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Obadiah announces Edom's downfall to Babylon, which is an image of how God will bring down all prideful nations, churches, and people. Is there hope for humanity, given we are all infected with pride? Come and see how Obadiah points us to Jesus.

We are ALL called to make more and maturing disciples of Jesus. We do this because God has a rescue plan to bring people out of the domain of darkness in to the Kingdom of his Son. We believe that plan includes engaging, evangelizing, establishing, and equipping people who are moving to the right.

Joel reflects on the "Day of the Lord" and how true repentance will bring about the great restoration hoped for in the other prophetic books, and, in fact, the rest of The Whole Story.

For many of us who have read Hosea, or any of the prophets for that matter, they seem on first pass to be filled with a fair amount of doom and gloom. But there’s more to be found by the careful explorer. Throughout the book of Hosea is a story of a God who displays extravagant, abounding, and seemingly reckless love. Told through the metaphors of marriage and family, we discover a God who calls us deeper and deeper into his love.

In this sermon from our series, The Whole Story, we study Isaiah's announcement that God’s judgment will purify Israel and prepare his people for the coming messianic king and new Jerusalem.

In this sermon on the book of Kings, we find David’s son Solomon leads Israel to greatness, only to fail and lead Israel to a civil war and ultimately towards destruction and exile. What was his key downfall? It’s one little word, with devastating consequences, that we can only avert ourselves with the help of the One, true King.

As we come upon Easter Sunday 2018 in the midst of The Whole Story sermon series, we discover that the books of Samuel have much to teach us about the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Come and see how all of the Bible connects to the story of Easter.

In this sermon reflecting on the King who had to die, we plumb the depths of what it meant for him to be forsaken by his God.

In the story of 1 and 2 Samuel, we see that God raises up kings to rule the Israelites. The first is a failure, and the second becomes God’s most faithful king, but then rebels, resulting in the slow destruction of his family and kingdom. And it all points to the Leader we long for.

It’s one of the smallest books in the Bible. Ruth. The simple story of an ordinary Israelite family facing tragic loss, and God using an immigrant to bring about unexpected hope, both in the present, and forevermore.

Part of our journey of reading through the Bible — The Whole Story — over the course of a year and a half as a church has included, for many of us, reading a Psalm each day. So, as Pastor Matthew has a break from the pulpit, Tim Tomlinson will jump ahead a bit in the Story to preach one of those Psalms. The twenty-third psalm. A familiar psalm. And he will show us how this psalm confirms what we have been learning — the Bible is a unified story that points to Jesus. The Good Shepherd.

The book of the Judges recalls how the Israelites turn away from God and face the consequences. God raises judges in cycles of rebellion, repentance, and restoration.

In this sermon on the book of Joshua, we could sum up the story this way: “After Moses' death, Joshua leads Israel and they settle in the promised land currently occupied by Canaanites.” Hmmm….Well, that is WHAT the book is about. But then we ask, “WHY did all these events in history happen?”

In the final book of the Pentateuch, Moses gives final words of wisdom and warning before the Israelites enter the promised land, challenging them to be faithful to God.

In this next sermon in our series on The Whole Story, we discover how Israel travels through the wilderness on the way to the land promised to Abraham. Further, that their repeated rebellion is met by God’s justice and mercy.

The book of Leviticus is how Israel’s holy God invites them to live in His presence despite their sin, through a series of rituals and sacred institutions.

In this sermon on Exodus 19-40, we see the story play out where “God invites the Israelites into a covenant and comes to live among them in the Tabernacle, but Israel rebels and ruins the relationship.”

In this third sermon from The Whole Story series, we see that YAHWEH rescues the Israelites from slavery in Egypt and confronts the evil and injustice of Pharaoh.

In this sermon from The Whole Story series, we see that in Genesis 12-50 God promises to bless rebellious humanity through the family of Abraham, despite their constant failure and folly.

In this first sermon in our new series, The Whole Story, we begin with Genesis 1-11. Our summary of this part of the Story? “God makes a good world and commissions humans to rule it, and then they give in to evil and ruin everything.”