Foundations: Thinking Institutionally in an Age of Instability The world is constantly offering us something new and trendy as the hack to a full and satisfied life. Cultural hot takes on marriage, family, and our homes are too many to count. The problem is, most of us have gone after those things, but we still find ourselves searching. We believe Scripture has something ...

Colossians: All of Christ Over All of Life People today might be less religious than people in ancient times, but we are no less spiritual. In our moment, there is a deep craving for anything that can answer the questions of meaning, purpose, and belonging. The popular solution is some mixture of spirituality, technology, wellness theories, sexuality, and politics. Can w...

In the Bible, the long-awaited birth of Jesus is not sentimental, nostalgic, sterile, or any of the other things we tend to associate with Christmastime. The birth of Jesus was a declaration of war against Satan, sin, and death. Darkness still has nightmares about the infant cries coming from that Bethlehem stable. This Advent season, join us as we look back on the power o...

Genesis 12-25 The world was utterly broken. Humans had rejected God's loving will for Creation. Amidst the division and confusion of a rebellious world, God came to one unlikely man. God called him out of a land of chaos and promised to make him the father of a nation of blessing. Throughout this series, we will dive deeper into the gospel through Abraham's life. Abraham...

SUMMER IN THE PSALMS Thousands of years ago, an Israelite named David poured out his heart to God in song. He wasn't embarrassed to lay before Godhis deepest thoughts and rawest emotionssadness, anger, lament, fear, and joy. Ever since, God's people have been singing and praying his words, and others like them, in the book of Psalms. In the Psalms, beautiful poems and vul...

How should a Christian understand issues of politics, honoring elected officials, having an overbearing boss, and marriage to an unbelieving spouse? What do we think when following Jesus makes life more difficult? Is it possible to find stability amid a shifting culture where being a Christian is increasingly a minority position? The book of 1 Peter addresses these questio...

From beginning to end, the Christian life is all of grace. Grace isn't merely a divine sentiment or a therapeutic concept to remove the severity of our sin. Grace is God's initiative to reconcile a rebellious humanity to Himself, at great cost to Himself. We can't earn it. We don't deserve it. There's nothing we can do to move ourselves beyond it. Yet, God offers it in Jes...

FEMININE VIRTUE The Church needs wise and resilient spiritual mothers who, drawing from their own union with Christ, build up the Family of God in love. Feminine Virtue is an invitation to reorient our lives around God's good design and to grow in virtue. Recommended Resources The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theoryby Abigail Favale (A)Typical Woman:Free, Whole, an...

Genesis Why do we exist? How did we get here? What does it mean to be human? These questions have haunted humanity since the beginning oftime. We have a profound fascination with the origin of the cosmos.Hoping to find meaning in life, humans have searched for an explanation of our origins in many places, from a pantheon of gods in a cosmic battle to the Big Bang. For ma...

Waiting for the Son Advent is a special season each year as we step into the longing that has marked the people of God in every age. In the same way that the Old Testament people longed for the arrival of the Messiah, we long for his return. This year we are going to take up the Bible's teaching about last things as we look toward the second advent. Join us as we seek to ...