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Psalm 139 with Matt Chin. Most of us are good at the listing photo: the right angles, the right lighting, and whatever we leave out of the frame. But everyone has an alley. And the fear underneath hiding is rarely “they’ll see it.” It’s “they’ll see it and walk out.” In Steps Four and Five, we are invited to face the truth about our lives and bring that truth into the light with someone trustworthy. But honesty can feel frightening when we worry that being fully known means being rejected. Through the stories of Adam and Eve, David, and the woman caught in adultery, this sermon explores a God who meets us with both truth and grace. Confession is not about punishment or earning God’s love. It is a way to stop hiding, receive the grace already offered to us, and take a faithful step toward healing. Recovery begins when we stop pretending we can save ourselves. Healing deepens when we stop pretending there is nothing we need saving from.

Mark 14:32–36 with Matt Chin. What does it mean to trust God when you can't control how the story turns out? In week two of our Twelve Steps series, we look at Jesus' prayer in the garden of Gethsemane and discover that surrender isn't about getting what we want or pretending we're not afraid. It's about learning to trust the One we're surrendering to. Whether you're facing an uncertain future, wrestling with unanswered prayers, or simply tired of trying to hold everything together, this message invites you to take one small step toward trust. You don't have to stop being afraid to start trusting God.

Mark 5:21-34 with Matt Chin. Most of us are good at managing things. We’re capable, we try hard, and we keep telling ourselves we’ll change. So why do we keep ending up right where we started? In the first week of our new series, Steps, we begin where the Twelve Steps begin, with Step One: admitting we can’t do this on our own. Along the way we look at a man who ran out of options, and at a woman in a crowd who had spent everything trying to get well. Then we ask what Jesus does when someone finally stops pretending and reaches for him. Maybe the first step toward freedom is admitting you can’t get there on your own.

Revelation 21:1-5 with Matt Chin Most of us carry a quiet sense that something is off. We feel it at funerals, in hospital waiting rooms, and in the news. We feel it on ordinary Tuesdays, when we miss someone or something and can’t quite name what. The Bible’s last chapters answer that ache with a picture. It isn’t clouds and harps. It’s a city coming down out of the sky, and a voice saying God’s home is now among people. He wipes away every tear. Death and grief are gone, and the old order has passed. The story began in a garden, with two people hiding and a God asking, “Where are you?” It ends with God making his home with us. Everything we’ve seen in this series, the runaways, the disappointed walkers, the friends with the roof, the man in the tree, points to a home that doesn’t fall apart. A home for good, in both senses of the phrase: for keeps, and for our good. In this final talk of our Home series, we look at what this promise means for the people we’ve lost, the things that still hurt, and the way we live this week.

Luke 19:1-10 with Matt Chin Zacchaeus is a short man in a tall tree, and he’s not there to be saved. He’s there to watch. He’s heard the stories, he’s curious, and he wants to see Jesus without being seen. If you’ve ever stayed near the back, kept your arms crossed, or listened with one foot out the door, you know how that feels. Curiosity is a safe way to get close to something that scares you a little. But Jesus stops under the tree, looks up, and calls him by name. He doesn’t ask for an apology, and he doesn’t give a lecture. He invites himself to dinner. Then comes the strangest part: the whole crowd mutters, and Zacchaeus is the one who changes. In this fourth talk of our Home series, we look at what happens when the person we’ve been watching from a distance turns around and looks back at us. And we ask what it might mean to come down.

Mark 2:1-12 with Matt Chin Four men carry their friend to a house so packed that nobody can get through the door. So they climb onto the roof, dig through it, and lower him down in front of Jesus. It’s one of the strangest and most determined rescues in the Gospels. Notice who does the work. The man on the mat doesn’t say a word. He can’t get there on his own, so his friends do it for him. And Mark tells us that when Jesus sees their faith, he responds. Most of us would rather be the carrier than the one being carried. We’d rather help than admit we need it. But what if the people who got us to Jesus were never the ones with all the answers? What if they were just the ones who wouldn’t leave us on the mat? In this third talk of our Home series, we look at what it means to belong to people who carry us when we can’t walk, and who let us do the same for them.

Luke 24:13-35 with Matt Chin. Two people are walking away from Jerusalem on the worst weekend of their lives. They had hoped Jesus was the one. Then he was executed, and now they’re heading home with a very different story than the one they started with. Maybe you know that kind of disappointment. You expected something from God, from a church, or from your own life, and it didn’t happen. So you quietly start walking the other way. What’s strange about this story is who shows up. A stranger falls into step beside them, and they don’t recognize him. He doesn’t scold them or hurry them toward belief. He asks what’s been going on, and he lets them tell him. In this second talk of our Home series, we look at what it means that Jesus meets people in their doubt before they ever figure him out. If you’re wrestling or disappointed, or you’re not sure you’re still walking toward anything, this one is for you.

Luke 15:11-32 with Matt Chin. Everybody is trying to get home. Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is about a man who spends ten years fighting his way back to a place he’s already from. Most of us know something about that. We keep chasing the next job, the next relationship, the next version of ourselves, hoping it’ll finally feel like we’ve arrived. In the first talk of our Home series, we look at what home actually is. In the Bible’s first pages, it isn’t a place. It’s being fully known and not afraid. We also look at two runaways, a prophet in a storm and a son with a very bad plan, and a God who doesn’t wait for the apology before running down the road.

Patrick Harden shares with us.

Pastor Matt's dad, Steven Chin, shares with us.

Calvin Chu share with us.

Patrick Harden shares with us.

Exodus 3:1–14 with Matt Chin. Moses spent forty years hiding in the desert, convinced he'd disqualified himself from anything that mattered. Then God found him at a burning bush and did something surprising — he didn't give Moses a pep talk or a strategy. He just said his name. Twice. 38 weeks into his own countdown to fatherhood, Matt shares what he's actually wrestling with this week: that quiet, persistent voice that shows up right before something big — who am I to do this? Whether it's a baby, a new role, a relationship getting serious, or a calling you've talked yourself out of more times than you can count, this episode is about the difference between a fear you can research your way out of and one you can't. Because some fears aren't about competence. They're about identity. And information was never going to fix those.

Genesis 12:1–3 with Matt Chin. At 75, Abram was told to leave everything he'd ever known — his home, his people, his whole sense of identity — for a place God hadn't even named yet. No map. No five-year plan. Just "go." This week, Matt opens our Summer Mixtape series (Reunion's un-tidy, multi-voice summer, born out of a season of real transition — a colleague's departure, a move, a baby on the way) with a message about the kind of uncertainty most of us are quietly carrying. A decision you're still not sure was right. A conversation you keep putting off. A sense that something needs to change and you're not sure why you haven't moved yet. We tend to believe that if we just had enough information, we'd finally have the courage to act. This episode makes the case that it's backwards — that courage was never supposed to come from certainty in the first place. It's a story about presence, promise, and what it looks like to take the next step without seeing the whole road.

Thank you Nathan and the Caddell family for 8 years of service at REUNION Christian Church. We'll miss you!