For June, City Teens will head to Scandia Sunday, June 22, 1-3:30. Come show off your mini golf skills and have a great time with your friends!

God made us—male and female—in His image, not as a mistake to fix, but as a glory to reflect. In a world of confusion, the gospel invites us to receive our bodies as gifts, honor God with our whole selves, and walk in both truth and compassion.

Evil is not the end of God’s story—it’s the place where His love breaks in. In Jesus, God doesn’t just explain evil—He carries it, judges it, and overcomes it, offering us freedom, justice, and lasting hope.

God’s judgment is not opposed to His love but flows from it—refining us, restoring justice, and ultimately pointing us to the cross, where Christ bore judgment in our place so we might be made righteous. In His judgment, we find both sobering truth and soul-steadying grace.

In a world full of confusion and competing narratives around marriage, sex, and sexuality, the gospel invites us to recover the beauty of God’s design—not as a burden, but as a compelling story of covenant love, embodied in Christ, that speaks to every person’s longing for belonging, wholeness, and grace. Here, truth and compassion are not at odds but held together in the way of Jesus, calling all of us—regardless of our story—into deeper faithfulness and deeper love.

Let’s be honest—if there’s one part of the Bible that makes people squirm, it’s the Old Testament’s violence. Holy wars. Entire cities “devoted to destruction.” Trumpets knocking down walls. It reads, at first glance, like God’s unleashing ancient wrath with indiscriminate fury. But what if we’ve been reading it wrong?

The OT can be hard to understand. Too many have reduced it, or manipulated it, or simply ignored it. But the true beauty is that Christ fulfilled it by embodying its true purpose—to restore humanity to God’s image through love, justice, and holiness. For those that belong to Christ, that Law is now written on our hearts and as His people, we are now called to be a distinct, grace-filled community that reflects His character to the world.

Though disciples of Jesus are only baptized once, our baptism serves as an ongoing means of grace and a reminder to our daily commitment to follow Jesus in self-giving love and resurrection life.