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When Jesus performed miracles, many understood their purposes - healing, provision of food, and social restoration. But few understood he was going to battle.

Faith has its own tenacity when trying to get in the presence of Jesus. What would you do to bring your need before the Healer? Glenn Hoburg speaks on Matthew 9:1-8

Pastor Glenn Hoburg looks at Matthew 8:14-22 and examines the cost of discipleship and the personal commitment of Jesus to provide both physical and spiritual healing.

As Jesus meets a centurion with great need we come to understand both the reality of Jesus' authority and the range of it. This sermon looks at Matthew 8:5-13.

What happens when the one that touches you is the Son of God? You become spiritually clean. This sermon looks at the significance of Jesus healing the leper in Matthew 8:1-4.

Miracles are signs that point to Jesus' kingship, sonship, and salvation. The "Signs of the King" sermon series will look at how Jesus performed miracles in the book of Matthew.

God reveals his name to Moses to display his covenantal promises to the nation of Israel. Jesus Christ fulfills God's promises by not only revealing God's name but also God himself.

Jesus satisfies are deepest longings, spoken and unspoken. The result is to share the transformative power of the gospel.

God uses suffering and his severe mercy to shape us by his grace into his likeness.

Ryan Bratt kicks off a new series, New Day, New Life with this look at John 3 and a reminder that our Savior will not stop bringing transforming grace to our lives.

A panel discusses their experience of growing in cultural awareness of their own white culture, how they are perceived and perceive the world around them and how the gospel calls us to shape our understanding of culture through biblical values.

The second sermon in our Advent 2018 "The Word Made Flesh" series.

The rhythms of Old Testament worship and community life are baked into the story of the New Testament. The very fact that the Holy Spirit descended on Pentecost says something utterly surprising about what we are supposed to learn about life from the Old Testament discipline of celebration.

Pastor Glenn Hoburg continues our series "Shadows ofChrist" exploring what we can learn about Jesus from the Old Testament worship by exploring what he meant when he called himself Lord of the Sabbath.

"God only knows/God makes his plans/The information's unavailable to the mortal man." The Bible tells a very different story than the lyrics quoted by Paul Simon above. It tells the story of a God who wants to know and be known, even across what should be an overwhelming gulf. The role of the priests in the Old Testament point to this aspect of God's character in a way that's fulfilled by Jesus in the New Testament.

Pastor Zack Eswine concludes the series of talks he started on our 2017 Fall Retreat with a look at what the early Roman world's reaction to the emerging Christian faith can teach us about our relationship to our neighbors today.

The clothes may not make the man, but for the Old Testament priests, the clothes sent clear messages about what their role was—and prepared us to better understand what was to come in the future. This sermon is part of an ongoing series on seeing Christ reflected in Old Testament religious life.

Pastor Glenn Hoburg on Leviticus 9:1–7, 22–24.

Pastoral Fellow Andrew Russell on how the love of Christ compels us to serve others—and changes us in the process.

Guest preacher Remargo Yancie from our sister congregation in Columbia Heights shares how one of Jesus' most famous parables can inform how we live as neighbors in our city.