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How do you forgive someone who doesn't deserve it? Pastor Dom brings a folder on stage that holds every hurt his daughter experienced before she turned five, and he's honest about how angry it makes him. Then he explains why he's still choosing to forgive. In week two of Who Needs God?, we look at one of the darkest stories in the Bible: David and Bathsheba in 2 Samuel 11.  David, the man God called "a man after my own heart," stays home from war, takes another man's wife, and covers it up with murder. A highlight reel only tells half the story, and David's other half is hard to read. But when the prophet Nathan holds up a mirror, David repents, and God forgives him. That's the turn: we're all David at some point. And if we've received forgiveness, we're called to extend it.  Dom unpacks what forgiveness is and what it isn't. It is not reconciliation. It doesn't mean going back, pretending it didn't hurt, or erasing consequences. It means releasing the debt, because bitterness hurts you more than it hurts them. Support the show

Have you ever wondered if anyone actually notices you? Not the version everyone sees, but the one carrying everything underneath? There's a name for God in the Bible given by someone who felt completely invisible: El Roi, the God who sees me. In Genesis 16, Hagar has no voice, no say, and no one on her side. She runs into the desert, and nobody goes looking for her. Nobody except God. He finds her by a spring along the road, calls her by name, asks her a question, and listens. She walks away with her dignity restored and gives God a name no one else in Scripture ever does. This message traces that same pattern through the life of Jesus. He kept moving toward people who felt overlooked and forgotten, and on the cross he proved once and for all that your story matters to God. Support the show

Faith deconstruction doesn't have to mean losing your faith. If you've been quietly wrestling with doubts — questioning what you were taught, wondering if God is even there, afraid to say any of it out loud — you're not walking away. You might finally be building something real. In this message from our new series Who Needs God?, we walk through the story of Saul on the road to Damascus and the years after it — because Paul's transformation wasn't a single flash of light. It was a long process of tearing down a faulty picture of God and rebuilding his life on Jesus. Our teaching pastor shares his own story of the night he sat on top of a parking garage and told God he was done — and how that turned out to be the beginning, not the end. Healthy deconstruction always leads somewhere: tear down what opposes Jesus, then rebuild on Christ. And the truth underneath all of it — the people who think they don't need God are exactly the ones He's still pursuing. Support the show

You can have a full calendar, a full house, and people all around you — and still feel completely alone. If you've ever wondered why you feel so isolated even when you're never actually by yourself, the answer might be the mask you've learned to wear: the "I'm fine," the "I've got it handled," the version of yourself you think people need to see. The problem is, the mask that hides you is also the thing keeping anyone from truly knowing you — and you can't feel like you belong somewhere you've never let yourself be known. In the final week of our "You Belong Here" series, we walk through Philippians 3, where the Apostle Paul lets go of the polished, impressive version of himself and finds Support the show

How do you want to be remembered? Not someday, at the end — but for the way you're actually living right now. In week 3 of You Belong Here, we sit with one honest question long enough to let it reframe everything: a full life and a life that matters are not the same thing. Walking through Philippians 2:19-30, we meet two people the Apostle Paul couldn't stop talking about — Timothy and Epaphroditus — and one thing sets them apart: they spent themselves on others. From a first-century prison, to William and Catherine Booth in the slums of 19th-century London, to Jesus tying a towel around his waist and washing feet, the pattern holds. The lives we remember are the ones that got poured out for people. This is a message about real biblical community — the kind where you don't have to clean up the house first — and about a question worth stopping for: who's actually at your table? If you've been running on empty, doing it all and still feeling unseen, start here. Support the show

You can have a full life with work, kids, a packed calendar—and still feel completely alone. If you've ever wondered why you feel like you don't belong, even in a room full of people, this message is for you.d In this message from our series You Belong Here, Maggie walks through Philippians 2 to answer a question a lot of us are quietly carrying: where do I actually belong? The answer isn't another thing to add to your schedule. It's the surprising truth that because of Jesus, we belong with each other—and that God, as Psalm 68 puts it, sets the lonely in families. It's an honest look at why real community is so hard to find, what humility has to do with it, and how belonging starts before you have anything figured out. Support the show

Ever feel like you don't belong anywhere — known by everyone, actually seen by no one? This message kicks off a new series in Philippians about what real belonging takes, and why the thing most of us want is also the thing we're most afraid of: being fully known. Paul wrote the book of Philippians from a prison cell, cut off from the people he loved — and yet he'd never felt more connected to them. That's the surprise at the heart of this message: belonging was never about proximity. It's about being known.  Misha walks through Philippians 1 and the honest tension underneath our need to belong — the labels and names we carry, the exhausting work of keeping up an image, and the new identity Jesus offers that you don't have to earn or perform for. If you've been holding people at a distance because being known feels risky, this is for you. Support the show

