Palm Sunday
March 24, 2024 • Sean Thompson • Matthew 21:1–11
Have you ever heard the word "atonement" and not known what it means? Or maybe you have a picture of Jesus simply being punished on our behalf so we can get into Heaven one day. The full, Biblical picture of atonement is so much greater! Jesus came that we might have abundant life and experience intimacy with the Father right here and now. He came to restore us to a bit of life INSIDE the Garden of Eden today, and all of it in the future.
Transformational Love
December 31, 2023 • Sean Thompson • 2 Samuel 6:1–15
Pastor Sean takes a look at the story of David and the Ark of the Covenant and what it means to encounter the love of God in a way that transforms us more into the image and likeness of Christ. *You're going to want to watch this one*
Part 3: We are Debtors
August 13, 2023 • Sean Thompson • Luke 7:34–50
How do we respond to being indebted to the love and mercy of a benevolent God? Pastor Sean takes us through the Parable of the Two Debtors and outlines how an honest awareness of what we've been given by our Heavenly Father can only result in a restructuring of the way we live as citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Part 3: The Gift of Good News
December 11, 2022 • Sean Thompson
The Good News is good no matter where you are in your relationship with faith. Whether you feel like there have been too many damages to that relationship to ever be made whole again or you've been faithfully pursuing Jesus for decades, we all need to be reminded of the beauty, majesty, and power of the Good News of the present and future Kingdom of Jesus Christ. This Christmas, remember to never lose your wonder of the restorative and regenerative work of the Good News.
Part 1: Love Hopes
July 31, 2022 • Sean Thompson • 1 Corinthians 13:7–8
Pastor Sean starts off our new summer teaching series on the way of Love. In it he talks about the way love hopes. And not just a common, human hope. Instead, we're given a divine, living hope by the Spirit of God. This is a hope that defeats death, that confronts heartache, and that stands victorious in the name of Jesus Christ.
Part 2: Contends for a Biblical Worldview
May 1, 2022 • Sean Thompson • Deuteronomy 11:18–25
Occasionally we find ourselves taking a passive approach to our spirituality. We treat God as an addendum to our lives and, as a result, allow things outside of God's Word and Spirit to shape the way we see the world. To be a Healthy Home in the Kingdom of God however, means that we actively pursue practices that shape in us a view of our world and circumstances that reflect the view of God.
Grumble & Gratitude
November 21, 2021 • Sean Thompson • Numbers 20:1–13
What does it look like to be grateful at all times and what does that do to our spirit? Gratitude isn't just about giving thanks for the obvious blessings, but Pastor Sean takes this time before the Thanksgiving Holiday to outline the ways gratitude even in the dark leads us closer to the Light of Jesus.
A Tale of 2 Kingdoms
March 28, 2021 • Sean Thompson
What does it mean for Jesus to be King? What does that look like? We know that the Kingdom of God doesn't look like our kingdoms. We know that God's ways are not like ours. Jesus came to a nation expecting their Messiah to come and deliver them out of the hands of their occupiers with force and bravado. They had developed a picture of what the coming Kingdom of God would look like based on the way human kingdoms functioned, but Jesus came and defied the human narrative. Jesus came and fulfilled the Scriptures to deliver a kingdom of love, grace, mercy, and compassion. He came to deliver His people from the strongholds of sin into the stronghold of God's loving arms.
Part 10: Living Humbly
November 22, 2020 • Sean Thompson
Humility is a highly touted virtue that is impossible to walk out in our own ability. It's often confused with self deprecation, but true humility isn't about thinking less of ourselves. True humility is about the willingness to submit to authorities placed over us and to ultimately submit to the will of God, trusting in His goodness and faithfulness when we don't understand the moment. It demands that we look to God and anchor to His strength to empower us to trust and to see us through to the other side.
Part 9: Releasing Heart
May 3, 2020 • Sean Thompson
Pastor Sean Thompson takes us through Joseph's first encounter with his brothers since they sold him into slavery. Joseph is at a crossroads and has to decide whether to pay his brothers back for their injustice or extend grace, mercy, and blessing to the undeserving.
Adjusting Your Vision
August 12, 2018 • Sean Thompson
We are blind to injustice because our vision is distorted, “we see through a glass, dimly.” (1 Cor 13:12) It's as if we are all wearing thick glasses with multiple distorting lenses that cloud our vision: o Race o Rich/Poor o Male/Female o Republican/Democrat/Other o Educated/Uneducated o White collar/Blue collar o American patriotism (Football players protesting) o Previous generations of Christians didn’t see slavery. o We didn’t see the oppression of women or civil rights for African-Americans. o We still don’t see clearly God’s great concern for the “least of these” in our world, who often don’t look or speak like us. God sees all people without these distorted lenses and we must do our best to see the world as God sees it.