Heartland

Jesus gives us an outline for what his ministry will look like. What Jesus has done, he will call us to do as well.

We are called to live into our baptism by sharing in Jesus’ mission to bring healing and salvation to our broken world.

Christ has come and is coming again. We are called, just has John the Baptist was called, to prepare the way for the coming of God.

Mary proclaims what God has done in the past because she understands that what is happening in her now is a continuation of God’s faithful saving acts toward his people. It gives her hope for the future.

God invites us to participate in God’s mission of salvation and restoration for the world.

Even though barren brokenness surrounds us, we are called to live with imaginative hope as we wait for God’s salvation through Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ becomes our true King, not in the ways of past Israelite kings or even Roman Kings, but through the powerful truth of suffering love.

Jesus warns us to be on guard against those who claim to bring salvation, but to trust that all things will be made right.

Jesus contrast the self-righteous scribes with a humble and generous widow who gave to others out of the little she had. We are called to be more like the widow as we seek to follow Jesus.

We are to love God with all we are, we are to love ourselves well and appropriately so that we might love others in the same way.