For Rural Missions Outreach Sunday, we looked at Jesus' parable of the sower and four responses to the hearing of the Word. What kind of response is the Word going to have in our heart and our mind, and are we going to love people enough to proclaim to them this Word?
Jesus is ushering us into His family, where, though we are not perfect, we are spurning each other on in what it means to believe Jesus is Lord and obey what He says.
Jesus is going to say that God will forgive you of any and all sins that you commit in your life, but that there is one sin that is possible for you to commit, and that if you commit this sin, you will not be forgiven.
The same extraordinary God, who built His Church on twelve ordinary men, continues to use ordinary men and women, today, to further the advance of His Kingdom in the world.
When we practice the Sabbath, we are embracing a gospel that says we are accepted by God on the basis of Someone else’s work—the work of Jesus.
Fasting turns our attention away from ourselves and on to Jesus. We fast as we await the day when Jesus will return and our hunger pains will be no more, because we will be satisfied by Him.
Jesus confronts the notion that we are not that bad. The reality is that we are far worse than we think we are, and we need Jesus to make the dead in sin come to life.
Our deepest need is Jesus and the forgiveness He provides. Do we understand this ourselves, and are we pointing others to this need, as well?
Are we a fan of Jesus, or are we a follower of Jesus? How we answer that question will determine whether or not we take Jesus seriously enough to do what He tells us to do.
All of Creation is under the authority of Jesus Christ. What is our response to His authority?