In Acts 10 God initiates the inclusion of the Gentiles. This story too, the story of Cornelius and Peter and God’s movement in their lives reveals God’s open table. […]
Room at the Table (Part 4): The Story of Jesus and the Samaritan Woman
He asks her for a drink. They chat. She asks for one in return. She is welcomed at the table. John 4 too reveals the radical grace and inclusivity of God. […]
Room at the Table (Part 3): Hagar’s Story (Part 2)
In Genesis 21 we see God’s profound intervention on behalf of her and her son in the midst of a story focusing on God’s covenant with Abraham and Isaac, a different son. What does this story teach us? What does it call us to? […]
Room at the Table (Part 2): Hagar’s Story (Part 1)
This is the story about how God meets Hagar, slave woman to Sarah and Abraham, and the implications of their encounter. Genesis 16 challenges paradigms and assumptions around who’s in and who’s out. […]
Room at the Table (Part 1): Jesus tells some stories
We’re starting a new sermon series on how Scriptures reveals God throwing the doors wide open, welcoming all people at his Table, into his family. Two of Jesus’ parables (in Luke 14 and 15) will start us off, sort of setting a precedent for what we’ll be exploring in the Old Testament and the New […]
Easter 2021: “He is risen! He’s not here!”
The resurrection of Jesus Christ is one of the most central and hopeful aspects of our faith, what our hope of eternal life hinges upon. Mark 16:1-8 tells the story of the women who discovered the tomb empty and the stranger who confirmed that he’d risen from the dead. […]
Good Friday 2021: The Stations of the Cross
The Big Question for us and the whole world today is “What does Jesus death mean for us?” We get a glimpse of the answer in Paul’s second letter to the Corinthian church: One has died for all, therefore all have died, and he died for all that those who live might no longer live […]
Following the Christ: Sermons from the Gospel of Mark (Part 12)
“Triumphal Entry”with Pastor Gavin Jensen. Today is Palm/Passion Sunday, friends. It begins Holy Week which leads us to the crucifixion and resurrection of our Lord. Join us as we join him entering Jerusalem to the shouts of Hosanna while he holds the reality of what will happen to him there. Mark 11:1-10. […]
Following the Christ: Sermons from the Gospel of Mark (Part 11)
“The Fig Tree, the Temple, and the Widow”: Following the Christ: Sermons from the Gospel of Mark (Part 11)Join us as we explore the significance of the Temple, it’s history (and a bit of Judah’s history), and the “sermon” Jesus preached in it. From Mark 11-12 and Jeremiah 7. […]
Following the Christ: Sermons from the Gospel of Mark (Part 10)
“Who gave you this authority?” Jesus faces mounting opposition as he enters Jerusalem and then he teaches us what must come first, what is first priority. Join us as we engage with the scenes in Mark 12 that are leading us towards his rejection. […]
