Episodes

  • Don’t Believe Everything You Feel

    Don’t Believe Everything You Feel
    Aug 3 2025
    When emotions flood, it’s easy to mistake feelings for truth. In this message, we walk with Elijah from fire to fear to the gentle whisper of God, learning how to anchor our faith beyond what we feel.

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    28 mins
  • Mind and Spirit

    Mind and Spirit
    Jul 27 2025
    The early church was a charismatic community in which miraculous eruptions of the Spirit were somewhat normal, and were often channeled through people gifted to channel such gifts. But these charismatic gifts seemed to wane fairly early in the Church's history. Why? And how can we be people who are open to charismatic gifts while also resistant to desperation for them or the sensationalizing of them?

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    28 mins
  • Speaking Gifts

    Speaking Gifts
    Jul 20 2025
    Another category of spiritual gifts are the "speaking gifts." These include gifts of teaching, exhorting (encouragement), leadership, wisdom, knowledge, apostles, evangelists, and pastors. Like the serving gifts, each of the speaking gifts are evident in the life, ministry, and teaching of Jesus. It's also important to walk in humility and wisdom with the speaking gifts otherwise there is a great temptation for pride and arrogance with these gifts since they are often more public.

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    34 mins
  • Serving Gifts

    Serving Gifts
    Jul 13 2025
    Many of the spiritual gifts listed in the New Testament could fall in a category called "serving gifts." These includes gifts of service/helps, giving/generosity, mercy, faith, discernment, administration, and hospitality. Each of these gifts are also connected to the life, ministry, and teaching of Jesus. It's important to learn to walk in wisdom in regards to our gifts because when we don't, there is a negative side to each gift that can result in a lot of struggle in those perceived areas of giftedness.

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    33 mins
  • Intro to Spiritual Gifts

    Intro to Spiritual Gifts
    Jul 6 2025
    Spiritual gifts are special abilities given by God (the Holy Spirit) to Christians so that they can do God's work in the world. Whenever the subject of spiritual gifting is discussed it usually raises a lot of questions. What are the gifts of the spirit? How do we get them? How do we know what gifts we have? How do we use them? In this intro to our "Gifted" series, we'll take a look at some overarching big ideas regarding spiritual gifts and learn how we can begin discerning what ways the Holy Spirit has gifted us for God's work.

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    36 mins
  • From Brokenness to Blessing

    From Brokenness to Blessing
    Jun 29 2025
    Boaz has a goal to become Ruth's kinsman redeemer. So, he puts together a plan to make it happen. We see the Elders of the city and the people of the community pray for them and encourage them as they marry and have a child named Obed. The story of Ruth and Naomi is really a story of tragedy to triumph... brokenness to blessing. In many ways this mirrors the story of the Bible and the story of the gospel. In it we learn that even when we're wondering where God is and waiting, He is still working. Ultimately through Boaz and Ruth's lineage comes Jesus. Ruth's story reminds us that God's plan is better than our own.

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    32 mins
  • Bad Advice

    Bad Advice
    Jun 23 2025
    Ruth has not heard from Boaz for weeks now and the harvest time is almost over. So, Naomi gives Ruth some advice on what to do next. Some of her advice is good, some questionable, and some is just plain bad. Ruth follows through and it works out, but there are a lot of lessons to be learned along the way.

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    35 mins
  • A Virtuous Cycle

    A Virtuous Cycle
    Jun 15 2025
    Few things are more determinative of who you are and are becoming than who and what you reward with your attention. Boaz gifts Ruth with his attention because Boaz has an eye for goodness, and Ruth reciprocates, creating a virtuous cycle wherein both affirm and encourage the good in one another.

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    29 mins