Trusting Through Transition: Jesus Changed the Subject
May 24, 2023
Jesus didn’t really leave His disciples but definitely changed the way they would interact with God. By leaving us with a Comforter, the...
Trusting through Transition
Trusting Through Transition: Promises Over Losses
May 15, 2023
How do we keep ourselves in a place of hope when all is a wasteland around us? How do we keep going forward when all that we have faced?...
Trusting Through Transition: From Water to Fire
May 7, 2023
Jesus in his world-shifting ministry came to institute a new covenant with God that all of the things that had been hard to grasp and even...
Hunger and Thirst
Easter 2023: After the Cross Before the Resurrection
April 10, 2023
Our uneasy relationship with sin is obvious after our entry into the kingdom of Jesus Christ. He has forever conquered sin and death...
Hunger and Thirst to Praise
April 5, 2023
Praise is meant go before and not after God does something. In this world we are given to withholding our enamored praise or engagement...
Hunger and Thirst for Worship
March 27, 2023
We were made for worship. Throughout the history of the world, God has desired for His people to be with him. Our natural response...
Hunger and Thirst for Righteousness
March 22, 2023
We hunger to know the lives we are living are the right ones. That all of our morals and expectations have been set for a good reason. We...
Hunger and Thirst: Hunger for Community
March 14, 2023
What does it mean to be a part of community? It means that we keep on coming when it comes to pursuit and engagement with each other we...
Hunger and Thirst: Hunger for Passion
March 8, 2023
What does it mean to be a part of community? It means that we keep on coming when it comes to pursuit and engagement with each other we...
Hunger and Thirst: Thirst for Living Water
February 28, 2023
Water has a characteristic ability to adapt to whatever container you place it in. It also can become a powerful enough force to carve a...
Ephesians
Ephesians: The Love of Christ fills the World
February 22, 2023
Jesus has some hyperbolic statements in scripture. When He says when you see me you see the Father or I will be seated at His right hand...
Ephesians: In Search of Mystery
February 15, 2023
Mason shares from Ephesians 3:1-13 on how we posture our lives to embrace the mysteries of Christ. Can we see is as an invitation to...
Ephesians: Jesus kicked in the Door
February 6, 2023
Jesus not coming for a partial humanity. His justice is really about all me having access to the throne of grace. In all of our getting...
Ephesians: The Crux of the Gospel
January 30, 2023
The crux of the gospel is a simple yet profound one that captures the work that has been done on the cross. Our sins cleansed and our...
Ephesians: Jesus at the Center of the Universe
January 18, 2023
Our lives remain full of things that compete for our attention. From careers to relationships and other ambitious aims, we decide Jesus...
Ephesians: Emphasis on Ephesus
January 11, 2023
Ephesians stands as an important epistle to the people of Ephesus and more-so to all the Christians who followed. A church Paul had helped...
Advent: Prophetic Imagination
Advent: Prophetic Imagination: Peace Beyond Eons
January 11, 2023
There is something about the creation and the peace that comes when we know we are at the very center of His will. Although a storm may...
Advent: Prophetic Imagination: Joy
December 13, 2022
Joy is not an event but a constant state of amazement. In this place we we join with the radical company of people and the very Sprit of...
Advent: Prophetic Imagination: Love
December 5, 2022
We are called to look into and through the lens of the Love of the Lord. We cannot imagine anything without more of the Lord being placed...
Advent: Prophetic Imagination: Hope
November 30, 2022
Sometimes it can be hard to imagine another reality when we are seeped in the problems of the present/this is the place we find will create...
Kingdom of Generosity
Kingdom of Generosity: Time and our lack
November 26, 2022
The times move on and show us how amazing it is to take care of the moments we exist in. Even that they last much longer than we could...
Kingdom of Generosity: The most precious resources
November 14, 2022
Generosity is the permanent posture of the Lord, He has called us to do the same. If a seed falls to the ground it bears much fruit. This...
Living With Expectation
Living With Expectation: Mary
November 7, 2022
This young girl was given a task that most would shrink from, bring the savior of the world into the world. As a virgin Mary welcomed Jesus...
