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Every month or so, we pause from our normal sermon series to examine work. Work is essential to the Christian walk and a place where we get to exercise our giftings in shaping the world. Each of these Sundays, a few of our members are interviewed about how they experience work.

It comes as no surprise that our human relationships are bound to fracture – whether we have wronged others or been wronged. Jesus enters into that broken reality, teaching us that the path through it into life and healing is found in the hard, but necessary task of reconciliation. Listen as Dave challenges us to make amends in a culture prone to estrangement.

Of the Ten Commandments, “you shall not murder” may appear to be easiest to obey. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus dismantles our false assurance by tying murder closely with anger – something every human struggles with at some level. Listen as Dave shares how destructive and pervasive anger truly is and invites us towards a righteous zeal for life.

As long as there have been followers of Christ, there has also been a question about Jesus’ (and our own) relationship to the Old Testament laws. Yet, Jesus remains insistent that He did not come to abolish the law, but to fulfill it. Listen as Dave shares how the commands of God are for our restoration and flourishing.

When we live as salt and light, living according to the ‘blesséd’ life and upside down kingdom values of the Beatitudes, we have the capacity to make a difference in the contexts we inhabit. Yet, this call does not come without a promise of challenge from the world’s power structures. Listen as Dave unpacks what it means when Jesus calls His followers “salt” and “light”.

Jesus begins His teachings by sharing about where the truly happy (“blesséd”) life is found – not in chasing more happiness, but in looking to its source. Listen in as Dave teaches us about Jesus’ subversive opener to the Sermon on the Mount, which reframes our expectations about joy and the Christian life.

Every fourth Sunday, we will pause from our normal sermon series to examine work. Work is essential to the Christian walk and a place where we get to exercise our giftings in shaping the world. Each of these Sundays, a few of our members are interviewed about how they experience work.

What do you do after Jesus saves you? Come join us as Dave introduces our next sermon series on Jesus’ teachings in Matthew which invite us to learn to truly Iive out and experience the kingdom of heaven.

Every week, we declare as a church that Jesus will return in glory. How does that hope shape how and what we do as we go about living and working in our everyday realities? Alec draws out from the biblical narrative what is Christ’s call for us in the meantime.

Though God’s command to love selflessly seems incompatible with our world where self-interest abounds, it remains at the center of God’s invitation to us through eternity, as He redeems our world and work. Tune in as Dave shares what Scripture has to say about these difficult invitations.

Every fourth Sunday, we will pause from our normal sermon series to examine work. Work is essential to the Christian walk and a place where we get to exercise our giftings in shaping the world. Each of these Sundays, a few of our member's are interviewed about how they experience work.

We can never guarantee that our labor will come to fruition. How do we work in the present when we feel as if we work in vain? Listen, as Dave shares how God invites us to work in the present as an expression of hope.

Work was meant to be a good thing, but what happens when we look to it to fill our longing for ultimate meaning and purpose in our lives? In this sermon, Dave explores how scripture speaks to these impulses and reveals where our true identity and purpose lies.

Does our work matter if it doesn’t create meaning; make an impact; or change the world? Is this work important if it’s not personally fulfilling? Listen as Dave unpacks scripture’s response to these questions.

In work, we are prone to assume all of our struggles are a result of sin and the world’s brokenness; these must be the thorns God cursed Adam and Eve with. But God created all of us with limits, which are good and intentionally built by Him. Listen to Dave unpack the doctrine of Finitude and God’s design for us in work.