired into our brains — they are how we make sense of the world around us and our experiences within it. From ancient cave paintings and oral histories, to classic novels and plays, to blockbuster movies and TV shows, our culture is both understood and shaped by stories.It should come as no surprise then that Jesus came as a master storyteller. God created us as narrative beings and so stories are the perfect way for us to understanding the Kingdom of God.And we can learn so much from the stories of others. Not just about them as people, but also about how God is working in our community today, and how he might want to work in our lives.With Everyday Stories we invite members of our church community to share part of their story and how they have experienced God working in their lives so that we all might benefit.

“If you want to go fast, go alone, but if you want to go far, go together.” We are not designed to travel the spiritual journey by ourselves. We need community to practice the Way.And Jesus’ call to community goes far beyond church attendance to relationships of depth, vulnerability, and a commitment to transformation.The Practicing the Way CourseTwo thousand years ago, Jesus said to his disciples, “follow me.” But what does it mean for us to follow Jesus today?The Practicing the Way Course is an on-ramp to spiritual formation, exploring what it means to follow Jesus and laying the foundation for a life of apprenticeship to him.

A Rule of Life is a schedule and a set of practices and relational rhythms that create space for us to be with Jesus, become like him, and do as he did. It’s an intentional plan to slow down and simplify our life around being spiritually formed by Jesus. To turn the vision of spiritual formation into a reality.It is an ancient idea, whose time has come again.The Practicing the Way CourseTwo thousand years ago, Jesus said to his disciples, “follow me.” But what does it mean for us to follow Jesus today?The Practicing the Way Course is an on-ramp to spiritual formation, exploring what it means to follow Jesus and laying the foundation for a life of apprenticeship to him.