Sermon #1 of Highrock's summer sermon series ("Dual Citizens: Living Between Two Kingdoms") from Jeremiah 29:4-7, 10-13 NIV

Without grace, conflict can be merciless. Without trust, peace is just an illusion. Jesus comes to us full of both grace and truth, and sometimes that truth can shatter the false peace in our lives and relationships. Like a physician who reluctantly causes pain in order to bring healing, God uses the truth, even painful truths, to bring healing.

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Jesus' disciples continued to crave power and authority while Jesus was trying to teach them a new way of servanthood and love. One of the greatest challenges in being a spiritual adult is to see our power as an opportunity to bless others rather than serve ourselves. It took nothing less than the cross and resurrection to prove to them and to us that Jesus' way is the only way to life!

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It is easy to lose heart when confronting the world's problems. Paradoxically, part of being a spiritual adult is to hold onto a child-like faith, knowing that Jesus is not only with us, but present in each of the people we serve. As we do to the "least" of people, we do to Jesus. How might today be different if we believe this?

Pastor Meghan's sermon:

https://youtu.be/pIxxcBsolyg

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We protect children from the unclean influences of the world, but what happens when we become adults? When the bleeding woman touched Jesus in faith, her uncleanness did not infect Jesus. Instead, his cleanness, his health "infected" her. In becoming spiritual adults, we are invited to participate with Jesus in bringing his infectious spiritual health into the world.

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Devotionals will resume on Tuesday, 5/28, after the Memorial Day Holiday

God gives us great freedom in choosing whether to marry and whom to marry. So why is God so insistent that we marry only another Jesus-follower? As we seek an answer to this question, we will discover that this restriction is not about judgment, but about God's love for us.

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Marriage is a tender subject, and divorce even moreso. In responding to a question from the Pharisees, Jesus speaks against a casual attitude toward either. Instead, Jesus reminds us that even if divorce is sometimes the least bad option in a broken situation, God intended something much better for us.

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Following Jesus' lead, Paul raises up the importance of both marriage and singleness, while highlighting the even-greater freedom to serve Jesus that is available to singles. We are all single for at least some time. How might God be inviting you to use that time of freedom to find life in giving life to others?

Pastor Walt's message on "Marriage + Singleness":

https://youtu.be/Gcfu3BHXGC4

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Jesus speaks about marriage as high calling in which we covenant to serve God by serving others, rather than serving ourselves. The way that Jesus spoke about marriage scared them! We can only imagine what they thought of his next words about serving God through a commitment to singleness! Indeed, what will our reaction be to the call of Jesus?

Pastor Walt's message on "Marriage + Singleness":

https://youtu.be/Gcfu3BHXGC4

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Tragically, this passage has sometimes been read as a call to subjugate woman. As we look closely at the grammar, structure, and context, we instead see a beautiful picture of mutual submission that arises out of a reverence for Christ. Indeed, it was the call for husbands to submit to their wives that would have shocked the original audience, and perhaps today's hearers as well.

Pastor Walt's message on "Marriage + Singleness":

https://youtu.be/Gcfu3BHXGC4

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