The ascension of Jesus is a strange part of the story. It's hard to understand what it means for us today, and if it really matters at all. This week we look at what it teaches us about Jesus, about the Kingdom of God and about us.

Vox Alliance Podcast

Revealing Jesus

This week Lois Belsey pays us a visit to talk about her forty years of work in Papua Indonesia. Nathan and Lois chat about the work she is doing there, the things she loves about Papua and the ways that we at Vox can be a part of what she is doing.

Interview with Lois Belsey

What if instead of making New Year's resolutions about what we want to do, we made resolutions about who we want to be? This week we look at Vox's New Year's resolution to live our lives with the theme of love.

Faith, Hope, Love and Community

Nathan put together a spoken word performance for this year's Christmas Eve Coffeehouse sevice.

A Spoken Word for Christmas 2016

In the Magnificat, Mary talks about the proud and oppressive being brought low, and the oppressed being set free and lifted up, but what does this really look like? This week we look at our role in seeing our world reconciled and redeemed.

The Math of Oppression

This week we look at the tone of Mary's song, and of the idea she uses of "fearing God." How can celebration and fear be linked? What does Mary mean when she talks about fearing God?

Celebrating Fear

For this year's Christmas series we are going to be looking at what Thomas Cahill calls, "the most muscular piece of celebration poetry in all of ancient literature." We are going to be looking at Mary's Magnificat found in Luke 1:46-55. This week we look at the sociopolitical context of the original Christmas story.

The Magnificat

It has been said that our eyes are the windows to the soul, but how true is that? This week, Nathan talks about the power in our eyes, the power of what we choose to focus on, and how we choose see the world.

Two Looks

This week we look at the power of a shared meal; the power that comes from breaking bread together, and what that means for the Kingdom of God here earth. Could it be that food is another beautiful example of God's love and grace?

Breaking Bread

Sometimes an idea comes along that forces us to rethink everything we thought we knew. What do we do when encountering something like this, that casts everything we thought we knew in a new light?

Relativity and Religion

Things got a little weird when the Holy Spirit showed up on the day of Pentecost. There was rushing wind, fire and people speaking in tongues. It was exciting, but what does it mean for us now? This week we look at the power that is available from heaven to change earth, and a God who meets us where we're at.

Boom Goes The Dynamite

Sometimes it feels like our lives are getting more and more busy, and it can feel like we are always trying to catch our breath. Is this how we were created to live? This week, we look at why the Holy Spirit came as wind, and what that means for us in our hectic world.

Here Comes the Boom

We often seem to have this idea that the early followers of Jesus knew exactly what they were doing every step of the way, but that's not the story the scriptures seem to tell. This week we look at what we can learn from the early church about how to go about finding God's will for our lives.

So What Now?

This week we wrestle with the systems stories of our lives that get in the way of us understanding what Jesus is trying to teach us. We look at the fundamental story of the Kingdom of God, and what that means for us today.

Replacing The Story

This week we begin our new study on the Book of Acts. We look at what Luke was trying to get across, and the main subject of the story: Jesus. We look at the ways that Jesus, not only haunts the story of Acts, but our stories as well.

Haunting the Story

Teachings and thoughts from Nathan Barnes the Lead Pastor of Vox Alliance Church