The King has Come to a Wedding? - Gospel Road to Easter #1

The gospel is the good news message that Jesus of Nazareth was (and is) the promised Messiah\King of God's Kingdom. Proclaiming this message was the purpose for which the 4 accounts of Jesus' life we call gospels were written. As we approach Easter this year, we will look at how different events in the gospel of John reveal Jesus as King, and what kind of King he is, beginning with his first miracle, turning water into wine at a wedding celebration in Cana.

Corpus Christi

Putting worship in its proper place in our lives and hearts as a humble posture that elevates Christ as King.

Further Study: Amos 5:21-24, Micah 6:6-8, James 1:27, Isaiah 29:13-16, Isaiah 53:3, 1 Peter 4:12-13, Matt 5:10-12

You Gotta Serve Somebody - Sermon on the Mount #18

Jesus followed a long line of prophets from God who warned against the mysteriously idolatrous power of money and possessions. He prohibited His followers from putting their trust and security in material, 'earthly' things, and instructed His followers to invest in what would last for eternity. We cannot serve two masters\kings or kingdoms. We have to choose who we serve, where we invest our hearts. The choice is ours who and what we will serve. What will your choice be?

God as Generous Host - Sermon on the Mount #17

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.