This Sunday we celebrate Pentecost—the Church’s birthday and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. In today’s world, “freedom” gets tossed around as doing whatever we please, rejecting authority, even discarding moral boundaries. But when Paul declares that “where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom” (2 Cor 3:17), he isn’t talking about license—he’s pointing to the Gospel’s true liberty.

In this message, you’ll discover:

• How Isaiah 61 lays the foundation for Spirit-empowered freedom—freedom from poverty, mourning, and bondage, and freedom for healing, hope, and mission.

• The way Jesus inaugurated that Isaiah promise in his ministry—bringing good news to the poor, binding up the brokenhearted, and lifting every yoke.

• What it looks like today to live under the Spirit’s liberating reign—calling us both to embrace God’s grace and to step into the work of justice and compassion.

Jump in at the time that speaks to you: 0:00 Introduction & Pentecost Context 2:15 Defining True “Freedom” in Scripture 5:40 Isaiah 61: The Spirit’s Mission of Liberation 9:30 Jesus as the Fulfillment of Isaiah’s Promise 13:50 Living in Spirit-Empowered Freedom Today 17:20 Prayer & Invitation

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Scripture: Isaiah 55:1-13

Series: Isaiah: A New Understanding of Everything

Preacher: Jerry Cisar

Isaiah 55 ends with a breathtaking promise: the mountains and hills will burst into song, the trees of the field will clap their hands, and thornbushes will be replaced with flourishing trees.

It’s more than poetry. It’s a vision of restoration—of a world healed and renewed. But it all begins with a question: Why do we spend our lives chasing what doesn’t satisfy?

This week, we’ll explore how Isaiah invites us into a better way—a way that doesn’t require money or status, but does require surrender. God calls us to forsake our ways, exchange our thoughts for His, and feast on what truly gives life.

This isn’t just about personal change. It’s about a kind of transformation that spills out into the world—where joy and peace lead the way, and even creation itself begins to respond. When God’s people live by God’s wisdom, signs of Eden reappear.

Join us as we continue our series Isaiah: A New Understanding of Everything and discover how lives shaped by God’s values become living proof of His everlasting promise.

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When we imagine fixing what’s wrong with the world, we often think of power, force, or control. But in Isaiah 53, God reveals a shocking alternative: a suffering servant who absorbs our rebellion, not by retaliation, but by love.

In this message, we explore how God’s solution to humanity’s deepest problem is shocking, atoning, transforming, and expanding. This is not the salvation we expect—but it is the salvation that truly satisfies. Through the wisdom of the cross, we see justice and mercy meet in a way that changes everything.

🎧 Listen in to discover how the servant’s wounds become our healing, and how his way becomes our way.

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The Servant & The Conqueror - Isaiah 42:1-9

(Part of the series: A New Understanding of Everything)

What does victory look like in God’s kingdom? It doesn’t look like shouting in the streets or crushing enemies underfoot. In Isaiah 42 and Matthew 12, we meet a Servant who conquers with gentleness—restoring the broken, freeing the oppressed, and establishing justice to the ends of the earth.

In this message, we explore:

1️⃣ A New Old Way to Conquer

2️⃣ The Servant and His Conquest

3️⃣ Healed Hands for Conquering

Jesus, the true Servant, destroys his enemies not by force—but by turning them into sons and daughters. His justice reaches the coastlands, and we are invited to join the mission. If we’re close enough to the action, we’ll see it happen.

👣 Come discover the beauty of a kingdom built on restoration, not domination.

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Scripture: Isaiah 40:1-11

Preacher: Ryan Carver

“The Way of the Wilderness” (Isaiah 40:1–11)

When life feels like a wilderness—dry, disorienting, and filled with hardship—where is God? In this message, we explore Isaiah 40’s powerful promise to a people in exile: “Comfort, comfort my people.”

Through vivid imagery and prophetic hope, Isaiah reveals a God who doesn’t just rule with power—He reigns with gentleness. He comes not to crush, but to gather. Not to destroy, but to restore.

We’ll see how this passage connects to John the Baptist, the ministry of Jesus, and our own journey from brokenness to restoration. This is a message for anyone who’s tired, waiting, or wondering if God has forgotten them. He hasn’t. He’s preparing the way—even in the wilderness.

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Scripture: Isaiah 35

Preacher: Jerry Cisar

What if the way back to Eden isn't behind us—but ahead of us? We’ll explore Isaiah 35—a vision of deserts blooming, sorrow fleeing, and a weary people walking a holy path home. It’s a chapter full of hope for those who feel stuck in a spiritual wilderness. Isaiah doesn’t point us backward to a mythical golden age. He calls us to look forward—to a transformed world and a healing God who meets us in the most unlikely places. Through feeble hands, fearful hearts, and barren land, God reveals His glory and leads us home. In Jesus, the way through the wilderness is not just survivable—it’s redemptive. He doesn't bypass the dry places. He brings Eden there. Come be reminded that God’s greatest work often happens where we least expect it. And as we gather, remember we come to Mt. Zion (Heb. 12:22) and we “will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads.” (Isaiah 35:10)

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When King Uzziah died, everything in Isaiah’s world felt unstable. But it was in that moment of fear and uncertainty that Isaiah encountered the Lord in a way that changed the way he understood everything.

Isaiah 6 invites us into a vision of God that flips our assumptions upside down. It shows us a King whose glory looks nothing like the power and pride we expect—and a mission that feels, at first, like a guaranteed failure.

• What if real wisdom looks like foolishness?
• What if real victory looks like a cross?
• What if it takes a miracle to see the Lord’s glory?
• A miracle to hear the depth of God’s holiness?
• A miracle to understand how God works in the world and to participate in it?

Join us as we step into Isaiah’s vision—and discover that when you truly see the Lord, nothing will ever look the same again.

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Episode Title: "When Folly Rose Victorious"

Scripture: Matthew 21:1-22

Series: The King and His Kingdom

Preacher: Jerry Cisar

What if the path Jesus walked—the one marked by love for enemies, forgiveness over vengeance, and sacrifice over self-preservation—actually looked like failure? To the first disciples, it did. Jesus preached radical mercy and refused to fight back. Then He died. No armies. No rescue. Just silence.

And yet… on the third day, folly rose victorious. We’ll see what the Resurrection accomplishes: God the Father raised Jesus to declare, once and for all, that the seemingly foolish way of the cross is the way of the kingdom.

The Resurrection is about both Jesus and His Lordship and every one of His followers. It justifies, empowers, and sends us—worshipping and doubting, faithful and failing, variegated believers who are learning to walk the same path. If Jesus is Lord—and He is—then what?

We go and in our going we follow. And we trust that one day, God will raise what looked like folly into eternal glory.

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