In this week's sermon we are reminded that there is something more reliable and sure than our own ability to control and manage our circumstances. After two weeks of Jesus appealing to things like nature and the quiet life, he now makes a final appeal to the nature of God. 

In this week's sermon, we will hear Jesus call us to the great reversal of church's prioritization of defensiveness often camouflaged by spiritual talk. Before Jesus has called us to a way of telling the story, he has called us to live it.

In this week's sermon, we will explore Jesus' reminder that there is more to life than the things we often worry about.  To help us remember this, Jesus will appeal to what many call, "God's Second Book" in order to help us declutter our minds from the noise pollution that often causes anxiety. 

This sermon we delve into two realms of existence, seen and unseen.  The defining properties of those realms, temporary and eternal; and the reward Jesus mentions seven times.  

In this week’s B Side Matthew takes the very esoteric, intangible conversation from part one, to the tactile through some biblical, historical, personal and examples.

This week we began talking about the section in the Sermon on the Amount pertaining to personal piety.  We discovered that the actual acts of piety within this section are secondary to how we practice piety.  In today's sermon begin this section not simply talking about how or where we practice these acts of but rather, we begin with where we find God, in the place of Silence. 

This past Sunday we had our quarterly business meeting; however, this time we did something a bit different.  Our pastor, Matthew Hansen, did a short talk about leadership structure, the four major identities of the institutional church, and a peek into where we plan on heading in 2025.

On today''s "B-Side" we dive deep into Matthew 5:27-32, a text about marriage, adultery, and divorce, as mentioned in the Sermon on The Mount.  We decided to assign this topic to the B Side to allow us the needed time to dig deep into these complex issues.  In this talk we set the stage and context that allows us the understanding to hear and better understand Jesus' words on divorce, which we will talk about in part 2. 

Today we continue our study through the Sermon on the Mount. Within Christianity we throw around a lot of phrases without deeply seeking out the deep meaning of those phrases.  Since the beginning, we have been told that the vocational identity of humanity is to be the image of God, to mirror God to the world.  In today's message Jesus makes it clear what that means to be like God. 

Through Moses, God gave a law to his people.  The law was not about simply obeying a rule, but rather had a purpose beyond itself.  It was to be a shaping mechanism, a system that helped Israel become God's people to the world around us.  Today we will begin a miniseries on God's law through the voice of Jesus.