Jesus is our great high priest who sits at God’s right hand, who understands our weaknesses and frailties, who bears the scars of His own crucifixion in His body, and because of all this we can approach God’s throne in prayer with confidence that we… Read More »Prayer is our Anchor
This week, Pastor Shaq Hager guides us through Hebrews 3. There, the author of Hebrews reminds their audience to hold fast to their faith in Jesus, even in moments of uncertainty and doubt. Doubting Jesus isn’t sinful. It’s not a sign that our faith is… Read More »We Need Community
This week, Pastor Dennis Allan kicks-off our new series, Hold Fast. It’s the new year and so many things are shifting and changing around us. A new president will soon be inaugurated, there are wars raging across the world, and in our own personal lives… Read More »Jesus Alone
This Christmas Eve, Julia talks with the kids about the way God arrives into our world as a baby, born to simple parents in the middle of nowhere. And, not only that, but the first people God told about this baby were a bunch of… Read More »Our King has Arrived
This week, Pastor Shaq discusses the Advent theme of love. Mary’s Magnifcat is a call to every person who has been overlooked, margianlized, exploited, oppressed, or cast aside that the Messiah is coming. He will scatter the proud, bring down rulers from their thrones, lift… Read More »Love
This week, Carrie Buckner continues our Advent series. The crowds are coming to John at the Jordan asking to be baptized. He warns the crowds to bear fruit in keeping with repentance, and when asked what they must do John replies by instructing them to… Read More »Joy
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