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Dean Miller preaches on formation of prayers and the God of the heavens with us.

You can follow Jesus and be asked to do something that is too hard for you. As Jesus prayed the most impactful words “yet not my will but yours Lord”, He showed us how prayer and surrender is the battle, not the preparation. So if we want deeper spiritual formation, we need to walk with […]

Jesus gives an up close and far away timeline of the realities followers of Christ will face. Calling believers to be on guard and faithful to Him, no matter the cost or opposition they may face from those closest to them.

Jesus enters Jerusalem and heads to the Temple for a series of interactions with the religious leaders of Israel.

We finish our series on King by looking at the ways Hezekiah and Josiah pursued devotion to God.

The history of the northern kingdom of Israel in 1 & 2 Kings is a long line of unfaithful leaders. Kings who did not trust God for provision, protection or salvation, but instead turned to other nations and other gods to assuage their fears and deal with their biggest concerns. Many centuries later, we do […]

To what are you devoted?  This week we continue our series in I and II Kings by studying what Solomon, Jeroboam, and Rehoboam were devoted to, and why those objects of devotion divided the Kingdom of Israel.

The surprising hesed (lovingkindness) of God brings the story of Ruth to a close. A widow whose life has been so horrible she wants to be identified as Mara (bitter) instead of her given name Naomi (pleasant). But God will not allow her to live into her felt experience. The narrator continues to call her […]

Ruth and Naomi are in Bethlehem during the barley harvest. In need of food, Ruth, the young widow goes to “glean” in the fields–collecting what the harvesters do not gather. This is a dangerous endeavor, but Ruth demonstrates loyal lovingkindness to her mother-in-law Naomi, sacrificing her wellbeing for their survival. But, by God’s lovingkindness, she […]

A drama in 4-acts, Ruth tells the story of tragedy and loss, of bitterness and grief and the faithfulness of God to an unlikely outsider of the people of God. Ruth chapter 1 constantly calls from the Lord to his people–return, return, return to me. But God chooses takes a foreign-born widow and daughter-in-law who […]

At the end of Genesis, Jacob, the one who grasped for blessing his whole life, finally rests in the lovingkindness and blessing of God so that he can rightly offer blessings to others–to his sons. He invites us to receive the abundance of God’s blessing in our own life and to freely offer it to […]