Justice & Mercy (Genesis 18:16-19:38)
Today we continue our teaching series in Genesis. We’ve heard God make great promises to Abraham, and seen God show great mercy to Abraham and his family through all their stuff ups. But this focus on God’s mercy raises the question: Doesn’t God also care about justice? What about the victims of injustice? How can […]
Excluded to Embraced – Reversing the Curse
Our culture is often filled with many divisions and a blindness that fails to our neighbours who are made in God’s image and the work of God Himself in the person of Jesus. In today’s story we will see how the hard hearts of those who should be the most ready to see Jesus causes […]
Famished to Fed | Mark 6:21-44
In Mark 6 we move from Jesus’ humble hometown all the way up to King Herod’s chambers; from a remote place to a boat at sea. In every place, Jesus reveals who he is, and his glory. But everyone, throughout the entire chapter, responds with hard hearts, even to Jesus’ incredible mercy and power.
Death to Life | Mark 5:21-43
This week we start a holiday series on Mark 5-7: Reversing the Curse. Through Genesis 1-11 we’ve seen how life in this world is cursed because we rejected God. Now, through 3 personal encounters with Jesus, Mark shows us how Jesus finally came to reverse that curse. This week, Mark 5, we see Jesus encounter […]
Judgement and Restoration | Genesis 5-8
We’re moving into chapter 5-8, where we encounter a world so corrupt that God’s response is swift and total – judgement in the form of a flood that covers the entire earth. It’s a confronting passage. But it doesn’t end there. Because in the middle of that judgement, there is an ark. There is mercy. […]
Culture and Corruption | Genesis 4
Today we continue our teaching series on Genesis. Genesis is a book of firsts, and in Genesis 4 today we see the first children born, the first agriculture developed, the first city founded. At the very same time, we also see the first messed up family, the first sibling rivalry, and the first murder. What’s […]
The Meaning of Relationships | Genesis 2
In a world that is more connected than ever, yet lonelier than ever, the question of what relationships are truly for has never been more important. Are they simply for companionship? For fulfillment? For convenience? Or is there something far deeper that God had in mind from the very beginning? Today, Sam will take us […]
Romans 15 | Overflowing Hope
In Romans 15 Paul reminds us that God’s plan has always included people from every nation, united in love together under Christ. As we listen to today’s talk, we’ll be thinking about how the gospel shapes the way we treat one another and how God fills his people with joy, peace, and hope as we […]
The Gospel and Politics | Romans 13
Last few weeks we’ve heard from Romans 12 how the good news of Jesus should reshape our relationships. Today in Romans 13 we hear how the gospel should reshape our politics, the whole way we think about and relate to political power.
Peace Without | Romans 12:16-21
We started Romans 12 thinking about how to not be conformed to the world but transformed in our mind. But now we end Romans 12 thinking about how to not be overcome by evil but to overcome evil with good. What it looks like to see peace within—within our communities of grace and within hearts. […]