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Episodes
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FOUNDATIONS: The Creation Story – “The Fall” (Part 3)
The Fall wasn’t about God setting a trap and humanity breaking a rule. It was humanity abandoning our calling as God’s image bearers, using our freedom to decide for ourselves what is good, rather than trusting God to define it.
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FOUNDATIONS: The Creation Story – “Created in His Image”; Part 2
Being made in God’s image means that every human being possesses inherent dignity and worth and is called to represent God in his creation. We fulfill this calling by developing and caring for the world God has entrusted to us and by treating others with the same love and generosity, that reflect...
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“How Do I know if Jesus Good?” – Luke 8:42-48
We hear that religion is bad. So how can I trust Jesus to be good? Is he good?
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“Foundations: What is the Gospel?” – Part 3
The gospel is the good news that Jesus is King. Through the cross he has defeated the powers that held us captive, opened the way back to God, and taken his rightful throne. Our response is not merely to believe certain truths about him, but to entrust ourselves to him in faithful allegiance. God...
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“Foundations: What is the Gospel?” – Part 2
The gospel is an announcement that through his death and resurrection Jesus has been enthroned as King and now invites us to live under his rule. Faith therefore means trusting his leadership with our whole lives, believing that the abundant life we’re searching for is ultimately found by…
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Foundations: “What is the Gospel?”
The gospel is not a transaction that secures forgiveness or a place in heaven, but God’s invitation to restore a broken relationship with his lost children. It's about about knowing him, living with him, and being transformed by that relationship.
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After the 10 Words: “How We Enter the Promise Land”
When ten spies said the promise was impossible and two said go anyway, the difference wasn't the facts, it was which report they chose to believe.
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Ten Words: “You Shall Not Covet” – Exodus 20:17
Coveting grows from disordered desires that willpower alone cannot fix. True contentment comes as the Spirit reshapes our hearts and teaches us to find our sufficiency in God rather than in what others have.
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“God Is Bigger” (Mexico Mission Presentation)
This year’s Mexico mission team encountered a God who is greater than the challenges and limitations we face. Through five personal testimonies, interwoven with brief reflections from Scripture by Pastor Steve, we will see how God works in and through our weakness, uncertainty, and limitations.
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“Do Not Commit Adultery” -Exodus 20:14
The Seventh Word is not merely a prohibition against adultery but God’s invitation into the kind of covenant love that reflects his own faithful love for his people. It reveals that God’s boundaries for marriage are meant to form us into people who can truly love as he loves us.
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“Ten Words: Do Not Kill” -Exodus 20:13
SUMMARY: We often fail to recognize the God-given value of the people around us, responding instead with indifference, contempt, or even hostility. The sixth commandment calls us beyond simply “not murdering” to become people who honor God's gift of life—seeing every person as an image-bearer and...
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“Ten Words: Honor Your Father and Mother” -Exodus 20:12
Sin causes us to pass pain and brokenness to the next generation instead of passing on the life and love of God. But through Christ and his covenant, God restores families to become places where His grace is received, embodied, and passed on to the next generation as an enduring light to the...
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“God’s Providential Grace” -Ruth 1:22 – 2:5
Even when we are not aware, our God is very much involved in our lives. This, however, does not mean we are mere puppets. Instead, we, as His children, are to respond to His providential grace with faithful obedience.
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“Regeneration Recovery” -Romans 7:14-25
Have you ever found yourself doing the very things you know you shouldn't do? In Romans 7 we discover that real freedom starts not with trying harder, but by honestly admitting our need for Christ's transforming power. Whether your struggle is addiction, anxiety, bitterness, people-pleasing, or...
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“Ten Words: Remember the Sabbath” -Exodus 20:8
Sabbath is God’s gift to us, freeing us from the burden of performance and inviting us to trust in his care over us. It foreshadows the ultimate rest that we will one day enjoy at the renewal of creation.
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“Ten Words: Make No Graven Image” -Exodus 20:4
God forbids us from making images of him because the moment we do, we reduce him to something familiar and manageable within creation. But the God of the Bible is utterly holy, infinitely beyond comparison and far greater than anything our minds could ever fully comprehend.
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“Ten Words: Have No Other Gods Before Me” -Exodus 20:3)
This series explores the Ten Commandments as “Ten Words” spoken by a loving God who rescued his people and now invites them into a life of flourishing, fruitfulness, and communion with him rather than mere rule-keeping. The first commandment calls us to worship and trust God alone, because we...
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“From Struggle to Surrender” -Genesis 32:1-32
Like Jacob, we often exhaust ourselves trying to make life work in our favor, but God’s agenda is often not to deliver us from hardship as quickly as possible, but to teach us through our struggles.
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Graduation: “Divine Interruption” -Genesis 32:22-32
We want a new season to solve our deepest longings, but God in his grace will trouble that search and turn our gaze back to him.
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“Because You Are Willing” -1 Peter 5:1-5
The danger of leadership is that we can drift into many ulterior motives for serving God, but Jesus gives us the ultimate example of what it means to shepherd others out of genuine love for them.
