This is the season of the year when people start to think about monsters – ghosts and goblins and things that go bump in the night. We normally don’t think of monsters having anything to do with the Church, but we’d be wrong. The reason people tell monster stories is that monsters are a safe way to talk about things we’re not ready to admit about ourselves. We don’t want to see ourselves as selfish, unforgiving, ill-tempered. So we tell stories. We create monsters.
Revelation made hopeful… not scary!
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Marriage, Dating and Singleness in the 21st century
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This Summer, we take a road trip through the Old Testament. Along the way, we stop in with some of the more famous encounters and observe how their brief encounters changed their lives.
Jesus’ death and resurrection freed us from the consequences of Sin and Death. Now, the Tree of Life is open to us again. But what’s all that fruit for? This series explores what it means for believers to manifest the Fruit of the Spirit.
The Seven Deadly Sins
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Just like a balanced diet is essential to our physical health, connecting with others in small groups is vital to our spiritual health. And throughout history, humans have connected best around a table. So pull up a chair! We need YOU to weigh in!
A new year means a new start. So what are the practices that are essential to a vital spirituality? We explore several opportunities for you to renew your faith in 2012!
If Christians are exiles in this world, then when will we be home? By exploring the five women Matthew lists in his genealogy of Jesus, we learn that outsiders and exiles are never truly home until we are home in Jesus.
We often look at the way our culture is headed and lament what we’ve lost. But God is preparing something new, something better. By listening to the voices of Israelites who lived after the Exile, we can learn how to hope in God’s new thing. Because this is not the End!