Revolution Rising

Campus Pastor Josh Hamm teaches that we live under many pressures, but we stay focused when we let Jesus’ mission direct us instead of our stress, image, or family expectations. We stay with Jesus in daily relationship and we go out as people he sends to make disciples wherever we live, work, and serve.

Lead Pastor Joe Valenti teaches that we let God’s purpose—not our pressures or preferences—guide us as we follow Jesus in Mark 3. We stay with Jesus in community to learn from him, and he sends us out to share the gospel and serve others.

Lead Pastor Joe Valenti teaches that we honor Jesus as Lord of the Sabbath when we receive God’s gifts (like rest) as grace, not as burdens, and when we refuse to turn gifts into gods or legalistic checklists. We let his authority lead us to choose people over rules, move toward the broken with compassion, and practice simple trust that shapes how we live together.

Campus Pastor Joshua Hamm teaches that we honor God when we do good, even when it costs us, because Jesus shows us that mercy and compassion matter more than strict rule-keeping. We learn to read Scripture rightly, act with conviction, and bring our needs to Jesus so that together we live out his goodness in our daily lives.

Pastor Dale Piscura teaches us through Mark that we watch Jesus teach with authority, work miracles, oppose the status quo, and call us to fast, pray, and live in the new covenant rather than in empty ritual. We practice the Isaiah 58 fast by caring for the oppressed, see Jesus as our bridegroom, cherish him as our first love, and prepare with joy for his coming.

This week Lead Pastor Joe Valenti shows us that Jesus calls Levi and eats with “tax collectors and sinners,” so we see He comes for the sick and invites us to follow Him before we clean up. We refuse to withdraw, blend in, or fight in anger; instead we seek holiness while entering dark places with mercy and truth so we bring others to Him.

This week Lead Pastor Joe Valenti reminds us that true faith takes action. We trust Jesus not just with words but by moving toward Him and bringing others to Him, believing He has the authority to heal, forgive, and transform every part of our lives.

Founding Pastor Rick Duncan leads us through Mark 1:40–45, where we feel like outcasts yet we see Jesus touch the untouchable, and we learn that miracles point beyond temporary relief to the deeper cleansing of sin and restoration under his compassionate kingship. We come, beg, kneel, and ask, trusting Jesus when answers delay, and we welcome the unwanted—including us—as we keep seeking him for healing, obedience, and new life.

Lead Pastor Joe Valenti reminds us that Jesus cares about all suffering but cares most about eternal suffering; in Mark 1 he heals many and restores dignity, yet at dawn he prays and moves on to preach because that is why he comes. We respond by trusting his timing in our pain, seeking not just temporary relief but hearts changed through the gospel, and using our stories—like Christy’s—to point others to God and hope in Jesus.

Lead Pastor Joe Valenti has taught that Jesus has displayed supernatural authority—affirmed at His baptism, proven in the wilderness, and shown in Mark 1 as demons have obeyed Him—revealing that our knowledge, position, experience, and power have proved insufficient without the Holy Spirit. He has urged us to move from admiration to Spirit-led obedience, seeing all of life as spiritual warfare and, as we put on God’s armor, trusting the same Spirit who has empowered Jesus to transform and protect us.

Elder Kyle Gustafson explains that Mark presents Jesus calling fishermen to immediate, costly discipleship, showing that following Jesus requires laying down identity, possessions, and relationships. He urges listeners to reorder their priorities under Christ and trust that Jesus transforms them and gives them a new identity.

Lead Pastor Joe Valenti explains that Mark writes to persecuted believers and shows through Jesus’ baptism, temptation, and start of ministry that God uses testing and trial to advance His kingdom. He calls the church to repent and believe, trust Scripture over impulse, and live as the light of the world with meekness, mercy, sacrifice, and hope.