Summary: Perhaps it's time to stop just reading your Bible and praying! Are there better motivations for these spiritual disciplines? Yes--Read your Bible and pray to cultivate communion with the Lord, and to seek personal transformation from the Lord.

Text: 2 Corinthians 3:7–18, Exodus 33, 34

Title: Cultivating Communion, Seeking Transformation: “Stop just reading your Bible and praying!”

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: January 19

Summary: As we begin a new year, we are reminded of our mission and the God who sustains us as we follow Him.

Text: Exodus 3:1-7

Title: Prayer for a Weak & Weary Worker & Witness

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: January 5

Summary: During our Christmas Eve service, we conclude our series on the seven prayers from the hymn, "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel." We reflect on Jesus' advent as the King of the Nations.

Text: Micah 4:13–5:7

Title: Come, King of the Nations

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: December 24

Title: Come, Emmanuel

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: December 22

Summary: The “O Emmanuel” Antiphon reads: “O Emmanuel, our king and our lawgiver, the hope of the nations and their Savior; Come and save us, O Lord our God.” This ancient Christian prayer and the passage it comes from confronts us with the covenant-keeping God--and the lengths he will go to compel our trust in him.

Text: Isaiah 7:1-14

Title: Come, Emmanuel

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: December 22

Summary: The “O Oriens” Antiphon reads: “O Dayspring, splendor of light eternal and sun of righteousness: Come and enlighten those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death.” This ancient Christian prayer and the passage it comes from confronts us with the darkness of human experience apart from the intervention and self-revelation of God. So how do we cultivate faith in the dark as we wait for the dawn? By believing that Jesus is the sunrise of our vindication, restoration, and celebration.

Text: Malachi 3:16-4:3

Title: Come, Dayspring: Cultivating Faith in the Dark as We Wait for the Dawn

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: December 15

Summary: The “O Clavis” Antiphon reads: “O Key of David, O Royal Power of Israel controlling at your will the gate of heaven; come break down the prison walls of death for those who dwell in darkness and the shadows of death; and lead your captive people into freedom.” This ancient Christian prayer and the passage it comes from reminds us that Jesus unlocks our days and our destiny.

Text: Isaiah 22:20–25, Rev. 1:12-20, 3:7-9

Title: Come, Key of David

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: December 8

Summary: As we continue in our study of the 7 prayers in the hymn, "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel," we look deeper into Jesus' coming as the Root of David.

Text: Isaiah 10:33-11:12

Title: Come, Root of David

Speaking: Chris Eaves

Date: December 1

Summary: The second Antiphon reads: “O Sacred Lord of Ancient Israel—Who showed yourself to Moses in the burning bush Who gave him the holy law on Sinai Mountain—Come, stretch out your mighty hand to set us free.” This second of seven ancient Christian prayers and the passage it comes from confront us with the misery of mankind, the mercy of God in our misery, and the reality that Jesus is the Freedom-bringing Lord who knows our misery and responds in mercy.

Text: Exodus 2:23-3:15

Title: Come, O Lord: Misery, Mercy, and the Freedom-Bringing Lord

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: November 24

Summary: “O Come, Wisdom from on high.” The first of seven prayers for Advent and the passage it comes from remind us that Jesus is the wisdom of God; and it calls us to worship him while we wait for him.

Text: Isaiah 40:12-31

Title: Jesus, the Wisdom of God

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: November 17

Summary: In this "Reformation Day" sermon, Pastor Jeff Lynn takes a look at one of the Sola's of the Reformation - Faith Alone.

Text: Galatians 2:15-21

Title: "Faith Alone" - A Gospel-Centered Faith for Believers

Speaking: Pastor Jeff Lynn

Date: November 3

Summary: Jesus considers missing the glory of his upside-down kingdom to be the single greatest possible tragedy of your life.

Text: Matthew 7:13-28

Title: The Greatest Tragedy of Life

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: October 27

Date: October 13

Summary: Are we wasting our time with child dedications? Or are we practically and intentionally fulfilling our mission as part of the people of God? Deuteronomy 6 helps us answer this important question.

Text: Deuteronomy 6:4-9

Title: Child Dedication: Nice, but not Necessary?

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: October 20

Summary: Jesus teaches that God is a generous Father who desires to give good gifts to His children, and this divine generosity should transform the way we treat others

Text: Matthew 7:7-12

Title: The Father’s Posture Toward the People of God

Speaking: Pastor Nick Pacurari

Date: October 13

Summary: Only the culture of Jesus’ Upside-down Kingdom truly treasure’s grace as amazing.

Text: Matthew 7:1-6

Title: Treasuring Grace in the Upside-down Anti-Anxious Kingdom

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Summary: After revealing that the upside-down kingdom is anti-performative, and after redirecting and redeeming our ambition in the upside-down kingdom, Jesus addresses the presence of anxiety in our hearts. And we find that Jesus defangs and defeats anxiety in his anti-anxious upside-down Kingdom.

Text: Matthew 6:25-34

Title: Life in the Upside-down Anti-Anxious Kingdom

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: September 29

Summary Sentence: After addressing the performative spirituality of the religious, Jesus redirects and redeems ambition in his upside-down kingdom by making three contrasts: two ambitions, two visions, two masters.

Text: Matthew 6:1-18

Title: Ambition in the Upside-down Kingdom

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: September 22

Sermon Summary: Jesus warns us to avoid performative spirituality and invites us to a meaningful practice of spirituality. To motivate us, Jesus uses the new relationship we have with the Father, the responsibilities that relationship brings, and the reward the Father promises.

Text: Matthew 6:1-18

Title: Life in the Upside-down Anti-Performative Kingdom

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: September 15

Sermon Summary: Pastor Jeff Lynn walks us through the humility and power of Jesus, God incarnate.

Text: Philippians 2:5-11

Title: The Christ Hymn

Speaking: Pastor Jeff Lynn

Date: September 8

Sermon Summary: Psalm 40 is a breath after a deep plunge, the break of dawn after a long night. David the King wrote it as liturgy for all kings who followed him to frame their experiences in light of God’s deliverance. It describes the experience of every OT saint and every NT Christian, the united experiences of all of God’s people. And it invites us to find our place in God’s story through this kingly liturgy.

Text: Psalm 40

Title: A Liturgy for Finding your Place in God’s Story

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: September 1

Sermon Summary: With a graphic description of the brevity of life, Psalm 39 is for us an invitation to Memento Mori—“Remember Death” as we live life in a watching world.

Text: Psalm 39

Title: Memento Mori

Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis

Date: August 25