Tree Of Life

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next. Babylon has fallen. It's time to return to Jerusalem. But the threat of marrying the spirit of the age remains.

Gregory Clarkson, our missionary in Uganda, visits and shares a challenging encouragement. Through Daniel, we survived Babylon. Now Ezra calls us to leave Babylon.

The weakness of Babylon is time. God shows Daniel how time will flow. We survive through patience.

Our world fills us with anxiety and alarm. To survive Babylon, we must ascend with Christ.

How do we survive transition periods so that we thrive in the new era? Daniel demonstrates a determination to keep praying.

Babylon is built with pride. Humility survives Babylon.

Messages and testimonies from this year's summer youth surf camp.

How did the Three Youths find the courage to face the flames of the furnace? The strength Daniel and the Three had to survive Babylon is the strength we need to survive this Babylonian world.

Pastor Brandon's wife shares a narration of the story of Esther through a collection of journal entries from various characters.

Pastor Brandon shares his heart with the church in an unexpected address. The congregation shared some thoughts and questions which are not included in this recording.

Lamentations leads the community into a rhythm of grief and healing for the fall of Jerusalem. It challenges us to enlarge our hearts to bear the burden of pain in the body of Christ.

The Jews had a tradition of reading the book of Ruth during the feast of Pentecost. We celebrated Pentecost with a reading of Ruth, the story of how an outsider became an insider in God's story. Pentecost is a call for us to bring outsiders inside the gospel.

The Song reaches its climax, declaring such intimate, holy, divine love as the very flame of God. But while fire can warm and purify, it can also burn and destroy.

We take our salvation for granted. The King knocks on our door and we find His timing inconvenient. But our repentance leads us deeper into the Garden.

The King marries the Bride. And in their consumption, she becomes by grace what He is by nature.

The soul has an unlimited capacity to progress in union with the eternal nature of God. But such growth comes in seasons. The soul oscillates between springtime and nighttime.

A sense of unworthiness can alienate us from unconditional love. In this passage the King brings the insecure Bride to Himself by infecting her with His love.

The Song of Songs is meant to be read as an invitation into the holy of holies: perfect union and communion with God.

This dramatization tells the true but uncertain story of Christ's victory over Death in Hades from the perspective of King David.

Self-esteem is the final step before the soul falls into the abyss of pride.