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Peter and the Foundation of the Church
Before getting into the book of Acts, Charlie and Abigail stop at one of the most debated verses in church history: Jesus telling Peter, “On this rock I will build my ...
Be Careful What You Ask For
Israel had just watched God thunder against the Philistines and rescue them without a single soldier lifting a sword. And then, a few years later, they came to Samuel ...
How the Church Became What It Is Today
Last week covered the church’s first 500 years. This week, Charlie and Abigail finish the map. They trace the story from the book of Acts through Constantine and the m...
Faithful in the Waiting
Most of us assume that if God has called us to something, the path will be clear. The doors will open. Things will fall into place. And when they don’t — when the wait...
Mapping the First 500 Years of Church History
After two weeks on why church history matters, Charlie and Abigail start laying out the map. This week they cover the first three of eight eras they’ll walk through in...
The God Who Knows
It’s easy to look at the way things are and assume that’s the way they’ll stay. The powerful stay powerful. The ones who’ve been knocked down stay down. The situation ...
Standing on 2,000 Years of Faith
Most of what we believe about God didn't start with us. We inherited it from centuries of Christians who studied, debated, and prayed their way through the hardest que...
How God Shapes Our Story
This week in our Samuel series, we discussed how God’s purposes often begin long before we understand them, using the opening chapters of 1 Samuel as our guide. Charli...
Why Study Church History?
This week on Cultivate, Charlie and Abigail begin a new series on church history. Before getting into the people and events, they start with a simpler question: why sh...
Fellowship and Mentorship
You can sit in a room full of people and still feel completely alone. You can come to church every week, check the box, and never actually let anyone in. And if you're...
The Parables of Jesus: A Q&A Wrap-Up
This week on Cultivate, Charlie and Abigail close out the parables series the way it deserves — with a Q&A episode where Abigail asks the big picture questions she's b...
Service and Witness
Most of us have been taught to treat serving people and telling people about Jesus as two separate things — maybe even competing ones. Do you help someone in need, or ...
The Parable of the Sheep and the Goats
This week on Cultivate, Charlie and Abigail work through the final parable of the series — the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats in Matthew 25. It's the last judgment...
Simplicity and Fasting
The culture around us is lying. It's telling us that more is always better — more stuff, more success, more achievement — and that life is found somewhere on the other...
The Parable of the Wedding Banquet
This week on Cultivate, Charlie and Abigail work through the Parable of the Wedding Banquet in Matthew 22. A king throws a wedding banquet for his son. The invited gue...
Baptism and Communion
Christians have been doing these two things since the very beginning. They've started wars, split denominations, and derailed would-be alliances between reformers who ...
Celebration and Confession
Most of us have a complicated relationship with both of these. Celebration can slide into pride — quietly convincing yourself that maybe you earned some of what God ga...
The Parable of the Ten Virgins
This week on Cultivate, Charlie and Abigail work through the Parable of the Ten Virgins in Matthew 25 — and Abigail's initial read of the story was completely wrong in...
The Ancient Path You Stopped Walking
There are paths that have always led to life. Tried, proven, ancient paths — the kind that don't go out of style any more than a well-made shoe does. We know they're t...
The Parable of the Tenants
This week on Cultivate, Charlie and Abigail work through the Parable of the Tenants in Matthew 21 — and Jesus is not being subtle anymore. Coming right off the Parable...
