Judges 4 begins with "the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, so the LORD sold them into the hand of the king of Canaan." In this story of vengeance and violence, God uses Deborah, Barak, and Jael to deliver his people. But you might ask, "how does this passage point to Jesus"? It might be hard to see, but in this story, God is keeping His promise to bring a savior to crush the head of the serpent!

Judges tells the story of what happens when God's people lay aside God's mission. It's the tragic tail of Israel's downward spiral into spiritual decay and corruption. As we begin this series we look at what happened as a result of laying aside God's mission and the destructive cycle it creates.

The Word. It's a lamp unto our feet and light unto our path. In this sermon we begin the new year by reminding ourselves of the importance of God's word. What is it and what is happening when we read it. We hope this sermon encourages you in devoting yourself to reading God's word.

John was killed for doing what he was born to do, to call people to repent and follow God. Why didn't God protect John? What does this passage teach us about repentance and setting the course of our lives towards God?

Why does God not heal His people when they call on His name? This is surely the question in John's mind when he he asks Jesus "Are You The One?" And why wouldn't Jesus deliver John of all people? Instead John remains in prison and dies a horrible death. These are the hardest of questions but we can begin to unravel the "why" in Matthew 11.

In Luke 3, John speaks for the first time in the Gospel of Luke and in his first words he calls the crowd a "brood of vipers.” How is John preparing the way for the Lord with this language? His call to repentance awakens a sleepy people of God and he moves them towards being ready for the coming of the Lord. Are you ready for his coming and how does John teach us what that actually means?

In this story Zechariah goes from fearful silence to joyful song. What does Zachariah the priest learn from this silence? He learns faith. What would you do to gain faith? This passage show us that God meets us in our silence and builds our faith!

Two mothers begin a conversation and one of the babies "leapt for joy." This was a supernatural moment. One of these babies was John the Baptist and the other was Christ himself. So tiny in His mother's womb, maybe just an inch long. But these women, filled with the Spirit, knew exactly what was happening, and the significance of these two children not yet born. We pray you'll be encouraged by this sermon from Luke 1:39-45.

God breaks His 400 year silence with, of all things, a birth announcement? This, however, is no ordinary baby. He was born to prepare the way for the Lord as the prophet Isaiah foretold. But this story is actually about Zachariah, his father. We find an incredibly encouraging message 2000 years later buried just under the surface of this story!

In this passage Jesus heals a little girl and a woman who was sick for twelve years. Jesus is turning unbelievers into believers in this passage but the people in this story found way more than they bargained for. Join us on our journey to know God and to walk more closely with Him. For the glory of Christ and the life of the world!

The final sermon in our series "The Church." How does the Table tie together everything that we are as the Church? What implications does it have for how we are to live and follow Christ? Follow us on our journey to know and love God and to be transformed to be more like Him. For the glory of Christ and the life of the world.

"We are a Holy Priesthood" What does that mean? We have no modern day equivalent to this. But this truth has massive implications for the people of God and it is good news for us! Let see what Peter is talking about as we dive deeper into 1 Peter.

Many of us have fathers who have abandoned, or abused us, and we have trouble relating to God as our Father. Many of us have mothers who never gave us love or affirmation and so it may be hard to hear Paul's words in Galations 4 that the church is our mother. Especially when so many of us have been hurt by the church in addition to all this. But what Paul is talking about here is not what you may have experienced. It's a beautiful picture of what God wants the church to be. Follow us on our journey to know and love God and to be transformed to be more like Him. For the glory of Christ and the life of the world.

The spiritual realm. An invisible evil. The spiritual dimension. We have a hard time with these things don't we? Its easier to just live in the dimension you can see and explain away everything as coincidence, chance, or luck right? But God has placed us on the front lines of a battle that is fought in a dimension we can't see, with weapons that seem powerless to us, with eternal consequences. And we better be ready.

Kill the Dragon, Get the Girl, Rule the World. That's how some would describe the story of the Bible. Except in the real story, the bride was seduced by the Dragon and he ruined her, she drifted, became homeless and broken. She became a harlot and gave herself over and over to lovers who hated her. She wouldn't listen to the bridegroom, or perhaps she just couldn't imagine a love so great for a bride like her could be true.

In the beginning God dwelt with His people and walked with them in the garden. But man was cast out of the garden and God would dwell, veiled, in the temple of His people. Now we are the temple of God. And He dwells in us!!! We hope you find this sermon on 1 Corinthians 3 hopeful and encouraging.

In this sermon from 1 Corinthians 12 we look at the kind of diversity that God intends for His Church. Paul uses the body analogy in a different way than it was used by the Roman Empire to upend the status quo of thinking about class structure, power, and influence in light of the gospel.

We kick off a new sermon series "The Church" by looking at how we are the family of God. As we dig into Ephesians 2 we see the family of God is a blended family of former enemies unified in Jesus Christ. What can we learn from this dysfunctional family? Find out in this sermon on Ephesians 2 and join us on our journey to know, and walk with God.

"Why should I forgive him? He's not sorry at all about what he did!" "I mean, I've forgiven her, but I just can't be friends with her any more" True forgiveness has a cost doesn't it? It doesn't allow us to hold on to that hurt any more, it requires us to set it free. Kind of like the way Jesus forgives us right? But so often we want grace for ourselves and justice for others.

How can I not be controlled by your past and let go? Maybe you think you don't need to? How can I let go of what I don't even realize I'm holding on to? How do I forgive? The story of Joseph losing his father Jacob gives us a new perspective on these questions.