Jesus calls us to have no other master but God. And after doing so, Jesus immediately reminds us that God is a generous host\Creator. We can entrust ourselves to seeking God above all other concerns because we can trust in His generosity towards us to meet our needs.
Feasting in a Land of Abundance - Sermon on the Mount #16
Just as fasting is a way of engaging our physical bodies in spiritual mourning, feasting is a way of engaging our physical bodies into prompting or aligning with our soul in celebrating God's person, presence, promises and power.
Fasting in a Land of Abundance - Sermon on the Mount #16
Fasting is a spiritual discipline many Christians in the West don't have a strong history or connection with. Fasting is the natural response of a follower of Jesus to a sacred moment of grief. We are a unified being of body (physical) and mind\soul\spirit (non-physical). Biblical fasting brings our bodies into unified expression of mourning with what God mourns.
Forgiveness - Sermon on the Mount #14
Ways to Pray - Sermon on the Mount #13
Many Christians struggle with prayer. Sometimes because we've only learned one model for prayer or one way to pray that isn't exactly how God has wired for them to hear and listen to God through prayer. Today's message acknowledges this struggle and gives some other ways to engage with God in prayer.
Why Pray? Sermon on the Mount #12
Most of us have had questions about the value, meaning and nature of prayer. Questions, at times, which lead us to wonder why pray, at least about some things. Jesus lived and taught as though prayer does matter, and matters greatly. Because God wants a relationship with us, where we spend our time with God, no matter what we are doing. When we do this, we are praying without ceasing.
Motives Matter - Sermon on the Mount #11
God not only cares about what we do and how we do things, but also about why we do (or don't do) what we do. Our motives come from the desires of our heart and reveal our heart. Unfortunately, on our own we don't always know our own heart's motives, and so God calls us to reflect and confess to help us identify, clarify and reshape when necessary the desires of our heart, which will change how we live.
Making Faith Live
We never drift into the life we want, we drift into the life we have. Following Jesus isn't something we can drift along in... it requires effort for us to grow and be effective in our faith as Peter wrote. To help ourselves stay moving towards more a godly life, we need support, encouragement and structure to help us.
Broken to be Blessed
Have you ever asked God to bless you? Before we can fully experience God’s blessings upon us, we must first allow him to break us. Once broken we submit to His will and plan for our lives and truly enjoy all that He wants to do through us.