We meet Sunday mornings at New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary Paul describes believers as hard pressed on every side but not crushed, perplexed but not in despair. How can believers celebrate faith in the face of suffering. Listen to Dave as he unpacks the hope that Paul…

We meet Sunday mornings at New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary The Colossians desired to stop sinning, and looked to the traditions of the past to help them further their sanctification. Listen to Dave as he unpacks Paul redirects them to a new understanding of Christ. Te…

We meet Sunday mornings at New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary To anyone who believes in Christ, death can no longer kill you. Listen as Dave speaks to Christ’s great victory over death through his crucifixion and resurrection. Text John 20:1-11 Now on the first day of th…

We meet Sunday mornings at New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary Last week, we heard of Jesus’ capture and trial on his road to the cross. Listen this week as Dave leads us through Jesus’ crucifixion as we continue on to Easter. Text John 19:16b-42 16 So he delivered him ov…

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary After entering Jerusalem , Jesus foretold of his own death. Within a week, he stood before Pontius Pilate and a Jewish mob, led by the Pharisees, demanding his crucifixion. In this sermon, Geor…

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary Peter, the rock upon which Jesus built the church, denied Christ three times on the night before the crucifixion. How could such a devoted follower do this? And what does Peter do with his fail…

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary In the Garden of Gethsemane, Judas leads a large group of soldiers to arrest Jesus. Listen to Dave as he unpacks Jesus’ words and actions in this sacred moment as we move closer towards the cru…

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary In the week before Jesus’ crucifixion, he shares with the crowd in Jerusalem that he will die. Listen to CJ as he unpacks this moment, Jesus’ experience and the glory that God has planned. Text…

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary At the beginning of every year, we take six weeks to walk through the Story of God from beginning to end. Our Sundays are shifted to accommodate more dialogue and reflection from everyone. List…

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary At the beginning of every year, we take six weeks to walk through the Story of God from beginning to end. Our Sundays are shifted to accommodate more dialogue and reflection from everyone. In W…

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary At the beginning of every year, we take six weeks to walk through the Story of God from beginning to end. Our Sundays are shifted to accommodate more dialogue and reflection from everyone. List…

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary At the beginning of every year, we take six weeks to walk through the Story of God from beginning to end. Our Sundays are shifted to accommodate more dialogue and reflection from everyone. List…

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary 2024 appears it will be a year marked by conflict culturally and globally. The presidential election, climate change, wars around the globe, and so forth. How can we as Christians remain ground…

Please join us on Sunday mornings. You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary If you had not heard of Jesus, would you still want someone to come and fix all of our problems? Who would you be waiting for? Listen to Dave as he speaks to the meaning of Advent. Text Luke 2:1-7 1 In those days la decree went out fro…

Please join us on Sunday mornings. You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary This is part 7 in the series “Verily: Courageous Knowing and Living”. Hope is becoming less and less common these days, if not simply nonexistent. Wars, climate, economic struggle, increasingly mental health issues and so on. Listen to…

Please join us on Sunday mornings. You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary This is part 6 in the series “Verily: Courageous Knowing and Living”. All truth is meant to lead us to love God and love others. Listen to Dave as he expounds on belief in the truth of God. Text The Apostles Creed I believe in God, the…

Please join us on Sunday mornings. You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary The Advent season is upon us. Listen to Georgia as she introduces the time of Advent to us. Text Isaiah 9:2-7 2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light sh…

Please join us on Sunday mornings. You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary This is part 5 in the series “Verily: Courageous Knowing and Living”. How do we become comfortable with the truth once we know it? In this sermon, Dave unpacks this with respect to the text in 1 John. Text 1 John 1:5-9 5 This is the me…

Please join us on Sunday mornings. You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary This is part 4 in the series “Verily: Courageous Knowing and Living”. God chose to make the gospel foolish in the eyes of worldly wisdom, and worldly wisdom is foolish in the eyes of God. Whichever path we follow, we will be a fool to …

Please join us on Sunday mornings. You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary This is part 3 in the series “Verily: Courageous Knowing and Living”. In seeking to know truth, how do we account for the effects of sin? Sin is confusing because it is the rejection of reality. Listen to Dave as he expounds upon knowi…

Please join us on Sunday mornings. You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary When Adam and Eve met, they were naked and unashamed. Adam and Eve could be in relationship with each other with full confidence that the more the other person got to know them, the more they would be loved. In the third sermon in the …

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary In our current culture, we are flooded with information, facts, and data about ourselves and the world we live in. We need an expert or a guide to make meaning of this flood. Listen to our gues…

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary Dave continues with the second sermon in the series “Verily: Courageous Knowing and Living”. Modern society has an abundance of information, ready at our fingertips, on anything and everything …

