Episodes

  • Wonder - Week 7 | Seek

    Wonder - Week 7 | Seek
    Feb 15 2026
    When family fractures, public pressure, or the simple weight of life make you want to hide, David’s cry in Psalm 27 cuts straight to the heart: one thing I will seek — the face, the beauty, the favor of God. This sermon holds that raw tension—fear, enemies, even abandonment by those closest to us—and refuses to reduce faith to information or technique. It lays out why the longing for God’s beauty matters when everything else is failing. You’ll hear how ancient temple images, the year-after-year sacrifices, and the surprising beauty of the suffering Lamb reframe courage: seeing God’s character steadies us amid danger. The talk traces how beholding God’s mercy changes how we live and tells the modern story of a failed fresco that became a town’s blessing—small, messy acts that reveal God’s face. Expect a clear, tender invitation to let that beauty lift your head and reorder what you fear.
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    36 mins
  • Wonder - Week 6 | Humility

    Wonder - Week 6 | Humility
    Feb 8 2026
    When life feels like a nonstop audition — proving you belong, worth, and meaning — exhaustion follows. The pressure to demand justice, score moral victories, or carve out a self-serving freedom leaves people constantly judged: by algorithms, neighbors, and the voice in their own head. That grind flattens wonder and leaves faith feeling like an empty courtroom. Here the ancient prophet Micah cuts through the noise with three simple practices: do justice, love mercy, walk humbly with God. The message shows how God doesn’t leave us to perform but provides a substitute so justice and mercy can meet; mercy becomes the air we breathe, humility the clear-eyed posture that frees us to love others. Far from a checklist, these rhythms are learned in community and lived by receiving more than we can earn — a surprising way back to awe and belonging that might change how you see everything.
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    30 mins
  • Wonder - Week 5 | Awe

    Wonder - Week 5 | Awe
    Feb 1 2026
    When your days feel reduced to tasks, notifications, and metrics—when people are treated like data and meaning slips through your fingers—life starts to look like smoke. This sermon addresses that specific ache: the numbness that comes from living in an I-It world where wonder has been crowded out by speed, consumption, and a hardening of the heart. The message reclaims an old phrase often translated "fear of the Lord" and restores it as awe: a posture of reverent wonder that opens you to God, others, and the small miracles all around you. Drawing on Proverbs, Jesus’ encounters, and everyday examples, it shows awe as something received, not manufactured—a living water that reshapes how we see and relate. Expect gentle reproof, surprising invitation, and an encouragement to stop trying to fix everything so you can start beholding again. See what it looks like when awe returns to the center of life.
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    36 mins
  • Wonder - Week 4 | Grace

    Wonder - Week 4 | Grace
    Jan 25 2026
    Holding a mental scale of good deeds against bad is exhausting and can leave you unsure where you stand with God. This sermon starts with two blunt, soul-searching questions about what happens if you die tonight and whether doing good is enough. It names the worry many carry—that we must earn our way into heaven—and refuses to leave it vague or polite. The message walks through a clear contrast between justice, mercy, and grace, using everyday examples—like being pulled over by a police officer and someone paying your breakfast—to show how grace is an undeserved gift, paid in full. You’ll hear why salvation is framed as God’s generous action, not our checklist of good behavior, and what relief and freedom feel like when you stop trying to earn what’s already been given. It ends by inviting you to stand in that gift and live from it, a posture that quietly changes everything about how life feels and moves forward.
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    35 mins
  • Wonder - Week 3 | Delight

    Wonder - Week 3 | Delight
    Jan 18 2026
    Watching people who seem selfish, loud, and successful get ahead while quiet, generous people struggle can leave you exhausted, angry, and half convinced something is broken beyond repair. This message names that sting—envy, worry loops at 2 a.m., and the temptation to fight fire with fire—and names the temptation to let those things become the center of your life. Instead of a pep talk, the sermon zeroes in on one surprising move: stop fretting and learn to “delight” in a different focus. It shows how shifting what you treasure reshapes your actions, steadies your nights, and reconnects you to a God who delights in you. Listen for practical ways delight reorders priorities, undoes corrosive anger, and produces a quieter kind of strength that outlasts flash-in-the-pan success.
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    42 mins
  • Wonder - Week 2 | Rejoice

    Wonder - Week 2 | Rejoice
    Jan 11 2026
    Foreign experts following a bright star meet a city that’s unsettled and a religion that won’t leave the temple — a tension between human cleverness and the strange, small place where God shows up. This sermon digs into the awkwardness of the Magi: esteemed astrologers who are led to a poor home in Bethlehem while Jerusalem stays safely at home. It names the modern parallel — we still look for meaning in power, prestige, and polished answers, and miss the surprising places where life truly changes. The message traces three threads: the gifts and limits of human wisdom, the need for revelation that flips our assumptions, and the way wonder moves into worship. Expect clear, grounding reflections that make humility feel like an opening, not a defeat, and an honest invitation to be unsettled and grateful. Hear how a newborn’s obscurity rewrites what really matters and stirs a joy worth seeking.
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    41 mins
  • Wonder - Week 1 | Wonder

    Wonder - Week 1 | Wonder
    Jan 4 2026
    The world hums with busyness, endless scrolling, and the steady flattening of wonder — so how do we recover a sense of awe when life feels like noise and our days blur into to-do lists? This message traces that tension from late-night screens to the forgotten habit of marveling at the stars, our hands, and the fact that we exist at all. It points to Psalm 8 as a counterpoint to cynicism and cultural distraction, naming the loss of reverence that leaves many feeling small and adrift. The sermon reframes who we are by holding up three lenses from the psalm: the majesty of God, the marvel of human dignity, and the miracle of how God works through weakness — even a newborn in a manger — to renew creation. Expect gentle provocation more than tidy answers: an invitation to stop, look up, and let something bigger reshape how you measure value, purpose, and power, leaving you quietly wondering what might happen if awe returned to your days.
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    35 mins
  • Woven - Week 4 | The Thread Continues

    Woven - Week 4 | The Thread Continues
    Dec 28 2025
    The new year can feel like a thin veil: holiday warmth and hopeful resolutions that quickly fray when old habits, anxiety, or guilt return. If you’re tired of feel-good pep talks that don’t stick, or you’ve wrestled with the gap between wanting to change and feeling stuck, this message meets that precise tension. It names the fatigue of trying harder and the quieter ache of needing something deeper than motivation. Using the moment when Simeon and Anna recognize the infant Jesus at the temple, the sermon shows how God’s presence threads into real life — revealing what’s hidden, allowing necessary ruin so resurrection can begin, and coming alongside to free and comfort the bound. It’s not about moral pep rallies but about a stubborn, historical hope that enters our mess. Expect clear, honest teaching that points to unexpected grace and leaves you wondering where that thread might lead in your own ordinary story.
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    29 mins