God has spoken His final Word through His Son Jesus, so our lives find their anchor in His finished work as His covenant family. Because Hebrews reveals that in Jesus we have everything we need… this makes all of life an act of confident worship and means we draw near to God and persevere together by faith.

Series Schedule

January 4th: Hebrews 1

January 11th: Hebrews 2

January 18th: Hebrews 3

January 25th: Snow/Ice Day

February 1st: Hebrews 4

February 8st: Hebrews 5, 7

February 15th: Hebrews 6

February 22nd: Hebrews 8

March 1st: Hebrews 9

March 8th: Hebrews 10

March 15th: Hebrews 11

March 22nd: Hebrews 12

March 29th: Hebrews 13

Small Group Resources

Hebrews 13

Mar 28, 2026

As we conclude our series on Hebrews, we can see seven distinct main points throughout the letter:

One: Jesus is God’s FINAL word. (Hebrews 1-2, 13:8)

Two: Jesus is our HIGH PRIEST —So draw near (Hebrews 4-7, 13:15)

Three: Press toward MATURITY—  Don’t stay stuck (Hebrews 5-6, 13:9)

Four: The New Covenant is BETTER- Let old securities go (Hebrews 8-9, 13:14)

Five: The work is FINISHED— Rest in it (Hebrews 10, 13:12)

Six: Faith means LIVING the story before it’s complete (Hebrews 11, 13:2)

Seven: Run with ENDURANCE — Outside the camp (Hebrews 12-13, 13:13)

—–

Small Group Questions:

  1. The sermon described drift as “the slow accumulation of distraction and competing loyalties” rather than a dramatic departure from faith. Where do you notice drift happening most subtly in your own life right now?
  2. “The church was never meant to scale — it was meant to multiply.” How does that reframe what faithfulness looks like for you personally — in your work, your family, your investment in this community?
  3. The college and medical students who pass through The Park represent faith without seeing the harvest. Is there someone you’ve poured into — or been poured into by — where the fruit came later than expected, or hasn’t come yet? What did that teach you about how God works?
  4. The Palm Sunday crowd had the right instinct (this is the king!) but the wrong imagination (he’ll win the way we expect kings to win). Where might you be carrying a “wrong imagination” about how Jesus works in the world, or in your own life?
  5. “Outside the camp” means bearing reproach — being shaped by a different set of values than the culture around us. What would it look like for you, in the next season, to live more visibly “outside the camp”? What would it cost?

 

 

Hebrews 12

Mar 22, 2026

Think of it this way. You cannot make a seed grow. You cannot force fruit to ripen. But you can plant it in good soil. You can water it. You can make sure it has sunlight. You create the conditions, and then you trust the life that is already in the seed.
  • That is what spiritual disciplines are. They are us saying to God: I am positioning myself to be formed by you. I am showing up. I am putting myself in the place where you work.
  • DISCIPLINES ARE HOW WE POSITION OURSELVES TO BE FORMED
  • Foster organizes the disciplines into three categories. Let me walk through them briefly — not as a to-do list, but as an invitation.
    • The Inward Disciplines
      • Meditation — sitting with Scripture not to extract information but to let it form you. Letting a passage slow you down, speak to you, take up residence in you.
      • Prayer — not as a transaction but as a relationship. The practice of turning your attention toward God throughout the day, not just in designated moments.
      • Fasting — choosing to go without something — food, noise, screens, comfort — in order to discover that God is enough. Fasting is the body participating in the soul’s declaration of dependence.
      • Study — not just reading, but the slow, attentive engagement with Scripture that reshapes the way you see everything else.
    • The Outward Disciplines
      • Simplicity — releasing your grip on stuff and security so that your life makes room for what matters. Living with less so you can give more.
      • Solitude — pulling away from noise and demand to be alone with God. This one is underrated and underutilized. We are never more formed than in the silence.
      • Service — choosing the posture of a servant not because you have to but because you are becoming the kind of person who naturally moves toward others with their needs.
    • The Corporate Disciplines
      • Confession — not just private acknowledgment of sin, but the practice of bringing it into the light with another trusted person. James 5:16: confess your sins to one another that you may be healed.
      • Worship — not as performance or obligation, but as the regular practice of reorienting yourself around what is actually true about God.
      • Celebration — this one surprises people. Foster insists that joy is a discipline. Learning to celebrate what God has done, to mark his goodness, to let your heart be glad — that is formative work.
    • DISCIPLINES ARE NOT LAW — THEY ARE HOW FREE PEOPLE CHOOSE TO BE FORMED
  • Here is what I want you to hear: these are not chains. Foster’s whole argument is that the disciplined life is the free life. The undisciplined life — the life of pure impulse, pure reaction, no rhythm, no rootedness — that life is actually enslaved. To comfort. To distraction. To whatever feels good right now.
Small Group Questions
  1. When you hear the word “discipline,” what’s your first instinct — and where do you think that instinct comes from? How has your picture of discipline shaped how you think about God?
  2. Hebrews 12:11 says discipline “yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness” — but only afterwards, and only for those who are trained by it. Can you think of a hard season in your life that, looking back, you can see was forming something in you?
  3. The sermon drew a distinction between discipline as abuse, discipline as God’s formation, and discipline as chosen rhythms. Which of these three do you find easiest to embrace? Which is hardest?
  4. Richard Foster says the spiritual disciplines are not about earning favor — they are about positioning yourself in the path of grace. Which of the disciplines (inward, outward, or corporate) feels most alive to you right now? Which feels most neglected?
  5. The sermon ended with the idea that formation and sacrifice are inseparable — that discipline forms us into people who can live sacrificially. What would it look like for your group to support one another in both? What’s one specific practice you want to take up before we reach Easter?

