Matthew 5-7 is a classic example of Jesus’s authoritative teaching on the Kingdom of God. In contrast to the scribes and Pharisees, Jesus places himself at the center of God’s unfolding Kingdom on earth.
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This booklist collects the thoughts of other Christians who have enriched my understanding of God in His word and helped me grow in my enjoyment of my relationship to him as a beloved child and as faithful follower of Jesus.
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Scripture selections from our 2022 Good Friday Services
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Light of those whose dreary dwelling
borders on the shades of death,
Come, and by Your love’s revealing
dissipate the clouds beneath.
The High School Ministry recently took a group of students to the "Reality Conference: Chaos to Clarity." The conference speakers spent their time equipping students on how to navigate through the confusion in the culture. Here are some takeaways!
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2 Timothy 3:16-17 is probably the best known passage for proving the inspiration of scripture, but imagine this passage was torn out of the Bible. Did Jesus and the apostles view sculpture as authoritative, reliable, and effective?
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While most Christians became disciples as a result of someone sharing the gospel with them, many don’t have a concept that fully equipping others with the “full counsel of God” is an expectation of ALL mature Christians
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I woke up to a strange post-apocalyptic morning yesterday; the sickly, brown-yellow light filtered through the mixture of fire smoke and morning fog. It seems that on every front we are experiencing mounting pressure: medical, social, emotional, political, and now, meteorological. How do we persevere when the light at the end of a tunnel may just be another fire starting?
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To endure through despair, we need something inside that can’t be crushed.
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Why should Jesus be right about the lesser things if He was proved completely wrong in the greater? It is perfectly natural therefore that both Christians and anti-Christians should regard the question of whether the Resurrection really took place as the fundamental issue on which the whole Christian claim really depends.
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In Matthew 5:1-12 Jesus addresses a specific kind of human suffering, the kind resulting from the conflict between the kingdom of Heaven’s culture and the kingdoms of human culture. Putting it mildly, these have never been in my “Top 10 Bible Promises to Claim”. Suffering for me has been something to avoid. But Jesus doesn’t present suffering as an option, he presents it as a joyful inevitability: “Blessed are your WHEN…”.
I think it is time to reconsider this blessing and start preparing to receive it.
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How can we learn to recognize our assumptions so we can evaluate and address them before they become harmful to ourselves and our Christian community?
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…When I kept reading however, my friend’s question was actually related to Judas’s eternal destiny: “is he in heaven or hell?" Looking into the New Testament to answer this question took me on an adventure of discovery, one that has given me greater clarity regarding Judas’s role in the gospel accounts and a new understanding of the difference between Godly Sorrow and Worldly Sorrow
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Sometimes it is easy to think of what Jesus accomplished on the cross as just a payment for sin. But if we stop there, we miss the key purpose for why the Eternal Son was sent. In Titus 3:3-7, Paul describes God’s relational purpose at the heart of the Gospel.
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For a deductive argument, if the premises are true, the conclusion must be true as well. This logical argument has existed for at least 900 years and is in agreement with Romans 1:20.
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