Sunday, September 19th
As we return to the Book of Acts, we’re back looking at the endurance of the early church. We see their courage and humility. We also see that there’s no hurt that can’t be mended through Jesus. His mercy is healing in our lives. He intends for us to live an abundant life—in his presence.
Read MoreSunday, September 12th
Collectively as a society and as a church, a lot has changed in the past 18 months. In the midst of these changes, it’s important to be positioned for the long-term mission of the Church rather than just maintenance of what we know. To live well in this moment, we need to be firm in our commitment to God and to his purposes in our lives. We need to live confident in Jesus’ ability to transform lives.
Read MoreSunday, September 5th
Many of us may be looking at the story of our lives and thinking, “I didn’t think it would be like this.” We may be in search of healing and hope. The only way to heal is to work through what is making life unmanageable for you. There are no healthy shortcuts to healing. But God does not want us to do this alone. reGROUP is a place where we can be honest about our personal mess and where we can get the right equipment to assist God in cleaning it up.
Read MoreSunday, August 15th - Sunday, August 29th
Throughout history, we can see that we live in a world hungry for community. Ephesians reads like a love letter to the lost and searching. It’s the summary of the radical and revolutionary redemptive nature of Jesus. It’s a summary of his love—a love that sees you for who you are and loves you regardless of why you think that’s impossible. Even with all of the mess and baggage we carry, he sees us as works of art.
Read MoreSunday, June 27th-Sunday, July 25th
What happens when wayward thoughts turn to unrestrained actions? What happens when selfish and stubborn ideas mix? What happens when we forget what’s truly important? Distractions are found all around. When we get distracted, our motivations ebb and flow with our attention. So what are we to ponder after learning how Jesus’ life changes everything? We can search for clear cut answers left and right, but what we really need is a true center to guide us. When we allow God's love to reframe our reference, it becomes easier to move with direction. The gospel opens up a new and lovely reality, where we can live free only because of Christ.
Read MoreSunday, May 16th-May 30th
People use differences to tear each other apart. We have seen this happen throughout history and see it still today. Pride, judgment, and misunderstanding, fueled by the guise of self-sufficiency, rip at the fabric of our woven lives daily. But just like the magnetic pull of the earth, what makes one person different from another flows through the very core of each’s existence. The same threads that break can be pulled back together.
What brings people together? Is it love? Patience? Kindness? What is the common, invisible string so many strive to hold tight to? In the letter to the Galatians, we find the importance of living rooted in the gospel and in the way of God’s Spirit. The early church could only thrive once they fully accepted all that the gospel had overcome—superiority was rejected, greed was kept in check, and true unity in Christ was pursued.
Read MoreSunday, April 11th
As we continue to move through the Book of Acts, we see the expansion of the early church. With this growth, the good news of Jesus and the gospel reaches more and more people, often people different from those who previously had chosen to follow Jesus. We see God break down barriers and make it clear that he invites everyone to have a relationship with him, to be saved by his grace through faith. No one is too far away. No one is outside his reach. No one is outside his grace. By looking at the early church, we can understand the need to see people with Jesus’ eyes. Let us learn from their example of how to live out God’s love with our words and actions.
Read MoreSunday, April 4th
Jesus changed the world through his life, death, and resurrection. For he so loved the world, he died that we may live. He unlocked eternity for us should we choose to follow him with our words and actions. This is what we hear every year on Easter. And it is freeingly good. But hearing and understanding the weight of the story are two different things. Maybe we know all the plot points and can recount the way Jesus’ tomb was found empty, but do we fully realize what that means for our world today?
Read MoreFriday, April 2nd
Good Friday Service is the recognition and remembrance of Jesus' crucifixion and death on the cross.
Thursday, April 1st
Join us as we remember the Last Supper together, worshiping Jesus as the one who was, and is, and is to come.
Sunday, March 21st
"Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."
—2 Corinthians 4:16-18
Sunday, January 31st - March 28th
The early church moved to live in the ways Jesus taught while he was here on earth. Led by his Spirit and living for his glory, they were on mission together. Is the present-day Church still progressing forward, toward that mission? Or have we, the collective followers of Jesus, forgotten how to be the Church? Have we lost sight of the spiritual unity God designed for all of us to experience? Being the Church is not a new idea. Though historically followers of Jesus have often tried to agree on the details of a gathering, group, or lifestyle, it is ultimately God alone who unifies us. He sustains and guides us. Being the Church is moving to live and love like Jesus—together.
