We are constantly being formed by the world around us. To be formed by Jesus requires each of us to become his apprentice. In John Mark Comer's best selling book, Practicing the Way, he shares how to live by what the first Christian disciples called a Rule of...
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Did Jesus get hangry? Apparently. In Mark 11 Jesus is hungry and sees a fig tree that looks promising because of it’s leaves, but when he gets closer, he sees it has no fruit. So Jesus curses the tree and it withers by the next day. This...
Fear plays a big part in each of the episodes in the Christmas story. Joseph was afraid of what people would think (Mt. 1:20) Herod feared losing his power. (Mt. 2:3) The angels that appeared to Zechariah, Mary, and the shepherds in Luke 2 all...
"No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known." John 1:18 As Christians, we believe Jesus is the ultimate revelation of God. But long before Jesus came...
John had pointed his disciples to Jesus. He had baptized him in the Jordan. But now as he sat in prison and Jesus did nothing to get him out, he was having his doubts. Nothing was working out the way he thought it should. He...
We Continue our Series in the gospel of Luke with our Series Only Jesus Tune in as we hear from our Lead Pastor Todd....
One of the things that jumps off the page reading through Luke’s account of the Gospel is that Jesus is for everyone. The angels announced to the shepherds that “a savior has been born to you”. They said his birth was “good news of great...
What can make us whole again? Only Jesus. Whole? Is it really possible? We are shattered. Individuals, marriages, families, churches, our nation and our world are broken. Can Jesus really put this Humpty Dumpty creation back together again? Even where all the kings horses and men...
I worry because I’m smart. Birds don’t worry, Jesus said. God provides for them. Flowers don’t worry. God dresses them. But come on Jesus, birds don’t have the mental capacity to imagine all the bad things that can happen. Flowers don’t have brains at all. Humans worry...
