This year our focus for Holy Week is the story of Jospeh found in Genesis 37-50, and how the pain Joseph experienced did not nullify God’s promises. Instead, God used Joseph’s pain to reveal His promises and move His story toward its fulfillment in Jesus.

Like Joseph, our lives are full of painful events that can cause disorientation. We may ask the questions above in the midst of our pain or as we witness the suffering of others.

Joseph’s story points us to a surprising truth: in the biblical story, pain is often the pathway for God to fulfill His promises. We see this foreshadowed in Joseph and fulfilled in Jesus.

As a family of churches, we regularly teach through whole books of the Bible.
Because God has made us physical, emotional, and imaginative beings, each Sermon Series is accompanied by visual art, discipleship materials, and specific focuses drawn from the Bible. 

Christian | Non-denominational | Bible driven | Jesus centered | Mission focused |  Historically rooted | Reformed | Members of the Acts 29 Church Planting Network

And we desire...
to plant more theologically-rich, contextual churches across Northern Nevada, and remain committed to the flourishing of the communities where churches are planted.

We started...
As a Bible study in Reno, NV in 1998. To date, our family of churches has grown to eight churches across Northern Nevada in Reno, South Reno, North Valleys, Sparks, Elko, Carson City, Fernley, and Winnemucca.

The name of our churches comes from the New Testament (1 Peter 2:4-5): "As you come to Jesus, a Living Stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house. to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Christ Jesus."

GOD IS TRIUNE
We believe in one God, eternally existing in three equally divine Persons; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

GOD HAS REVEALED HIMSELF
In the natural world, in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and in the verbally-inspired, inerrant, and authoritative 66 books of the Bible, God has clearly revealed Himself to humanity.

HUMANITY
God created human beings, male and female, in His own image. Men and women, equally made in the image of God, enjoy equal access to God by faith in Jesus, and bear God's image in unique and distinct ways. Men and women have received different, complementary roles from God that are to be lived out according to His Word, the Bible.

THE FALL
Adam fell into sin through the devil's temptation, bringing alienation from God and total corruption to every aspect of every human being (our bodies, minds, wills, emotions, and souls) since this initial sin.

THE GOSPEL
The Gospel is the good news of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son of God and Mediator of the covenant of grace, who justifies, sanctifies, and adopts His people through faith alone to the hope of eternal life with God in the physical new creation.

GOD'S REDEMPTION OF HIS PEOPLE
We believe that, moved by love and in obedience to his Father, the eternal Son, Jesus, became human: the Word became flesh, truly God and truly human, one Person in two natures, miraculously conceived by the Holy Spirit and born to the virgin Mary.
He perfectly obeyed His heavenly Father, lived a sinless life, performed miraculous signs, was crucified under Pontius Pilate, arose bodily from the dead, and ascended into heaven.

SALVATION OF SINNERS
By His sacrifice, Jesus bore in our place the punishment due to us for our sins, making a proper, real, and full satisfaction to God’s justice for us. By His perfect obedience He satisfied the just demands of God for us, since by faith alone that perfect obedience is credited by grace alone to all who trust in Christ alone for salvation.

THE HOLY SPIRIT
He convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment, and by His powerful and mysterious work regenerates spiritually dead sinners, awakening them to repentance and faith, baptizing them into union with the Lord Jesus, and justifying them before God.

THE RESTORATION OF ALL THINGS
We believe in the personal, glorious, and bodily return of our Lord Jesus Christ with His holy angels, when He will judge, and His kingdom will be consummated.