Text: Ephesians 4:25-32 | Listen to Message Sticks And Stones Everything that comes out of your mouth is simply the overflow of what’s already dominating your heart. If you are a critical, complaining, truth-twisting gossip, it’s because your heart is full of spiritual cancer. It’s a simple fact that meek, forgiving, loving people don’t talk bad […]

Text: Luke 9:23-27, 57-62 | Listen to Message You First In Part I, we looked at what it means to deny – or even die to – yourself in order to follow Christ. In Part II, let’s go further in the same text and consider what it means to accept a new priority and agenda for […]

Show me a thriving church, and I’ll show you a number of volunteers whose faithful service goes virtually unnoticed. Without these unsung heroes, much of the church’s ministry – and maybe the church itself – would fall flat. These servant-hearted individuals are not motivated by recognition; they’re driven by their love for God and others. […]

Text: Luke 9:23-27, 57-62 | Listen to Message Identity Crisis Christianity is often seen as little more than praying a prayer, changing one’s attitude toward Jesus from negative to positive, or adhering to a prescribed list of moral/spiritual behaviors. But when Jesus himself talked about what it meant to be a Christian – a follower of […]

Text: Luke 9:37-56 | Listen to Message The Remedy For Pride Jesus’ disciples are stumbling and bumbling their way through this section of Luke’s Gospel, displaying a remarkable lack of self-awareness: First, they can’t cast out a demon that Jesus gave them power over (Luke 9:1), apparently because they’re relying on their own technique and experience […]

Text: Luke 9:28-36 | Listen to Message Experiencing God’s Glory It’s a fantastic story: Jesus goes up on a mountain to pray with Peter, James, and John. Suddenly, the Old Testament prophets Moses and Elijah show up, and Jesus begins radiating a brilliant and blinding white light from within himself. The disciples are getting their first […]