What does it actually mean to live differently as a follower of Jesus? Paul had a city full of very different people - and a surprisingly practical answer. When you walk into the ruins of ancient Ephesus, the first thing you notice is what used to be there: the Temple of Artemis, once one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Today it's just a handful of columns. But the city itself, the library, the marketplace, the enormous amphitheater that seated tens of thousands -

Many of us dedicated to the path of personal growth eventually hit a wall we didn’t see coming: the "spiritual plateau." It is a place of profound exhaustion where we are doing all the right things—attending meetings, practicing discipline, attempting to be "better"—yet we feel a hollow echo where a connection to the Divine should be. It is the wearying realization of trying to be our own Savior, only to find our unaided strength has run dry. This is where Step 12 changes the

We made it. Step 12. If your toes got stepped on along the way, if you felt challenged or even a little beat up, you're not alone. This has been one of the hardest series to prepare and preach, because it forces you and me to look in the mirror and focus on the things we'd rather ignore. But those ignored parts of us never get better on their own. They just don't. So we cry out to the one who can save us, and we do the work. The Man Nobody Could Tame If you open to The Gospel