01/05/2025 In an era of Herodian power-grabbing and religious lethargy, we have an opportunity to reclaim the joy and awe of those who move towards Jesus in humble worship.

12/29/24 Divine revelation breaks into our supposedly “normal” lives, inviting us to witness the arrival of the Messiah. What we experience is made real when we share what we have seen and glorify God.

12/22/2024 The light of Love has dawned on us in the coming of the Messiah, piercing the darkness of sin and death.

12/15/2024 Our joy increases as we travel the Highway of God, seeing God’s splendor in the Messiah, and witnessing new life spring forth in the desert of meaninglessness.

12/08/24 The peace offered in the Messiah is the antidote to a world that insists on violence, oppression, and neglect as the status quo.

12/01/24 We begin Advent by waiting in darkness, because real Hope is birthed only when we are at our wits’ end.

11/24/24 The Kingdom comes through patient endurance in the shadow of Empire, if we stay true to the Voice Who guides us.

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11/10/24 The Spirit binds us together as the new family of God; but we cannot take advantage of this precious gift. We train our hearts and minds to move in the same direction towards King Jesus.

11/03/24 Wisdom contends with the goodness and brokenness of life, helping us discern what is ours to do and what is out of our hands.

10/27/24 Despite our trepidations, God—Trinity—tenderly breathes into us Himself, desiring always to share life with humanity.

10/20/24 As we mature in God’s sacrificial love, we cling less tightly to the wisdom of the world and find our home in the wisdom of the Spirit.

10/13/24 Being delivered from our Old Names is not a passive endeavor. We must persevere and wrestle with God until daybreak to lay claim to who God says we are.

10/06/24 When we embrace the reality that we have been adopted into Abba’s family, the Spirit can set us free from the unhealthy patterns of our earthly families.

09/29/24 Healing, like the other spiritual gifts, is a glimpse now of what is to come fully in the New Heavens and New Earth.

09/22/24 Prophecy is a gift meant to encourage the church by speaking a fresh word of God to one another that is framed in love and points to hope.

09/15/24 This garden is where God is our safe refuge. Christ inaugurated the eco-system, the Spirit helps us follow in His footsteps, by building each other up to be a foretaste of the coming Kingdom.

09/08/24 The spiritual gifts are different expressions of God’s singular love, creating a beautiful diversity-in-unity.

09/01/24 The Holy Spirit advocates and convicts; the spirit of the satan accuses and condemns.

The spirit-filled life is more wholistic and robust than many of us have grown up learning or participating in.

08/18/24 A total life of the Spirit marries the contemplative and the charismatic; the inner transformation with the outer demonstration.

08/11/24 The Christian life is one in which we follow in the tailwind of the Wild Goose, knowing he will lead us to ever greater freedom.

8/04/24 What have I learned about my attachment to Abba in this series? What is the invitation for me in the next season to grow in love and secure attachment?

07/28/24 To love God with our hearts is to leave behind the illusion of self-sufficiency and risk desire and affection for God.

7/21/24 Rather than exhausting ourselves with frenetic activity or falling prey to sloth, Jesus invites us to right action as a sign of tangible love for him.

07/14/24 Contemplative thinking enables us to to lean in and listen for the heartbeat of God.

07/07/24 We need a vision of what secure attachment to God looks and feels like in order to know where we’re headed.

06/30/24 To become like children is to return to a place where we can learn who we are in Abba’s eyes.

06/23/24 When we’re shamefully attached to God, we may accept that God loves us because God has to, but we don’t believe God like us very much.

06/16/24 When we’re avoidantly attached to God, we choose to go it alone rather than to offer our needs and feelings to our Abba.

06/09/24 When we’re anxiously attached to God, we constantly worry that we are never doing enough to earn God’s favor.

06/02/24 Attachment is the way that we connect to one another because we are created for community, relationship, and connection in reflection of the triune God.

05/26/24 Knowing God as “Abba”, as Jesus does, is the goal of the spiritual life. Attachment Assessment

05/19/24 Jesus did not abandon us, but ascended so he might pour out his Spirit on the whole earth through us, the Church.

05/12/24 Christ ascends so that he may fill the whole universe - binding together matter and spirit, Humanity and Divinity.

05/05/24 Jesus descends with us into the depths of the sea –into the belly of Death– with the trust that our Father’s love will bring us out of the Deep into Resurrection.

04/28/24 Jesus bares his scars not as an accusation, a pointed finger of shame or guilt, but as a sign of his deep love.

04/21/24 Ghosts are anxiety-inducing echoes of the past. The resurrected Jesus is a hopeful promise for the future.

04/14/24 As we walk this road of Salvation, even when we only see in part, He’s always engaging with us, liberating us, making our hearts burn for Him; but He reveals Himself most clearly and simply to us in the Breaking of Bread, we just need to welcome Him in.

04/07/24 Right action and contemplative thinking are important, but it is the love in our hearts for Jesus that prepares us to see him as he truly is.

03/31/24 The cross is not about God requiring revenge or retribution in order to forgive, but God reconciling us to Godself by overcoming evil and death.

03/24/24 King Jesus does not come to meet the expectations of the world as we know it, but to welcome us into a dramatically new world.

03/17/24 Mary’s devotion and adoration turns waste into worship (Matthew 26:6-16).

03/10/24 Jesus binds himself to us in our suffering, takes us by the hand and leads us through death, so that we might inherit eternal life.

03/03/2024 Every single belief system we have needs to be brought to the cross and examined against the life and actions of Jesus to see if they hold up.

02/25/24 Jesus came to deliver us from evil spirits that try to bind us and keep us small.

02/11/24 The signpost at Cana reveals that Jesus is YHWH, the king of the earth. He is the one promised to bring to make the earth right again— to make it flourish.

02/04/24 Jesus passes through the desert of the human experience in order to liberate us from the snares of the devil.

01/28/24 We believe God has gifted us to one another in this church, so that we become more together than what we are apart.

01/21/24 We have been gifted the Holy Spirit to keep us connected to God and give us direction.