We prepare and wait for Jesus to come again. Yet, we live on the other side of God’s birth in Jesus Christ, which means that something fundamental has changed. God became incarnate in flesh and now he wants to become incarnate in our flesh through the Holy Spirit. This is how we prepare. We prepare our lives so God may enter in now, so that we are ready when God dwells in this earth completely. God became incarnate and now he want

Lives are changed fundamentally when they meet Jesus. There seems to be two responses. Those that resist and those that find new life through this beautiful relationship.

Jesus miraculously works throughout history and in our lives. The abundance of miracles in the bible should make us asking, "Why don't we see miracles abundantly in our own life?" We should be watching for God to work, because he does. The amazing reality is that as God works, he reveals more about himself. We see God and Jesus for who they are through his work.

Love is something we all desire. In fact, it is considered a fundamental need by many. As important as love is, do we really know what it is? Love is more than a feeling. Love is more than an action. Love is even more than a way of being. What we learn from Jesus is that love has an identity and so it is particular and has individual characteristics. If we ever want to know the fullness and grandeur of love, we need to meet it, know it and live in it. We need to realize that God is love.

Who is God? When He is so grand and so big, how are we ever supposed to know him? Well, God gives us many ways to get to know him. Particularly, he wants us to know how he relates to us, so Jesus gives us 7 I am statements to help us understand that all-important relationship

Sometimes we can feel like faith is to heady or theological, but the Christian faith is also a really practical one. As much as we need to approach God in faith, we also have extremely practical ways of doing this, built into God’s creation and our life together. I am hoping that everyone takes a practical step to build a rule of life that incorporates these practical steps, so that together we might grow in faith

We know that some people are more privileged than others. We know that not everyone is given equally. In the midst of that, we should trust that God will set all right, but in the meantime, the question remains: what is the purpose of privilege in God’s plan?

Words are powerful. This is even more true for God. From creating the universe, to recreating us, to establishing a new world order, God’s word has the power to change everything.

We all long for something different. Many of us long for a different world. The Sermon on the Mount is all about how in following Jesus we begin to live in and create God’s Kingdom in our midst

Our Faith is not just a Sunday faith it is an everyday faith, a routine that lives into every regular moment and transforms it. In the regular times of the Revised Common Lectionary we explore what this every day looks like.

As Jesus now dwells with His Father in heaven, He sends His Holy Spirit upon us. The gift of the Holy Spirit is immense, wonderful, and means more than we can ever imagine. One of the amazing realities of this indwelling Spirit, that is God in us, is that He bears fruit through us. Fruit of the kingdom, fruit of another world, fruit that comes directly from the source (God) for our good. The fruit we see manifesting through us are love, kindness, faithfulness, goodness, joy, self-control, chastity, modesty, generosity, peace, and gentleness. These might not seem otherworldly but when God is behind them they are truly wonderful.

We may not realize it, but there is a lot in this life that we have to escape from and overcome because they otherwise seek to control or destroy us. These things come from without and within. The only thing is that we can’t escape on our own. Even if we do escape we must also know what we are escaping to. God wants to help us escape, but then also to find abundant life in Him.

From the very beginning, God had a purpose for all of humanity and ultimately creation itself. In this sermon series, we will be exploring how one of God’s great purposes for us is to be his family which welcomes and grows. Of course. as this plays out God consistently enriches the idea and shows us how to be a true family and how to truly welcome.

Our need and longing for God have been built into our very being. Throughout our lives and history God has continually shown us this through people and situations. Through this sermon series we look at some of the ways God has prepared us for and shown us, Jesus Christ, even before we knew him at Christmas. This should help us to understand how she shows himself in our lives too.

Jesus has ascended into heaven, but he does not leave his disciples alone. He sends them the Holy Spirit so that they can continue to build God’s Kingdom in His wake. We often don’t know what we can do in this life, but what we will see is that the disciples faced much of the same hardships and pressures if not worse and yet they did amazing work through faithly and courageously following Christ.

Luke cares deeply about our social and physical healing, but what does that really look like and how can we find it?

Churches are Holy Spaces that in themselves can help to reflect a heavenly reality and bring us into God's presence. We explore pictures of churches from throughout the world and what they can teach us.

The Book of Common Prayer is a long standing source of Anglican, Episcopal and world wide worship, prayer and liturgy. It is centered in Scripture and prayer. This sermon series is a set of sermons following the weekly lectionary (set of readings) found within.

You may remember last year that we looked at the work of the Holy Spirit. This year we are looking at the characteristics of the Holy Spirit. My hope is that we might better know and participate in the Holy Spirit so that his powerful work might be seen in and around us.

It is an overcoming reality that Jesus Christ defeated death, defeated sin, and suffering. For many throughout history it has been unimaginable, but when we come face to face with the Risen Christ everything is changed, even Jesus.

In our lives, we allow a lot of things to get in the way of our relationship with God. We end up lifting these things up to become more than they are and we become the less for it. This Lent we explore the idols we create.

Our call to uphold and care for one another is built into our faith and our creation. As we are united with Christ, we become bound to one another in a unity that forever transforms our difference.

There are ways in which we can make room for God to become powerfully present. This is most obvious in the family that helped to bring God present in Jesus Christ

We slowly look through the entire gospel of Mark to see how it holds together in a compelling way to show us how Christ is bringing God’s Kingdom “Close at Hand”