Episodes
Sunday Feb 11, 2024
Zechariah 1:1-6 - "Return to Me" - Brent Stephens / February 11, 2024
Sunday Feb 11, 2024
Sunday Feb 11, 2024
Scripture teaches that “for everything, there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven” (Ecclesiastes 3:1). The book of Zechariah begins with a specific time stamp: “In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius” (Zechariah 1:1), which means the book dates back to October or November in the year 520 BC. During this time, God’s people, who had returned sixteen years earlier to the land He had given them, were still under Persian rule. Israel was in disrepair with broken-down walls. Just two months earlier, through the Word of the Lord given to the prophet Haggai, work on the temple had resumed (Haggai 1:8). God has already begun His movement towards His people, and now He is about to begin the movement of His people toward Himself. To do this, God raises up another prophet by the name of Zechariah, whose name means, “the Lord remembered.” Zechariah was a younger man who had been born during the exile and raised under Babylonian and Persian captivity. He was of the priestly line of Levi (Nehemiah 12:1-16). We learn in the New Testament from the mouth of Jesus that he was an innocent man who was “murdered between the temple and the altar” (Matthew 23:35). Zechariah was chosen and called by God to speak the Word of the Lord to God’s people at this divine time.
Sunday Feb 04, 2024
Mixtape in the Psalms - "Psalm 3" - Scotty Valiani / February 4, 2024
Sunday Feb 04, 2024
Sunday Feb 04, 2024
Mixtape in the Psalms - Psalm 3
Sunday Jan 28, 2024
Vision 2024 - "Legacy: Love Lives On" - Brent Stephens / January 28, 2024
Sunday Jan 28, 2024
Sunday Jan 28, 2024
Legacy: Love Lives On
Sunday Jan 21, 2024
Vision 2024 - "Passion: We Love Others" - Brent Stephens / January 21, 2024
Sunday Jan 21, 2024
Sunday Jan 21, 2024
Passion: We Love Others
Monday Jan 15, 2024
Vision 2024 - "Devotion: We Love God" - Brent Stephens / January 14, 2024
Monday Jan 15, 2024
Monday Jan 15, 2024
Devotion: We Love God
Sunday Jan 07, 2024
Vision 2024 - ”Love: God Loves Us” - Brent Stephens / January 7, 2024
Sunday Jan 07, 2024
Sunday Jan 07, 2024
Vision 2024 - Love: God Loves Us
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
The Only Good King - Advent 2023 Week 3
Tuesday Dec 26, 2023
Tuesday Dec 26, 2023
Advent 2023 Week 2
Sunday Dec 17, 2023
Sunday Dec 17, 2023
The Only Good King - Advent 2023 Week 1
Monday Dec 11, 2023
Monday Dec 11, 2023
Shakespeare’s Henry V has its share of great speeches, but the best-remembered in our culture is found in Act IV, Scene III, as the king addresses his men before the Battle of Agincourt, a fight in which they know they are greatly outnumbered. He calls his men a “band of brothers”—very familial words for a mixed group of peasantry and nobility, especially in a society in which one’s birth determined so much in one’s life. The Apostle Paul continues to call out his own brothers (and a sister!) in the Lord in this final section of 1 Corinthians, people from different backgrounds and stations in life. Like soldiers on a battlefield, they find themselves united by their common mission and love for their King. Their dedication to the mission and to one another encourages us to better our commitments to Jesus and to our brothers and sisters in Christ.