Message List

Learning to Live Without Lying: Study 5 in the 10-part Series "Learning to Live Without", a Deep Dive into the Sermon on the Mount.

Big Idea: We lie when disconnected from God's kingdom and are unsure of our protection, identity and care, but in His kingdom we learn to speak truth in love.

1. Why oaths existed … and what went wrong
2. Why we lie … Getting to the heart
• Fear and Desire
• False Narrative
• We lie because we don't trustworthy
The Gospel: Jesus, the one who told the truth
• Jesus told the truth, paid for it, and was raised because of it
• We are known completely
• We are loved completely
Learning to speak truth in love
• Notice your lies
• Practice plain speech
• Root your truth-telling in the gospel
3. The paradox of honesty

Learning to Live Without Anger: Study 3 in the 10-part Series "Learning to Live Without", a Deep Dive into the Sermon on the Mount.

Big Idea: Anger is caused by unmet expectations that are mixed with fear, but Jesus invites us to rest within limitations.

1. The Old Yoke: Keep Your Hands Clean
2. The New Yoke: Let Me Get to the Heart
3. The Diagnosis: Unmet Expectations and Fear
• False Narratives
• I must be in control at all times.
• Things must go the way I want them to.
• Life must always be fair and just.
• Something terrible will happen if I make a mistake.
• I am alone.
4. The Cure: Resting Within Limitations
• Kingdom Narratives
• You are never alone. Jesus is with you always.
• Jesus is in control ... Not you.
• Mistakes happen, and things usually work out.
• Life is not always fair, but God gets the last word.
• Jesus accepts me ... even though I am not perfect

Learning from Jesus: Study 1 in the 10-part Series "Learning to Live Without", a Deep Dive into the Sermon on the Mount.

Big Idea: Jesus’ central teaching, his good news, is to come and swap our heavy burdens for his restful burden, learning God's gentle rhythms of grace.

Also see series description.

References:

• Mark 10:13-16
• Matthew 4:17
• Matthew 11:28-30

Restoring Faith: Study 9 in Part 3 (Dangerous Faith), a 7-part series planned for the gospel of Matthew

The Kingdom of God has now arrived and our citizenship will be seen (or exposed) in the whole, flourishing life of bearing the fruit of the Spirit of God.

1. The Kingdom has come (Matthew 12:22-29)
2. The Warning to Receive (Matthew 12:30-32)
3. The Fruit of Your Heart (Matthew 12:32-37)
4. The Miracle Behind the Miracle
5. What Does this Mean for Us
1. Examine what your words reveal about your heart
2. Receive the staggering forgiveness on offer
3. Bear fruit as citizens of the kingdom