The book of Joel teaches us how to respond in light of judgement and suffering, and how to place our hope in the Lord.

God's love for His people is marked by faithfulness and steadfast love, but what happens when His people turn away from Him? The book Hosea tells us the story of God's love for His people.

What you have on your mind reflects what’s in your heart, and it will come out in your life. In this passage we get to see what’s on Jesus’ mind—and how different it is from what’s on the disciples’ minds.

When it comes right down to it, we often find our hearts exposed when we see God’s generosity toward others. We want it for ourselves, but find others less deserving. Jesus wants to address this problem in our hearts today.

If we come to God believing we have something to give him, we’ll get nothing; but if we come simply to receive, Jesus offers blessings we could never repay. Those blessings often manifest to us in the form of other people.

Our Creator gave marriage with a good heart and a good design; before we enter into it lightly or discard it freely, we need to hear from Jesus about how to think, feel, and act rightly with both our celibacy and our marriage.

If you had to describe the Kingdom community in this world, how would you do it? Jesus doesn’t even pretend; He knows we’ll sin. His vision is that we would be a community of people who forgive as we’ve been forgiven.

As we appoint elders to serve our own local church, thousands of years ago the Apostle Paul gave instructions to the elders of another local church. Our elders are to give their whole selves to the ministry and to God: they are to hold nothing back.

Those who form the Messiah's new kingdom community are to be a community of children who reflect the heart of their Father: a heart that desires for none of his little ones to be lost. So we must go get them.

The Messiah addresses how the people of his new kingdom are to live together and relate to each other moving forward, and he is clear: if they are striving for greatness, it must be greatness in his eyes, not the eyes of others.