Sharing transformative life with Jesus and one another we pursue the peace, justice and flourishing of the International District.
Jesus, the source of life and love, is at work bearing fruit in the world and he's inviting us to share fruitful life with him. As we unpack our vision for life as the church, we start with the sourc…
In Luke 18:1-8, Jesus strengthens us to always pray and never give up. In a world of injustice that ignores cries for justice like an unjust judge, God is listening. God is attentive to our cries for…
Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7 proclaims that God is at work unravelling hostility and enabling we who are immigrants to be cultivators of shalom in our neighborhoods, cities, nation, and world. The peace of our…
In a world that teaches us to suffer in silence, doubt in secret and stuff our emotional reality, God is inviting us to show up as we really are, uncensored and unedited in God's presence. Lament is …
Not everyone likes that Jesus eats with outcasts and sinners. In Luke 15, Jesus tells three parables that begin to unravel an "us vs. them" culture. Jesus reveals a God who smiles rather than frowns …
Luke 14:25-33 describes, what many call, "the cost of discipleship." Do you hear Jesus' call to forsake all, take up our cross, and follow him as good news or bad news?
In Luke 14:1,7-14, Jesus disentangles us from the honor-shame game we play. Jesus removes our shame and restores our honor, so that we can view ourselves and others through the lens of Jesus life, de…
Hannah Town proclaims the good news that Jesus invites us to step out of our fear toward HIM from Matthew 14:22-33. In the face of our fear, it is the knowledge that God is near and more powerful tha…
Sometimes the invitation of Jesus into discipleship sounds foolish to our ears. We hear, "sell your possessions and give to the poor" as an unwise investment strategy, or "Love your enemies" as impra…
In Luke 12:13-34 declares that Jesus is unmasking the false security of money, unraveling our anxieties, and offering us lasting security in fearless generosity.
Josh Harrelson declares the good news from Luke 10:25-37, proclaiming that we can neighbor with gospel love because God has neighbored us. We have to get a neighbor to be a neighbor, receiving the lo…
II Kings 5:1-14 proclaims the good news that our identity, security and significance is not based on our work, but on consenting to God's work. Jesus exposes the lies that we labor under: We are what…
Romans 5:1-8 proclaims the good news that, in Christ, our suffering is a meeting place with our co-suffering, all-loving God. And, it is in this place, that God does some of His most gracious and hea…
Guest preacher, Justin Richter, encourages us on the path toward unity in a diversity of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences from the book of Colossians.
In John 13:31-35 Jesus invites his disciples into the kind of love he has brought and nurtured among the disciples and in the world. We are called and enabled to love as Jesus loved us. God is at wor…
Jesus shows us what God is really like and invites us to follow this God in an eternal kind of life here and now, forever. John 10:22-31 reveals to us this good news and calls us to allow Jesus to co…
It has been said that, reconciliation is God's language for a broken world. The reconciling love of God is reaching to us and through us no matter what divides us. In Christ, God is reconciling the w…
The Good News of Resurrection is that we are free to be held and compelled by love alone. In a world held by hurt, anger, bitterness, greed, violence and all manner of sin, Jesus frees us to be held …
The peace of God is for you, his peace is for us, and his peace is for the world. As Jesus rides into Jerusalem on a donkey, he comes as a different kind of king bringing a different kind of peace.
In a world that prefers the false security of violent and coercive power, Jesus invites us to the true security of his vulnerable love. Luke 13:31-35 depicts Jesus responding to the death threat issu…