Guest Speaker, Pastor Andy Cook, brings Israel to life for us by walking us through the Holy Land through video, photos, and his experiences. He shares with us Lower Jericho, Upper Jericho, the road Jesus walked to get to Jerusalem, and the importance of Him washing His disciples’ feet.

As we come back together from being scattered, we find that God has new beginnings for us just like He did for His people as they returned. Pastor Matt takes us further into Ezra Chapter 3 this week as he shares the gracious opportunities our Heavenly Father gives us as we begin anew.

God’s people went through a season of literally broken altars on which they could not lay their offerings. We experience our own figuratively broken altars at times. Pastor Matt dives into chapter 3 of Ezra to show us why we cannot be content with any broken altars in our lives.

Pastor Matt takes us into the nitty gritty today with chapter 2 of Ezra, where things get quite specific. The bible is specific because we serve a God who’s in the details. Join along as Pastor Matt show us how a faithful God is worthy of faithful worship.

We serve a mighty, sovereign God who is King of kings and Lord of all. Pastor Matt launches us this week straight into Ezra with chapter 1, verses 1-11. He reminds us that through God’s sovereignty, He turns all world events for the good of those who love Him and for His purposes.

Just as we sometimes feel like God is disciplining us, even more we feel loved in that through that discipline of consequences for our actions, He loves us and just wants us to return to Him. Pastor Matt shares with us just how much He loves us and promises us as we return to Him through our new series “The Return” from the book of Ezra. This sermon covers the backdrop of the story shared through Jeremiah.

As Christians, followers of Jesus Christ, we are called to a specific purpose as we walk through life. Pastor Matt hones in to that very calling through “Search and Rescue,” our last sermon in our “Scattered Church, Same Gospel” study of James series.

We all struggle with prayer sometimes. We know we need to do it, yet it doesn’t always seem to come easy. Pastor Matt shows us just how important it is as he leads us in studying James 5:13-18 this week.

Sometimes “soon” seems to be not soon enough. At least not in our own minds. Yet, we find good things are worth waiting for. Pastor Matt reminds us of that as we study James 5:7-12 about the timing of the second coming of our Savior.