Text: Luke 10:38-42 | Listen to Message Busyness: Its Cause, Effects, And Solution Busyness is one of the preeminent virtues of postmodern, Western culture. Somehow we’ve convinced ourselves that we’re supposed to keep the pedal to the metal and go a million miles an hour, overcommitting ourselves to all kinds of responsibilities, tasks, and events that pull us in several different directions at once. We’re more productive and less present than perhaps any culture in history. The results of this busyness are well documented. Physically, we’re restless and exhausted, our immune systems are shot, and heartburn, migraines, and heart attacks are...

Text: John 20 | Listen to Message Isn't It Just A Legend? There are a number of reasons why people say they cannot believe in the bodily Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Some of these objections, at least on the surface, are rational barriers: “Hasn’t science proven that a dead person can’t come back to life after a few days?” Other objections stem from personal barriers: “If Jesus is alive, then why have I gone through such painful, traumatic experiences in my life?” But many skeptics today have never really thought it through and reasoned it out. Most have never even attempted...

Text: Luke 10:25-37 | Listen to Message Christ's Neighborly Love In Part I, we saw 4 qualities of Christ-like neighborliness that are illustrated by Jesus’ parable of The Good Samaritan: a good neighbor sees, feels, risks, and sacrifices. Furthermore, the truly compassionate understand that “neighbor” is not something you have but something you are. But, strictly speaking, these good principles are not good news. You see, most of us do not instinctively act this way toward our neighbors – and none of us treat all of our neighbors this way all of the time. In the area of loving our neighbors...

Text: Luke 10:25-37 | Listen to Message 4 Qualities of A Good Neighbor In Luke 10, Jesus tells the familiar parable of “The Good Samaritan” from which we can distill four principles of what it looks like to be a Christlike neighbor. 1. A Good Neighbor Sees. It’s a simple fact that the Samaritan saw what the priest and Levite had already seen that day: a beaten, bloody body lying in the road. But where the religious leaders had seen only a problem to avoid, the Samaritan saw a neighbor to help. If your eyes are open, of course you see...

Text: Luke 10:1-24 | Listen to Message Gospel Privileges The contemporary Christian often excuses him or herself from sharing the Good News of Jesus with others because… “I’m not exactly sure how to start that conversation.” “I might get in a situation where I don’t know the answer to something.” “It might put our relationship in an awkward place.” “Someone might reject me and then I’d be sad.”   Interestingly enough, when Jesus commissions a bunch of ordinary followers to be ministers of the Gospel, he presupposes dangers far worse than these! He says, “I’m sending you out as lambs in...