This week, Pastor Dennis Allan focuses on what it means for Jesus’ people to be t non-violent people who tell the truth. In Matthew 5:33-37 Jesus outlines why His people shouldn’t make “oaths,” but instead simply allow their “yes” to mean “yes” and their “no” to… Read More »Non-violent Truth-tellers
This week, Carrie Buckner explores Jesus’ words on murder and lust in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:21-30 NIV). While it can seem like Jesus might be talking about two separate moral issues, He’s actually describing one: the way we view, think about, and… Read More »The State of Our Hearts
What did Jesus mean when He said, “For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven”? (Matthew 5:20 NIV). Does this really mean we have to… Read More »Fulfilling the Law
This week, Pastor Shaq Hager continues our series on the Sermon on the Mount by focusing on the way in which Jesus informs His disciples that they’re salt and light in the world. The implication for the disciples is clear. Their lives are to be… Read More »Salt and Light
This week, we started a new twelve week series on the Sermon on the Mount. Dennis Allan talked through Matthew 4:23-5:12 (NIV), describing the way Jesus’ sermon is an announcement of the Gospel, the good news that a new King is being enthroned and a… Read More »The Beatitudes
This week, Pastor Shaq Hager concludes the Spiritual Formation series by talking through the intersection of our formation into Christlikeness and suffering. We can approach our formation thinking it’s always up and to the right, that we’re always moving from weakness to strength and from… Read More »Formed in the Dark
This week, Dennis Allan talked through Jesus as the prototype for what it means to live a Christian life in the world today. We can look to Jesus and see the way He lived, the people He built relationships with, the power structures that He… Read More »Doing What Jesus Did
This week, Dennis Allan talked through how we must learn Jesus’ teachings if we are to become like Him and take on His character and ways. The journey of spiritual formation requires us to be reshaped and reformed until we resemble Jesus in every aspect… Read More »Becoming Like Jesus Together
This week, Pastor Shaq Hager talks through how spiritual formation begins with attachment. We do not become like Jesus through willpower, performance, or isolation—we are formed through relational nearness: to Jesus, and to the people He places around us. Belonging is not about achieving acceptance… Read More »Belonging to Jesus and His People
This week, Dennis Allan starts our new series on Spiritual Formation by discussing the ways each and every one of us is being shaped and formed every day. We tend not to notice, or maybe even convince ourselves that we can listen to whatever we… Read More »We’re All Being Formed