Today as we open the Word of God. We will be turning once again to the sermon on the mount as we have been spending this year looking at the Words of Jesus in this sermon of sermons. We are returning to the third section of the sermon found in Matthew 6:1-18 that we entered…
Tag: Faith
The Peculiar Kingdom of God & its People ~ Faith Without Hypocrisy
This morning we will return to our series in the Sermon on the Mount and explore more of the theme we discussed a couple of weeks ago on Pentecost. In particular, as we turn to the sixth chapter of Matthew, causing us to ask even more that question about who it is we are living…
Resilient Faith ~ Has Meaningful Faith Relationships
Over the past several weeks we have been looking at what it means to have resilient faith. Faith that can stand firmly for Christ no matter what it may face in this world. Even if. Even if it would cost us everything. We have been looking at what it means to have this faith, and…
Resilient Faith ~ Practices Cultural Discernment
Resilient faith in Christ, faith that can stand boldly in the face of the pseudo-Babylonian anti-faith culture we live in is a faith that not only knows how to discern ethics, right from wrong, good from evil in a Godly manner. It is a faith that seeks to put such discernment into practice every day,…
Ancient Kings & Their Legacies ~ Jeroboam’s Fear
THINK: About how choices and decisions made in fear never leads us in the paths of righteousness, in the path of living in a right relationship with God. Rather, it leads us away from this mehr boni. Choices made out of fear lead us and others our choices effect away from God. KNOW: We are…
Note to Raise Children of Faith
According to a research project done by LifeWay over 70% of teenagers brought up in a faith tradition leave their faith tradition by the time they are 20. Quite frankly this statistic is much more generous than other similar research studies. Normally this number is a lot higher in other studies. In understanding, this there…
