July 14 2019
Aaron Holmes, our guest speaker, shares from God’s Word how we are all sons and daughters of God, children of God; how God loves us and adopted us through Jesus Christ as his children.
Read MoreJuly 7 2019
Part 2 on Matthew 5:21-26 — How should we as Kingdom people live in the current age of outrage, contempt, and hatred? We are our brothers’ keepers. Therefore, we are peacemakers. That is what we are as children of God. To make peace we must deal with anger through the steps of QSSQS-F. Peacemaking always aim at reconciliation—reconciliation with God, which is possible through Jesus Christ. Peacemaking calls God’s people to obedience and the world to repentance
This is part of our series, Living the Kingdom Life, based on the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5-7.
Read MoreJune 30 2019
Matthew 5:21-26 — How should we as Kingdom people live in the current age of outrage, contempt, and hatred? Anger and contempt take life. It’s murder. All human life is very valuable to God because they are created in God’s image. We are our brothers’ keepers! The kingdom response to anger, wrongs, injustice, hatred is always persistent love, grace and forgiveness. Jesus goes deep here into our hearts.
This is part of our series, Living the Kingdom Life, based on the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5-7.
Read MoreJune 23 2019
Matthew 5:17-20 — Jesus fulfills God’s Word. Jesus is the Word. God’s Word is eternal. Therefore, to follow Jesus we must obey the Word to live right, be good, and live the kingdom life. This is possible because we stand in the righteousness of Christ, because the Holy Spirit gave us new hearts, new hearts with God’s will written on them, new hearts that desire to do God’s will out of reverence and love for God.
This is part of our series, Living the Kingdom Life, based on the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5-7.
Read MoreJune 16 2019
Matthew 5:13-16 — As the salt of the earth and light of the world we are called to be holy, to be different than the world, and to impact the world through kingdom living so that the world will see the kingdom life and glorify God.
This is part of our series, Living the Kingdom Life, based on the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5-7.
Read MoreJune 9 2019
Are we empowered by the Holy Spirit for Kingdom living?
Although still part of our series, Living the Kingdom Life, based on the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5-7, on this Pentecost Sunday we step back a bit from the Sermon on the Mount, and look at how the Holy Spirit empowers us for living the Kingdom life. We look especially at Galatians 5:13-25 and Romans 8:1-17.
Read MoreJune 2 2019
How do we enter the kingdom of heaven? How do we live the kingdom life as kingdom people? Jesus introduces his Sermon on the Mount with the beatitudes or blessings. This sermon covers the next four blessings.
This is part of our series, Living the Kingdom Life, based on the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5-7.
Read MoreMay 26 2019
How do we enter the kingdom of heaven? How do we live the kingdom life as kingdom people? Jesus introduces his Sermon on the Mount with the beatitudes or blessings. This sermon covers the first four blessings.
This is part of our series, Living the Kingdom Life, based on the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5-7.
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