Hebrews 11

Mar 17, 2026

Persevering Faith: Hebrews Chapter 11

Hebrews 11 Bottom line: Faith is persevering allegiance to Jesus because we trust the future God has promised.

When we hear the word faith, we often think of mental agreement. We think of believing something is true. And that is part of it. But it is not all of it.
Matthew Bates argues that the Greek word pistis that is here translated as faith is often better understood as allegiance or loyalty, especially in the context of kings and kingdoms. It is not less than belief, but it is more than belief.
Hebrews 11 isn’t a museum of heroes. It’s a family album.
Amy Peeler says it really well: “All these stories were recorded by God in the Scriptures of Israel because of the faith these individuals demonstrated. They were not perfect, and some had more errors than successes, but at some moments in their lives they had faith.”
That is so important. These were not perfect people:
  • Abraham lied.
  • Sarah doubted.
  • Moses murdered.
  • David sinned grievously.
  • Samson was reckless.
What makes them examples is not perfection. It is persevering faith.
One of the most powerful things about Hebrews 11 is its rhythm. You can hear the cadence of the pastor preaching:
By faith… by faith… by faith…
This is not just a list. It is a drumbeat. A repeated witness across generations.
  • “By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain…”(Hebrews 11:4 NAS95)
  • “By faith Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death…”(Hebrews 11:5 NAS95)
  • “By faith Noah… prepared an ark…”(Hebrews 11:7 NAS95)
  • “By faith Abraham… obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was going.”(Hebrews 11:8 NAS95)
  • “By faith even Sarah herself received ability to conceive… since she considered Him faithful who had promised.”(Hebrews 11:11 NAS95)

Faith does two things:

  • It looks back at what God has done.
  • It looks forward to what God has promised.

Faith is not proven only in visible victories. It is also proven in costly endurance.

Discussion Questions:

  1. The outline reframes faith as “persevering allegiance” rather than mental agreement. Where in your own life is the difference between those two definitions most felt — and what would it look like practically for your faith to move from belief to allegiance?
  2. Hebrews 11 is described as a family album, not a museum of heroes — people who were approved not because they were perfect, but because they kept going. Who in your own “family album” (spiritual mentors, parents, church community) modeled that kind of persevering faith, and how does their story shape how you face hard seasons?
  3. The chapter makes a sharp turn from dramatic victories to torture, imprisonment, and death — and it calls both expressions of faith. How do you tend to measure whether faith is “working”? What needs to shift in how you define faithfulness when the outcome isn’t visible success?
  4. The pastor of Hebrews closes by saying these saints “did not receive what was promised” — they lived in the present with their eyes on God’s future. What promise of God are you currently being asked to hold onto without seeing its fulfillment? What does it look like to “welcome it from a distance” rather than shrink back?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Hebrews 12

