Listen Now! May 30, 2016 Matthew 8:14-17 14 When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw Peter’s mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever. 15 He touched her hand and the fever left her, and
By Moses appearing at the Transfiguration, it was like the Law itself was coming to pay homage to Jesus, who came to fulfill its entirety.
Jesus has always many who love His heavenly kingdom, but few who bear his cross.
Discipleship is all about being taught and trained to work for the good of the world in the authority of Jesus Christ.
So often it takes an impossible situation or need to bring us beyond our own respectability and into the realm of desperation before God. And so often, this is precisely where God meets us.
Through the Sermon on the Mount and in the power of the Spirit, Jesus disciples us into his very same authenticity and shares with us his very same authority.
Are you being mastered by THE SERMON as the Wisdom of God or are you working to master it at the level of knowledge.
Jesus is not looking for employees. He wants friends. The kingdom of God is not about “getting things done,” but love, joy and peace in the Holy Spirit.
Are we really prepared to travel a narrow road, filled with disgrace, and one which passes through the eye of a needle, and up a hill called Golgotha?
The Sixth Day Exercise for May 21, 2016.
The fatal presupposition of much middle way thinking is that grace and truth are on the opposite ends of a continuum and that our task is to find some compromise in the tension between them. In Jesus’ way of thinking grace and truth are one thing.
Everyone clamors to find a “middle way” these days. I’m afraid that’s just another way of defining the broad path.
