Posts with the category “faith-and-doubt”

What does "born again" really mean? Jesus told a morally elite man he needed new life, not a fresh start. Explore it at Apostles Uptown.  Read More

From the Sermon delivered on March 29, 2026 | Jesus Cleanses the Temple When good things quietly crowd God out of our lives, intimacy with God doesn't die dramatically — it just slowly goes cold. That's the real problem Jesus addresses when he walks into the temple in John 2: not outright wickedness, but displacement. Not obvious idolatry, but legitimate things occupying illegitimate places.Pastor...  Read More

From the Sermon delivered on March 15, 2026 | Follow Me Knowing Jesus — really knowing him — doesn't always feel the way you thought it would. If you came to faith with certain hopes attached, and those hopes have gone quiet or gone sideways, you are not alone in that. In John 1:43–51, a skeptic named Nathaniel encounters Jesus for the first time and raises a question that many people in this city...  Read More