Better Together
Apr 12 2026 • Dan Kent, Greg Boyd, Shawna Boren
In this final installment of our “Wholehearted” series, we take a close look at the critical role of unity in the church. While the world divides, Jesus calls us to draw together. He tells us to make every effort to keep unity. We do so by choosing things like peace, patience and forgiveness. While forces outside the body of Christ try to tear us apart, we know that in God’s Kingdom we are always better together.
Sermons in this series:
Life in godly unity requires that the real you shows up. However, no one has it all together. We can either pretend we do and remain disconnected, or we can adopt the practice of confession and learn to love one another through the reality of weakness and even failure. Dan Kent shows us what biblical confession is, what it is not, and then points us toward practical steps to move into honest confession.
Topics: Community,
Relationships,
Repentance
We are better together and the way we use our tongues will either promote or destroy our togetherness. Greg Boyd shows us how Scripture views the power of the tongue and how it can be used for ill or for good.
Topics: Community,
Judgment,
Relationships
How do we experience the reality of being God’s family in practical ways? This question is especially crucial in a world that promotes judgment, division and isolation. Dan Kent addresses this by highlighting the instruction to “bear with each other.” Living in love does not mean only embracing those who are easy to love. Real love calls us to embrace those who require patient endurance. In this way, we reflect the love of the cross.
Topics: Community,
Forgiveness,
Relationships
This sermon by Shawna Boren unpacks regarding people from a human point of view and then guides us to take practical steps to view people as God views them. This is the way that we live in love as Christ loved us.
Topics: Community,
Conflict,
Identity in Christ
Greg Boyd opens our new series “Better Together” with a sermon on the biblical call to participate as a member of God’s family. Because the patterns of modern culture divide us, it’s a challenge to shift from an isolated “me” to a collective “we,” but God connects us so that we might live in love alongside one another.
Topics: Community,
Family,
Individualism
