Seeking a Message of Peace Through Art
Dr. Jame He Qi discusses how art can influence us to understand and make peace as well as understand the Divine.
David and Goliath
In this message from Paradox Church, Craig walks through 1 Samuel 17 with the Dead Sea Scrolls open on the table: Goliath's actual height, the ancient practice of champion warfare, and the contradiction in 2 Samuel 21 that forced Israel to rewrite its own history 300 years later.
Samuel and the Voice of God
In this message, Craig Hadley discusses each passage where God speaks directly to Samuel. Looking at all of these moments together, he then asks what we believe about who gets to hear the voice of God, and what that belief says about our understanding of God.
Saul and David
In this message, Craig Hadley explores the complex and often tense dynamic between two of Israel's first kings: Saul and David.
Packing Well
In this message, Meredith Miller explores the well-intentioned but harmful reality of "bingo-winning faith"—where list management and rule-following replace a genuine relationship with God.
Paradox 101 (2026)
In this sermon, we discuss what Paradox is all about.
Being, Believing, and Belonging
This week at Paradox Church, we welcome back Kathy Lin for a beautiful and challenging look at 1 John 5:2-9. Drawing on her own journey of deconstruction, her background in psychology and religion, and her profound experiences as a hospital chaplain, Kathy unpacks the harm caused by authoritarian, punitive images of God.
A Guide to Living with God
What does it truly look like to live a life connected to God? In this message, Craig Hadley explores 1 John 4:7 and what it means to walk with God through authentic love for one another.
A Guide to Living with Religion
Does your faith feel like a system of control, or does it inspire wonder? In this continuation of our series in 1 John, we explore what it really means to "test the spirits" (1 John 4:1) in a modern world.
A Guide to Living with Sin
What if everything you were taught about sin was designed to keep you ashamed, not free?
A Guide to Living With the Antichrist
In this opening message of our series on 1st John, Pastor Craig dives into the strange, drama-filled origin story behind one of the Bible's most feared words.
Paradox Unscripted
Pastor Craig Hadley takes questions LIVE from the congregation and attempts to answer them. He has not seen any of these questions ahead of time!
Pride & Penitence
What if your disability isn't a punishment — and the healing you need isn't a cure?
That the Works of God Might Be Seen in Them
"Who sinned, this man or his parents?" That's the question that opens John 9 — and it's a question that still gets asked, in different words, about anyone whose body or identity doesn't fit the frameworks we're handed.
In this guest message, Esther Loewen — a licensed marriage and family therapist and former pastor — walks through three places where the story of the man born blind in John 9 echoes her own experience, and the experience of many trans people today: being treated as a puzzle to solve rather than a person, the holiness of embodied transformation, and the demand to testify again and again before being believed. Esther shares pieces of her own transition story and ends with a question for the whole church to sit with: if God were doing something sacred in the life of a trans person, would you be able to see it?
Good News in a Body
On Pride Sunday, guest preacher Jaz Bowen-Waring (Lutheran pastor and founder of Queerfully and Wonderfully Made) brings a message rooted in Luke 4 and the incarnation: when Jesus stood up in the synagogue and declared, "Today, this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing," everything changed.
THE GREAT COMMISSION
In this message from Matthew 28, Pastor Craig unpacks Jesus's final words to his disciples — "go and make disciples of all nations" — and challenges the version of the Great Commission that turns people into recruiting targets and measures spiritual maturity by how many people you bring through the doors. Instead, he traces the words of Jesus and the life of Paul to reveal a commission built not on numbers or conversions, but on something far more radical: learning to love yourself, your neighbor, your enemies, and ultimately, God with your whole heart.
The Sheep And The Goats
In this week's message, Pastor Craig Hadley dives into Jesus' apocalyptic sermon of Matthew 24–25 — and the four parables that close it out. We're talking wars, darkness, servants burying their money, and a final judgment that flips everyone's expectations upside down.
The Parable of the Vineyard
In Matthew 20, Jesus tells a parable where workers hired at different hours all receive the same pay — and the ones who worked longest are furious.
Forgiving the Unforgivable
Pastor Craig Hadley discusses the Christian journey of forgiveness, and how we trust Jesus Christ can teach us how to forgive all things---including the unforgivable.
The Wonder Women of Matthew
Madison Brown tells the story of Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, and Bathsheba, and how their lives lead us into a greater understanding of God's love.