Messages

A message from the series "Guest Speaker." Romans 6:1-14. What does it mean to be baptized into Christ?

A message from the series "Sermon on the Mount." Jesus offers a radical way to address God.

A message from the series "Sermon on the Mount." If you are trusting into Christ’s perfectly lived life and sacrificial blood-shedding death, then you already have his perfection. God has declared you perfect in his heavenly court. Additionally, you have been given the Holy Spirit, Christ in you, to begin your re-creation even as you journey toward the New Jerusalem.

A message from the series "Sermon on the Mount." Here is the crescendo of the sermon, the great commandment of love here in verses 43 through 48. One writer notes, “It is the most concentrated expression of the Christian love ethic in personal relations found anywhere in the New Testament.” How are we to treat others? Jesus began with his standard formula, “You have heard it said… but I tell you….”

A message from the series "Sermon on the Mount." We live in a day when most people are intensely conscious of their rights. In such a climate it is not unusual for a believer in Jesus Christ to be asking, “What are my rights—as a Christian? Do I have a right to success or wealth? to a home or a family? to a good name? to be respected?” Perhaps you have asked these questions also or others like them. Do you have rights?

A message from the series "Sermon on the Mount." Matthew 5:33-37.

A message from the series "Sermon on the Mount." Even before Roman occupation, rabbis had been softening the law on adultery for centuries. There was great debate among the rabbis on how to deal with such cases, And the easiest way to deal with such cases was simply to pretend they didn't exist and to lessen the grounds for divorce so that men with wandering eyes wouldn't have to be stoned to death.

A message from the series "Sermon on the Mount." If you haven’t picked up on it yet, the section of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount we are studying (5:17-48) focuses on the fulfilment of the Old Testament law in Christ’s Kingdom. It is the most extensive discussion of this issue anywhere in the gospels. It raises acutely the issue of Jesus’ messianic authority and the existing authority of the Torah and its authorized interpreters.

A message from the series "Sermon on the Mount." The law has always been and shall always be the standard for evaluation in the Kingdom of God (5:19). But, unlike the teaching of the scribes and Pharisees, the law is not the standard for entrance into God’s kingdom.

A message from the series "Sermon on the Mount." The Kingdom of God has come in the person of Messiah Jesus. But its power and influence are visible only in the sphere in which the world least expects to see them. They are visible in the poor in spirit, among those who mourn over sin, and in the persecuted community of the followers of Jesus. It is these who receive the divine benediction.