Living With Expectation: Ruth
October 18, 2022
Ruth is one of those people in scripture who holds a larger than life stature in my eyes. All she did was hold on to Naomi. Who knew such a...
Living With Expectation: Esther
October 12, 2022
Mason speaks on the story of Esther and the courage she displayed to free her people from extinction. Also how she was challenged by...
Living With Expectation: Mary of Bethany
October 3, 2022
Mary, Martha and Lazarus were close to Jesus. So much so that He would be found dining and resting His head at their home in Bethany. It...
Living With Expectation: Zipporah
September 27, 2022
Zipporah the wife of Moses, is a little known character in the Bible. Yet she with boldness and faith kept Moses from be killed by God on...
Living With Expectation: Rahab
September 20, 2022
God has a flawless record of transforming the legacy and line of people in scripture. Jesus has been redeeming long before He was born and...
Living With Expectation: Hannah
September 12, 2022
We are at the start of a series I believe will be impactful for our community as we learn to live with expectation of GOOD. Living in a...
Chicago Healed
Chicago Healed from Division
September 7, 2022
We live and move through a broken city that has a penchant for being known around the world for what it is not. Yet and still there is a...
Chicago Healed from Violence
August 29, 2022
We continue to be creatures of impatience, demanding the most yet offering the least. This affects the way we communicate, I believe...
Chicago Healed from Poverty
August 22, 2022
As we think of the nature of mankind and the complex makeup of Chicago we find that poverty is a major obstacle that manifest among the...
Chicago Healed from Corruption
August 19, 2022
This is a city that’s seen it’s fair she of scandal in the political realm seems like politician connected to Chicago is being locked...
No Place Like Home
No Place Like Home: The Beauty of Love
August 9, 2022
In the last message from the No Place like Home series we explore the love that invites us to lay down our lives for each other. just as...
No Place Like Home: The Beauty of Transformation
July 18, 2022
God is the creator and one who leads us into transformation. From salvation through sanctification and baptism to unity, we are on a...
No Place Like Home: Beauty of Courage
July 11, 2022
Mason teaches from Ephesians 6:10-19 as we find courage by putting on the full armor for God. As the people of God we are being prepared to...
No Place Like Home: Beauty of Humility
June 28, 2022
Understanding humility as it applies to our relationship with God, with one another, and with the world around us.
No Place Like Home: The Beauty of Community
June 21, 2022
Jesus led the way and showed us how to commune with God and learn unity. So much of what we need in encapsulated in the trinity. Honor ,...
Spirit + Justice
Spirit + Justice: Destroying the Dividing Wall
May 29, 2022
Jesus has brought peace in a place where there was none to be found. Between God and man. We have been left out in the cold and even as a...
Spirit + Justice: Turned Upside Down
May 26, 2022
Jesus has called us to see the world from a new perspective. When we see from heaven’s perspective our lives become given over to the...
Spirit + Justice: Monumental Gifts
May 18, 2022
Jesus is the giver of all good things even giving himself for us.We will find from heaven’s perspective generosity is meant to be a...
Spirit + Justice: Open to Interruption
May 10, 2022
Jesus shows us the way to pursue Justice and to be open to the work of the Spirit. This is the way we find ourselves open to being...
Spirit + Justice: Healing in the Midst
May 3, 2022
We serve a God that completes the restoration of all things. In the way He ministers to us there is a wholistic approach that completes the...
Spirit + Justice: The “Other” Side
April 28, 2022
Jesus challenged much conventional wisdom of the day and went towards areas people and places he was supposed to go away from. In the...
The Gospel Of Luke
The Gospel of Luke: Repentance to Rest
April 18, 2022
Jesus has made a way out of no way restoring us to the Father and redeeming us in the process. We have become sealed by his righteousness...
The Gospel of Luke: Confronting Fear
April 5, 2022
Jesus was one who knew the perfect timing of the Lord and when to confront fear. When we are led by the Spirit we determine the time and...
The Gospel of Luke: Prophetic Courageous Lament
March 28, 2022
God has called us all to walk on a perilous way that enables us to embody a message that requires much from us. All and then more, very...
