Sermons

What happens when things start feeling out of control and chaotic? When it feels like the ship of your life is caught in the midst of a storm? How do you respond? How do you find and remain in Jesus throughout the storm? What happens when everything feels like it’s falling apart and you just… Read...

Sometimes we’re so convinced we’re right about a particular belief, a specific way of seeing or understanding the world, or, even, a way of interprepting a particular portion of Scripture that we tell ourselves it’s more Jesus-like to remove ourselves from relationship with people who think or believe differently than we do. In essence, we… Read...

This week, Julia Allan walks through Paul’s story, just before he’s shipwrecked on his way to Rome in Acts 27. Paul, who first heard Jesus’ voice along the Damascus Road, heard from the Lord that everyone on the ship would survive the storm. Paul said to the crew, “Last night an angel of the God… Read...

This week, Pastor Shaq walks through Acts 25:1-12. Paul is now on trial for the third time, now before Festus. The Jewish leaders ask a “favor” of Festus – they want Paul transferred from Caesarea to Jerusalem because they’ve designed a plot to kill Paul. Festus, newly appointed to his role, wants to do a… Read...

The legal system exists to maintain the status quo; it almost always has. It is often controlled by self-serving, powerful, rich individuals and corporate interests who like how things are and want to keep them that way. When prophets come who point out flaws in the system, it feels threatened, and the system seeks to… Read...

This week Carrie Buckner continues our series on Acts, talking through Acts 23:12-22. It’s the story of a plan concoted by a group of Jewish religious zealots (or, Jewish nationalists) that reached to the highest levels of the Jewish religious system. The people to whom God entrusted His law and now openly planning to break… Read...