We hope you’ll join us as we move our Sunday Gathering outside this coming Sunday, May 7 at 10:30 AM. And to make things even more festive, we’re following it up with a catered Picnic.

“To ask for “wisdom” is almost to ask for an ability to “endure” with the ethic of Jesus (justice (1:20), love (2:8–11), and peace (3:18)) when pressure is put on people to live otherwise.” — Scot McKnight

As we dive into the book of James, we’ll see that he is calling us to live into true wisdom that embodies Jesus’ summary of the Torah by loving God and loving our neighbor.

We can ‘count it all joy when we meet trials of various kinds’ because we know that suffering proves our faith (cf. Rom 5:2-5, 1 Pet 1:6-7) and, as James will continue to build on, suffering produces Christlikeness.

Union with Christ depicts the reality of all the ways that the Bible pictures our human connectedness to Christ, in which he is indispensable for every good that we enjoy.

Not only are we guilty… Not only are we spiritually dead… We’re under the just/right wrath of God! But Christ came to redeem!!!

In Romans 8:14-17, Paul helps us see that there is an immense amount of power and intimacy in our receiving “the Spirit of adoption as sons.”

By faith, those who are in Christ are both free from their past sin by union with his death and free to live for him by union with his life.

Our affection for Christ must be greater than the things he has done for us and the work he has called us to do!