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  • A Unified, Epic Narrative with Christ at the Center (The Bible tells the Story of Jesus)

    A Unified, Epic Narrative with Christ at the Center (The Bible tells the Story of Jesus)
    2026/04/27
    Luke 24:25-27; Various Scriptures - The Bible is long and the Bible is diverse. Across its pages we find dozens of distinct books by dozens of authors written in two handfuls of distinct literary genres. The Bible as a whole tells an epic narrative full of side-plots, sub plots, pauses, repetitions, and digressions that none-the-less tells a coherent, unified story. And at the center of that story is Jesus Christ: the one who brings gracious reconciliation between God and humanity. In this message we summarize the entire meta-narrative of the Bible in order to better see Jesus in each of the turns of the story. A sermon by Cameron Heger and JB Witty. [Part 4 of our series "The Very Words of God: Answering, trembling & delighting before the Holy Scriptures"] Questions for reflection: 1) Have you been exposed to the overarching narrative of the Bible before? How has it been presented to you? 2) Do you struggle to connect the individual Bible stories you read to the overall biblical context? 3) What are some avenues we can take to connect a given biblical story to Jesus? All stories may not be specifically about Jesus, but they all at least in some way point to Him. How? 4) How would you summarize the story in a few sentences?
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    49 分
  • How the Word Came to Us (The Bible was Composed, Canonized, Transmitted & Translated)

    How the Word Came to Us (The Bible was Composed, Canonized, Transmitted & Translated)
    2026/04/20
    Various Scriptures - The Bible has a long, complex and very human story of how it came be (and how it came to us). In this message, we examine what it means that the Bible was co-produced by a number of people, some known and some unknown. Using only the Bible itself, we explore some of it what it means for the Bible to be a collection of texts that were composed, canonized, transmitted, and translated in history. In doing so, we learn that the Bible being a human word does not diminish the fact that it is also a divine Word. A sermon by Cameron Heger and Kyle Sunderland. [Part 3 of our series "The Very Words of God: Answering, trembling & delighting before the Holy Scriptures"] Questions for reflection: 1) What have you been taught up to this point about where the Bible came from? 2) Was there anything new, exciting, or challenging in what Cameron shared about the overall picture? 3) Why do you think the human side of the Bible’s production is sometimes viewed as scandalous? 4) Why do you think we can have confidence in our modern English Bible translations? 5) What relevance does the divinity/humanity of Jesus have for how we think the Bible?
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    56 分
  • A Library of Complex Artistry (The Bible as Literature)

    A Library of Complex Artistry (The Bible as Literature)
    2026/04/16
    Various Scripture - [This sermon was originally given on January 26, 2025, reposted to help supplement this current teaching series] According to Jesus, the Bible is unbreakably true and the very words of God that lead to Him. At the same time, the Bible is the words of man in the form of a unified but incredibly diverse work of literary artistry spanning many authors, genres, and tones. Encountering the Bible is like stepping into an art gallery or library containing the transcendently beautiful, the shockingly ugly, and the fascinatingly complex all at once. A sermon by Cameron Heger. [Part 2 of our series "The Very Words of God: Answering, trembling & delighting before the Holy Scriptures"]
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    38 分
  • Scripture Cannot Be Broken (The Bible is True)

    Scripture Cannot Be Broken (The Bible is True)
    2026/04/13
    John 10:29-39 - With this teaching we begin a short series exploring two main questions: What is the Bible? And how should we respond to it? Our starting place is with Jesus and His view of the Bible as unbreakable, trustworthy, authoritative, coherent, and divinely-inspired. Even more, Jesus sees the whole Bible as chiefly about Himself. In the end, if we want to follow Jesus in these things we, too, must come to see the Bible as human words spoken and written from God by His Spirit. Thus, the only proper response is to come to the Scriptures with a posture that says, "Here I am, Lord—speak!" A sermon by Cameron Heger and Pete Richardson. [Part 1 of our series "The Very Words of God: Answering, trembling & delighting before the Holy Scriptures"] Questions for reflection: 1) How would you describe your relationship to the Bible today? 2) Why is it a good idea to start with considering Jesus's view of the Bible? 3) Describe the understanding that Jesus had of the Old Testament. 4) How does the New Testament make a case for its own status as Spirit-inspired Scripture? 5) What does it mean to affirm that the Bible is "true"? 6) What might it look like to join in with Abraham, Isaiah, and Mary by coming to the Bible with a posture that says "Here I am"?
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    43 分
  • Grief, Doubt, Guilt and the Resurrected Lord (Easter Sunday 2026)

