Wilderness People

 January 7, 2023 | Bobby Harrison In this sermon, we look at wilderness seasons and stories throughout the Scriptures, from cover to cover. And we see our own stories, and receive a deeper understanding that so much of life is found in “wilderness seasons”. What we then are called to ask, is how God […]

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An Expansive Salvation

 June 25, 2023 | Bobby Harrison | Acts 16 We look at the story of Paul and Silas in Acts 16 to see how the Spirit is moving them to unveil a more expansive vision of the gospel than most of us inherited growing up. It’s right in line with Jesus’ call in Luke […]

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A World Without Walls

 April 30, 2023 | Bobby Harrison | Zechariah 1-8 In this sermon, we lean into the Spirit’s writing through the prophet, Zechariah. And we imagine a world without walls — a vision of humanity where all that has historically divided has now been cast aside in the name of coming together in Spirit-shaped oneness.

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Obedience as a Rhythm of Justice

  February 26, 2023 | Glendar Haskin | John 6:51-53, 56 In this sermon, Ms. Glendar Haskin walks us through the historical account of her life as a young girl living in the segregated South during Jim Crow. As someone who had to give up her seat to a white man on a bus, she […]

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A God on Fire

February 5, 2023 | Bobby Harrison | Exodus 3 In this sermon, we look at a very familia story — Moses and the Burning Bush. But we do so through an entirely new lens: God is on fire. We take time to ask why God is on fire in the first place in this story. […]

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Tension Before the Throne

January 29, 2023 | Manny Arteaga | Revelation 5:-14 We live in the tension of a victorious lamb on the throne and the reality of our present-day Patmos, a place of suffering, pain, and injustice. Today we worship with our tears. We weep because it hurts, but not because we believe pain is final.

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Courage is Calling

January 22, 2023 | Inés Velásquez-McBryde | Matthew 15:21-28 The kingdom of heaven is like a Canaanite mother who crosses the border seeking mercy for her demonized daughter. This immigrant mother exhibits courage as a rhythm to demand justice. She asks for what she needs, believes in the identity & authority of Jesus, stands in […]

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An Invitation to Desperation

January 15, 2023 | Bobby Harrison | Matthew 2:22-36 As we continue in our Rhythms of Justice series, we look at Peter’s “desperate” prayer in Matthew 14. And in so doing, we allow ourselves to be inspired to cry out to God in our desperate places just as Peter did to Jesus.

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Rhythms of Joy

January 8, 2023 | Inés Velásquez-McBryde | Matthew 2:9-13 This past Sunday we began a monthlong new series: Rhythms of Justice to explore the rhythms of life that sustain it. We celebrated Epiphany and the way the magi in Matthew 2:9-13 returned home by a different way: they performed an act of civil disobedience by […]

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