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For he is our peace, the one who made both groups into one and who destroyed the middle wall of partition, the hostility, when he nullified in his flesh the law of commandments in decrees. He did this to create in himself one new man out of two, thus making peace, and to reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by which the hostility has been killed.

You didn’t escape on your own — you were carried out. In Ephesians 2:1–10, we uncover the story of God’s rescue and what it means to stop performing and start living free.

From the I see you! cried during a kid’s game of kick-the-can to the metaphorical lenses offered to us by Paul in Ephesians, Scott shares about how we can change not just our knowledge of God but our very perception.

Before God tells us what to do, He tells us who we are. This week in our series The Triumph of God, Ryan walks us through the long and breathless sentence of Ephesians 1:3-14, and what it has to say about the old stories of our lives … and the new ones spoken by God.

Ephesians is a drama portraying the cosmos-transforming acts of God in Christ. – Tim Gombis, The Drama of Ephesians Ryan opens our new message series in the book of Ephesians.

I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me – and I in him – bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing. – John 15 As January begins, Alison exhorts us to remain rooted in the Vine and gives us practical ways to connect in the New Year. After all, without the life given by the Vine, all us branches are just … sticks.

When Jesus arrives not just as a comforting presence but as a true King, everything is challenged. In this Advent message from Matthew 2, we’re invited to examine what it really means to make room for Christ—and what might be stirred or unsettled when He comes to rule, not just inspire.

In Luke 2:8–20, the first people invited into the Christmas story aren’t the powerful—they’re the overlooked. This week we explore how Advent joy breaks into ordinary darkness, and how making room for Jesus reshapes the way we see ourselves (and the people we tend to miss).

Because there was no room in the inn – Luke 2:7b In week two of Advent, Pastor Ryan reexamines the “no room in the inn” moment in Luke 2 and shows how the first Christmas was less about rejection and more about rearranging a crowded house to make space for Jesus and the strangers he brings to our door.

The angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, a descendant of David, and the virgin’s name was Mary. The angel came to her and said, “Greetings, favored one, the Lord is with you!” – Luke 1 Advent hope is born when ordinary people make room, in the dark, for the king who has already stepped in.