Speaker:	Matthew Ayers
Date:	Oct 16, 2011

Pastor Matthew Ayeres continues the series on the Pentateuch? the first five books of the Bible? with a teaching on Leviticus and Numbers.

Speaker:	Matthew Ayers
Date:	Sep 18, 2011

We will be focusing on studying the Bible and the core Beliefs of Christians. We will doing a "survey" study of the whole Bible in 5 sections: This first one is the Pentateuch, the first 5 books of the Bible.

Speaker:	Glenn Packiam
Date:	Sep 11, 2011

We will be focusing on studying the Bible and the core Beliefs of Christians. We will doing a "survey" study of the whole Bible in 5 sections: This first one is the Pentateuch, the first 5 books of the Bible.

Speaker:	Glenn Packiam
Date:	Mar 27, 2011

This podcast unpacks how the Psalms were used as the prayer-book as the people of God, from Israel to the early Church, and even today. We discuss the value of learning the language of prayer by praying the Psalms so that we can be in conversation with God.

Speaker:	Glenn Packiam
Date:	Mar 20, 2011

This class begins with an overview of the use of poetry versus prose in the Bible and why poetry plays an important role. We then discover the basic poetic elements within the Psalms, spending the most time unpacking the most common device of Hebrew poetry: parallelism. The class closes with a discussion of the movement within the Psalms, from hope to disappointment to trust and praise, by rivers, through valleys and deserts, ultimately culminating in an eruption of praise.

Speaker:	Steven Todd
Date:	Mar 13, 2011

In this massive collection of 150 poems, we find a variety of 'genre,' including praise, laments, teaching, and 'enthronment' Psalms. We'll explore their distinctives and how they speak to us today.

Speaker:	Steven Todd
Date:	Mar 6, 2011

In this podcast, we take a look at several of the 'big ideas,' the primary theological and faith issues that permeate the Psalter, including God's "Shalom, justice, and righteousness."

Speaker:	Glenn Packiam
Date:	Feb 27, 2011

How should we live in the light of God's in-breaking future? This podcast begins with a sketch of what it means to say that the Kingdom of God has come "here and now and not yet." We then turn our attention to three verbs that help us to live within that Kingdom: we prepare, we announce, and we anticipate. Within this framework, we understand how self-giving love is the language of the future that God is bringing, and how miracles and justice-work are all ways of pointing to the Kingdom that has begun and will culminate at Christ's return.

Speaker:	Glenn Packiam
Date:	Feb 20, 2011

In this podcast, Glenn Packiam provides a Biblical framework for thinking about the New Heaven and New Earth. The narrative of Scripture is the story of Creation, Covenant, Jesus, New Covenant, and New Creation. The Creator God made a good world. The result of human sin is the fracturing of heaven and earth, of human relationship with God, and of human relationship with each other. But Gods plan of salvation is a plan to pull it all together again to make all things new. The vehicle for Gods salvation is the Covenant, specifically His covenant with Abraham. But Abrahams descendants Israel is unfaithful. Enter: Jesus. Jesus, as the seed of Abraham, remains faithful to the covenant and by suffering our death, renews the covenant; Jesus, as the Divine Co-Creator, brings about new creation through His resurrection. Through Jesus, God is faithful to His project of Creation and His promise to restore and bless it through Abrahams family. It also means that when we surrender to Christ, we become a new creation in advance of heaven and earth being made new. While we dont know much detail of the precise continuity and discontinuity between this heaven and this earth and new heaven and new earth, we suspect that like Jesus physical body that passed through death and was transformed, this earth and heaven will experience a death of judgment and then be made new: the same materials reconstituted with new properties.

Speaker:	Glenn Packiam
Date:	Feb 13, 2011

Pastor Glenn discusses the significance of Jesus' bodily resurrection as the firstfruit of those who die in Christ. He then discusses what we know from Scripture about the state of believers who die. Correcting some popular but unbiblical notions along the way, this session explores the significance of what it means to "look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come".

Speaker:	Glenn Packiam
Date:	Feb 6, 2011

Pastor Glenn reframes "Eschatology" around the question "What will God do in the end?" instead of "When will the end come?" After a quick explanation of the Book of Revelation as apocalyptic literature instead of prophetic literature-- and the difference that makes-- Glenn then unpacks the Jewish vision of hope in the 1st century and how the Christian picture redefined that vision around Jesus the crucified and risen Messiah.

Speaker:	Glenn Packiam
Date:	Nov 21, 2010

It's hard for us to be alone, and yet Jesus frequently withdrew to "lonely places" to pray. It's hard for us to keep the Sabbath, and yet there are specific ways that the Sabbath "keeps us". It's hard to be silent, to not pray to not ask, to not talk. Yet it is in the silence that God often speaks.

Speaker:	Aaron Stern
Date:	Nov 14, 2010

Going without food doesn't sound like a good idea and definitely not any fun, so why would Jesus say that His followers will fast? This Sunday we will unpack the value of fasting, the role it plays in the life of a believer, and how it teaches and trains us. We will cover both practical and spiritual dynamics to this ancient discipline.

Speaker:	David Perkins
Date:	Nov 7, 2010

What is the purpose of prayer? Is it to change things or to change us or both? How does prayer combine elements of both intercession and intimacy?

Speaker:	Steven Todd
Date:	Oct 24, 2010

Jesus talked about the Kingdom of God most often. In fact, the backdrop of the Gospels have in mind how Jesus as Messiah was inaugurating God's Kingdom. But what is the Kingdom of God? Is it here? Is it coming? What does it mean for us here and now and for our future?

Speaker:	Glenn Packiam
Date:	Oct 17, 2010

Every religion has a way of describing the human situation and the future or ideal goal of all things. But what is the Christian story? How do we account for the goodness and the evil in humans and in the world? And what is God's plan with all of it? We'll unpack the broad strokes of "soteriology"--the theology of salvation--and its implications for the whole cosmos.

Speaker:	Steven Todd
Date:	Oct 3, 2010

Many of us know that the Christian view of God is a God who is "three-in-one." Few of us know why this belief is core to our faith and what its implications are on our everyday living. We'll uncover how the Trinity is not so much a concept to be explained but a reality to be lived into.

Speaker:	Glenn Packiam
Date:	Sep 26, 2010

We'll discuss a basic plan for studying the Bible in a way that every layperson can engage in by using with three phases of study--observation, interpretation, and application--and a few basic tools. You'll learn how to avoid many common mis-readings and misinterpretations of Scriptures and how to enter the Scriptures, and, by the Holy Spirit, let the Scriptures "enter you."

Speaker:	Dr. Joe Kirkendall
Date:	Sep 19, 2010

The Biblical canon of scripture is our best window into the truth of God. Often, we are confused and led into believing misconceptions about how these books were formed and then standardized. On this Sunday we will talk about the story, and importance of how God used His church to form Scripture and why the canon is the best window into the truth of God.

Speaker:	Glenn Packiam
Date:	Sep 12, 2010

There are many well-intentioned, but misguided approaches to the Bible. Some imagine it a rule book with laws; others see it as a sort of cook book with recipes for success and health; still others treat it like a textbook full of facts and ideas to be memorized. In this class we will explore the Big Story of the Scriptures, and uncover the single, sovereign, saving plan of God.