Reflections

October 19, 2026

The Offense of the Cross: When Christ’s Finished Work Confronts Religion

The Offense of the Cross sermon graphic featuring Leah Ramirez alongside Jesus overturning the money changers’ tables in the temple, illustrating how Christ’s finished work confronts religious confidence.

What if the Christian life was never meant to be an endless effort to accomplish what Jesus has already finished? In this message, Leah Ramirez explores why the Gospel confronts our religious confidence and invites us into the life we have received in Christ.

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October 12, 2026

The Audacity of Believing God

Sermon graphic for The Audacity of Believing God featuring Chris Berglund and Leah Ramirez of The Gathering in Colorado Springs, with the prodigal son embraced by his father in the background, illustrating God's love, reconciliation, and the finished work of Christ.

What happens when even faith becomes another form of striving? Chris Berglund and Leah Ramirez explore how beholding Jesus awakens us to what God has already accomplished, transforming the way we understand righteousness, healing, reconciliation, and the people we love. Faith doesn’t make God’s promises true. Faith responds to the One who is faithful.

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October 5, 2026

Righteousness With Scars | How the Life of Christ Is Formed in Us

Chris Berglund with the message title “Righteousness With Scars” over a warm, sunlit path, for a teaching on righteousness, suffering, and the life of Christ being formed in us.

Righteousness is not something we earn through spiritual performance. It is the gift of Christ Himself—and as we learn to live from that union, His mercy, patience, love, and holiness begin to take visible form in us.

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September 28, 2026

The Love That Descends | The Gospel of a God Who Comes All the Way Down

Sermon artwork for The Love That Descends by Leah Ramirez at The Gathering in Colorado Springs, depicting Jesus stooping to write in the dust in John 8, illustrating the Gospel of a God who comes all the way down to us.

What if we’ve spent years trying to ascend to a God who has already come all the way down to us? From the incarnation to Jesus stooping in the dust, Leah Ramirez explores the beauty of union with Christ, the New Covenant, and the Gospel that invites us out of spiritual striving and into His life.

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September 21, 2026

From Sinai to Pentecost

Chris Berglund with Mount Sinai and flames of Pentecost behind him, illustrating the message “From Sinai to Pentecost: The Promise, the Pattern, and the Power.”

At Sinai, God revealed the pattern of covenant life. At Pentecost, He supplied the power. Chris Berglund explores how the Ten Commandments point beyond outward compliance to the indwelling life of Christ by the Holy Spirit.

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September 14, 2026

Living From Another Order

Chris Berglund beside communion bread and cup for “Living From Another Order: The Life We Receive, Not Achieve,” a teaching from Hebrews on Jesus and the order of Melchizedek.

What does the order of Melchizedek have to do with everyday Christian life? Chris Berglund traces Hebrews, Romans 5–8, union with Christ, and the shift from religious performance into the indestructible life of Jesus.

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September 7, 2026

The Door Is Standing Open | Full Participation in Christ

Promotional graphic for Leah Ramirez’s message “The Door Is Standing Open: An Invitation Into Full Participation in Christ,” featuring an open golden doorway in the clouds, a heavenly city in the distance, and a portrait of Leah Ramirez. The graphic includes The Gathering and Company 318.

What if the Christian life is less about trying to get closer to God and more about learning to live from where He has already placed us in Christ? In this message, Leah Ramirez explores union with Christ, life in the Spirit, and the open invitation to full participation in His life.

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August 31, 2026

Revelation-Shaped Imagination Unto Conception

Chris Berglund teaching Revelation-Shaped Imagination Unto Conception at The Gathering

What happens when something God reveals becomes more than a truth we understand and begins to take shape within us? Chris Berglund explores revelation-shaped imagination, beholding, faith, and the formation of Christ within us.

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August 24, 2026

God in Our Hands

Leah Ramirez teaching “God in Our Hands,” a message about what the cross reveals about God and humanity.

What the Cross Reveals About God—and About Us I said something on Sunday that is probably the most honest way I can describe where I am right now: I don’t really have something new to share. I have the same thing I can’t let go of, and somehow it keeps hitting me in a new […]

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August 10, 2026

Getting Set In: Finding Your True Location in Christ

Getting Set In sermon by Leah Ramirez at The Gathering in Colorado Springs about union with Christ, the finished work of Jesus, and finding your true location in Christ.

What does it mean to be “in Christ”? Explore union with Christ, the finished work of Jesus, covenant, grace, and the freedom of living from where God has already placed you.

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