In week two of City on a Hill, we look at Luke 10 and the story of the Good Samaritan to ask what Christian witness looks like in a world where the Church no longer has an assumed voice. Trust in institutions may be declining, but spiritual hunger has not disappeared. Jesus has not lost his power, even if the Church has lost its assumed platform. So how do we respond? Not by getting louder, winning arguments, or demanding influence,…
In week one of City on a Hill, we look at Jesus’ words in Matthew 5:13-16 to rethink what it means to share our faith. For many of us, evangelism feels like a high-pressure situation of arguing, selling, or having all the right answers. But Jesus begins with identity: we are salt, light, and a city on a hill. Faith is something people should be able to see. And Jesus has not just given us a message, he has made us messengers.
In the final week, we look at Jesus’ conversation with the Samaritan woman at the well and the deeper thirst beneath our desire for more. Money can do many helpful things: pay bills, create options, and reduce pressure. But money cannot make us known, loved, valued, dignified, or whole. Like drinking sand to quench thirst, asking money to satisfy the soul only leaves us wanting more. Jesus meets thirsty people at the wells that aren’t working and offers himself as…
