99 CHURCH
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What if the real problem isn’t that you love money too much, but that you don’t yet believe God is trustworthy? In this message from our Mammon collection, we look at money as a mediator — the thing that quietly stands in the middle, between us and God and between us and each other. Through the wilderness story of bread that could not be stored, we explore what it takes for money to stop blocking relationship and start carrying it. What would change if you left some room for God to be your provider instead of turning to money right?
Whose image are you carrying? Jesus tells us to give Caesar what belongs to Caesar and give God what belongs to God—but if we bear the image of God, then what belongs to Him is us. In this message from our Mammon collection, we explore how money competes for our identity and devotion, and how practices like generosity and Sabbath become acts of remembrance and resistance. What would it look like to reject Mammon’s empty promises and recover what it means to be fully human, fully alive, and formed in the image of God?
Money might be one of the most uncomfortable things to talk about in church—but Jesus talked about it constantly. In this first teaching of our Mammon collection, we confront the rival god hiding in plain sight and ask what our money reveals about what we actually trust, value, and worship. What if generosity isn’t primarily about funding the church, but about breaking our allegiance to the false promises of security, identity, power, satisfaction, and hope? This is an invitation to bring our finances under the formation of Jesus and discover a more embodied, generous way of living.
The Bible was never meant to be read alone. In this teaching, we explore how Scripture has always been formed, interpreted, and lived out in community—and why reading it in isolation can leave us projecting ourselves onto God instead of being transformed by Him. As we learn to read the Bible alongside the Church throughout history and within the community around us today, we discover a faith that is both deeply rooted and beautifully alive. Maybe the way forward isn't reading more by yourself, but reading together.
For many of us, the Old Testament feels confusing, distant, or impossible to understand. But what if we've been looking at it the wrong way? This week, we discover how the Scriptures were never meant to be a collection of disconnected rules, but a unified story that reaches its fulfillment in Jesus. As our eyes are opened to see Him woven throughout every page, the Bible moves from words on paper to a living encounter with God.
Many of us secretly bristle at parts of the New Testament, struggling to reconcile our faith with what the Bible seems to say about women, slavery, or same-sex relationships. Because we don't know what to do with these difficult texts, we often just avoid reading them altogether. But what if the values of Jesus are too big to be trapped in the first century? Together, we explore what it truly means to be a progressive Christian—conserving the root values of Jesus while allowing the Holy Spirit to progress how we apply them fairly and equitably today. It’s time to move past legalism and step in
We live in a world that helps us remember everything except the things that matter most. In this week's teaching, we explore the quiet reality of spiritual amnesia: forgetting who God is, what He's done, and who we are because of Him. Together, we'll rediscover the ancient practice of hiding God's Word in our hearts; not to know more, but to become more like Jesus. What if the truths you remember today become the strength that carries you through tomorrow?
Many of us in the Western world have an adverse reaction to the word authority. And it's easy to see why. Time and time again, we've seen the abuse of power in our world. But how does our relationship with authority world affect our relationship with the authority of God? And the authority of the Bible? This week, we explore authority through a different lens, one that invites us into the beautiful story of the Gospel.
What does it mean for Scripture to have authority – and what if that authority looked more like a doctor than a dictator? So many of us carry broken pictures of authority from bosses, parents, or religious leaders who wielded it imperfectly, and we bring that baggage to the Bible. This week, we name the unhelpful ways our culture frames authority and discover an altogether better path: holding the Holy Scriptures and the Holy Spirit as inextricably linked.
What is the Bible? This week, we tackle this simple question that has life-changing implications. Together, we explore Scripture as a library of writings—both divine and human—that tell one unified story leading us to Jesus. Along the way, we consider how understanding genre, context, and authorship can transform the way we read the Bible, moving us beyond information and into formation.
The Bible is one of the most influential books in human history, yet many of us find it confusing, frustrating, or difficult to understand. This week, guest speaker Jess Gracewski explores a simple but transformative idea: Scripture was written for us, but it was not written to us. As we learn to read the Bible with humility, context, and curiosity, we discover a God who invites us to draw near, wrestle honestly, and be formed into people who become a blessing to the world.
