After the discouraged Jews stopped working on the temple, the prophets speak to encourage the work. In response, the work resumes, but the Jews face bureaucratic challenges from government officials. As they navigate those challenges, we will see how...

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The Houses of God and Man - Return & Rebuild

Sometimes we don’t know what we think. Sometimes we know what we think, but we don’t know why we think it. Where do these thoughts that occur in our minds come from, anyway: from ourselves, from God, or from someplace else? Perhaps there are...

The Mess Between Your Ears - Return & Rebuild

The Israelites have returned, so they get to the work of rebuilding the temple. As they do so, we'll see them dealing with issues that are as current today as they were then. How do they move forward with something new while honoring the past? What...

Build The Altar First - Return & Rebuild

After hearing about how God stirred up people to return to Jerusalem from Persia, in this chapter we meet them. Along with over 100 names of people, we learn who they were, what had happened to them, and some of what they were hoping for with a new...

Remember Who You Are - Return & Rebuild

Then rose up the heads of the fathers’ houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, everyone whose spirit God had stirred to go up to rebuild the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem.

Rise Up - Return & Rebuild

This week we'll hear from elders Scott Grant, Paul Taylor and Brian Shiu sharing how they see God at work in the past 18 months and moving forward.

The View From Here - Main Service

Prayer is powerful, but prayer is not for the powerful. Rather, prayer is for the helpless. In the last part of The Lord’s Prayer, Jesus reminds us that we are all helpless, but his power of more than enough for us.

A Prayer For the Helpless - Teach Us To Pray

As our Father in heaven, God loves it when we bring our requests to him. With the well-known words, “Give us this day our daily bread,” Jesus invites us to place our trust fully in Christ as we depend on him to provide us with everything that we...

Praying for Avocado Toast - Teach Us To Pray

What do we do when confronted with the brokenness of our world and the brokenness of our own lives? We pray, “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done.” In these deep, powerful, and dangerous words, we express our longing to see heaven come to earth.

Heaven On Earth - Teach Us To Pray

Prayer was the heartbeat of Jesus’ life. It was as natural to him as breathing. Yet, many of us struggle in our prayer lives. In the first two lines of The Lord’s Prayer, Jesus reveals the heart of prayer. As we internalize these words, we can...

The Heart of Prayer - Teach Us To Pray

As we finish up our series in Stories of Faith, we consider one last character: ourselves. Having been inspired by the faith of others, we are encouraged in our own faith journey to focus on Jesus. The reminder is simple, but easily forgotten. With...

What Do You See When You Look to Jesus? - Stories of Faith

How much faith do I need to get God to answer my prayers? That’s a reasonable question, but it’s the wrong one. At the end of Hebrews 11, we learn that God is less concerned with the quality of our faith than he is with the honesty of our faith.

Honest Faith - Stories of Faith

As we continue looking at “Stories of Faith” in Hebrews 11, we are going to be studying Moses, Joshua, and Rahab to see how God prepared them to step out in faith. What is God calling you to do? How is he preparing you?

Faith One Step at a Time - Stories of Faith

What do you do when the dream or vision is in jeopardy? This week, we’ll continue our look at the patriarchs and will see how Abraham acts out of faith even when it seems contrary to the vision God has given him. This one courageous act of faith...

Faith's Ripple Effect - Stories of Faith

Even in the best of times, do you feel as if something is missing or out of whack? If so, you’re in good company. The patriarchs, beginning with Abraham, felt the same way. They were men and women of desire: they wanted something more. What do you...

What Makes God Proud - Stories of Faith

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