Sermons

This week Pastor Shaq Hager introduces us to Junia, an apostle, who helped lead and build the early church. Junia’s status as an apostle, however, has been questioned. From approximately the 13th centurty until about 1980 Bible translators added an “s” to Junia’s name, making it Junias, which was a male name. Yet, early Christian… Read...

This week, Carrie Bucker walks through Priscilla’s story. Paul identifies Priscilla as a co-laborer in the ministry of proclaiming and living out the Gospel. He even identifies her and her husband, Aquila, as having protected his life and saving the early church, ensuring it was able to thrive and flourish. There’s even a story about… Read...

This week we start a three week series focused on women leaders in the early church, and what their lives and ministries can teach the church today about following Jesus. Phoebe was entrusted by Paul with carrying, arguably, Paul’s most theologically substantive letter. Not only was she expected to deliver Paul’s letter to the Romans,… Read...

This week we take a look back across sixty-three sermons and our study of the book of Acts to identify major themes and what they mean for us today. In particular, the conversation focuses on the expansive and inclusive nature of the Gospel, the Kingdom of God breaking into and challenging the kingdom of man,… Read...

Luke ends the book of Acts with Paul in Rome, imprisoned, meeting with a group of Jewish people. He shares the Gospel with them, proclaiming the ways the Old Testament foretold Jesus as Israel’s true Messiah and prophesied that, through Jesus’ death and resurrection, the Kingdom of God had been inaugurated. While some chose to… 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...