Most followers of Jesus would agree, at least in theory, that Scripture is an essential part of our faith. And yet, so many people struggle with the Bible. We begin a new collection of teachings exploring the beauty and the mystery of Scripture. This week, we talk about what posture we should approach the Bible with.
Most of us want to be loved, but few of us want to risk being fully known. So we put on masks, even at church. In this sermon, Yesuto closes our True and False Self series by inviting us to take the courageous step of honest community. We explore why we need each other, how to share our struggles wisely, and how the church can become a place where vulnerable stories are safely held.
The Biblical concept of love is always active. God calls us to a life of compassion, a love that moves outward in action. But we live in a culture that's replaced compassion with sentiment, a love that's never acted upon. How do we move beyond sentiment into compassionate love? This week, we see how embodying compassion is the best way to break out of the false self and enter into the true self.
What parts of your life are motivated by fear, rather than love? The false self is the identity we all carry that's born out of fear. But how do we return to our true identity, given by God in love? This week, we go back to the beginning in the Garden of Eden to discover God's divine plan for setting us free from the false self.
Who we believe God to be has a profound impact on our lives. Many of us go through life thinking we're worshipping the true God, when in reality, we're actually worshipping a false version of him. The false self is rooted in a distorted view of God. This week, we expose some of these false versions of God that we carry, and reveal who God truly is.
We know we want to live from our true selves – but what's really driving the false self underneath it all? This week, we dig into the deep-seated beliefs that fuel our need to perform, control, and self-protect. Through a powerful framework of God's greatness and goodness, a personal story of anxiety, and the raw honesty of a father's cry in Mark 9 – "I believe; help my unbelief" – we discover that the journey from false self to true self isn't about gathering more information. It's about moving from belief to conviction on the true character of God: finally sitting down and letting God take o
We continue our teaching from last week, as we explore the life of Peter through the framework of the six Stages of Faith. What we find is a fascinating case study of the journey of shedding the false self and uncovering the true self.
Within each of us, is what the ancients throughout history called the false self. It's the self rooted in who we think we should be, rather than who we actually are. The journey of faith calls us to shed off the false self and embrace the true self, the fullness of who God created each of us to be. But how do we get there? What does this look like? This week, we explore a helpful framework called the "Stages of Faith," to discover how we can step into the truest version of ourselves in God.
One of the hardest things to do as a storyteller is to tell a story when everyone already knows the ending. Who cares about a story we already know the ending to? But there are those rare exceptions, when the ending is so good, that it actually enhances and redefines the rest of the story. Today, we explore the ending of the Easter story that has the power to shape each and every one of our stories.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. Jesus calls us to be peacemakers, an invitation that is both attractive and troubling. How can human beings be peacemakers when our long history of violence, systemic injustice, institutional failure, and moral cowardice testify to our continued inability to guarantee anything but destruction? Looking at Palm Sunday, we will see that Christ is doing something cosmic and strange by entering Jerusalem as a king who is preparing to die, and revealing to us something radically new—a peace that originates from outside of us, give
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. There is a lot to grieve in our world today. But we are notoriously bad at mourning. We are a society addicted to comfort and repelled by grief. But all throughout Scripture, we see a God who isn't afraid of our sadness, who isn't overwhelmed by our pain. This week, we explore what it means to be those who are comforted in our mourning.
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. As people part of modern day western civilization, this might the hardest beatitude for us to understand. What could we possibly know about persecution? Yet we find that this blessing isn’t just for those who are literally following Jesus at the cost of their lives. This blessing applies to the rest of us too, albeit in an indirect way. This week, we explore how God might be forming us through the circumstances in life that we don’t choose.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. Most of us assume righteousness means being a good person and following the rules. But that definition often leaves us feeling exhausted, guilty, or empty. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus offers a radically different vision. This week, we explore what righteousness actually looks like in the kingdom of God—and how seeking right relationships with God and with others leads to the life we were made for.
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. The beauty of this Beatitude is that the blessing is not in receiving this kind of mercy, but in giving it away. There's a kind of blessing reserved only for those who have learned the divine art of giving others mercy. This week, we explore the symptoms of an unforgiving heart and how mercy shows us a better way.