Mar 22, 2026

Think of it this way. You cannot make a seed grow. You cannot force fruit to ripen. But you can plant it in good soil. You can water it. You can make sure it has sunlight. You create the conditions, and then you trust the life that is already in the seed.
  • That is what spiritual disciplines are. They are us saying to God: I am positioning myself to be formed by you. I am showing up. I am putting myself in the place where you work.
  • DISCIPLINES ARE HOW WE POSITION OURSELVES TO BE FORMED
  • Foster organizes the disciplines into three categories. Let me walk through them briefly — not as a to-do list, but as an invitation.
    • The Inward Disciplines
      • Meditation — sitting with Scripture not to extract information but to let it form you. Letting a passage slow you down, speak to you, take up residence in you.
      • Prayer — not as a transaction but as a relationship. The practice of turning your attention toward God throughout the day, not just in designated moments.
      • Fasting — choosing to go without something — food, noise, screens, comfort — in order to discover that God is enough. Fasting is the body participating in the soul’s declaration of dependence.
      • Study — not just reading, but the slow, attentive engagement with Scripture that reshapes the way you see everything else.
    • The Outward Disciplines
      • Simplicity — releasing your grip on stuff and security so that your life makes room for what matters. Living with less so you can give more.
      • Solitude — pulling away from noise and demand to be alone with God. This one is underrated and underutilized. We are never more formed than in the silence.
      • Service — choosing the posture of a servant not because you have to but because you are becoming the kind of person who naturally moves toward others with their needs.
    • The Corporate Disciplines
      • Confession — not just private acknowledgment of sin, but the practice of bringing it into the light with another trusted person. James 5:16: confess your sins to one another that you may be healed.
      • Worship — not as performance or obligation, but as the regular practice of reorienting yourself around what is actually true about God.
      • Celebration — this one surprises people. Foster insists that joy is a discipline. Learning to celebrate what God has done, to mark his goodness, to let your heart be glad — that is formative work.
    • DISCIPLINES ARE NOT LAW — THEY ARE HOW FREE PEOPLE CHOOSE TO BE FORMED
  • Here is what I want you to hear: these are not chains. Foster’s whole argument is that the disciplined life is the free life. The undisciplined life — the life of pure impulse, pure reaction, no rhythm, no rootedness — that life is actually enslaved. To comfort. To distraction. To whatever feels good right now.
Small Group Questions
  1. When you hear the word “discipline,” what’s your first instinct — and where do you think that instinct comes from? How has your picture of discipline shaped how you think about God?
  2. Hebrews 12:11 says discipline “yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness” — but only afterwards, and only for those who are trained by it. Can you think of a hard season in your life that, looking back, you can see was forming something in you?
  3. The sermon drew a distinction between discipline as abuse, discipline as God’s formation, and discipline as chosen rhythms. Which of these three do you find easiest to embrace? Which is hardest?
  4. Richard Foster says the spiritual disciplines are not about earning favor — they are about positioning yourself in the path of grace. Which of the disciplines (inward, outward, or corporate) feels most alive to you right now? Which feels most neglected?
  5. The sermon ended with the idea that formation and sacrifice are inseparable — that discipline forms us into people who can live sacrificially. What would it look like for your group to support one another in both? What’s one specific practice you want to take up before we reach Easter?

Hebrews 11

Mar 17, 2026

Persevering Faith: Hebrews Chapter 11

Hebrews 11 Bottom line: Faith is persevering allegiance to Jesus because we trust the future God has promised.