The Gospel of Luke: Who Are You?-Mason Bush-3.20.22
March 21, 2022
Reflecting on purposeful identity through the lens of the parable of the Good Samaritan. Many of the questions we ask Jesus instead of...
The Gospel of Luke: From Conviction to Character
March 14, 2022
We are people who have been prepared for life in varying degrees by our parents and others who we have seen go before us. Yet there remains...
The Gospel of Luke: The Cost of Hesitation – David Lucas 3.6.22
March 7, 2022
When we shed our hang ups and receive the life Jesus promises, we offer our priorities into His care. We also decide that hesitation will...
RECEPTION 2022
RECEPTION 2022: Deliverance into Freedom
March 2, 2022
There are times when other spirits come and make a home in those whom God formed. Jesus came that we may have life and life more...
RECEPTION 2022: Transformed By the Spirit
February 23, 2022
We are vessels who desire to be filled all the way to the top. There are many things that offer temporary satisfaction and station, yet...
RECEPTION 2022: He is Healing
February 16, 2022
Jesus not only came on earth to redeem humanity but also to show us the way to walk in victory while we are here on earth. Through the...
RECEPTION 2022: Prophecy and God’s heart
February 8, 2022
Prophecy is a gift that allows us to speak the heart of God to people we are in contact with. When used in conjunction with Love it is...
RECEPTION 2022: Gifts of the Spirit
February 1, 2022
As we may experience the fruit of the Spirit in our lives, there is an abundance that comes when we utilize the gifts of the Spirit....
RECEPTION 2022: Receiving the Holy Spirit
January 23, 2022
In our impatience to be done with our trials and found fully in the manifestation of what we have been waiting for. We forget to make an...
RECEPTION 2022: The New Activism
January 16, 2022
So much of our frustration can be directed towards what is outwardly wrong and we forget to embrace and heal what needs healing in our own...
RECEPTION 2022: Jesus and the Brokenhearted
January 9, 2022
Jesus entered onto the scene at the ripe old age of 30. Even the Son of God needed a reception to enter into our midst properly from the...
Look At the Stars
Look At the Stars: Joy of Life
December 29, 2021
There is something that happens when the anticipation of a great promised reward is fulfilled. I can only begin to imagine all creation...
Look At the Stars: Love Out Loud
December 13, 2021
As Christians we are well aware of our many commands to Love God and to love each other. How can our love continue to impact those around...
Look At The Stars: Peace follows Generosity
December 7, 2021
As we are invited to Look at the Stars so also are we invited to lock arms as we follow each other into destiny. There is a peace that...
Look At the Stars: Hope of Abraham
November 29, 2021
We are a family whose lives have been given over to those who shall follow us. Jesus stands as the brightest star among many as Abram set...
JUICY FRUIT
JUICY FRUIT-The Pleasure of Longsuffering-Nathan ‘Bam’ Stanton
November 22, 2021
Most things that are worth doing require determination and perseverance. Yet there can be a problem for those of us who desire to stay...
JUICY FRUIT-Peace that goes Beyond-Nathan ‘Bam’ Stanton
November 16, 2021
Peace is something that is under appreciated during a storm. How can we be calm when it seems like everything is falling all around us?...
JUICY FRUIT-Joy Unspeakable-Nathan Bam Stanton
November 8, 2021
Jesus as He is
Jesus As He is – I AM The True Vine – Nathan Bam Stanton
October 26, 2021
In the beginning God commanded mankind to be fruitful and to multiply, we had no idea what that meant until He sent His son, Jesus to...
Jesus As He is – I AM The Resurrection and the Life – Nathan Bam Stanton
October 18, 2021
God by default is great at Creation but there is something he does even better, resurrection. Jesus takes after His Father as He speaks...
Jesus As He Is – I Am the Door of the Sheep – Nathan Bam Stanton
October 3, 2021
Jesus has already established himself during this series as the Good Shepherd one whose sheep know His voice. Jesus begins to establish...
Jesus As He is – I AM The Bread of Life – Nathan Bam Stanton
September 26, 2021
Bread and its importance to Jewish faith cannot be overemphasized. From the Passover celebration that preceded the journey into the...