Spring 2023
The Lost Art Of The Sabbath
May 7, 2023 • Jon Ritner
Is it possible that the hurried, fast paced, 24/7 hustle harder culture that we live in is not only unhealthy, but actually inhumane? Throughout the pages of scripture, God offers an antidote for the type of burnout, anxiety, and exhaustion that has become so prevalent in America today. Let’s re-discover the lost art of Sabbath together and explore how this divine rhythm of life is meant to communicate the eternal truth that we are enough.
The Goodness Of God In Diversity
April 30, 2023 • Kalli Davis
Throughout scripture we see that God sends his people and uses diversity as a means for restoration and healing. We are one body with many parts, unified and diverse. When looking at the Tower of Babel we once again see God’s goodness through the reigning in of oppressive uniformity and a renewed diversity propelling people outward. When people sought to live outside personal boundaries, wanting to be God themselves, God redirected them to a place within limits but a place of freedom to multiply. God reaffirms our calling to be “his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way” as seen in Ephesians.
Successful Faithfulness
April 23, 2023 • Bella Perez
In today's world, a person is not considered successful until they have gained more, or reached their end goal, or achieved certain levels of wealth or fame. This message offers us a new framework to think about success. Bella Perez (NextGen Pastor) teaches that faithfulness is what makes you successful and shares different ways to be faithful.
No Lone Rangers
April 16, 2023 • T.D. Davis
God’s Kingdom is counterintuitive, which means as His rule and reign intersects with our everyday life, there’s often times costly and unnatural implications in regards to the default culture we might be used to. A great example of this would be faith as it intersects with our natural bias to American individualism. How have we potentially assumed faith through a lens that perpetuates a “Lone Ranger” type of spirituality in regards to Jesus, the church, and ministry leadership? In this message, T.D. Davis (co-lead pastor) reminds us that God’s nature and original purpose assumes corporateness and therefore, is incompatible with any notion of spiritual individualism as we grow as followers of Jesus.