Four weeks, one story
How We Got the Bible
Kristyn Haddon · Luke 1:1–4
The Bible didn't create Christianity. Christianity created the Bible. Long before anyone bound these sixty-six documents together, people were staking their lives on the story inside them. This message traces how a library written by more than forty people over fifteen centuries ended up in your hands, and why it was never meant to be the end of the story.
How To Read It
Sam Haddon · Genesis 1
Context decides meaning. Before you can understand a verse, you need to know two things: where you are in the story, and what kind of writing you're holding. This message walks through Genesis 1 as a worked example of why location and genre change everything about how a passage lands.
In the Mix
Sam Haddon
Jesus was always the melody. The church mixed him down. This message reads every instruction in the Bible, Moses and Paul alike, through the teaching of Jesus, working both backwards into the Old Testament and forwards into the letters that followed him.
How We Live It
Kristyn Haddon · Matthew 7:24–27
It's not about whether you submit to the text. It's about what you let it do to you. The series lands here, with Jesus' own picture of two builders: one who hears and acts, one who hears and doesn't. A practical look at reading the Bible as formation, not just information.
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