Acts 2:42 “They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.”... ...

Read John 20:22- 22 And with that Jesus breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. First glance, that sounds so weird. Who wants to be breathed on?......

Now, for a moment, let’s shift our attention to the disciples. Because the disciples are seeing all that Jesus is doing......

Let’s take a look at another instance of the Spirit in the Old Testament and I’m fascinated by this one. Notice one of the first people in the OT that is filled with the Holy Spirit... ...

This week we are going to look at two questions; who is the Holy Spirit and why does it matter......

“A life deeply rooted in Scripture is absolutely essential for a healthy relationship to God, self, others and the world at large. Equally essential is a life deeply rooted in the Holy Spirit who leads by experience and functions in partnership with Scripture.” ...

The “How-to” of the Bible has been study, meditate, and now memorize. Memorization allows scripture to be formed in our heart and mind......

The second word of “How-to”, meditate. Meditate in the Hebrew is hagah most literally means murmur, which refers to the ancient practice of people reading scripture quietly under their breath......

Yesterday you read Joshua 1:1-9, what did you discover?......

Today I want to give you space to study a passage. We are going to use the same passage from Sunday, Joshua 1;1-9......

Last week we talked about the what and the why of the Bible. We said that the Bible is God’s story and his story was broken into four chapters or four acts of a play; creation, fall, redemption, and consummation......

Over the next few days, I’m going to invite you into different passages throughout the Bible that talk about what scripture is and why it is important......

Over the next few days, I’m going to invite you into different passages throughout the Bible that talk about what scripture is and why it is important......

Over the next few days, I’m going to invite you into different passages throughout the Bible that talk about what scripture is and why it is important......

What is the Bible? It’s God’s story. It’s not another story of humankind’s search for God; it is God’s story and his account of His search for us. The Bible is the word of God given to humans in history. Which means the Bible (God’s story) is our story, that we see throughout history to today and beyond......

We are kicking off a new series called Faith Essentials. Before we do a deep dive into that, think about it for a moment in broad strokes....

Gods people have been honoring God through fasting for thousands of years and yet for many of us we’re just now maybe hearing about the importance of it. For others you have been fasting and know all about it…....

I can wake up in the morning and start the day out well, head to work, meet with people and everything is going really well and then all of a sudden out of nowhere I can have these messed up thoughts.......

Yesterday we started the discussion around looking ahead, looking ahead into 2026, but more specifically, how do we look ahead, not based on our agenda, but what God is doing? What God is doing as Lord, Holy One, Creator, and King? (Isaiah 43:15)...

Yesterday, Sam invited us to look back, to see all the ways God has been working, in the celebrations and blessings, as well as in the challenges and hard circumstances. Today and tomorrow, I want us to look ahead. But I want us to look ahead in a different way......