Freedom in Jesus is better than upholding social norms.

When we get distracted by acting as the gatekeepers to the way we believe Christians should act or look like, we lose the ability to exalt the voices of the oppressed, humble ourselves before others, and practice the way of Jesus.

Text: Mark 7:1-30 (NET)

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Text: Mark 6:1-13

Big Idea: Failure isn’t to be feared, nor is it meant to stop us.

Take Away: Jesus modeled how to respond to failure and gave us a blueprint of how to respond when we experience it, too.

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Text: Mark 4:35-41

Big Idea: Following Jesus means living conscious of Jesus' presence in every situation.

Take Away: An essential part of following Jesus is “practicing the presence” of God, not in some benign, metaphorical way, but in tangible trust and recognition of the true character and nature of Jesus.

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"Small Seed. Big Plant" May 29th 2022 (Teacher: Tim Holland) by Grace Church NWA

The Kingdom of God is an invitation to trust that God is at work

Antithetical to life in the Kingdom of God is taking responsibility for things that we are not supposed to be responsible for.

Text: Mark 4:26-29 (NET)

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It is a priority for us at Grace Church NWA to make LGBTQIA+, all ethnicities and races, those with disabilities, and other marginalized people groups feel accepted, included, and valuable to the life of our community!

“Light” is given to us for the benefit of all. True understanding comes from obedience. Enlightenment without action is toxic.

We all have more “truth” than we know what to do with. So often our addiction to more information, among other things, keeps us from acting on what we already know.

Mark 4: 21-25 (NET)

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It is a priority for us at Grace Church NWA to make LGBTQIA+, all ethnicities and races, those with disabilities, and other marginalized people groups feel accepted, included, and valuable to the life of our community!

Parables are simple stories designed to illustrate a truth and invite us to act as a result of our encounter with it.

The Parable of the sower invites us to consider the condition of the “soil” of our lives and respond with intention.

Text: Mark 4:1-20 (NET)

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God’s incarnation in Jesus sets off a whole new way of thinking, feeling and being in the world.

The presence of the Kingdom of God among us reorders all of our personal and communal relationships as well as our religious and societal structures.

Text: Mark 2:13-28 (NET)

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It is a priority for us at Grace Church NWA to make LGBTQIA+, all ethnicities and races, those with disabilities, and other marginalized people groups feel accepted, included, and valuable to the life of our community!

Easter Sunday!

The news of the resurrection of Jesus is the ultimate reorienting of the story of our broken world.

No matter how broken things get, from the personal to the global, all is being healed and restored by the resurrection of Jesus. It changes everything.

Text: Mark 16 (NET)

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It's Palm Sunday!

Jesus presence ushers in a whole new “covenant”, or way of understanding God’s posture towards us.

When we see Jesus, we see God and we see God’s posture towards us. This is the clearest demonstration of covenant we have.

Text: Mark 14:12-22 (NET)

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