When we hear the word faith, we often think of mental agreement. We think of believing something is true. And that is part of it. But it is not all of it.
Matthew Bates argues that the Greek word pistis that is here translated as faith is often better understood as allegiance or loyalty, especially in the context of kings and kingdoms. It is not less than belief, but it is more than belief.
Hebrews 11 isn’t a museum of heroes. It’s a family album.
Amy Peeler says it really well: “All these stories were recorded by God in the Scriptures of Israel because of the faith these individuals demonstrated. They were not perfect, and some had more errors than successes, but at some moments in their lives they had faith.”
That is so important. These were not perfect people:
  • Abraham lied.
  • Sarah doubted.
  • Moses murdered.
  • David sinned grievously.
  • Samson was reckless.
What makes them examples is not perfection. It is persevering faith.
One of the most powerful things about Hebrews 11 is its rhythm. You can hear the cadence of the pastor preaching:
By faith… by faith… by faith…
This is not just a list. It is a drumbeat. A repeated witness across generations.
  • “By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain…”(Hebrews 11:4 NAS95)
  • “By faith Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death…”(Hebrews 11:5 NAS95)
  • “By faith Noah… prepared an ark…”(Hebrews 11:7 NAS95)
  • “By faith Abraham… obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was going.”(Hebrews 11:8 NAS95)
  • “By faith even Sarah herself received ability to conceive… since she considered Him faithful who had promised.”(Hebrews 11:11 NAS95)

Faith does two things:

  • It looks back at what God has done.
  • It looks forward to what God has promised.

Faith is not proven only in visible victories. It is also proven in costly endurance.

Discussion Questions:

  1. The outline reframes faith as “persevering allegiance” rather than mental agreement. Where in your own life is the difference between those two definitions most felt — and what would it look like practically for your faith to move from belief to allegiance?
  2. Hebrews 11 is described as a family album, not a museum of heroes — people who were approved not because they were perfect, but because they kept going. Who in your own “family album” (spiritual mentors, parents, church community) modeled that kind of persevering faith, and how does their story shape how you face hard seasons?
  3. The chapter makes a sharp turn from dramatic victories to torture, imprisonment, and death — and it calls both expressions of faith. How do you tend to measure whether faith is “working”? What needs to shift in how you define faithfulness when the outcome isn’t visible success?
  4. The pastor of Hebrews closes by saying these saints “did not receive what was promised” — they lived in the present with their eyes on God’s future. What promise of God are you currently being asked to hold onto without seeing its fulfillment? What does it look like to “welcome it from a distance” rather than shrink back?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Hebrews 12

Mar 22, 2026

Think of it this way. You cannot make a seed grow. You cannot force fruit to ripen. But you can plant it in good soil. You can water it. You can make sure it has sunlight. You create the conditions, and then you trust the life that is already in the seed.
  • That is what spiritual disciplines are. They are us saying to God: I am positioning myself to be formed by you. I am showing up. I am putting myself in the place where you work.
  • DISCIPLINES ARE HOW WE POSITION OURSELVES TO BE FORMED
  • Foster organizes the disciplines into three categories. Let me walk through them briefly — not as a to-do list, but as an invitation.
    • The Inward Disciplines
      • Meditation — sitting with Scripture not to extract information but to let it form you. Letting a passage slow you down, speak to you, take up residence in you.
      • Prayer — not as a transaction but as a relationship. The practice of turning your attention toward God throughout the day, not just in designated moments.
      • Fasting — choosing to go without something — food, noise, screens, comfort — in order to discover that God is enough. Fasting is the body participating in the soul’s declaration of dependence.
      • Study — not just reading, but the slow, attentive engagement with Scripture that reshapes the way you see everything else.
    • The Outward Disciplines
      • Simplicity — releasing your grip on stuff and security so that your life makes room for what matters. Living with less so you can give more.
      • Solitude — pulling away from noise and demand to be alone with God. This one is underrated and underutilized. We are never more formed than in the silence.
      • Service — choosing the posture of a servant not because you have to but because you are becoming the kind of person who naturally moves toward others with their needs.
    • The Corporate Disciplines
      • Confession — not just private acknowledgment of sin, but the practice of bringing it into the light with another trusted person. James 5:16: confess your sins to one another that you may be healed.
      • Worship — not as performance or obligation, but as the regular practice of reorienting yourself around what is actually true about God.
      • Celebration — this one surprises people. Foster insists that joy is a discipline. Learning to celebrate what God has done, to mark his goodness, to let your heart be glad — that is formative work.
    • DISCIPLINES ARE NOT LAW — THEY ARE HOW FREE PEOPLE CHOOSE TO BE FORMED
  • Here is what I want you to hear: these are not chains. Foster’s whole argument is that the disciplined life is the free life. The undisciplined life — the life of pure impulse, pure reaction, no rhythm, no rootedness — that life is actually enslaved. To comfort. To distraction. To whatever feels good right now.
Small Group Questions
  1. When you hear the word “discipline,” what’s your first instinct — and where do you think that instinct comes from? How has your picture of discipline shaped how you think about God?
  2. Hebrews 12:11 says discipline “yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness” — but only afterwards, and only for those who are trained by it. Can you think of a hard season in your life that, looking back, you can see was forming something in you?
  3. The sermon drew a distinction between discipline as abuse, discipline as God’s formation, and discipline as chosen rhythms. Which of these three do you find easiest to embrace? Which is hardest?
  4. Richard Foster says the spiritual disciplines are not about earning favor — they are about positioning yourself in the path of grace. Which of the disciplines (inward, outward, or corporate) feels most alive to you right now? Which feels most neglected?
  5. The sermon ended with the idea that formation and sacrifice are inseparable — that discipline forms us into people who can live sacrificially. What would it look like for your group to support one another in both? What’s one specific practice you want to take up before we reach Easter?

