Before we ask what God can do for us, it's worth knowing who he is.
What would change if you believed God is who he says he is? Over nine Sundays in early 2023, our pastors walked through the attributes of God one at a time. His goodness when life falls apart. His holiness, his sovereignty over what we can't control, his wisdom, and his justice when the innocent suffer and the guilty seem to prosper.
From there the series moved to the heart of it all. God is love, not in the abstract but in the messy reality of your life right now. God is faithful, showing up the same way every single time. And on Easter, God is our salvation, a present reality to live in rather than a one-time event to wait on. Knowing his character is the foundation for everything.
February to April 2023 · 9 Weeks
“Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies.”
Psalm 36:5
Most of us formed a picture of God as children, and never went back to check it. Pastor Mark Addis opens the God Is series by working through the names God gives himself, from Yahweh to Abba, and what each one says about his character.
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Is God good all the time, or only when things go your way? Pastor Tim Rolen opens the God Is series on Psalm 23:6 and Psalm 34:8, arguing that this one belief shapes how a person survives everything else.
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What are we actually saying when we call God holy? Pastor Kyle Relph traces the word through Exodus 19:6, Isaiah 6:1-7 and 1 Peter 2:9, and finds something stranger than moral perfection: a purity that spreads the wrong way, toward us.
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What does it actually mean to call God sovereign? Pastor Mark Addis builds the case from Isaiah 44:6-8, the prophecies of Daniel, and fourteen chapters of Joseph's life, where what his brothers meant for evil turned out to be the saving of a nation.
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If God is wise, why are you in the situation you are in? Pastor Mark Addis works through Job 28 and James 3:15-17, and lands on a claim most of us resist: the circumstances you are in right now are not plan B.
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Why do bad things happen to good people, and good things to bad ones? Pastor Mark Addis takes on the justice of God from Genesis 18:25 and Romans 3:25-26, and reaches an uncomfortable conclusion: justice is not actually what any of us should be asking for.
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The world says love is love. Scripture says something far more demanding. Pastor Kyle Relph works through 1 John 4:7-21 and 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, sorting four Greek words the Bible uses for love and asking what changes in a person who has actually met God.
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Is God only faithful when he answers the way we asked? Pastor Tim Rolen preaches God Is Faithful from Proverbs 3:5-6 and Lamentations 3:22-23 on Palm Sunday, a service that also carries nine baptisms across two hours.
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Everyone talks about Friday and Sunday. What about Saturday? Pastor Mark Addis closes the God Is series on Easter with Psalm 62:1-8 and 1 Peter 1:9-12, on the day when hope looked dead and the disciples worshipped anyway.
Watch the messageGod Is... is one of several series we walked through in 2023, the year of UnLOCK. Browse the rest of the year, or join us in person on a Sunday.
