What does God do when we betray Him again and again? In Hosea 3, we explore how Hosea’s pursuit of Gomer points us to Jesus — the One who ransomed us with His own blood and invites every prodigal heart to come home. It is a breath-taking picture of a God who pursues, redeems, and restores His people at great cost.
Read MoreGod gave the prophet Hosea a heartbreaking assignment: to love someone who will betray him as a living picture of Israel’s spiritual adultery and God’s wounded heart. This week, we’ll explore how idolatry still captures our hearts today—and how, despite our betrayal and failure, God’s covenant love continues to pursue, forgive, and restore His people through Jesus Christ.
Read MoreIn this message, we explore the courage of the Old Testament prophets — men and women who risked everything to speak truth to kings, confront injustice, and call God’s people back to faithfulness. As we follow their example, we’ll discover what it means for the church today to be a prophetic community that prays boldly, acts justly, and speaks up for the vulnerable.
Read MoreIn this opening message of “The Prophets,” we explore the strange, beautiful, and often misunderstood role of prophecy throughout Scripture — from the covenant watchdogs of the Old Testament to the Spirit-empowered Church today — prophesy is a gift that God uses to encourage His people and draw us back into alignment with Him.
Read MoreNone of us set out to mess up, but few people actually finish as well as they started in their faith. What causes us to drift away from God in this way? Through the life of Solomon, we see how areas of compromise in our spiritual walk can grow until we look just like the world around us.
Read MoreWhen God gives us a promise, He also invites us into a process that makes us ready for it. But we can all be tempted to try to shortcut this process at times. The lives of King Saul and King David give us two contrasting realities of what happens when we try to take a shortcut versus being willing to embrace the process.
Read MoreAs we begin our journey through the rise and fall of the Kingdom of Israel, we start in 1 Samuel 8, a passage that confronts us with a searching question: where do we place our trust? Where we place our trust reveals who our true king is—and what we rely on when everything else is shaken.
Read MoreJoin us as we unpack the beautiful story of the Divine Romance where Jesus is the groom, we the Church are His bride and Jesus continues to pursue us.
Read MoreJoin us as we tell the story of Easter from creation to the resurrection through a weaving together of scripture readings, music, and imagery.
Read MoreHave you ever wondered why there are so many ancient biblical laws in the first books of the Bible? What are modern readers supposed to do with them, and why are some of them so odd? In this message, we explore why the laws were given to ancient Israel and how they fit into the overall storyline of the Bible.
Read MoreMany readers struggle with the violence in the Old Testament—especially the conquest narratives in Joshua and Judges. Is God commanding holy war and the killing of non-combatants, and how can that be reconciled with Jesus’ call to love our enemies and turn the other cheek? These difficult passages force us to wrestle with who God is, whether Scripture can be trusted, and what the cross truly reveals about both.
Read MoreThe Story of Scripture concludes in a surprising way — not with the destruction of creation but with its complete renewal. By revealing the end of the story, it calls us to live with deep, forward-looking hope—anchoring our present lives in the promise that everything broken will one day be made new.
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