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Don't look now, but God is right here. He's in this place, even though you didn't realize it. Right here, right now. More than that, he's calling you. What does that mean? And what are you going to d…

Imagine God is standing right in front of you, speaking to you directly. "I designed you to do this one thing," he says, telling you what it is. How would you respond? By telling God that he's wrong,…

Let me tell you a story about how I was missing the point of this story about missing the point...

I'm sure you've asked this question: Does God care about me? How can I know? Today we're going to examine the evidence and come to a conclusion, but it may mean looking at your faith in a more real l…

We start with a short game of In the Bible, Not in the Bible as we enter into a discussion of the idea that God is in control. What does that mean? If it's true, why does life suck sometimes? Could t…

Get up! It's time to take light into the darkness! You can't keep those covers clamped over your head any longer. Your fears are meaningless because you are traveling with the Creator of the Cosmos! …

How can the joyous occasion of celebrating a birth be turned into a sword piercing your soul? That's what happens when you give birth the baby who would become Jesus of Nazareth, also known as Jesus …

Cadet Paul Chisholm brings the Christmas message!

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In the last years of his life, Herod had gone quite mad. But the Magi came to him first, because he was the King of the Jews. Who else would you ask about the new King of the Jews than the old, right…

Angels (who most decidedly are NOT singing) and shepherds (who might have been) make their appearance in our Christmas story as we learn the true story behind the mythology so many people mistakenly …

Why do we mythologize the Christmas story? The truth is SO much better than any of the fictions we have created about it!

This week: The truth about the circumstances of Jesus's birth.

You need to know…

Guest speaker Cadet Paul Chisholm offers up a message about the importance of the Old Testament to understand the New. No, wait! Don't tune out yet! He uses clips from Terminator 2, a Michael Jordan …

The mythology of Christmas is bedeviling to me. Why do otherwise intelligent people continue to promote fairy tales over the truth? We spend so much time focusing on the things which never happened a…

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The ancient rabbis spent a ridiculous amount of time debating or teaching the details of King David's sex life. While the story of David and Bathsheba doesn't really get explicit, i…

The Sermon on the Mount contains Jesus's own Ten Commandments for Christians to live by. If you are going to call yourself a Christian, you might want to try living like one. Go ahead! Give it a try.…

Two paths, four ways to look at them. Follow Jesus?

I can't believe I've never heard the true story of Honi the Circle Drawer before. Today, Honi and Jesus will demonstrate how we should pray. Then Jesus will explain what that should lead us to DO. Li…

I'm sure all of you are willing to help someone out when they face some moral challenges in their life - you know, like when you'd rush to aid someone who just got a splinter of wood blown under thei…

Twentieth Century philosopher George Carlin once described a home as a place to keep our stuff while we go out to get more stuff. Jesus warned us about the role of stuff in our lives, saying that we …