Hebrews 11

Mar 17, 2026

Persevering Faith: Hebrews Chapter 11

Hebrews 11 Bottom line: Faith is persevering allegiance to Jesus because we trust the future God has promised.

When we hear the word faith, we often think of mental agreement. We think of believing something is true. And that is part of it. But it is not all of it.
Matthew Bates argues that the Greek word pistis that is here translated as faith is often better understood as allegiance or loyalty, especially in the context of kings and kingdoms. It is not less than belief, but it is more than belief.
Hebrews 11 isn’t a museum of heroes. It’s a family album.
Amy Peeler says it really well: “All these stories were recorded by God in the Scriptures of Israel because of the faith these individuals demonstrated. They were not perfect, and some had more errors than successes, but at some moments in their lives they had faith.”
That is so important. These were not perfect people:
  • Abraham lied.
  • Sarah doubted.
  • Moses murdered.
  • David sinned grievously.
  • Samson was reckless.
What makes them examples is not perfection. It is persevering faith.
One of the most powerful things about Hebrews 11 is its rhythm. You can hear the cadence of the pastor preaching:
By faith… by faith… by faith…
This is not just a list. It is a drumbeat. A repeated witness across generations.
  • “By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain…”(Hebrews 11:4 NAS95)
  • “By faith Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death…”(Hebrews 11:5 NAS95)
  • “By faith Noah… prepared an ark…”(Hebrews 11:7 NAS95)
  • “By faith Abraham… obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was going.”(Hebrews 11:8 NAS95)
  • “By faith even Sarah herself received ability to conceive… since she considered Him faithful who had promised.”(Hebrews 11:11 NAS95)

Faith does two things:

  • It looks back at what God has done.
  • It looks forward to what God has promised.

Faith is not proven only in visible victories. It is also proven in costly endurance.

Discussion Questions:

  1. The outline reframes faith as “persevering allegiance” rather than mental agreement. Where in your own life is the difference between those two definitions most felt — and what would it look like practically for your faith to move from belief to allegiance?
  2. Hebrews 11 is described as a family album, not a museum of heroes — people who were approved not because they were perfect, but because they kept going. Who in your own “family album” (spiritual mentors, parents, church community) modeled that kind of persevering faith, and how does their story shape how you face hard seasons?
  3. The chapter makes a sharp turn from dramatic victories to torture, imprisonment, and death — and it calls both expressions of faith. How do you tend to measure whether faith is “working”? What needs to shift in how you define faithfulness when the outcome isn’t visible success?
  4. The pastor of Hebrews closes by saying these saints “did not receive what was promised” — they lived in the present with their eyes on God’s future. What promise of God are you currently being asked to hold onto without seeing its fulfillment? What does it look like to “welcome it from a distance” rather than shrink back?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

 

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