Through the ministry of Jesus, the presence of God was once again available—”God with us!” In Jesus, we witness the restoration of all God has planned for us from the beginning.

Jesus: The Presence of God Actualized

God called Moses into His presence at Mount Sinai. In this remarkable story, we glimpse God's plan for all of us to enjoy His presence.

Sinai: All are Invited into God’s Presence

When our first parents tragically misused their freedom, alienation replaced intimacy. Humanity rejected their created purpose and was driven east of Eden. With Abraham, God set in motion His plan to welcome humanity back into His presence.

Abraham: The Journey Back to Eden Begins

Planet earth was originally created by God as a sanctuary to host His presence with humanity. The garden Eden was the place where heaven and earth met and God’s presence flowed out to the world.

Eden: The First Cosmic Sanctuary

Not only are we joint heirs with Christ of “all things” and invited to rule and reign with Him over the entire universe, He has asked us to be His eternal bride. We are invited into the most beautiful love imaginable.

Marriage

An actual human being is seated upon the throne of the universe at the right hand of God. His name is Jesus and He is our eternal brother in the flesh. Just as He occupies throne status with the Father, He has invited us to occupy throne status with Him.

Enthronement

You are an heir, according to the gospel, and your inheritance is mind boggling. As if being eternally saved isn’t amazing enough, God has promised to give “all things” to His redeemed children.

Inheritance

God tells us to stand in awe of Him. And this is right, for He is God, the illimitable, unfathomable Creator and Sustainer of all that is. Worshiping Him, we take a shape for which He ingeniously designed us, availing ourselves of the global health benefits of syncing with that design. This message will shine a light on the awesomeness of awe.

The Mighty Power of Awed

Loneliness is pandemic. Even when surrounded by people we can fail to connect in meaningful ways. This message shows not only the blessings wrapped up in human connection, but the choices that lead to it.

The Power of Belonging

Everyone’s talking about trauma these days. The increased understanding of its impact upon human functioning has been largely helpful, with one caveat–it can sometimes leave us feeling permanently damaged. This is why in this message we will turn to a body of biblical and scientific data showing the benefits that can come through trauma. Bitter or better? The choice is ours.

Posttraumatic Growth

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When we provide environments/space for people to heal and ultimately flourish we are providing one of the purest expressions of love.

Reconstruct

Broken trust—by means of wrongdoing on the part of those who are in political, financial, and religious power—will lead to the complete collapse of the world system. Bible prophecy warns that the consolidation of power and wealth will inevitably lead to the backlash of revolution and violence.

Yes, It's Time to Freak Out!

“Religion” is not a word that has a good ring to it, because so much bad religion has owned it. But the Bible tells us exactly that good religion is, by telling us what it does. And what it does is the most beautiful thing ever: it cares for the needs of the most vulnerable people in the world—parentless children.

Pure Religion

If I worship the idols of our celebrity culture, I am worshiping myself vicariously through the image they project.

The Psychology of Idolatry

To understand love and be able to extend it to the ones we love we must enter a sacred space with our creator where we are willing to explore ourselves with grace and compassion. This act of thoughtful deconstruction ultimately leads to an acceptance of how well we are loved by our Creator and allows us to transform ourselves and our relationships.

Deconstruct

It’s easy to get caught up in the idolatry of becoming the "best" and being focused on building your own legacy. If we are not careful, we will become the center of our own universe.

The Idolatry of the Best

God created us to experience pleasure. What happens when we put the gifts of God in the place of God in our lives.

The Idolatry of Pleasure

The best marriages are those in which each one's freedom and individuality are cherished. The surest way to kill love is to try to control it. The husband’s number one job is to protect the wife from his control, and the wife’s number one job is to protect the husband from her control.

Give Space

The world is not the way it should be, and we know it. In a recent viral children’s story, a young British poet suggests that the coronavirus may bring the world to “The Great Realisation” that greed and selfishness are destroying the world, and that people are meant for relationships, not consumption and materialism. He’s right, and the Bible tells the same story.

The Great Realisation

The mantra of our time is, “If you don’t feel it, don’t do it.” Countless people in our feelings-obsessed culture follow their feelings straight into divorce. But the fact is, feelings follow actions wherever actions lead. Actions of love will produce feelings of love.

Do What You Want To Feel

Modern scientists are discovering that love is the underlying law of life, but they don’t know why. The biblical storyline claims to know why: God is love and God made humanity in His own image. When Jesus declared, “I am the resurrection and the life,” He laid claim to life itself as His domain. He is the author of the love that makes life worth living. Life centered in Jesus is life centered in love.

Life Has A Name

We’ve all heard that one of the most important things we can do to defeat the coronavirus is to strengthen our immune system with good food, moderate exercise, and sounds sleep. In this message, we discover a fourth and even more powerful boost for our immune systems.

Coronavirus Killers

As the current pandemic requires that we go into isolation, it is inevitable that we will come face-to-face with ourselves in ways that we are accustomed to repressing or evading. Like an itch that won’t stop, all of us are possessed by a deep nagging suspicion that something essential and fundamental is missing from our lives.

The Existential Itch

The coronavirus pandemic is bad for sure. But, believe it or not, there’s another pandemic that is even more pervasive and more deadly. But unlike coronavirus, there is a cure for this pandemic.

Alone Together

With coronavirus taking the world by storm, people are afraid. That’s understandable. But Jesus said that we can have peace because He has overcome the world. In the light of His love, here are some practical ways to navigate the anxiety of our times.

The World is Ending, So Relax

We humans are experiencing a major identity crisis. All kinds of voices are coming at us all the time trying to dictate what and who we ought to be. The Bible is an identity narrative. It reveals who God created us to be, how we've missed the mark of our true identity, and God's plan for restoring us to our true selves in Christ.

Who Am I?

In Matthew 24, Jesus warned that as the end of human history approaches a number of signs will increase in frequency and intensity. The spread of contagious diseases is in His list. The coronavirus it's pretty scary for a lot of people, but according to Jesus there is something even scarier than the coronavirus. What is the sign of the end of the world that we should be most concerned about?

Scarier Than Coronavirus

On April 4, 1968, a shot was fired in Memphis, Tennessee, and a prophet of God was killed. In this message we remember Martin Luther King Jr by revisiting the horrific history that led up to the Civil Rights movement and we identify what made Dr. King such a powerful figure in the movement: a singular combination of prophetic clarity and nonviolent love.

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