Every person every born has a choice to make when it comes to successful kingdom living, to embrace Christ and live for Him or to ignore Him and live for self. What’s it going to be?

We know a tree by the fruit it bears, and we can discern a Christian by His character profile. Unpopular as it sounds, it is possible to profile a real Christian as Christ provides us a profile in the Sermon on the Mount, generally, and in our passage, particularly.

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and swims like a duck, it could well be a duck (the same is true of Christians).

On the trip the team used a simple way to study the Bible as they went through a portion of the book of Acts, tracking the development of the early church.

While God affords us liberty in prayer, there are certain principles and patterns we do well to observe as we distill and derive principles of prayer from Jesus Christ’s model prayer in Matthew 6:5-13.

Prayer is a simple yet profound concept and act of worship. Sometimes we make it more complicated than we should. Understanding the basics of prayer may help you develop a more God honoring and satisfying prayer life. Let’s learn from Jesus the basics of prayer so that we can build on His solid foundation.

Worship is all encompassing. It’s everything we say think and do. In Matthew 6 Jesus shows us the necessity of worship in our helicopter fly-over of Matthew 6 in ways we might not always have considered applicable to our time and culture.

If Christ changes everything (and He does), and if we detach and discard the junk that has to go, then we need to replace old desires and attitudes with new ones. In today’s passage, we find three places to start.

Faith needs to be expressed in obedience that leads to concrete actions that please God, even if we are going through trials and difficult situations.

This message is a look into Jesus being asked if He is the Christ, and His response is so much bigger than they imagined.