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Lessons from the shoreline
As we begin a new year together, we’re starting a series called Lessons from the Shoreline: When God meets us by the water.
Throughout the Bible, the shoreline is a powerful place. It’s a place of movement and decision. A place between what has been and what is yet to come. It’s where land meets sea—where certainty meets risk—and again and again, it’s where God meets His people.
Think about it.
God brings Israel through the Red Sea. He calls fishermen beside the Sea of Galilee. He calms storms, walks on water, restores broken disciples on a beach at dawn. And in Jonah, God meets a runaway prophet in the depths of the sea itself.
Water in Scripture is never just background scenery. It’s often the setting for rescue, judgement, calling, repentance, and renewal. People encounter God when they’re exposed, interrupted, or out of control—when the ground beneath their feet is no longer solid.
This series will take us to those moments. We’ll stand on the shoreline with flawed people—people who hesitate, resist, fail, and sometimes run in the opposite direction. And we’ll see a God who is never distant. A God who pursues, who rescues, who calls again, and who meets people right where they are.
As we start a new year, many of us find ourselves at a kind of shoreline too—looking back at what’s been, unsure of what lies ahead. This series invites us to listen again to the God who meets us not only in calm waters, but in storms, depths, and unexpected places of grace.