    Grief, Doubt, Guilt and the Resurrected Lord (Easter Sunday 2026)
    2026/04/07
    John 20:11-18; 20:24-29; 21:15-19 - When considering the biblical accounts of the resurrection of Jesus, a question emerges: How did the resurrected Son of God deal with His people’s faithlessness, grief, despair, doubt, skepticism, and failures when He pursued them afterward? In John's gospel, three very human encounters with Jesus reveal Him as the Lord of grace and love, even in the face of human faithlessness. A sermon by Cameron Heger. [Part 3 of our series "Holy Week & Resurrection Sunday 2026"] Questions for reflection: 1) Why was the resurrection of Jesus such an unexpected and unfathomable event for the disciples? 2) In these three stories we saw Jesus encounter grief, doubt, and guilt/shame. Which of these encounters do you most resonate with? 3) Explain how Jesus not only had compassion on Mary, Thomas, and Peter but how he also commissioned each of them into further ministry. 4) How might the truth of the resurrection be daring you to hope in this season of your life?
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    37 分
  • Crucified and In Control (Good Friday 2026)

    Crucified and In Control (Good Friday 2026)
    2026/04/07
    John 19:31-37 - On Good Friday we considered one piece of the crucifixion story in particular that demonstrated both the cruelty toward Jesus at the hands of the Roman soldiers and yet also the sovereign intention of Jesus to endure it for the sake of those He came to seek and save. A sermon by Ian Cornell. [Part 3 of our series "Holy Week & Resurrection Sunday 2026"]
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    34 分
  • A New Example, Commandment & Sacrament (Maundy Thursday 2026)

    A New Example, Commandment & Sacrament (Maundy Thursday 2026)
    2026/04/04
    John 13 and Matthew 26:26-29 - "Maundy" comes from the Latin term "mandatum," meaning that "Maundy Thursday" is traditionally an examination of the new commandment that Jesus gave His disciples in the upper room the Thursday night He was betrayed and its connection to His washing of the disciples feet and His institution of the Lord's Supper. In this short re-recorded message, we examine these pivotal moments with Jesus. A sermon by Cameron Heger. [Part 1 of our series "Holy Week & Resurrection Sunday 2026"]
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    22 分
  • Our Daily Bread (The Lord's Prayer pt.2)

    Our Daily Bread (The Lord's Prayer pt.2)
    2026/03/30
    Matthew 6:11-13 - In the second half of The Lord's Prayer, Jesus teaches His disciples how to ask God our Father to meet the needs of ourselves and our communities, both physical and spiritual. In part through praying these words and themes over a lifetime, Christ's church will become the kind of people who not only love God with everything, but love our neighbors as ourselves—and express that love in deed. A sermon by Tsion Reid. [Part 14 of our series “Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount: The Good Life in the Kingdom of Grace”] Questions for reflection: 1) How does this prayer give us explicit permission to pray for the physical/material needs that we have? 2) Discuss what it might mean to ask God for "daily" bread instead of something like "yearly" bread?" 3) What is the connection between God's forgiveness toward us and our forgiveness of others? Why is it so crucial to Jesus? 4) How does this prayer inspire us to love one another in the way Jesus envisions? 5) How might you incorporate the praying of these words into your daily life moving forward?
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    37 分