This week we look at a short passage in Numbers 21. The Israelites complain against God and Moses, and God sends venomous snakes to bite them. Pastor Ralph Williams walks us through this passage (with a nod toward Jordan Peterson) as we look at what it means to die in the Wilderness.

This week we continue our journey in the Lenten season. Pastor Ralph Williams walks us through the call of Moses, who starts out ready to take on the entire Egyptian empire by himself. However, after spending forty years taking care of his father-in-law's sheep on the back side of the wilderness, he no longer has the fire or the vision when God calls to him from the burning bush.

This week we consider the self-imposed wilderness of isolation and shame. Pastor Ralph Williams walks us through John 4, using Jesus' encounter with a Samaritan woman as a paradigm for a modern wilderness.

This week we continue with our Lenten study, Into the Wilderness. Last week we learned that Lent is based on Jesus' temptation experience in the wilderness. Pastor Ralph Williams asks the question, "Why into the wilderness?" As he puts it, why not the beach of the Sea of Galilee? Or the Jordan River? As it turns out, there is a reason!

This week we begin a new series designed for a closer look at Lent. The forty days leading up to Easter (not counting Sundays) are drawn from Jesus' temptation in the wilderness. Although both Matthew and Luke narrate this scene, Pastor Ralph Williams walks us through the Lukan version, stopping briefly to consider the wilderness itself, and then looking at each of the three tests (or temptations).