In the second week of our Advent 2021 series, Pastor Shaq Hager walks us through Matthew 1:18-25, the moment when an angel appears to Joseph and confirms that the child Mary is pregnant with is, in fact, “…from the Holy Spirit.” It’s as Joseph takes… Read More »Awaiting a Savior Who is God With Us
This week, Amanda Wagner begins our Advent series by looking at Matthew 1:1-17. These seventeen verses contain Matthew’s version of Jesus’ genealogy. It’s so much more than just a list of names. It speaks to the kind of Savior Jesus will be. He will be… Read More »Awaiting a Savior for All People
Pastor Dennis Allan continues our series on the Old Testament book, Exodus. In Exodus 12:35-36 God plunders the Egyptian people who turn over their financial and material wealth to the Israelite people as they leave Egypt. It’s a staggering redistribution of wealth to a people… Read More »The God of Reparations
Pastor Shaq Hager discusses the tenth and final plague recorded in Exodus 11 and then the story of the Passover in Exodus 12. The story of the Passover is really the foreshadowed story of Jesus, our perfect Passover lamb. The deliverance of the Israelites from… Read More »The God of the Passover
Pastor Dennis Allan walks through the first nine plagues recorded in Exodus 7-10, following Pharaoh’s hardening heart as a thread through the plagues narrative. In the New Testament book, James, the author quotes from Proverbs: “God opposes the proud, but favors the humble.” These eight… Read More »God is at Work
Pastor Shaq Hager walks through Exodus 6 and the story of Moses confronting Pharaoh for the second time, all while having to deal with his own insecurities and doubts. Moses doubts his ability to represent God to Pharaoh and his ability to lead the Israelite… Read More »Is God Worthy?
Pastor Dennis Allan continues our series on Exodus by focusing on the story of Moses confronting Pharaoh for the first time in Exodus 5 and demanding that Pharaoh immediately set free all of the Israelite people enslaved in Egypt, only to have Pharaoh reject Moses’… Read More »Asking God “Why?”
Pastor Shaq Hager continues our series on Exodus by focusing on Exodus 4 and the story of Moses, God, and a burning bush. Moses was engaged in his regular, everyday work when God revealed Himself to Moses, inviting Moses into God’s plan of liberation for… Read More »The God Who Speaks
Pastor Dennis Allan discusses Exodus 2 and focuses on the way that four women engage in various forms of nonviolent civil disobedience in order to resist Pharaoh’s unjust policy and how this becomes a template for how Christians can engage and resist unjust social and… Read More »Good Trouble and Civil Resistance