Heartland

We have been reborn to a new life in Christ. This rebirth makes us strangers in our own land.

The Resurrection always sends us out to participate in Christ's mission of salvation for the world.

Jesus enters Jerusalem, not on a mighty warhorse, but on a donkey. He comes as the true but humble servant king. As our king is, so should we be.

Neighborliness is being with and for our neighbors as God has been with and for us.

Neighborliness is extending the same rescue and forgiveness that we have received to our neighbor.

Confession and repentance lead to a blessed life. The hiding of sin leads to distress and burden so that we may be taught how to live as good neighbors.

Loving God means that we love and seek to be reconciled with our neighbor. Anger, lust, and unfaithfulness, which leads to treating others poorly, prohibits us from loving God and entering a genuine relationship with God.

At the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount Jesus wants us to know who we are. We are salt and light because we are followers of the Law of God. Only, we haven’t always understood the Law correctly. Jesus is helping us see what the Law means so that we can be salt and light.

In the Beatitudes, we are called to respond to the grace we have been given by giving it to others. If we are faithful, we will be persecuted.

In the Beatitudes, we are first given God’s grace amid our brokenness.