Even in exile, especially in exile, God is at work all around us. Preaching from Isaiah 49:5-6, Pastor Andy Lucas reminds us that we are called to join God in his redemptive work. We are to have clean hearts and dirty hands, embodying the Word of God through our lives and inviting all to the Table of the Lord.

Empire is sexy and alluring; the fear is that our children will not be Christians living in America, but Americans who come to church once in a while. Teaching from Daniel chapter 1, Pastor Andy Lucas shows us that our task is to raise "resident aliens" by continually telling the story of God they are a part of and by sharing our practices of worship with our children.

We are to be a blessing to Babylon…..through work. Work is a God-ordained and blessed vocation to order creation for the good of others. Preaching from Jeremiah 29:1-7, Pastor Andy encourages us to live into this calling, our first vocation.

As God's people, set apart and filled, we need practices that will form us according to His story in us. Pastor Andy Lucas teaches that our everyday habits form us "from the ground up." So we lean into Christian worship and the Christian calendar as a counter-liturgy to the consumeristic liturgies we experience throughout the week.

God's unique people need a life-changing story. All of us are governed by story. The success, nation, humanist, etc. stories. The people of God are invited to live out the Christian story and invite others into that story as well.

God's activity in the world can be summarized by separation, filling, blessing. Pastor Andy Lucas helps us consider how this work of God in us empowers us join him in redeeming the brokenness all around us.