The decorations come down, the calendar turns, and Christmas recedes into memory—but Matthew 2 insists there217;s something that doesn217;t go out of season. And if the Gospel doesn217;t go out of season, are we keeping ourselves focused on where it is pointing us?
There217;s a blind man sitting by the road outside Jericho in Luke 18, and the crowd wants him to be quiet—he217;s an embarrassment, a distraction from something more important. He cries out anyway: 220;Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me.221; Whatever it is that makes you feel like the person everyone else wants to go away, this passage is for you.
Clear words can still sail right past us when they aren217;t the news we want. In Luke 18, Jesus tells the Twelve exactly what217;s about to happen to Him, yet they were just like us: they didn217;t want to hear.
Most of us are quicker to panic over a dying phone battery than over a dying spiritual one—we coast along, confident we217;re fine, while the indicator drops lower than we217;d ever admit. As Jesus calls a written-off man in Jericho, He challenges all of us on this: 220;Do we know how much we need Him?221;
Pastor Tim talks about loving our neighbors whom we separate out as 220;different221; than ourselves as we continue our series on the parable of the Good Samaritan.
Jesus saves us with His 220;power221; and offers us to 220;partake of his divine nature.221; What does this mean? How does it relate to us growing as Christians? Join Pastor Tim as we dig into 2 Peter 1:3-4.
Pastor Tim continues our series, 220;the Weary World Rejoices.221; This week, we will look at what the story of the Gabriel and his messages for Zechariah and Mary tell us about our own wait to see God217;s work in our lives.
What kind of service prepares us for Jesus217;s return? Pastor Tim continues our series in Matthew 24-25, looking this week at how we are 220;good221; in God217;s eyes.
We can gather up what feels like security, but are we actually secure? Proverbs challenges to make sure we have the right point of security.
We easily draw safe boundaries around God’s grace, welcoming those who seem familiar while overlooking those who feel foreign or difficult. Yet the distant wise men of Matthew 2 and the rejoicing Gentiles of Acts 13 confront those boundaries: Jesus came to reach the world. Who might God be placing beyond our comfort, yet within the reach of his good news?