Today’s message teaches us that Jesus used meals as a powerful way to share God’s love and proclaim the Gospel, showing grace and compassion through simple acts of breaking bread. Focusing on Matthew 9:9-13, it highlights how Jesus ate with sinners and outcasts like Matthew, meeting people where they were and extending mercy instead of…
Ever wonder why Jesus frequently retreated to pray before His most powerful ministry moments? Our message today unveils how Jesus’ pattern of retreating before movement holds the key to authentic evangelism. Through vivid examples, from military planning to football huddles, we see how Jesus consistently sought the Father’s presence before every major move. This isn’t…
Today’s sermon focuses on Luke 10 in the Lenten series “Journey to the Cross,” where we highlight various moments of Jesus’ final journey toward Jerusalem before the cross. Today, we look at how Jesus appointed seventy-two to prepare towns for his arrival, instructing them to bring peace, heal, and proclaim the kingdom of God. He…
THINK: About how God has called them to grow into their crops of 30, 60, and 100 fold. What this looks like? How do they actually do it? What Jesus actually means and expects from us when we have the seed of the Gospel planted within good soil in our own lives? KNOW: Jesus is…
Everyone’s calling and charge in the name of Jesus is to repent, to believe, and then to go fish. The Gospel and the whole of the scripture story make this clear. We realize this fully as we begin our brand new series over the Gospel of Mark. THINK: Have I repented, have I believed, am…
This is the beginning of our sermon series on prayer as we rapidly approach Ignition Week, which is a week we set aside for the purpose of igniting our hearts in prayer as a church. In particular, we look at two instances of Jesus’ teaching on prayer. One in the Gospel of Matthew 6:5-15 and…
The disciples were known to ask Jesus many different questions, and we would do good to stand with them asking, and listen intently to His answers and teaching. In particular, one such instance is found in the Gospel of, “Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples…