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  • Ask, Seek, Knock

    Ask, Seek, Knock
    2026/06/29
    Matthew 7:7-11 - With these words, Jesus gives the final teaching about prayer in the Sermon on the Mount. It is an invitation to boldly appeal to God to meet our needs—one ultimately rooted in His character as a good and loving Father. A sermon by Zach Boutan. [Part 20 of our series “Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount: The Good Life in the Kingdom of Grace”]
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    29 分
  • Judgement with Wisdom and Grace

    Judgement with Wisdom and Grace
    2026/06/22
    Matthew 7:1-6 - This passage includes some of Jesus’s most famous and yet misunderstood words. Through three main ideas He offers us not simple catchphrases but anchor points for learning how (and how not) to make and receive moral judgments wisely in community as we seek to help one another toward Christlikeness. A sermon by Cameron Heger. [Part 19 of our series “Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount: The Good Life in the Kingdom of Grace”]
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    33 分
  • Don't Be Anxious About Tomorrow

    Don't Be Anxious About Tomorrow
    2026/06/16
    Matthew 6:25-34 - Jesus follows His warning against greed and making a master of money with a related warning about the way in which overly focusing on material possessions produces anxiety. With these words Jesus speaks peace into our worries about the future by inviting us to look up from them at the abundant creation around us and the fatherly love of God above us all. A sermon by Cameron Heger. [Part 18 of our series “Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount: The Good Life in the Kingdom of Grace”]
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    33 分
  • Your Treasure, Your Heart, Your Master

    Your Treasure, Your Heart, Your Master
    2026/06/08
    Matthew 6:19-24 - Jesus begins the third and final section of the main body of The Sermon on the Mount with a discussion of one of the chief idols and temptations for all of humanity: greed and the disordered desire for money and other goods. Though often viewed as a "respectable sin" in our culture, Jesus issues a grave warning around it. How does one move from greed to a God-serving generosity? Jesus and His gospel point the way. A sermon by Todd Miles. [Part 17 of our series “Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount: The Good Life in the Kingdom of Grace”]
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    44 分
  • Fasting Unto God

    Fasting Unto God
    2026/06/01
    Matthew 6:16-18 - Jesus concludes the middle section of the sermon with a discussion of the last of 3 spiritual practices: fasting. Again, Jesus emphasizes the heart posture of the one who fasts, reminding us that the true purpose is to commune with God. Fasting—"a Christian’s voluntary abstinence from food for spiritual purposes"—engages the whole person (body, spirit, desires and on and on) in a way that few other disciplines do. In this teaching we receive an invitation to fast as Jesus envisions, not to earn our favor with God, but to respond to His grace with our whole selves. A sermon by Cameron Heger. [Part 16 of our series “Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount: The Good Life in the Kingdom of Grace”]
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    32 分
  • Prayer, Action, and Forgiveness

    Prayer, Action, and Forgiveness
    2026/05/26
    Matthew 6:14-15 - In these two short verses, Jesus provides emphasis and commentary on The Lord’s Prayer. In them we learn about the connection between prayer and action as well as between forgiving and being forgiven. The call is ultimately to grow to let the forgiveness God has shown us through Jesus’s death and resurrection blossom into Christ-like character that becomes a conduit of his forgiving, gracious love to others. A sermon by Cameron Heger. [Part 15 of our series “Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount: The Good Life in the Kingdom of Grace”]
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    39 分
  • Eat This Book pt. 2 (The Bible Should be Meditated Upon and Memorized)

    Eat This Book pt. 2 (The Bible Should be Meditated Upon and Memorized)
    2026/05/11
    Psalm 1 - If the Bible is all that we've learned that it is then it begs the question: What do we do with it? In this sermon we conclude our consideration of the broad category of "meditating on Scripture" and look at 2 more specific forms it can take: meditation and memorization. In all the ways we approach the Bible, we have to be ready to answer with a resounding “Here I am, speak!” We have to approach it with trembling humility—knowing that we aren’t reading dead letters, but spirit-inspired and spirit-illuminated words of God. And we have to approach it with delight in full acknowledgement of the privileged, holy ground we’re stepping onto when we take this book and eat it. All that we might see and savor Jesus Christ Himself and be transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. A sermon by Cameron Heger and Joel Christopher. [Part 6 of our series "The Very Words of God: Answering, trembling & delighting before the Holy Scriptures"] Questions for reflection: 1) Have you ever tried meditating on the Bible? How did you go about it? 2) Do you find an approach like "lectio divina" or, on the other hand, an approach like deep Bible study more appealing? Why? 3) What has your relationship been like with memorizing Scripture? 4) What is one verse you've never memorized that you think would be good to do? 5) What difference does the belief that the Bible is the very words of God make for how we approach it? 6) Talk about some of the ways we encounter Jesus in the Bible.
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    40 分
  • Eat This Book pt. 1 (The Bible Should Be Heard, Read, and Studied)

    Eat This Book pt. 1 (The Bible Should Be Heard, Read, and Studied)
    2026/05/04
    Psalm 1 - The first Psalm describes the kind of person who finds deep blessing and flourishing. At the heart of the description is a vital relationship to the Scriptures--a relationship of delight and meditation. To "meditate" in the Psalm 1 sense is to continually and repeatedly engage with the parts of the Bible in light of the whole and whole of the Bible in light of the parts in various ways until we are immersed in and formed by the gospel, story, wisdom, and commands of God that we find across its pages. In this sermon we introduce the broad category of "meditating on Scripture" and look specifically at 3 forms it can take: listening, wide reading, and deep study. A sermon by Cameron Heger and Reed Hooke. [Part 5 of our series "The Very Words of God: Answering, trembling & delighting before the Holy Scriptures"] Questions for reflection: 1) What do you think it means to "delight" in the Bible? Why is this important? 2) What is the relationship between being formed by the Bible and "blessedness" or "prosperity"? 3) How does this passage reinforce the idea that interaction with the Bible is a life-long endeavor? 4) In what ways did Jesus embody the life of the true Psalm-1-person? 5) How do listening, reading, and studying enable you to engage the Bible in different ways? 6) Share some ways of engaging with Scripture that you've personally found helpful over the years.
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    44 分