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Luke 7:1-10 was this weeks passage on a man who’s faith amazed Jesus. ‘Faith’ is a word we hear a lot in the church, but was is biblical faith really? Pastor Ross speaks to this question in his message.

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Much of our lives are ruled by expectations; expectations that come from other people, expectations that we put on ourselves. Many of these expectations are unnamed and unnecessary, yet we try to measure up to them anyways.

This Sunday, Pastor Lindsay preached on Luke 6:1-11 where we see Jesus breaking the expectations the Pharisees set around the Sabbath. These extra rules and man-made expectations went beyond God's design for the Sabbath.

Let us take time this week to examine our hearts and the words we keep on them. Do we have words of unreasonable expectations that we hold over ourselves and others? Or do we have the Word of God on our hearts? Words like 'love' and 'faithfulness' as Proverbs 3:3 tells us to keep.

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Following Jesus..."you got to do it in order to see it or maybe even to believe it."

In Luke 5:1-11, we find Jesus calling his first disciples to follow him, and in the very same call he gave them their ministry of fishing for people. Pastor Ross points out that we tend to separate missions and discipleship as two different avenues of ministry, while Jesus shows us that discipleship is mission work. To be a true disciple, one must follow and do the mission of Jesus.

"From now on, you will fish for people." Luke 5:10

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As we continue our journey through the Gospel of Luke in our "Take the Long Way" series, this Sunday we found ourselves in the synagogue when Jesus reads from the scroll of Isaiah,

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
to bring good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives
and recovery of sight to the blind,
to let the oppressed go free,
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor."

- Luke 4:18-19

Pastor Nate points out that in this passage, as well in much of Jesus' ministry, Jesus showed great love and compassion towards the inconspicuous of society, through inconspicuous means.

Listen to the full message here:

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In Luke 3, we see wild man preaching untarnished, unsweetened truth of sin and for repentance to "prepare the way for the Lord.'' The preaching of Jesus' cousin, John the Baptist, gripped the hearts of many with conviction and they sought direction on how they ought to turn in repentance and change their ways. Yet others, like Herod the tetrarch, responded in fury for the rebuke of his evil ways and threw John into prison.

To hear Pastor Lindsay's message on Luke 3, the fearless preacher John the Baptist, and our world the service will be available on the watch page until the end of the week.

It's fascinating to imagine Jesus as a 12 year old boy, as we read about him in Luke 2:41-52. It's fascinating because it reminds us that God Incarnate was also once a preteen, who startled his parents and also obeyed them.

Pastor Ross, in his message on Sunday, points out that this one story of Jesus' preteen life invites us to embrace the mystery of opposites united. God in human form; Jesus as both fully God and fully man simultaneously. "He is not either-or, he is both-and."

This idea can help us as we reflect on 2020...a year that held so much promise at its beginning, with even billboards about "2020 vision." But it turned out to be a year of polarizing thought and opinions, where just about everything felt like an "either-or" situation. Yet as we look back, perhaps we can see that we didn't, and still don't, know it all; perhaps many of those "either-or" moments could be actually "both-and" ones; perhaps we still have room to grow ourselves, for Jesus too "grew in wisdom and stature" says Luke 2:52. Watch or listen to the full service below.

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In this in-between time, the week between Christmas & all that 2020 was and the approaching New Year, let us simply hold the promise of Christ as we reflect on what was and anticipate what the next year will hold.

This Sunday, we had a beautiful service of beloved Christmas carols requested by you and a pastoral conversation between Nate, Lindsay, and Ross as they reflected on this past year, looked in hope towards the new year, and encouraged us to hold the promise of Christ in this in-between time.

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It is in the midst of trials and difficulties, when all seems hopeless, that God intervenes with a hope that cuts through the darkness and impossibilities.

As Pastor Nate teaches on the story and miraculous-against-all-odds birth of John The Baptist, we see that such a miracle of hope cutting through the darkness gives way to the faithful witness of John throughout his life. Let our response to the hope of Christ be a lifetime of faithful witness.

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