Most of us are comfortable with a Jesus who helps. In Luke 11:14–28, Jesus makes it clear that admiring Him isn’t the same as belonging to Him, and that whatever has a hold on us is not stronger than He is.
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Persistent prayer grows out of confidence in the Father, and Jesus reminds us that the Father gives His children more than answers. He gives us Himself.
Most of us know how to pray after we’ve given in to temptation. But Jesus teaches us to pray before we fall. In this message, we’ll look at why we’re more vulnerable than we think, how grace is available before the regret, and what it looks like to ask God for help before temptation gets the best of us.
Prayer is more than giving God a list of problems to fix. In this message, we look at two parts of the Lord’s Prayer: asking God for our daily bread and forgiving others as God has forgiven us.
We’ll talk about depending on God each day, even when life is going well, and why success can make us forget how much we need Him. We’ll also look honestly at forgiveness, bitterness, and the pain caused by others.
Forgiving someone doesn’t mean what they did was okay. It also doesn’t always mean restoring the relationship. It means releasing the hurt to God instead of allowing it to control your life.
If your prayer life feels stuck or you’re struggling to forgive someone, this message is for you.
There’s a difference between learning some prayers and learning to pray. In Luke 11, Jesus’ disciples ask Him to teach them how to pray. His answer begins with who God is, whose kingdom comes first, and what it looks like to surrender our will to His.
Have you ever noticed that the things demanding your attention aren’t necessarily the things most deserving of it? In Luke 10:38–42, Martha is busy with things that matter, but Jesus tells her she has lost sight of what matters most. Together with Paul’s words in Philippians 3, her story challenges us to consider what has gotten out of order in our own lives and what changes when knowing Christ becomes our greatest pursuit.
The story of the Good Samaritan is one of Jesus’ most familiar stories, but it begins with a question we can’t afford to miss: “What must I do to inherit eternal life?” In Luke 10:25–37, Jesus shows us why we can never justify ourselves and what it means to live as people who have received mercy.
What if you’re already exactly where God wants to use you? In Luke 10, Jesus sends ordinary people into ordinary places with an extraordinary mission. As we continue our Follow series, we’ll see what it means to live as people sent by Jesus.
Following Jesus begins when Jesus gets to determine the direction of your life.
Sin is never content to stay in one corner of your life. In Haggai 2:10–19, God reveals the corrupting power of sin, why religious activity can never compensate for a wandering heart, and how His loving discipline is designed not to push His people away, but to bring them back.
