Sermons

This week, Pastor Shaq Hager talks through the story of God’s people beginning in Genesis, through the prophets, and into the New Testament to chart a biblical theology of seeing, caring for, and uplifting the vulnerable. To be people of the Kingdom, we must take the work of justice seriously, especially for the marginalized and… Read...

We’re not supposed to be lovers of money, and we are supposed to be generous. Oftentimes, this is where teaching on what financial stewardship means for citizens of the Kingdom. But, as Benjamin Chua talks through this week, Jesus has much more in mind in Luke 16. Jesus says people of the Kingdom can’t serve… Read...

This week, Dennis Allan continued our series by exploring what it means for followers of Jesus and the church to cultivate a prophetic voice in today’s culture. In the Hebrerw Scriptures prophets functioned as God’s spokespeople, speaking God’s words and communicating God’s will to God’s people. In the Gospels we see Jesus function in a… Read...

Today, we celebrated as one, extended family dedicated four children and seven people were baptized. Which is why this week’s conversation, lead by Dennis Allan, is more a sermonette focused on baptism as the Christian’s pledge of allegiance. Baptism is a choice we make where we are naturalized into a new way of living and… Read...

We are supposed to be political, just not in the ways we think. We tend to think the primary vehicle for our political expression are political parties and elections. But, if we’re citizens of the Kingdom living in America as exiles, then shouldn’t the church by our primary vechicle for our political expression? The New… Read...

Benjamin Chua continues our series, “People of the Kingdom.” If we are first and foremost citizens of the Kingdom of God, then the country we find ourselves in is not our true home. As citizens of the Kingdom we live in America as exiles, not dissimilar from the Israelites who were exiles in Babylon or… Read...