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The Book of Judges is an ancient collection of stories that sound oddly contemporary. It's about a nation that is divided, leaders who are heroically flawed, and an entire generation who walks away from faith. It's also a story about grace, about a God who refuses to give up. Join us as we discover God's message for us in this ancient text.

The Christian life is counterintuitive. We naturally want to fix ourselves and our world through our own strength, ingenuity, and passion. But, inevitably, this fails. In this two-part series, we talk through what it looks like to position our lives to depend upon God's strength to change us and our world in 2021.

The Christian life is counterintuitive. We naturally want to fix ourselves and our world through our own strength, ingenuity, and passion. But, inevitably, this fails. In this two-part series, we talk through what it looks like to position our lives to depend upon God's strength to change us and our world in 2021.

Mark tells a different Christmas story. He makes no mention of a manger, angels, or shepherds. Rather, Mark invites us to reimagine Christmas, to seriously consider how the coming of this humble King marks the decisive moment in human history and in your life.

We’ve all experienced others misreading our motives. If you’re emotionally mature, you’ve most likely caught yourself misreading others. But, what about your own motives? How good are you at reading your own heart? In John 8, Jesus challenges us to see the truth about why we do what we do and what we most love in life.

We live in a world that says only you can define who you are and what’s good for you. But in Jeremiah 18, God invites us to join Jeremiah on a field trip to a potter's house and reimagine our place in His world.

Immediately after Jesus selected his disciples, he began teaching them about the kingdom of heaven by way of the Beatitudes. This teaching was confronting, upside-down and counter-culture, but was one small step in what would be a three year journey towards reimagining the kingdom of heaven and how to get there.

The Scriptures invite us to see our suffering and hardship in a way that does not comfortably fit with modern American attempts to avoid anything hard. In this message, we'll explore James' (outrageous) suggestion that we should "consider it pure joy whenever we face trials."

In Biblical times, the great danger was that you’d worship Baal or Asherah or Diana of Ephesus. Today, the great threat to your faith is that you’ll worship... nothing. Something cataclysmic is happening in the soul of the Western world: We are losing our ability to even imagine the reality to which the Biblical authors give witness. In this series, we'll explore Jesus’s invitation to reimagine life. What would it be like to have the "mind of Christ," to see the world through His eyes?

“There was a time when farmers on the Great Plains, at the first sign of blizzard, would run a rope from the back door to the barn” (Parker Palmer). The storm was so blinding, so deafening that you could lose your way and freeze to death in your own backyard. The rope gave you something to cling to when you couldn't see the way. That's what this message is.

For good and for bad, our past experiences shape our present reality and future possibility. In this interview with Child & Family Therapist, Kelly Raudenbush, we discuss how sharing your past with an empathetic listener can powerfully transform you.

For good and for bad, our past experiences shape our present reality and future possibility. In this message, we'll explore how a relationship with Jesus challenges and transforms how we think about our past. This message is part one of two. In the second part, we look at a more clinical and practical application of this teaching in an interview with Child & Family Therapist, Kelly Raudenbush.

We are constantly being formed by our environment. And yet, the vast majority of the time we are completely unaware of the forces shaping us. In this message, we are going to explore how ancient spiritual practices can help us recognize what our suburban world is doing to our souls so that so that we can begin to experience a better way of doing life in the Kingdom of God.

Humans have the uncanny ability to perform any number of activities - even complex tasks - without thinking. One study estimates that more than 40% of our daily activities are things we do “automatically.” In this message, we'll explore how we can leverage this fascinating bit of human nature to make us more into the kind of people we are created to be.

When you invite God into your life, you are inviting Him to give you a new story, a new identity, and a new reason for living. You are inviting Him to redraw your mental map. In this message, we’ll explore this aspect of you that we call “mind.” We’ll examine why you are the way you are and think the way you think, so that you and I can begin to discover what it means for us to “be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”

You are becoming someone. Everything you do, think, feel, own, believe, and experience is forming you, making you more of who you were created to be or less, more like Jesus or less. For the next six weeks, we’ll be exploring the basic (but not so simple) question: Who are you becoming? Find more resources & the companion Spiritual Growth Plan at www.gvf.church/whoamibecoming.

As a rule, good is welcome and bad is avoided. But our God used death to bring life and a prostitute to illustrate grace. He is the original rule breaker and that is good!