There's a difference between a peacemaker and a peacekeeper — and most of us have been a peacekeeper our whole lives without realizing it. In this final message of The Good Life, we sit in Matthew 5:9: "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God." If you've ever kept the peace by staying quiet, smoothing it over, or sweeping it under the rug, this one is for you. Keeping the peace can look calm on the outside while nothing underneath is actually whole. The Bible has a fuller word for peace — shalom — that means wholeness and restoration, not just the absence of conflict. Which means real peace sometimes asks us to step toward the hard conversation instead of around it: in our marriages, our friendships, our health, our finances. This message unpacks what Jesus actually meant, why "being nice" isn't the same as being at peace, and how peace stops being something you chase and starts being Someone you know. Support the show

You can check every box — the job, the family, the schedule that actually works — and still lie awake feeling like something's missing. If nothing ever quite feels like enough, this message is about why, and where that hunger is actually pointing. In this message from our series The Good Life, we walk through Matthew 5:6 — "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled." Jesus names something most of us feel but rarely say out loud: there's a difference between what we hunger for and what we actually want to hunger for. We keep going back to the same menu — approval, security, comfort, the next thing — and keep walking away unsatisfied. The promise isn't that you'll stop being hungry. It's that there's One who finally fills you. Support the show

What did Jesus really mean by "Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth"? In Matthew 5:5, meek doesn't mean weak, timid, or a pushover — it means something closer to strength under control. This message unpacks the third Beatitude and why the good life belongs to the people who stop fighting to control everything. We tend to run our lives like little kings and queens of our own small empires — controlling our image, our schedules, our future, the outcome of every hard conversation. It's exhausting, and it never quite delivers the peace we're after. The Greek word behind "meek" (praus) describes a wild horse that's been tamed: all its power still there, simply surrendered. Jesus lived this out himself — standing before Pilate with all authority in heaven and earth, and choosing restraint. This is a look at what it means to be still before God, to let go of control, and to find the peace and belonging that comes with it. Support the show

What did Jesus actually mean by "blessed are the poor in spirit"? It's the first line of the Beatitudes, the opening of the most famous sermon ever preached, and it's almost the opposite of what most of us picture when we imagine the good life. In this message from Matthew 5:3, we walk through what "poor in spirit" really means, and why Jesus says the good life belongs not to the people who have it all together, but to the ones who come empty. We tend to fill in the blank "Blessed is the one who…" with success, security, or having our life in order. Jesus fills it in differently. Using the picture of a full cup and an empty cup, this teaching unpacks why the kingdom of heaven is available right now, not later, not after you've earned it, to anyone willing to come to God open-handed. It's an honest look at the Sermon on the Mount, grace, and what it means to stop striving and start receiving. Support the show

Most of us were taught that Revelation is a map of the end of the world — dragons, beasts, and a countdown to catastrophe. But what if the whole book was actually pointing at something much closer to home? In this final message of our journey through Revelation, Pastor Tony walks through chapters 21 and 22 to show what the book was really about all along: not a prediction about the world, but an invitation to you. At the center of it is a strange, hopeful image John keeps returning to — robes. Clean ones and stained ones. Two kingdoms, two "uniforms," and one honest question underneath all the imagery: how do you actually get in? The answer isn't "try harder" or "clean yourself up first." It's the opposite. You can't scrub the stain out on your own — you're invited to come exactly as you are and let the blood of the Lamb do what your own effort never could. If you've been exhausted from trying to hold a perfect image together, this is the message that hands you a way to set it down. Support the show

Do you know if your name is in the Book of Life? In Revelation 20, John describes a moment where every person stands before God — and two books decide everything. This week, Pastor Tony Johnson unpacks what those books actually are, and why the question isn't as simple as "be a good person" or "just believe." Most of us live inside a false dichotomy. Either salvation is entirely up to Jesus and nothing you do matters, or you have to earn your way in by being good enough. Revelation 20 puts both books on the table and gives us a different way of looking at it. Because faith without works is dead — but works without faith won't save you either. So the real question isn't which one matters most. It's this: if someone read your life like a ledger, would they know you follow Jesus? Support the show

Revelation 20 is where the story finally lands: Satan is bound, released for one last rebellion, and thrown into the lake of fire for good. But the point isn't a timeline — it's that the outcome is already settled. If we know how the story ends, how should we live right now? In this message from our Revelation series, we walk through Revelation 19:19–20:10... the final battle, the thousand years, and the decisive end of evil. Like watching a game you already know the score to, the tension is real but the result isn't in doubt. The invitation is one word: stand. Stand with confidence in the moments where following Jesus actually costs you something — at work, in your family, when you're the only one — because the victory was never up for grabs. Support the show

What will it look like when Jesus actually returns? Most of us picture a Rambo-style hero charging in with a sword, but the Bible paints a very different picture, and it changes everything about how we live right now. This week at 2|42 Community Church, we walk through Revelation 19 and the moment the hero finally steps into the story. Jesus returns on a white horse, eyes like fire, wearing a robe dipped in blood but here's the thing most people miss: it's His own blood. Before there was a white horse, there was a cross. Before a crown, there were thorns. Before Jesus was the conquering King, He was the sacrificial Lamb. And He's not riding back alone,  there's an army behind Him, dressed in white, following Him into final victory. The question this passage leaves us with isn't "is Jesus coming back?" It's "when He does, where will you be?" Support the show