Following Jesus’ Example
Wherever God takes you, there are opportunities to love others, share the gospel, and make disciples.
Becoming More Like Jesus
By going where God leads, teaching truth, praying for healing, seeing people with compassion, and speaking words of life, we can grow to resemble Christ more closely.
Recognizing the Fruit
Ultimately, Jesus teaches that good trees produce good fruit, challenging us to seek sound teaching while also ensuring our own lives bear evidence of Christ’s work within us.
The Log, the Speck, and the Heart of Humility
Jesus challenges us to examine our own hearts before focusing on the faults of others.
The Debt We Could Never Pay
As we embrace the reality of our debt being paid by Jesus, we need to also consider what Jesus told us about how we are to forgive others.
Spiritual Blinkers
Just as racehorses wear blinkers to block distractions and stay focused on the finish line, believers need spiritual focus to keep their eyes on Christ.
Bridging the Distance
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus challenges us not merely to avoid wrongdoing but to actively pursue reconciliation when relationships are broken.
Called to More: Embracing Your Kingdom Vocation
As we faithfully follow Christ, serve others, and share the good news, the Holy Spirit uses our lives to help others discover the hope and transformation found in Jesus.
Seeing Clearly Through Kingdom Eyes
Through faith, generosity, and a clearer vision of God's purpose, we can learn to see life through the light of Christ and live with greater peace and confidence.
Seeing What Truly Matters
Just as cataract surgery restores physical clarity, Jesus teaches that a healthy spiritual perspective allows us to see God’s truth clearly.
Resting While You Wait
When Jesus takes longer than we think he should to solve our problems or help us, does that trip us up?
A Song That Never Ends
The doxology of Psalm 150 is a call to praise God at all times, in every place, and to join with any and everything that has breath in praising God where he dwells.
A New Song for a Faithful God
Psalm 149's call to “sing to the Lord a new song” is not primarily about changing musical styles or preferences. Rather, it is an invitation to respond freshly to God’s ongoing work in our lives.
How All Things Connect in Christ
As the final psalms call all creation to praise God, they reveal a powerful truth echoed throughout Scripture: everything is connected in God's redemptive plan.
Praise Ye The Lord!
Note that the psalmist declared that it is good to sing praises to our God, no talent necessary.
Where Is Your Hope?
Psalm 146 calls us to begin and end with praise while reminding us not to place our ultimate hope in human leaders.
Strength with Surrender
As Paul said in Philippians, “I can do all things through him who strengthens me.” We are not to simply be strong on our own.
Praying Through the Battle Within
We often pray urgently when facing physical danger, but we can be slower to seek God when the battle is happening within our own hearts.
Gifted for His Kingdom
Just as people in the Old Testament were given specific roles in serving the Temple and kingdom, believers today are given spiritual gifts to serve the church.
Everyone Has a Role
In the Old Testament, specific groups were responsible for the work of Temple worship. Through Christ, that calling has expanded: every believer is part of a royal priesthood and has a role in building up the church and sharing the gospel.