Stephen and Jennie Allison have been taking a group of us from Mountain View across the border on the third Saturday of each month. We travel to a refugee shelter just across the border in the red light district of Zona Norte Tijuana. In and...
The newly formed church in Jerusalem met together in the temple courts for teaching and in smaller groups in homes around the city for fellowship and meals. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate...
We talk about "City Life" because our vision is much bigger than "Church Life". We want you to be involved in the life of your city. Not so much in city politics (though that may be your calling), but in the life of your neighbors...
You may be too young to understand. Many people misjudge God’s intentions. When he doesn’t heal them or answer their prayer, they decide God either doesn’t care, can’t help, doesn’t love them, can’t be trusted or worse. Many of these are good people who love God,...
The book of Ecclesiastes blows smoke on the simple wisdom of proverbs. It brings up the exceptions to the rule. I'm glad it is part of our Bible. Much of its teaching casts doubt on other parts of the Bible, but that is why it is...
Those of you who have been to our Boot Camp have heard John Eldredge say repeatedly, "There is a way things work". That could be the one-line theme of the book of Proverbs in the Bible. There is a way things work. If you learn...
I am excited to be starting a teaching series in the wisdom books of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Job. The Bible Project put together a series of videos on these that I will be using as a jumping off point. As I watched them it occurred...
The world is broken and we broke it. Our attempts to fix what we broke often make it worse. We know better. We know we should be better. But we are broken too, so we need outside help. The Good News We were made to be like God, so we...
In a conversation I recently heard someone say, "It's just semantics" when referring to a misunderstanding of what someone meant. There is no "just semantics"! Semantics is EVERYTHING. Literally, it is the study of meaning. Words, symbols and language of all types communicate ideas from...
A fence went up around our new building yesterday and the demo crew got to work. They began tearing down the leftovers of the building's past. Layers of junk are being hauled away. All the wire, lights, facades and building materials served a purpose at...
