The Best News Ever

Notes here - soon I have the power, June 8, 2025 Jack Morris

Notes here Defying Gravity, Luke 24:44-53, June 1, 2025 Ben Bouwers

Notes Here Horatio Spafford. “It Is Well with My Soul.” Manuscript hymn, 1871. Manuscript Division , Library of Congress (8) Peace His Legacy our Gift, John 14:25-27, May 25, 2025 Ben Bouwers

Notes here A New Command that makes New, John 13:31-35, May 18, 2025 Ben Bouwers

Notes here Tell us plainly, John 10:22-30, May, 11, 2025 Ben Bouwers

Notes Here Tired and in the dark, John 21:1-17, May 4, 2025 Ben Bouwers

Notes We have seen the Lord, April 27, 2025, John 20:11-31 Ben Bouwers

Notes here Paschal Sermon, Luke 24:1-12, He is not here Ben Bouwers

Into a world longing for a Power strong enough to remove their oppressors Jesus looked past the Palms to embrace the Passion of the cross to unveil real and lasting Peace. Not by might, not by power as it had been known and defined but by My Spirit. A power revealed in self giving self emptying love and forgiveness - Peace for every man woman boy and girl and that is good news.

The Good News we proclaim in a world filled with distortion, distance and disconnection of every kind. There is a Man who trusts His Love is enough to Liberate and give life to the most broken to restore - Sonship like Jesus!

You see repentance is not just about our decision to stop doing certain things - its more about agreeing with God about what is real and true! Repentance beloved is agreeing with God about reality.

Notes here Why or How? Repent, Luke 13:1-9, March 23, 2025 Ben Bouwers

notes here Focus and Filter Jack Morris

The Words God spoke over Jesus at His baptism were enough not just to rescue Jesus from temptation but allow Him to proclaim and reveal another Kingdom – His belovedness is the basis of His life and ministry. In a world filled with 'good ideas' of how to use power to make our life work, the Fathers words of love over you and me today are still the basis His Kingdom is revealed and that is Good New...

Transfiguration then is not just an event to Peter, James and John but a glimpse of themselves, weighed down with sleep - with the weight of life. When they awake they see the dazzling glory of Jesus, is this what a human being looks like transformed from the fatigue and weight of by the good opinion of God towards all He has made - maybe this is reality? Beholding what you are and Becoming what y...

Beloved the Good News we proclaim today in a world divided by wounds, fears and innumerable barriers God’s Kingdom still comes when we hear His invitation and surrender to His Mercy! Mercy that enables us to freely love our enemies. Not as a spiritual task but as a result of mercy being rooted in us.

Real Religion - as revealed and defined by Jesus is not measured by the Power Centers of earthly empire and influence but by lives surrendered to Mercy and led by Love. The Good Life is the actual blessed life where God is able to love the world through you and me today and that is Good News!

In the deep Jesus reveals a deeper mystery something beyond hard work and effort - lives not defined by success, failure, emptiness or clutter - but in the abundance of encountering the mystery of the measureless heart of the Father revealed in Christ. Here they encounter what they had never known before measureless grace! And that is Good News.

Notes here Photo by David Iskander on Unsplash My Mission Statement, Luke 4, Feb. 2, Jack Morris

In the place and to the people looking for life, hope and change by either violent resistance or legalistic righteousness - Jesus enters the story and changes the story. He simply came as a son of His mother Mary and He changes the story from shame to honor from fear to joy! This is more than power on display this is who God is and what God does. He has come to invade humanities mortality by embra...

Beloved the whole gospel could be summed up in this point: to tear filled angry young lady and to you and me - its time to rethink everything. Jesus was manifest to reveal that the living God looks at us, and says to us what he said to Jesus on that day. ‘You are my son/daughter, the one I love and in you I take great pleasure. He sees us, not as we are in our broken places, but as we are in Jesus...

Beloved the Good News Gospel of Jesus that John describes in our text today “And the Word became flesh and lived among us and we beheld His glory” This is the good news - Christ has come to where we actually are...not where we would like to be- but as He is to reveal Heaven and restore earth!

Notes here Getty Images For Unsplash+ Mission Statement, Dec 29, 2024, Luke 2:41-52 Jack Morris

To shepherds in the fields in the dark of night, in weakness and vulnerability light has broken in to proclaim a song that will anchor their life in Wonder - a Savior has been born for you - the forgotten and forsaken - He is Christ the Lord. And this is the message of Advent beloved in a place and at time that would normally be cold and dark - light and sound broke in to proclaim Good News to the...

The Good News we proclaim today in a world laden and weary with fear - Hope is the promise of Gods salvation in the man Christ Jesus. Hope arrives in person. So what do we do now? We repent. By changing our mind, our heart and our life - we change the way we live as a people surrendered to Hope over fear. A life that is not ruled by fear but by love and that beloved is good news.