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As we embrace the fact that “We Belong to Jesus”, we’re reminded that that means loving unloveable people. Perhaps the hardest thing to do as a human being is to love someone you do not want to love or someone who has done something that makes you reticent to love them. We’re reminded in our “Follow Me” sermon series today that Jesus calls us to a higher love, a deeper love, an unheard of love...l...

If Jesus’ audience was relaxing in the assumption that the preceding teachings were directed only at the Pharisees and their followers, they could not dodge the direct force of this challenge. It is specifically directed to those who profess to follow Jesus and looks at what it means to build our lives on Him as the solid rock. Jesus is making the point that it’s not mere words or even generally e...

Jesus is going to be turning his attention to the lack of mercy present in the spiritual leadership of Israel. He is speaking to a judgmental and condemning spirit that withholds love, grace and forgiveness from others because of what they have done, said or who they are. Jesus is teaching us a Better Way and the only way that will bring true change to a person and this world. The Better Way is th...

Jesus unveils the cornerstone of his master plan as He teaches His followers His expectations of them and how they will navigate a world that will never understand them. This teaching is what turns the world upside-down and clearly communicates that His disciples will be known by how they love one another. This love will be so radical, and out of this world, that it will even extend to their enemi...

Jesus is giving His marching orders to those who will follow Him. He is tipping His hand and telling them what a life of being His disciple will entail and it won’t be like anything they have ever experienced in this world. Contrary to what our social groups may be telling us, society may be telling or even the world may be telling us, Jesus is offering a Better Way of living…living in a world tur...

As we enter the penitential season of Lent, we do so recognizing that while we’re called by Jesus to follow Jesus wherever He goes, we often stray the path He lays out and “do our own thing” rather than what He wants us to do. Because “We Belong to Jesus”, though we all have our own lives and families and gifts and careers, we are nonetheless all called to the exact, same thing, namely to deny our...

Transfiguration Sunday is a weekend when we remember that Jesus truly is God Almighty. On the Mount of Olives Jesus pulls back His humanity and shows us all the glory that is within Him. It absolutely blows my mind to think that the Great I AM, the Creator and sustainer of all things, the beginning and the end, God Himself would take on human flesh and walk amongst us. Jesus is a God who loves us...

Transfiguration Sunday is a weekend when we remember that Jesus truly is God Almighty. On the Mount of Olives Jesus pulls back His humanity and shows us all the glory that is within Him. It absolutely blows my mind to think that the Great I AM, the Creator and sustainer of all things, the beginning and the end, God Himself would take on human flesh and walk amongst us. Jesus is a God who loves us...

Chapter 14 in the book of Romans

This week we look at how Jesus was sent as the grace of God & the love of God. The good news of God was that the Father loved the world so much that He sent His one and only Son. Jesus came not to condemn the world but to save the world on account of sin. Jesus was sent to bring the grace & love of God to this sinful world. Everything that Jesus did was motivated by His grace and love for His crea...

This week we look at how Jesus was sent as the grace of God & the love of God. The good news of God was that the Father loved the world so much that He sent His one and only Son. Jesus came not to condemn the world but to save the world on account of sin. Jesus was sent to bring the grace & love of God to this sinful world. Everything that Jesus did was motivated by His grace and love for His crea...

Chapter 13 book of Romans

This week we see how Jesus truly is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of whole world. What an amazing epiphany to connect the Old Testament with the New Testament on this amazing truth. The Israelites put the blood of the lamb on the door frames to protect them from the angel of death and then ate the lamb to strengthen them for the journey ahead. As Jesus sat with His disciples, to celebrate...

This week we see how Jesus truly is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of whole world. What an amazing epiphany to connect the Old Testament with the New Testament on this amazing truth. The Israelites put the blood of the lamb on the door frames to protect them from the angel of death and then ate the lamb to strengthen them for the journey ahead. As Jesus sat with His disciples, to celebrate...

The Wedding at Cana might seem like an odd scripture passage for this week but really it shows us more of the humanity of Jesus then we might think. As Jesus lived out His earthly ministry He looked like every other Jewish male at the time. The incarnation of God went to a wedding reception, drank wine, danced with friends but also transformed the party from the inside out. Jesus listened to His m...

The Wedding at Cana might seem like an odd scripture passage for this week but really it shows us more of the humanity of Jesus then we might think. As Jesus lived out His earthly ministry He looked like every other Jewish male at the time. The incarnation of God went to a wedding reception, drank wine, danced with friends but also transformed the party from the inside out. Jesus listened to His m...

This week we look into a subject that we all want more of...namely , peace. We live in a world that is the definition of “unrest”. We live in a world that is tumultuous beyond belief. We lay down at night and wonder “What’s next?” and we really don’t want to know because we lay awake in fear! But we also know that in Jesus and through Jesus we have what the world could never give us...the peace th...

This week we look into a subject that we all want more of...namely , peace. We live in a world that is the definition of “unrest”. We live in a world that is tumultuous beyond belief. We lay down at night and wonder “What’s next?” and we really don’t want to know because we lay awake in fear! But we also know that in Jesus and through Jesus we have what the world could never give us...the peace th...