Text: Psalm 46 | Listen to Message Campaign Fatigue, Anyone? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote in The Gulag Archipelago, “If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of […]

Text: Luke 6:12-16 | Listen to Message What Makes Me A Somebody? We’re all seeking our identity in someone or something. In traditional cultures, this is often in family, vocation, hard work, and good character. In progressive cultures, it’s often in freedom of expression and sexuality. Others seek an identity in politics, fitness, prosperity, or physical […]

Text: Luke 6:1-11 | Listen to Message 4 Ways Jesus Is Not A Legalist   Jesus says the law exists to serve people. If anyone could say that people were made to serve the law, it would be the Son of God. But Jesus says the opposite: the law was given to serve people. People are God’s image […]

Text: Luke 6:1-11 | Listen to Message 7 Characteristics of a Legalist Legalism adds rules to God’s Word. Legalists love rules. The more the merrier. And they don’t think the Bible says nearly enough to properly control people’s sinful behaviors. So they add more. Lots more. And then they pretend like their rules came from God […]

Text: Luke 5:27-39 | Listen to Message Holy, Joyful Compassion Conservative Christians are generally pretty good at demanding that sinners repent and get right with God, but they’re often short on compassion. As a result, the sin-sick often don’t feel welcome in conservative churches – because the message they’re hearing is, “You need to clean up […]

Text: Luke 5:12-26 | Listen to Message Just Get To Jesus Luke 5 tells the story of two men united by a peculiar faith. The first man was a leper. Physically, his body was being eaten by a disease that infected every part of him and made it so he couldn’t feel properly. Socially, he was […]