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary At Jesus’ sham trial, Pilate famously asks the Son of God, “What is truth?” Many of us find ourselves asking that question today, but is there an answer? Today we begin a new sermon series on h…

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary For many of us, the practice of Sabbath is difficult and counter to the work culture we are a part of. Listen to Adam as he speaks to the importance of Sabbath and how essential it is to the Ch…

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary What is the cost of glory? The cost of witnessing glory? The cost of advancing glory? Experiencing glory? Listen as Dave examines how John expounds upon this in John 11. Text John 11:1-44 Now a…

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary In John 10, Jesus gave his last public defense of his ministry before preparing for the cross. Listen to Dave explain the reasoning Jesus used to those listening at the temple. Text John 10:22-…

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary Throughout the gospels, Jesus revealed his divinity through signs. Those who witness them either came to faith in him or revealed their unbelief. The Pharisees increasingly opposed Jesus, but w…

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary Jesus says, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." Listen to Georgia as she speaks to Jesus' words. Text John 8:12-30 12 A…

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary The text for the story of the woman caught in adultery in John 8 is not included in the earliest manuscripts of the Gospel of John. Many biblical scholars do not consider it to hold the same sc…

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary Jesus said, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink." Do you know of this thirst for God? Listen to Dave as he expounds on Jesus' words. Text 32 The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering…

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary If God is so good, how come the world is so broken? If God is so powerful, why is there still violence? Does not the existence of suffering prove that God is either not all good or not all powe…

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary How do you know when to believe the claim that a person makes about him or herself? Jesus believes himself to be the Son of God. A bold and incredible claim. Listen as Dave speaks to Jesus’ cla…

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary The Pharisees approach Jesus and question his relationship to God, the Father. Jesus responds in a different tone than he normally does. Listen to Dave as he unpacks Jesus’ change in posture an…

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary Listen as Georgia leads a discussion about John 5:19-29. Text John 5:19-29 19 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees…

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary In Jerusalem, there was a pool called Bethesda, where a multitude of blind, lame, and paralyzed laid. Among them was a man who had been an invalid for 38 years. This man expressed his need to J…

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary The Samaritan woman went out to the well in the hot of the day, hoping to be avoid people. Instead, she was met by Jesus. Listen to Dave as he explains their conversation and how the words Jesu…

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary John 3:16 is a verse that many know, Christian and non-Christian alike. But when Jesus first spoke these words, they came as a surprise to his listeners. Listen to Dave as he unpacks six surpri…

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary Undercover of the night, Nicodemus met with Jesus, seeking to ascertain more about him. Jesus told him that to see the Kingdom of God, one must be born again. Nicodemus was confused. Listen to …

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary It wasn’t until Jesus rose from the dead that Jesus’ life and teaching began to really make sense to his disciples. One scene in particular, the cleansing of the temple in John 2, came alive fo…

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary The gospels record Jesus' miracles in order to confirm both Jesus' authority and Jesus' mission. He gives sight to the blind to show how the gospel opens our eyes. He raises the dead to show ho…

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary The first disciples of Jesus were the Early Adopters of Christianity -- willing to sign on to faith in Jesus before it made sense to them and before it was even particularly helpful. As followe…

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary Upon seeing Jesus, the first thing John the Baptist says (as the Ideal Witness) is “Behold, the Lamb of God!” What would this have meant to his first listeners, and what should it mean to us no…

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary God's Kingdom grows through faithful witnesses and John the Baptist is the ideal witness. He knows who he is, who he's not, and who Jesus is. It is vitally important that we, as God's witnesses…

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary The Gospel of John was written not only to emphasize how Jesus was God, but that Jesus was God Made Flesh. This claim is both amazing and unsettling! Listen as Dave explains the fourfold scanda…

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary If the Bible had elevation, John 1 might be Mount Everest. The Apostle John begins his biography of Jesus before there even was a beginning, when Jesus was simply God. In John 1, we learn that …

We just moved back inside to our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary Every January, we take six weeks to walk through the Story of God from beginning to end. Our Sundays have less liturgy to accommodate more dialogue and reflection from everyone. Listen in as we…

We are back inside our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary What are spiritual gifts for? The first mention of spiritual gifts is connected to building the Tabernacle. This teaches us that God gives spiritual gifts so that we might make space for God to dwell wit…

We are back inside our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary The promise of Christmas isn't just for one people. For Christians in 2022, the inclusion of the Gentiles is old news, but Isaiah's prediction that God would save people from every tribe, tongue, and nat…

We are back inside our old home, New Traditions Elementary School! You can find more information about our Sunday gatherings on this page. Summary The Book of Isaiah teaches us what faith looks like in difficult seasons. Whether we are just entering darkness or enduring it, the prophet teaches us how the posture of faith always looks east expecting…