Opener Let’s start with visiting our inner child/young student. Use your phone notes app or a piece of paper & pen. Write the letters of your name vertically. With each letter write a personality trait or attribute. If you are comfortable, share with the group. For example:JoyfulExtrovertSaviorUpliting Son of GodOpening Prayer:  Gracious and holy God, we thank you for creating us perfectly in Your...  Read More

Thank you to everyone who worshiped with The Gathering this Easter. It was an incredible day to be together, celebrating Christ’s resurrection and talking about the purpose, possibility, and promise it brings to our life. If you missed the message or want to share it with someone that may need it, you can find it here. We had packed sanctuaries with over 2200 people worshiping with us in person an...  Read More

It’s like God is the artist and we are the artwork. The artwork does not exist without the artist and the artist is not made known except through their art.  Read More

Scripture - John 20:1-18Early in the morning of the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. She ran to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don’t know where they’ve put him.” Peter and the other disciple left to go to t...  Read More

Matthew 27:57-66That evening a man named Joseph came. He was a rich man from Arimathea who had become a disciple of Jesus. He came to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body. Pilate gave him permission to take it. Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had carved out of the rock. After he rolled a large stone at the door of the tomb, he went awa...  Read More

Mark 15:1-47At daybreak, the chief priests—with the elders, legal experts, and the whole Sanhedrin—formed a plan. They bound Jesus, led him away, and turned him over to Pilate. Pilate questioned him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”Jesus replied, “That’s what you say.” The chief priests were accusing him of many things.Pilate asked him again, “Aren’t you going to answer? What about all these accusa...  Read More