This week, Nick Ventresca, pastor of The Barn Community Church in Doylestown, PA visited to talk through the hope we can find and revel in through the Advent season. We talked through one of Jeremiah’s prophecies to God’s people – that one day hope would… Read More »Hope

We don’t lament enough. When people hurt us, when we experience distress, when we feel insecure or vulnerable, when we’ve been hurt, wounded, or discarded, when we experience abandonment, when we feel like we’re surrounded by evil and see or experience oppression or exploitation, we’re… Read More »Lament and the act of trusting God

The Presidential election was this past Tuesday. It’s true the election of Donald Trump as President for the second time will shape the context in which individual Christians and the church are to live out Jesus’ mission in meaningful, tangible ways. Yet, the church’s mission… Read More »We do the work of repair and renewal

This week, Dennis Allan talks through the ways Jesus’ “city on a hill” language has been co-opted by American political leaders, both Democrats and Republicans, to ascribe to America a divinely mandated role in the world similar to Old Testament Israel. But, Jesus wasn’t talking… Read More »Jesus is the hope of the world, not America

This week Julia Allan walks us through why, as citizens of the Kingdom, we are to develop and hold a consistent ethic of life. This means we’re invited by Jesus to value life at every moment and in every context. And it’s a reminder that… Read More »We value life at every moment

This week, Pastor Shaq Hager talks through the story of God’s people beginning in Genesis, through the prophets, and into the New Testament to chart a biblical theology of seeing, caring for, and uplifting the vulnerable. To be people of the Kingdom, we must take… Read More »We see and uplift the vulnerable

We’re not supposed to be lovers of money, and we are supposed to be generous. Oftentimes, this is where teaching on what financial stewardship means for citizens of the Kingdom. But, as Benjamin Chua talks through this week, Jesus has much more in mind in… Read More »We love God, not Mamon

This week, Dennis Allan continued our series by exploring what it means for followers of Jesus and the church to cultivate a prophetic voice in today’s culture. In the Hebrerw Scriptures prophets functioned as God’s spokespeople, speaking God’s words and communicating God’s will to God’s… Read More »We are prophets to the empire, not chaplains

Today, we celebrated as one, extended family dedicated four children and seven people were baptized. Which is why this week’s conversation, lead by Dennis Allan, is more a sermonette focused on baptism as the Christian’s pledge of allegiance. Baptism is a choice we make where… Read More »Baptism is the Christian’s Pledge of Allegiance

We are supposed to be political, just not in the ways we think. We tend to think the primary vehicle for our political expression are political parties and elections. But, if we’re citizens of the Kingdom living in America as exiles, then shouldn’t the church… Read More »We are Supposed to be Political