Wisdom & Wonder | Life is a Gift: Part 2

Jill Barlow

May 12, 2022

How do we receive life as a gift? A 4-part answer from Ecclesiastes 3:9-13: Be present. See beauty. Do good. Receive Joy.

Wisdom & Wonder | Ecclesiastes 3

Jill Barlow

May 6, 2022

Life is hevel. It is vapor and fog. Sometimes life is easy, and sometimes life is difficult. Life is hevel, and because that is true, the wise way to approach life is as a gift.

Wisdom & Wonder | Ecclesiastes 1:12-18

Jill Barlow

April 29, 2022

Part of becoming wise is allowing the disruptive voice of wisdom to disturb where we find meaning in our lives and to make us think deeply about these things.

Mission of God | Acts 1:1-8

Jill Barlow

April 22, 2022

What is the ultimate mission of God?

Easter Sunday | The Resurrection | 1 Corinthians 15:12-20

Jill Barlow

April 14, 2022

In 1 Corinthians 15, Paul addresses a very important doctrine, the resurrection from the dead, because the Corinthian church was skeptical about the resurrection. Many Greeks viewed bodily death as final, and this view likely influenced their belief about what...

Wisdom & Wonder | The Wounded Part 2

Jill Barlow

April 8, 2022

Wounds don't go away on their own, and wounds that are not paid attention to may come out of our lives as foolishness. That is a difficult truth, but thanks be to God, there is another, more beautiful truth. Our...

Wisdom & Wonder | The Wounded

Jill Barlow

April 1, 2022

There is a condition of the human soul that is described as a crushed spirit in Proverbs. Those with a crushed spirit are not foolish; rather, their spirit is crushed because of another person's foolishness or because of life in...

Wisdom & Wonder | Ecclesiastes 11:7-12:14

Jill Barlow

March 25, 2022

Dr. Jonathan Pennington

Wisdom & Wonder | Jesus & the Fools

Jill Barlow

March 17, 2022

What would Jesus say to the stubborn, the sluggard, the simple, the scoffer? In the gospel, we get to see real examples of what Jesus would say to all of those people.

Wisdom & Wonder | 1 Corinthians 1:18-31

Jill Barlow

March 11, 2022

What are some ways that Christ and his gospel look foolish to the world?

Wisdom & Wonder | Proverbs 31

Jill Barlow

March 4, 2022

How many of us have either read Proverbs 31 or heard of the popular Proverbs 31 woman before? Is what you've learned or heard been in light of the entire book of Proverbs or simply taken on its own?

Wisdom & Wonder | The Simple, The Scoffer and The Sluggard

Jill Barlow

February 25, 2022

There are four forms of foolishness in the book of Proverbs. This week, our focus is the the simple, the scoffer and the sluggard. Each caricature rejects the way of wisdom and chooses folly, and what we see is that...