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I remember the first time I heard the word. “You’ve got to be sanctified”…mumbled from a half-toothed caricature of a depression era southern child. It was just one of the many fast-paced scenes from the movie “O Brother Where Art Thou”. I never thought much about the word until I had experienced it myself. This week, we are looking at the #DoOver we find in the story of Peter. Peter was one of the disciples of Jesus. Many people would say he was Jesus’ right hand man, taking care of things, part of his inner circle, privy to amazing experiences and ultimately the rock upon whom the Church would be built. But Peter was also a bumbling idiot. One of Peter’s most infamous bumbles was the denial of Jesus Christ during his trial. But in just a few weeks we see a dramatically different Peter in the book of Acts. He goes from a bumbling follower, nearly incompetent…to a tremendous leader serving as the vocal mouthpiece of the movement of Jesus Christ, affecting thousands in Jerusalem. What can do this? Sanctificati

Meetings. We have meetings every day. Some of them are serious and some of them are just for fun. When was the last time you walked into a meeting that was significantly more serious than you expected? It’s never fun getting blindsided. For me, it is usually not being aware of something pretty big to someone else. I am not aware of the whole picture. Jesus has a secret meeting one night with a religious leader. Folks everywhere are talking about who Jesus is, who Jesus isn’t, what he is capable of, what is going to do for them or not do for them. People are fighting for his attention, putting words and actions into his mouth. So a secret meeting happens. With the last person we would expect to be seeking out Jesus. And a heck of a #DoOver happens. One that rewrites hundreds of years history in the heart of a man named Nicodemus. This #DoOver isn’t because of a mistake, but Jesus rewrites the way Nicodemus sees the entire world. And this is a #DoOver we all need to have happen to us.

Nobody lives in a bubble. Things that other people do affect our lives … sometimes we need a #DoOver not because of what we do or the choices we make but because of what other people do to us. Sometimes these kind of #DoOver moments leave us simply frustrated and sometimes the are life altering. This week in worship we are going to talk about one of those life altering situations by looking at the story of a woman named Bathsheba. Yes, this is the Bathsheba of King David and Bathsheba and yes it is a messy story, a story characterized by abuse of power, deceit, death, grief and multiple situations calling for a #DoOver. In fact, this story is so messy it is hard to see anything other than the mess. But if we look again then we see something else, we discover what God is up to IN the mess. We’ll see how God breaks into Bathsheba’s story, our stories and what any of this has to do with one of our favorite Foundry hashtags #jesusisbigenough

#DoOver’s almost necessitate something happening first. Mine usually revolve around either rushing something or putting my foot in my mouth. I would say these two situations make up around 85% of my do over moments. But what if a do over involves a fundamental shift or change? What if it involves something you aren’t necessarily responsible for…but is more of an inherited situation? Makes things a little more complicated…doesn’t it? This week in worship we are going to talk about a woman named Rahab. She was a…well, how do we put this lightly? Or should we even put it lightly? Rahab was a prostitute. Part of a systemic oppression, most likely out of her control. Rehab lived in a town called Jericho. It was an important town with a really big wall. And it was the first time the gigantic group of people known as the Hebrews encountered when they finished their generation of wilderness wandering and crossed over into the land God was giving them to live in. Rahab ended up meeting two spies sent to case out the c

At Foundry's Launch service we began the #DoOver Series: Dramatic Mistakes and Even More Dramatic Second Chances. Our first sermon comes from Genesis 4 and focuses around a conversation about truly knowing God.

Chad Brooks, our lead pastor, preaches the final message in our #right series. He shares the story of Paul, from Acts and Ephesians, and talks about how Biblical obedience is often the opposite from what we assume. Instead of being based in a list of things to NOT do, we find the freedom and completion in Christ we are searching for.

in this episode of FOUNDRYcast, Chad Brooks sits down with Foundry member Chris McBroom. Chris plays in our band and is married to Sara. They have a wild daughter named Marley, who we talk about several times in the episode.  Chris is great at inviting his friends to church and he shares with us some of his philosophy of asking your friends to come to church. 

This message comes from our 3rd preview service. Chad has been sharing a series called "RIght" and exploring what it means to have a bibilical understanding of "being right". Join us for the final message in the series on August 23rd. 

So how did Foundry get it's name?  This is just one of the topics on this latest episode of FOUNDRYcast. We also talk with Allison Sauls, our pastoral intern about her journey in ministry. 

On our first episode of FOUNDRYcast, DJ talks with Chad Brooks, pastor of Foundry. Allison Sauls, our pastor of connections, also joins the show. Chad shares some of the story of Foundry and what makes a new church different.