“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.” (Matthew 6v9)

This isn’t just a sentence—it’s a reorientation of the soul.

Together, we explore how adoration helps us pray not from performance, but from presence. We look at what it means to call God Father, to hallow His name in a world full of competing names, and how adoration can be an act of resistance when life feels chaotic.

In this episode, we walk through three invitations from Jesus’ words:

Remember who God is.

Remember who you are.

Remember who we are to each other.

This message draws from Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools by Tyler Staton, and invites us to move deeper into prayer—not just to ask things from God, but to be formed by the One we’re speaking to.

Whether you’re just beginning to pray or beginning again, this conversation is for you.

We unpack three postures of honest, ongoing prayer: gratitude, lament, and petition—each one a doorway into real conversation with a real God. We also explore what it means to pray “in Jesus’ name,” not as a tagline but as a way of positioning ourselves in the authority and alignment of Christ.

This episode is for anyone who’s ever asked, “What do I say to God when I don’t know what to pray?” or “Does prayer actually make a difference?” You are not alone. And the invitation is simple: bring your real self to the One who listens.

We don’t confess to be condemned. We confess to be known.

If you’re learning to pray from a place of truth instead of performance, this message opens the door.

This episode invites us to recover our original calling as co-managers of God’s world, and to believe again that prayer isn’t just a spiritual discipline—it’s a holy partnership.

In this teaching we explore how easy it is to miss Jesus because of our prejudices, how he still seeks out honest, questioning people, and what it means that he sees Nathanael “under the fig tree” as a true seeker of God. From there we trace Jesus’ promise that Nathanael will “see heaven opened” back to Jacob’s ladder and discover Jesus as the true gate of heaven, the one who opens the way to God.

If you are wrestling with doubts, assumptions, or quiet hunger to know God more, this episode invites you to “come and see” the Messiah who really sees you.

In this teaching from Uncommon City’s Scripture Practice series, we explore Scripture as communal literature. Not a private self-help manual. Not a collection of spiritual soundbites. But a living word formed in community, preserved by community, and meant to be spoken, heard, and embodied together.

Through stories, history, and Scripture, we trace how God’s people have always encountered the Word out loud, over time, with one another. From ancient oral traditions to modern attention spans, from shema to zakar, this message invites us to slow down, listen deeply, remember faithfully, and let the Word read us.

Because Scripture isn’t just trying to inform us.
It’s trying to form us.

Listen in, and consider what it might look like for the Word of Christ to dwell richly among us again.

In this teaching from our ongoing Practice on Scripture, we explore one of the most important and overlooked practices in the life of faith: meditation. Not mindfulness. Not speed-reading. Not highlight-and-move-on. Something far older, far slower, and far more alive.

This is the Easter reflection I gave at our 2026 gathering at Hammock Hall, Boyd Hill Nature Preserve in St. Petersburg, Florida. We had just walked through a Visio Divina experience with sacred art on the walls, and we were about to share communion together. What came in between is what you're about to watch.

This talk moves through the resurrection encounters in the Gospel of John — Mary in the garden, the road to Emmaus, Thomas and his doubt, the breakfast on the beach — and asks what the resurrection of Jesus actually means for your ordinary life. Not just your eternity. Your Monday. Your body. The grief you cannot put down.

Along the way we spend time in Romans 8, Colossians 3, Second Corinthians 5, and Philippians 3. Dorothy Sayers, GK Chesterton, Howard Thurman, Martin Luther, Max Lucado, and Da Truth all have something to say about it.

That word "must" is not resignation. In the Greek, it is dei — divine necessity. A plan already in motion. The same word Jesus uses when he says the Son of Man must suffer. John is not losing. He is completing.

In this first message of our "Who Is This Jesus?" series, we follow John to the riverbank and discover that the question of who Jesus is always leads us back to the question of who we are. John the Baptist names Jesus as the Bridegroom. And in doing that, he names himself — and us. Not the destination. The friend. The one sent before.

A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven.
If you really believed that, what would change?

This is Week 1 of Who Is This Jesus? — a series working through the Gospel of John to meet Jesus again, or maybe for the first time.