The Way Up is the Way Down

Are You Ready for the Storms?

September 3, 2017

Hurricane Harvey has wreaked havoc on southeast Texas over the past week, causing people to flee their homes and find shelter. However, they haven’t given up hope. As one man…

The Way Up is the Way Down

A Tale of Two Journeys

August 27, 2017

A Tale of Two Journeys Towards the end of his teaching in Matthew, Jesus speaks of two kinds of gates and two kinds of pathways. One is a wide, safe,…

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Loving Without Loopholes

August 13, 2017

Underneath the language that Jesus uses throughout his sermon on the mount, he is calling us forward into a life totally formed around the values of the Kingdom of God.…

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The Way Down Is the Way Up – Backstory

August 6, 2017

We all know just how easy it is to read a sentence or paragraph out of context from the rest of the story or letter. We’ve experienced it when we’ve…

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Fake is Out, Real is In

July 30, 2017

It's much easier to live by the law, but the law always reveals our failures, which is the last thing we want people to see. And so we begin to…

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The Art Of Listening With Your Heart

July 23, 2017

It seems that over and over Jesus is saying that "we have heard" with our ears a truth from the law ... but if we were listening with our heart…

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The Way Down, Is the Way Up – When Heaven Meets Earth

July 16, 2017

A vast majority of church people are more than familiar with the prayer that Jesus used as a model to teach his disciples how to pray – what we have…

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The Jesus Way

July 9, 2017

Jesus revolutionized pretty much everything about our understanding of the good life in what we now now as His sermon and the mount, found in the book of Matthew. It…

The Way Up is the Way Down

The Way Down Is the Way Up

July 2, 2017

Jesus’ teachings are quite shocking, actually. Kingdom life really does run counter to our way of living and how we see each other and see God. Jesus gave an impromptu…