John 3v1-10 with Jonny Morrison

Spiritual growth often feels like walking backwards—moving toward the future while facing our past. We can’t see exactly where we’re going, yet faith invites us to trust that Christ walks with us in it all. This series explores how looking back with compassion and forward with hope can shape a deeper, truer, more grounded faith.

Luke 19v1-10 with Jonny Morrison

We are in a sermon series called “The Trouble With Strangers.” We live in a world where belonging is both deeply longed for and painfully difficult. Political divides, cultural differences, personal wounds, and busy schedules all work against community. And yet, research and Scripture agree: we flourish when we belong. This Sunday Jonny preached on restoration.

2 Corinthians 7v5-16 with Heather Thomas

We are in a sermon series called “The Trouble With Strangers.” We live in a world where belonging is both deeply longed for and painfully difficult. Political divides, cultural differences, personal wounds, and busy schedules all work against community. And yet, research and scripture agree: we flourish when we belong. This Sunday Heather preached on the practice of trust.

Matthew 18v15-22 with Jonny Morrison

We are in a sermon series called “The Trouble With Strangers.” We live in a world where belonging is both deeply longed for and painfully difficult. Political divides, cultural differences, personal wounds, and busy schedules all work against community. And yet, research and Scripture agree: we flourish when we belong. This Sunday Jonny preached on the practice of forgiveness.

Matthew 5:9 and Ephesians 4:2-6 with Heather Thomas

We are in a sermon series called “The Trouble With Strangers.” We live in a world where belonging is both deeply longed for and painfully difficult. Political divides, cultural differences, personal wounds, and busy schedules all work against community. And yet, research and Scripture agree: we flourish when we belong. This Sunday Heather preached on the practice of peacemaking.

Luke 7:36-50 with Jordan Moss

We were made for connection, but forming a meaningful community is harder than we expected. We long for belonging but often feel like outsiders. In this series, we’ll explore the tensions of loneliness and the good news of a Jesus-centered community. Together, we’ll learn the everyday practices that help strangers become friends and form a household of faith marked by peace, forgiveness, and trust.

1 Corinthians 12:12-27 with Jonny Morrison

The Apostle Paul uses the metaphor of a body to describe the church. In the Roman world, this metaphor reinforced hierarchy—some parts were “more important” than others. Paul flips this: every member is indispensable, and the “weaker” members are given special honor.

The church, Bonhoeffer reminds us, is “Christ existing as community.” We represent Christ to one another (through forgiveness, prayer, burden-bearing) and to the world (as Yoder said, the church is the “hermeneutic of the gospel”).

We are not called to unhealthy codependence (“I can’t be okay unless you are okay”) or counterdependence (“I don’t need anyone”), but to godly interdependence: “I need you, and you need me.”

Ephesians 2:13-22 with Jonny Morrison

We live in a world where belonging is both deeply longed for and painfully difficult. Political divides, cultural differences, personal wounds, and busy schedules all work against community. And yet, research and Scripture agree: we flourish when we belong.

Paul writes to the Ephesian church, a community divided by culture, tradition, and class, to remind them that God’s story has always been about creating a family of blessing. Through Christ, Jew and Gentile are united into one household of faith—a place where rhythms, resources, and responsibilities are shared.

Households of faith are not perfect, but they are where we practice belonging, learn forgiveness, and display God’s wisdom to the world.