Common Problems - Week 4 | Ephesians 4:25-32 Picture this. You are holding a clear cup filled to the top with coffee, walking carefully across the kitchen. Somebody comes around the corner and slams right into you. Coffee goes everywhere: all over your shirt, all over the floor. Here is a question worth sitting with. Why did coffee come out of the cup? The instinctive answer is "because somebody bumped into me." That is fair, but it is not actually right. Coffee came out beca

Common Problems - Week 3 | Matthew 11:25-30 The summer of 2014 was one of the most exhilarating summers of my life. Having gained a bit of independence and a little money from graduation, I went on a backpacking trip with two of my friends through the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee, just outside of Gatlinburg. We backpacked for five days, had a lot of fun, made some questionable decisions, and came back in one piece with stories to tell. I learned something important from that

Common Problems — Week 2 | Matthew 6:1–18 The Noise Goes Deeper Than You Think It takes no great thought to understand that the world has always been a noisy place. For most of history, the environment of human life (markets, crowds, conflict, community) has contained the noise, or rather, relegated it to a certain part of the world. But something shifted over the centuries of human existence. The noise stopped being a byproduct of living and became a product, something engin

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Can o’ Worms Q&A Series – Kickoff Post Cornerstone Youth | Summer 2025 What is this series? Last Friday, we hosted Can o’ Worms , a live...