Steve DeNeff: Signs series week 5, healing the paralytic.

Emily Vermilya: The healing of the official’s son. What happens in the space between our requests of God and his ultimate action? Long before anyone knew of the miracle of healing that happened in Jesus’s second sign, the miracle of faith emerged.

Ethan Linder: Nicodemus and being born from above. This exchange between Jesus and Nicodemus left the Pharisee confused, because he couldn’t understand what it meant to be born again. Do we understand it? Or have we just fooled ourselves into thinking we do? This sermon will talk about what Jesus meant when he talked about being “born again,” and h…

Steve DeNeff: Signs series week 2, turning water into wine.

Steve DeNeff: Signs Series, sermon one

Emily Vermilya and Steve DeNeff: In the midst of a storm, we navigate more than govern. We discern more than decide. So what have we discerned for the direction of our Church?

Vickie Conrad: As we enter the Christmas season, we are reminded that the greatest gift to the world is Jesus. Unlike the earthly gifts we unwrap during the holidays, this eternal gift calls for more than a one-time thank you—it invites a daily response of obedience, gratitude, and praise.

Steve DeNeff: In Luke’s version of Christmas, there are two stories occurring at the same time, each in a different city, with different kings and kingdoms, each with a different spirit. These two stories continue to this day. One gets all the news. We belong to the other.

Ethan Linder: An angel appeared to Joseph, because (though he didn’t carry the life of God within him) he had a load-bearing role to play in Jesus’ life. The angel’s call to Joseph – to adopt the promise of God – offers us countless gifts in the inheritance of faith: from the way we interpret Scripture, to the way we see our lives in light of other…

Sermon SummaryNathan Metz: What does it mean to be ‘favored’ by God? It’s not a reward. It can’t be withheld. Favor is not a commodity, it’s a relational posture. The ultimate expression of God’s favor is Christ’s filling, the incarnation. Mary was favored and filled so that we may now be favored and filled. How? Faith. The filling of Christ in Mar…

Steve DeNeff: For anyone still wondering if their faithfulness still matters, this story of Zechariah and Elizabeth reminds us that anything… literally anything… is possible with God.

Steve DeNeff: Whatever God has called you to do must be done with hope and patience.

Steve DeNeff: In God’s economy, there is more joy in giving than in receiving. There is freedom in possessing nothing. There is wisdom in trading what we cannot keep for gaining what we cannot lose. Before we enjoy this freedom, we will have to unlearn virtually everything we’ve been taught about our things.…

Steve DeNeff: The political illusion is that all problems have, in our mind, become political. But as Christians we have a different story and a better alternative in the shape of a Beloved Community practicing these five values.

Steve DeNeff, What is most needed - in fact, what the public is waiting for - is a church with a vision for something bigger than itself, that lives for the sake of the city and the life of the Church.

Steve DeNeff, Obedience is the best interpretation of Scripture.

Sermon SummaryEthan Linder, Nehemiah’s work is largely focused on rebuilding crumbling walls; but in this passage, he’s worried about a crumbling community. This sermon will walk through the forces that pulled Nehemiah’s community (and ours) apart – and the invitation of God to live in a new way that pulls us together.…

Josh Davis, As we consider scriptures from Genesis to Revelation, we see that God is a diverse, unified community. In order to more fully reflect God’s glory, we the Church must be what, in Christ, we already are: diverse and unified.*Josh Davis loves people and loves to make safe space for complexity. A third-culture person himself, Josh served as…

Steve DeNeff, Who are the people God will use to rebuild the city?

Steve DeNeff, If the altar builds the temple, then what (and how) we worship is what we will become.

Steve DeNeff, Soon or later, everything about us – our families, our work, and especially our worship – takes the shape of an altar hidden in the routines of our lives.

Steve DeNeff, Ezra 2:68-3:1, 10-13; Haggai 2:1-9. The story of Ezra-Nehemiah: A nation once devastated by the exile is given permission from an unlikely source to rebuild. But sometimes the hardest work is that which is done in the people themselves before the building begins.

Steve DeNeff, The story of Ezra-Nehemiah: A nation once devastated by the exile is given permission from an unlikely source to rebuild. But sometimes the hardest work is that which is done in the people themselves before the building begins.

Emily Vermilya, Our understanding of the gift of the Holy Spirit is often incomplete. What does the Spirit make possible, not only through deliverance and relief, but also through sustaining and enduring our present realities?

Ethan Linder, Mark 6 is one of the most infamous “un-miracle” stories in the Bible. Jesus is back in his hometown, and instead of receiving a warm reception, he’s met with unbelief… so much so that he’s unable to do much of his best work; he later explains this to his hearers, saying that a “prophet is without honor in his hometown.” Why – on the h…