Matt. 4:23 - 5:16Who is really blessed? It isn't always who it seems. Jesus proclaims that the kingdom is available to those who are humble enough to receive it.
Matthew 4:23-25 is the beginning of Jesus and the disciple's public ministry to let people know that the Kingdom of God has come through Jesus. They demonstrate this through 3 Kingdom-Revealing Activities: Preaching, teaching, and healing.
Matt. 4:12-22What does it mean to be a disciple of Jesus? As Jesus begins his ministry, he announces that God's kingdom has arrived, and he calls would be disciples to come and follow him.
Matt. 3:1-12A fiery prophet arrives in Israel, preaching repentance in light of the coming judgement, and that One is coming who will save people from their sins.
In our final week of the series, we will be looking at an area that we might not associate with our spiritual lives at all: being good stewards of our bodies. Our main text will be 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, where we learn that God cares not only a
This Sunday we will be looking at the spiritual discipline of meditation on Scripture, out of Psalm 1 and Isaiah 31:4. Meditation – the slow reading of Scripture – is the chief means by which we are “transformed by the renewing of our minds.” W
This week in How To Grow we are looking at the spiritual discipline of solitude and silence, out of Mark 1:35-38. We see in the life of Jesus regular patterns of getting away to be with the Father, and on Sunday we will consider what it might l
This week we are looking at the spiritual discipline of Sabbath keeping, out of Luke 4:16 and Mark 2:23-27. Here we see that Jesus himself practiced Sabbath as a means of connecting with the Father and allowing the Father to care for his physic
This Sunday I’m excited to start a new series, How to Grow: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People. Our study begins in 1 Kings 19:1-18, with a story of how God cared for Elijah, and a reminder of how God wants to care for us, and how we can
This Sunday we are looking at a different aspect of outreach: compassion and justice, out of Micah 6:6-8. Here God addresses our tendency to substitute religiosity for actually caring for people. Instead of hollow ritual, God calls us to three