This past Sunday, we started a sermon series on the Lord's Prayer but looking at the larger context of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus' most famous sermon. We dug into the phrase translated in the ESV as, "You therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect." 

We (hopefully) saw together that instead of experiencing this sentence as the command of a terrifying drill sergeant, it is meant as both an invitation into a counterculture and an invitation into a promise. 

Tucked away at the very end of 1 Corinthians, the book's author grabs the pen of his amanuensis and writes the Aramaic phrase, "MARANA-THA," translated as "Our Lord, come." Pastor Eugene Peterson in his Bible paraphrase translates the phrase, "Make room for the master!" This past Sunday, we focused on this ancient creedal statement and (hopefully) saw the prayer it gives us during the season of Advent. 

Last Sunday, we started a short sermon series through the book of Hebrews entitled Unshakeable. Over these three weeks, we will see that in order to experience an unshakeable forever hope, the author invites us to 1) live from a "Mountain of Feasting," 2) trust a Perfect Priest-King, 3) strive for "Permanent Rest."

We saw last week from Chapter 12 that we can live from either a Mountain of Fear and Danger or a Mountain of Feasting and Dancing! And, because of Jesus, we have come to this second mountain where God welcomes us into his town, his party, and into his crew.