International Students Incorporated Director, Carrie Louer, leads us through the wide angle of the biblical narrative and the theme of God’s mission.

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Pastor Ian Graham talks about the power of God as an expected, livable reality for the follower of Jesus.

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Pastor Ian Graham looks at the necessity of Christian community as it is first embodied, embraced, and healed by Jesus.

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Pastor Ian Graham examines the Lord’s Prayer as an invitation to a life of prayer.

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Pastor Ian Graham looks at the transfiguration of Jesus as an invitation to the practice of reading scripture.

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A testimony of God's love and revelation mediated through John 15

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We turn to Psalm 63 to name spiritual thirst without pretending it feels easy, then follow David’s path from desperation to memory, blessing, and trust. We wrestle with where God is in suffering, how to think about enemies through Jesus, and how longing can become a doorway to real satisfaction in God’s steadfast love.

• Psalm 63 as language for spiritual dryness and honest prayer
• the question of why God feels elusive and why we must seek
• naming pain without denial, including anxiety and fear
• enemies in the Psalms alongside Jesus’ call to love
• Ephesians 6 and the fight against sin and death rather than people
• remembering God’s past faithfulness as an antidote to forgetfulness
• hesed as covenant love that is better than life
• blessing and worship as a formative force, not a mood
• desire, idols, and the search for satisfaction in lesser things
• sleepless nights, spirals, and learning to meditate with trust
• Jesus fulfilling Psalm 63 through the wilderness and the cross
• clinging to God as a learned way of life

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We wrestle with Paul’s hardest lines in 1 Corinthians 7 and ask what “unhindered devotion to the Lord” looks like for single people, married people, and everyone in between. We frame the whole passage with eschatology, the now and not yet, and the hope that God’s future can reshape our ordinary lives right now.
• Paul’s “impending crisis” and the claim that the present form of the world is passing away
• Remaining as you are as a starting point for faithfulness rather than a command to freeze your life
• Unhindered devotion as the aim behind Paul’s counsel on marriage, singleness, engagement, and widowhood
• Eschatology as a lived reality that transforms time and loyalty
• Singleness as intrinsic value and a witness against idolizing the nuclear family
• Abiding in Christ from John 15 as the pattern for devotion
• Q&A on gendered language, engagement customs, desire and passion, LGBTQ questions, and married devotion
"we’ll have some people that are prepared to pray for you in the back of the room. They are both standing right now. Gene and Alexa, if you want to turn around, you can. they’d be honored to pray with you."

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