DISCOVER MORE : TOGETHER
Our weekly devotional content ties back to the worship themes and scriptures from the previous Sunday. Dig deeper into what the Word and the message mean to you, and explore how you can deepen your walk with Christ through these resources.
In addition to the devotional resources, the "5 Minutes with God" sections are like spiritual snacks; small, quick, easy connections you can make as you go about your busy life.
Summer Worship Series
This summer, our worship series invites us to a journey where the extraordinary breaks into the ordinary, and divine possibilities emerge in unexpected places.
The Gospel of Luke presents a Savior who brings good news to the poor and broken, welcomes the outsider, and gives hope to the weary. Luke reveals a God whose love opens doors and transforms lives. Each week we will explore a different passage that will challenge assumptions and invite us to imagine the possibilities of what God can do in us, among us, and through us.
Whether it's the possibility of forgiveness, healing, calling, or new life, we are reminded that the kingdom of God is always breaking in—often quietly, sometimes radically, but always with grace.
Weekly Devotion
8-17-25
The Possibility of Undivided Attention and Devotion
Intro to the Readings: In the noise and busyness of our lives, we may face a lack of attentiveness to our relationship with God. However, God is never inattentive to us. There are times in our lives when our faith journey will be deepened by challenges and the witness of others and their story of faith. We learn from their joys and sorrows, while revealing to another generation our own devotion to God and our compassion for others.
Hebrews 11:29–12:2
29 By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as if it were dry land, but when the Egyptians attempted to do so they were drowned. 30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell after they had been encircled for seven days. 31 By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had received the spies in peace.
32 And what more should I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets, 33 who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions, 34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put
foreign armies to flight. 35 Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, refusing to accept release, in order to obtain a better
resurrection. 36 Others suffered mocking and flogging and even chains and
imprisonment. 37 They were stoned to death; they were sawn in two; they were killed by the sword; they went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, persecuted, tormented 38 of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains and in caves and holes in the ground.
39 Yet all these, though they were commended for their faith, did not receive what was promised, 40 since God had provided something better so that they would not, apart from us, be made perfect.
12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith, who for the sake of the joy that was set before him
endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.
Luke 12:49-56
[Jesus said:] 49 “I have come to cast fire upon the earth, and how I wish it were
already ablaze! 50 I have a baptism with which to be baptized, and what constraint I am under until it is completed! 51 Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division! 52 From now on five in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three; 53 they will be divided:
father against son
and son against father,
mother against daughter
and daughter against mother,
mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law
and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”
54 He also said to the crowds, “When you see a cloud rising in the west, you immediately say, ‘It is going to rain,’ and so it happens.
55 And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, ‘There will be scorching heat,’ and it happens. 56 You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the
appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the
present time?”
Discussion Prompts:
1. Share your highs and lows with one another.
2. What competes for your attention and devotion to God?
3. How do challenges in life deepen your faith or distracts you from it?
4. What faith practices help you stay focused on your relationship with God?
5. Close in Prayer: God of all creation, we give you thanks for the time we have shared with one another. We ask for your strength and wisdom in the days ahead. Hold our stories in your loving hands of compassion. Lord in your mercy we pray. Amen
Weekly Devotion
August 10
The Possibility of Readiness
Intro to the Readings: Do not fear, little flock – live ready for God's unexpected arrival. Jesus encourages us to face life without or with less fear. We are invited to live into the possibilities of trusting God to be our God. We respond to the world with generosity and are ready to receive from God to share with others.
Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16
1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. 2 Indeed, by faith our ancestors received approval. 3 By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are not visible.
8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to set out for a place that he was to receive as an inheritance, and he set out, not knowing where he was going. 9 By faith he stayed for a time in the land he had been promised, as in a foreign land, living in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. 10 For he looked forward to the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God. 11 By faith, with Sarah’s involvement, he received power of procreation, even though he was too old, because he
considered him faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore from one person, and this one as good as dead, descendants were born, “as many as the stars of heaven and as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.”
13 All of these died in faith without having received the promises, but from a distance they saw and greeted them. They confessed that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth, 14 for people who speak in this way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. 15 If they had been thinking of the land that they had left behind, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 But as it is, they desire a better homeland, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; indeed, he has prepared a city for them.
Luke 12:32-40
[Jesus said:] 32 “Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 33 Sell your possessions and give alms. Make purses for yourselves that do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. 34 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
35 “Be dressed for action and have your lamps lit; 36 be like those who are waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that they may open the door for him as soon as he comes and knocks. 37 Blessed are those slaves whom the master finds alert when he comes; truly I tell you, he will fasten his belt and have them sit down to eat, and he will come and serve them. 38 If he comes during the middle of the night or near dawn and finds them so, blessed are those slaves.
39 “But know this: if the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. 40 You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”
Discussion Prompts:
1. Share your highs and lows with one another.
2. How do you prepare for God’s “unexpected arrival”?
3. What does it mean to live with less fear and more trust?
4. Who is someone whose faith has inspired you to live with readiness?
5. Close in Prayer: God of all creation, we give you thanks for the time we have shared with one another. We ask for your strength and wisdom in the days ahead. Hold our stories in your loving hands of compassion. Lord in your mercy we pray. Amen
