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Matthew 5:1-12 Those who know the heart of the King enjoy his blessing. A fact that is not always appreciated by the world.

Matthew 5:1-20 In the sermon on the mount disciples are made privy to a way of life that both honors Jesus as King and brings blessing for those who follow him.

Who belongs in God’s family? Isaiah 56 gives a beautiful and challenging vision for the people of God, joined together through the common experience of his relentless grace.

As we come to the end of Mary's recorded story we realize that it is only the beginning of the ongoing story of the mission of her Son, a story in which we find ourselves.

As we journey with Mary on her road of discipleship we find that grief is to be expected, yet ultimately Jesus not only bears our grief but he transforms grief to joy.

Mary’s experience with family was both typical and extraordinary. She bore the Messiah as a virigin, but with Joseph raised a NT Jewish family to put their hope in God the father, and her son Jesus. That is where the extraordinary comes in. We discuss...

Mary's song is a an explosion of Gospel truth and a prism through which we see God our Savior more clearly.

Mary, an ordinary girl from an out of the way place, shows the way to blessing as she surrenders in faith to God's intervention in her life.

As Paul concludes his letter to the Philippians he returns to the theme of partnership filling out a beautiful vision for believers one last time.

Paul continues to strive with the Philippians and with us to pursue true unity within the fellowship of believers as something of paramount importance for the broader community and to be nurtured within individual believers.

As those who Christ has taken hold of we must learn to love the world that he loves, even as we long for the glory he has prepared for us.

Paul continues to exhort the Philippian church to live a life of love and good deeds. This is first for one another, but also for the watching world that desperately needs the hope of Jesus Christ.

In a perfect distillation of the Gospel we see that Christ's emptying of himself and subsequent filling is the source of our own fullness and the model for our life.

Though on trial for his life, Paul models for the believer a singular Gospel focus that transcends circumstance and manifests in the world in courage and self forgetfulness.

Hosea 14 provides a beautiful picture of what it means to be the people of God, both for Israel and the church today.

As Philippines continues Paul explains his current situation: rival preachers, being bound in prison, community growth and the spread of the gospel. This short section of Philippians packs a power punch as we get an inside look into Paul’s gospel...

An introduction to the book of Philippians, an incredible story of the Gospel that heals and unites a broken people in order that they might together bring this good news to the world!

As God calls his people both generally and specifically into his service, we explore the implications of this call for our lives.

Israel sees the culmination of their journey from the darkness of Egypt as God fills the tabernacle with his glory, a foretaste of the Christian's own journey from darkness to light.

Israel sets a pattern for a life of discipleship that has received an abundance of grace.