It’s so good to be together. Together is such an important part of church. Paul writes this in 1 Corinthians 12: Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or...

Today we are finishing up our series on partnership with God. We have walked around this concept, inviting processing of the many complexities in partnership with God. Our first story was the feeding of the 5000. We talked about how easy it is to assume that God just needs us to get out of the...

Today we are continuing our conversation on partnership with God. We have looked at God’s partnership, how He doesn’t tell us to wait here while He goes and does the work, and how we aren’t to tell God to wait here while we go and try to do the work. Over the past weeks we have been processing...

Today we are continuing our conversation on partnership with God. Over the past two weeks, we have been looking at one side of the coin, and today we will be walking around and looking at the other side.jaco Let me explain. We looked at Jesus feeding the 5000. It was an impossible moment...

We are continuing our conversations through some stories in Scripture where we see God’s partnership with people. There is something to marvel at, appreciate, be encouraged by, and feel the challenge of, when you think about God’s ability and His continual empowering and entrusting of people....

 Today we are starting a new series. We are calling this grouping of conversations “Partnership with God.” They will be about these stories: the feeding of the 5000, Joseph in Egypt, Jacob and Esau, the sick man lowered through the roof to Jesus, and the restoration of Onesimus. While these...

Today we are finishing our walk through the book of Leviticus. Reading through the Old Testament has come to a screeching halt many times as people come to Leviticus. We start at Genesis, which has so much story and is pretty fun: creation, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph. Next is Exodus,...

Today we continue processing the book of Leviticus, with this focus: God desires relationship with us -AND- What we do in that relationship matters or has value in relationship with God. We talked about the offerings and how God stands out in stark contrast to Pharaoh, especially in how there...