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The Kingdom of God is where everything that happens meets with God's approval and delight. The awesome thing for us is that His kingdom is available to us here...now. One of the toughest virtues of all is faithfulness. To be consistent, faithful, to be there, day after day. Victories in our spiritual journey don’t take place as they happen, they happen months before. The same can be said for the K...

The Kingdom of God is where everything that happens meets with God's approval and delight. The awesome thing for us is that His kingdom is available to us here...now. Over the next three weeks, we are going to be talking about what this looks like, fleshing it out. We have talked about the theory, now let’s talk about how we do it.

The Kingdom of God is where everything that happens meets with God's approval and delight. The awesome thing for us is that His kingdom is available to us here...now. There are two types of love. One that finds value in things that are nice and shiny. That looks to someone’s exterior. But there is another love that loves the ragdolls. It loves people like you and me. It makes up there come down he...

The Kingdom of God is where everything that happens meets with God's approval and delight. The awesome thing for us is that His kingdom is available to us here...now. It's a place where the poor and marginalized are welcomed in, where everyone experiences love no matter their ethnicity or socioeconomic background. The problem is that we have set up boundary markers to determine who is in and who i...

What is the Gospel? The word gospel means good news, so for many followers of Christ the idea that we get to spend eternity in heaven with Jesus is good news. It is also good news that Jesus died on the cross for our sins. What was the gospel for Jesus, though? Over and over Jesus would offer the "good news" of the Kingdom of God. Today we will dig in to Jesus' gospel message. The good news of the...

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Amanda Pettit talks about Hope and all that God is doing at Rescue Hill

Welcome to the Summer of the Sermon! Each Sunday through the summer we are going to go through and dig in to the Sermon on the Mount and discover what exactly Jesus wants from us. Today we wrap up this summer long series of the Sermon on the Mount. I think it can be summed up nicely by saying that if we aren’t producing fruit, we aren’t following Jesus and his plan for us. Church is a place that w...

Welcome to the Summer of the Sermon! Each Sunday through the summer we are going to go through and dig in to the Sermon on the Mount and discover what exactly Jesus wants from us. We must be careful not to let this idea that we will somehow drift into the kingdom of God invade our thinking. The decision to follow Christ must be followed by a decision everyday...every moment of every day...to conti...

Welcome to the Summer of the Sermon! Each Sunday through the summer we are going to go through and dig in to the Sermon on the Mount and discover what exactly Jesus wants from us. Earlier in the sermon Jesus taught us how to pray, today we will go through part of the sermon that Jesus speaks of God’s response to our prayer. No prayer is ever wasted! We must be vigilant in continually petitioning o...

Welcome to the Summer of the Sermon! Each Sunday through the summer we are going to go through and dig in to the Sermon on the Mount and discover what exactly Jesus wants from us. Today we look at Jesus' warning for us to avoid the extremes of judgment. We need to be careful not to become harshly judgmental, looking for faults, taking the opportunity to look down on others from our position of sel...

Welcome to the Summer of the Sermon! Each Sunday through the summer we are going to go through and dig in to the Sermon on the Mount and discover what exactly Jesus wants from us. We can break it down like this...unless we serve him whole-heartedly, we cannot claim to serve him at all. If we are seeking first the righteousness of the Kingdom, we will be in obedience to all of Jesus’ commands. Jesu...

Welcome to the Summer of the Sermon! Each Sunday through the summer we are going to go through and dig in to the Sermon on the Mount and discover what exactly Jesus wants from us. How should we pray? Is there an instruction book? Prayer is one of the ways we touch Jesus – let Jesus touch us – and let Jesus change our lives. Prayer is one of the spiritual disciplines we need to incorporate into our...

Welcome to the Summer of the Sermon! Each Sunday through the summer we are going to go through and dig in to the Sermon on the Mount and discover what exactly Jesus wants from us. Jesus is calling us to a higher standard. He is challenging us to grow in obedience to him. The last few paragraphs of Jesus’ sermon are on the theme of a greater righteousness. A righteousness that cannot be achieved by...

Welcome to the Summer of the Sermon! Each Sunday through the summer we are going to go through and dig in to the Sermon on the Mount and discover what exactly Jesus wants from us. Anger can destroy us. We cannot let anger wriggle its way into our lives or else we will be eat up with it. And, with that anger in our lives, we cannot be reconciled to God. Many of us have always felt that if we don’t...

Welcome to the Summer of the Sermon! Each Sunday through the summer we are going to go through and dig in to the Sermon on the Mount and discover what exactly Jesus wants from us. It is important we understand pursuing a relationship with Christ is the most important thing. That’s what we are doing. It is in that pursuit that we learn to love to follow the law. It’s not about how much we know or h...

Welcome to the Summer of the Sermon! Each Sunday through the summer we are going to go through and dig in to the Sermon on the Mount and discover what exactly Jesus wants from us. Taking the Sermon on the Mount in order, first he taught us though the Beatitudes to make sure our relationship with God is right. The second thing he taught us is that we need to be salt and light. In other words, as ou...

Welcome to the Summer of the Sermon! Each Sunday through the summer we are going to go through and dig in to the Sermon on the Mount and discover what exactly Jesus wants from us. God’s desire for us is to be transformed. To be different from the rest of the world. It reminds me of the little girl who asked her mother, “If God is bigger than us and he lives in us, wouldn’t he show through?” In the...

What does it mean to take offense? If you look up the definition of the word, offended, you will see most dictionaries say something about anger and resentment. As we get in to this, you may be thinking, like me, aren’t we allowed to be angry? What about righteous anger? Aren’t Christians supposed to be angry at people for certain things? We will talk about all these things and more through this s...

What does it mean to take offense? If you look up the definition of the word, offended, you will see most dictionaries say something about anger and resentment. As we get in to this, you may be thinking, like me, aren’t we allowed to be angry? What about righteous anger? Aren’t Christians supposed to be angry at people for certain things? We will talk about all these things and more through this s...

What does it mean to take offense? If you look up the definition of the word, offended, you will see most dictionaries say something about anger and resentment. As we get in to this, you may be thinking, like me, aren’t we allowed to be angry? What about righteous anger? Aren’t Christians supposed to be angry at people for certain things? We will talk about all these things and more through this s...

What does it mean to take offense? If you look up the definition of the word, offended, you will see most dictionaries say something about anger and resentment. As we get in to this, you may be thinking, like me, aren’t we allowed to be angry? What about righteous anger? Aren’t Christians supposed to be angry at people for certain things? We will talk about all these things and more through this s...

What does it mean to take offense? If you look up the definition of the word, offended, you will see most dictionaries say something about anger and resentment. As we get in to this, you may be thinking, like me, aren’t we allowed to be angry? What about righteous anger? Aren’t Christians supposed to be angry at people for certain things? We will talk about all these things and more through this s...

One thing we’ve realized, and probably everyone knows, it takes a village. What I mean is that the body operates in service together. God has given each of us gifts, Jesus has assigned various roles to us, and we all play our part in the body. In fact, one of our covenants of membership is to actively be involved in service. We believe it is important to become actively involved in a ministry of t...

This idea of canceling each other has been going on for a long time. People want to cancel God, students want to cancel teachers. If we don’t like something that ketchup stands for, cancelled. Did that person offend you? Cancelled. Going even further back, they didn’t like that Jesus had raised Lazarus from the grave (John 11:38-44) so they wanted to kill him (John 12:10). The ultimate came when t...