In the midst of a polarized world, the way of God offers a better way of wisdom, peace, and common good. This is the way of "praus" - finding an alternative way between two extremes. The words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount address many current issues of our day and teach us how to rise above division with a "better way", a way filled with love, dignity, and Kingdom priorities.

As humans, our default setting is to focus on our own needs, our own lives. Yet God entrusted His work of transforming creation to "the body of Christ" - the church. How do we embrace our limitations, while taking the risk of standing up to opposition? The Old Testament story of Elijah, invites us to step back and think about the needs all around us, and to "jump in" to God’s work!

We love a good story - one with a beginning, middle, and end; a story where you can even skip to the end before knowing the details that brought that ending about. The Bible is not a cover-to-cover linear story, it is more like a narrative arch emerging from the library of books that comprise it. If we look at the end of the Bible in Revelation 21, we find a picture of a future reality that leaves us with the questions: How do we get there? What started this story and why did it lead us here? If this ending hasn’t happened yet, how do we fit into the story? Keeping all of these questions in mind, this eight part series explores how the pieces of the Bible fit together to tell one compelling story of hope, compassion and love - the greatest story ever told.