When you take stock of your life, what counts as gain? What do you treasure above all else? For the Apostle Paul, the answer is clear: In Christ Jesus, Paul finds his acceptance before God, a new identity, and a living hope for eternity. Could the good news of Jesus reorder our values in the same way? What would it mean for us to leave lesser things behind and press on toward the goal?

Bishop Dan Gifford, 15 February 2026 (Celebration & Rededication of New Song Church)

As the book of Jonah concludes, we find the prophet exceedingly angry with God. In fact, he'd rather die than accept the fact that God compassion toward sinners. Through Jonah dialogue with God we see that a self-righteous heart resents a gracious God: it will consider God's grace unjust, and it will consider God's mercy uncaring. But could the opposite also be true? What could it mean for us to humble ourselves before God and delight our hearts in his fathomless grace towards us sinners?

Creighton Friedrich, 8 Feb 2026 (World Mission Sunday)

Nineveh—the violent city at the heart of an enemy empire—is the last place Jonah wants to go. Yet God sends his Word to guilty sinners, calling them to turn (and live). How does God's Word work grace in the life of guilty sinners? It announces his anger toward sin, awakens the sinner to repentance, and assures the repentant sinner of God's grace. God’s Word proclaims death to sin—but life to sinners.

Creighton Friedrich, 1 Feb 2026

Jonah's resistance to God's gracious will have sunk him into the very depths of death and hell. Jonah cannot save himself, so what hope does he have? As Jonah prays he knows that even in the depths God still answers, raises and saves him. God's fathomless grace goes deeper than we can sink. Creighton Friedrich, 25 January 2026

Jonah is not the hero of this story. In fact, he's a reluctant and rebellious prophet who begrudges God's generousity. When God calls, he runs. Do we do the same? How do we try to resist God? Why can't we outrun him? And what's the alternative to resisting and running? Thanks be to God: his grace is stronger than our resistance and goes further than we can run. 18 January 2026, Creighton Friedrich

Prepare "your minds for action," writes the Apostle Peter; be "sober-minded". Being a Christian is not a mindless activity - God has designed us to engage our minds creatively towards the well-being and flourishing of our fellow image-bearers. So what could it look like for us to partner with God towards the physical, emotional and spiritual care of others in community? Patty Bowman Kingsley, 11 January 2026 pattykingsley.com

What's so significant about Jesus? Why would the world take notice of his birth in obscurity? In the story of the Magi's visit, Matthew wants us to understand who Jesus is by answering three questions: Is Jesus the Messiah? Whose Messiah is he? And if Jesus is the Messiah, what is our response? Like the Magi, if we can grasp who Jesus is we too can come and adore him.

Mike Tweedle 4 January 2026 (Epiphany Sunday)

Christmastime is here - happiness and cheer? Christmas does not negate the darkness, violence and suffering of our world but it does reframe it, as we see Matthew the Evangelist do in the massacre of the Holy Innocents. In the face of real suffering, the Gospel’s answer is not sentimentality but hope: God is at work rescuing the devastated and raising the dead. God enters our grief, ennobles the human sufferer, and, in Christ, makes all things new. Creighton Friedrich, 28 December 2025 (Commemoration of the Holy Innocents)