Read MoreSunday, January 10th - January 24th
Prayer is a relational act. The primary way Jesus wants us to view God in prayer is as our Father. When we pray to God the Father, our relationship with him is a commitment to who we are and not what we do. It’s unconditional. The understanding of this relationship will shape our prayer lives more than anything else. This means the primary way Jesus wants us to view ourselves in prayer is as a child—as a son or daughter. He is our perfect Father, loving us even when we hate him. When we pray, Jesus wants us to pray as family. We pray to a God who is our Father as his children, and we pray together as a family.
Read MoreSunday, January 3rd
As we enter a new year, let’s reflect on the past months and look ahead to how we can live out being who God has called us to be in the coming years. Disruption is where God works. Last year, we all faced many disruptions. Our sense of wellbeing was shaken. Though we should grieve where disruption has caused pain and loss, we should not assume that the work of God is to do away with our disruption but rather to lead the way through it. Let’s not wait for things to get better before fully engaging with the work of God in our lives and in the lives of those around us.
Read MoreSunday, December 27th
There are certain universal principles of virtue—love, grace, justice, generosity—that combine to make the best life for anyone and everyone. We each have a unique set of passions and relationships that no one else has ever had nor will have, and doing God’s will with those will be hard sometimes—but it is truly the best. We were created for adventure, but there is no such thing as an adventure without challenges to overcome. We must humbly recognize that we can sometimes mistake our will for God’s will. And we need one another as we seek salvation, comfort, and redemption.
Read MoreThursday, December 24th
Jesus came to earth for us. That is good news—fear-silencing, joy-inflicting good news! And this good news is that God forged a pathway for you, and that’s what we celebrate at Christmas. Jesus’ arrival changed everything! And following Jesus isn’t about us and what we can do for him but about what he has done for us. He lived the life we were designed to live perfectly and died the death we deserve in order to declare the defeat of sin and death through his resurrection. Jesus came to earth for us because we can’t save or fix ourselves in our mess. But that’s OK. Because he loves us and is gracious to us—and that is fear-silencing, joy-inflicting good news.
Read MoreSunday, November 29th - December 20th
The Advent season is the anticipation of our Savior, Jesus. He is the center of grace, the center of faith, and the center of this season. We are in desperate need of Jesus now and forever, just as they were in the time of that very first Christmas.
And so we also look to the stories of those God had set in unique places to prepare and welcome his Son. His good news changed the lives of the shepherds, the wise men, Joseph, and Mary. Each of these players is crucial in the story of Jesus. Through their stories, may we find hope, peace, joy, and love—the kinds that can only come from knowing Jesus. As we come to the end of a year full of reasons to forget about hope, peace, joy, and love, let’s stand together in God’s presence, rejoicing in his good news for all people.
Read MoreSunday, November 1st - November 22nd
Where is God in all of this? Where is God in the tension, in the discord, in the waiting? Where is God in our lives? And where was God in the life of Esther, a woman who won the favor of everyone who saw her but faced so much risk? God is always at work, even when we don’t see him. He is at work even when we don’t see the way out of our precarious present into his promised future. When Esther was uncertain about her peoples’ future, God gave her a providential perhaps. And this same God is with us in this time. God does not make mistakes. The hidden hero in Esther’s story is at work in our story, in your story, too. Though we may be troubled, sleepless, he is there in the miraculous mundane—in every perhaps.
Read MoreSunday, October 18th - October 25th
We are imperfect, flawed, and discontent. While we don’t deserve God’s grace, he loves us just because that’s who he is—God is grace. And he offers himself as enough for us, as the greatest sacrifice, so that we may know him as our coming king. God’s grace is an ever-present need in this bittersweet world. By grace, he forgave the very first on earth and by grace, he continues to love us into our future. Grace has to be unearned and undeserved or the transforming work of Christ could not be completed in us. Grace shifts to help instead of harm, and it is the source by which goodness pours forth. Overwhelmed and incomplete, we can believe our gracious God is more than enough. He does not make mistakes. His goodness, his love, his compassion—the fullness of God, our breath of life—it really is all about grace.
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