This week, Pastor Dennis Allan continues our series on the Old Testament book Exodus, focusing on the story in Exodus 17:8-16 of the Amelekites attacking the Israelites and Moses standing on a hill, with Aaron and Hur helping to hold up Moses’ hands, as the… Read More »The God Who Defends
This week Pastor Shaq Hager talks through how the God who personally reveals Himself to Moses, sets the Israelites free from slavery, and delivers the Israelites through the Red Sea is also the God who meets us in our trauma and heals it. In Exodus… Read More »God Heals our Trauma
This week we resume our series on the Old Testament book Exodus. Amanda Wagner walks us through Exodus 14, the story of the Israelites after being set free from slavery and oppression in Egypt, crossing the Red Sea. It’s a story of God rescuing His… Read More »God Sets Us Free
This week, Pastor Shaq Hager, as part of our Advent series, walks us through Matthew 3. It’s the story of John the Baptist who has come to baptize people in the Jordan River, clearing the path for Jesus to begin His public ministry. People from… Read More »Awaiting the Savior of New Life
This is the third week of our Advent series and Pastor Dennis Allan walks through Matthew 2. Magi arrive in Judea and go to the palace in Jerusalem to inquire about the birth of the new king, a new king that he will try to… Read More »Awaiting the Savior of the New Exodus
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