Heartland Church

Jesus reminds us that in the Kingdom of God, the greatest among us will be the least, and least of us will be the greatest.

Jesus’ double command to love God with all you are and love your neighbor as yourself insists that these two commands together form a lens for our understanding of Scripture.

October 18 Psalm 96:1-9 Adrienne Leads Matthew 22:15-22 Render to God We bear God's image, and so we belong to God entirely. Anyone else’s claim on us is real but bounded by that prior and ultimate belonging. Pentecost 29 A Question about Taxes Matthew 22:15-22 Offer Errings Party Supremacy October 21 Samson's Great Strength Samuel

Jesus traces the arc of God's patient, grief-filled, costly love across Israel's history and warns of the fall from grateful stewardship to self-interested ownership of God’s church.

Proper belief in Jesus mandates that we are obedient, even when it goes against what we are accustomed to believing and doing.

Jesus reveals a God whose generosity exceeds every human calculation of fairness.

Jesus calls us to lovingly confront our Christian brothers and sisters who have sinned so that they might repent, be reconciled to God and neighbor, and be restored to full participation in the community of faith.

Greatness in the Kingdom of God is serving the insignificant little ones in our world.

We are called to listen and obey God’s voice even when it is hard or causes us fear.