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“Hearing God” -Deuteronomy 6:1-9
God has blessed the ICC church family with a new home, and we will spend many years hearing the Word of God proclaimed in this house. But it is important to know that simply hearing the words is not what it means to hear the voice of God. We will explore Deuteronomy 6:1-9, one of the most...
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Beholding Glory “A Place in God’s Story” -John 21
Jesus lovingly restored Peter after what must have felt like a disqualifying failure, revealing the depth of his mercy to welcome even the most broken people into his story.
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Easter Sunday:”He is Risen!” -John 20
In Jesus' death and resurrection, God enters our pain, reveals himself personally to us, and invites us to believe and find new life in him even in the midst of our unresolved questions.
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Beholding Glory: “Meekness Over Fear” -John 18:28-19:16
By willingly submitting to an unfair trial and accepting a guilty verdict He did not deserve, Jesus’ meekness exposes and shatters our desperate need for self-preservation, freeing us to a life of self-giving love towards others.
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“The Night He Was Betrayed” – John 18:1-27
SUMMARY: When we face failure, guilt, or betrayal, it’s easy to deny God or lose hope. But the story of Peter and Judas shows us that God’s grace runs deeper than our greatest failure, and we can choose to respond with faith and hope in His love—or sink into our own despair.
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“Jesus’ Prayer For Us” – John 17
In his darkest hour, Jesus’ heart was turned toward us, praying that we would be protected, set apart as holy, and brought into the glory that he shares with the Father.
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“Take Heart” – John 16:12-33
After the resurrection, Jesus returned to the Father, but he continues to speak to us through his Spirit and offers us a lasting peace and joy in the face of suffering because he has overcome the world and secured the victory for us.
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“Hated Like Jesus” – John 15:18-16:11
The Spirit convicts the world of its sinful and hostile posture toward God through the witness of the church. It is an unwelcome message that will provoke the same resistance and hatred Jesus himself faced.
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“Remaining In Jesus” – John 15:1-17
The hallmark of a true follower of Jesus is the fruit of love that grows from abiding in him.
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Beholding Glory: “Never Alone” – John 14
In His parting words to the disciples, Jesus promised them that he would never leave them as orphans but that his advocacy for them would continue through the work of the Holy Spirit.
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“Workout Your Salvation” – Philippians 2:12-18
In a culture that tries to maximize output with minimum input and avoid the costly way of real spiritual growth, Philippians 2 calls us to actively live out our salvation, for it is God who is already at work within us.
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Beholding Glory: “Loving to the Uttermost”
Jesus showed the limitless humility and depth of his love by washing his disciples' feet, then calling his followers to do the same for one another.
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“A Heart to Serve”
Jesus’ restoration of Peter in John 21 shows us that God does not allow our past experiences of serving to have the final word, but heals and restores us for continued service in his name.
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Advent ’25: “Joy to the World”
Summary: We often fail to experience true, biblical joy because we allow our circumstances, our fears, and our forgetfulness to rob us of the joy the gospel brings. But when we worship the God who sees and saves us, and trust that through our brokenness, He will bless the world -- we can…
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Advent ’25: Peace
True peace rests entirely on the promised arrival of the King, Jesus Christ, who enters our world as a child to grow, live, die, and resurrect to become our ultimate and eternal Shalom.
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What We Value: “Unity in Diversity”
Because of sin, our pride and fear cause us to naturally divide into tribes. But God has called us into a unity under the lordship of Christ Jesus that destroys all the man-made barriers sin creates and brings the kingdom of heaven to earth.
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What We Value: “A Life Poured Out”
Jesus calls us out of a life turned inward on ourselves and transforms us into people who pour ourselves out in self-giving love, joining him in acts of service, compassion, and reconciliation in our neighborhoods, our nation, and to the ends of the earth.
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What We Value: “Mutuality in Worship & Life”
Real discipleship happens when every believer is both a giver and receiver of ministry--building one another up in love and practicing mutual edification in worship. We trust in the work of the Holy Spirit and the leaders that Jesus has gifted to the church to equip every saint for this work of...
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What We Value: “Hospitality and Vulnerability”
We value the power of opening our lives to one another through a spirit of both hospitality and vulnerability.
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What We Value: “The Table and True Fellowship”
We value the Lord’s Supper not only as a reminder of the reconciliation with God that Jesus secured for us through his death, but also as a call to extend friendship, forgiveness, and welcome to one another as brothers and sisters in God’s family.
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What We Value: “Scripture as Foundational Authority”
We value Scripture as the ultimate authority for our lives, trusting that only by applying God’s wisdom and truth to every part of life can we experience the abundant living that Jesus promises.
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What We Value: “Christ-Centered Formation”
At ICC we value the inner transformation of our hearts through the work of the Spirit and the practice of spiritual disciplines which lead us into greater dependence on God.
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Beholding Glory: “He is Worthy” – John 12:1-7
We declare the worth and glory of God through our wholehearted worship.