Series: The Gospel of Luke

Message: Foundations and Floods

Speaker:  Grant Vissers

Passage: Luke 6:43-49

This week Grant wraps up the Sermon on the Plain portion of Luke’s gospel. He guides in understanding how the kingdom of God clashes with our own personal kingdom.

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Series: The Gospel of Luke

Message: 3 Principles for Life

Speaker:  Grant Vissers

Passage: Luke 6:37-42

Grant tells us this message is about the closest he’s likely to get to a three-point sermon. As he looks at what Luke calls the sermon on the plain, he lays out for us three principles for life in the Kingdom of God.

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Welcome to another episode of our podcast series working through the book of Luke, with Justin Sytsma interviewing Grant Vissers. This week, Jesus wraps up his "Sermon on the Plain" by summarizing his teachings and inviting folks to be with, to hear, and to do and we explore what that precisely looks like for followers of Jesus.

Feel free to use this as a launching pad for your small groups, or simply to listen if you want to go deeper into the passage! If you have questions that you're curious about and would like to send them to Justin and Grant, please send them to [email protected].

Welcome to another episode of our podcast series working through the book of Luke, with Justin Sytsma interviewing Grant Vissers. This week, we're wondering whether Jesus gives us license to judge others at the end of verse 42, and how to think communally about this passage rather than only individualistically.

Feel free to use this as a launching pad for your small groups, or simply to listen if you want to go deeper into the passage! If you have questions that you're curious about and would like to send them to Justin and Grant, please send them to [email protected].

Welcome to another episode of our podcast series working through the book of Luke, with Justin Sytsma interviewing Grant Vissers. This week, we're exploring practical ways we can actually love our "enemies" as well as asking the question "Is this just Christian karma?".

Feel free to use this as a launching pad for your small groups, or simply to listen if you want to go deeper into the passage! If you have questions that you're curious about and would like to send them to Justin and Grant, please send them to [email protected].

Series: The Gospel of Luke

Message: Do the Extra Thing

Speaker: Justin Sytsma

Passage: Luke 6:27-36

We continue our study in Luke building on the discussions held at our Community Bible Study this past Wednesday. This week Justin asks us to consider why something that is so well laid out and fundamentally simple, a concept all but universally regarded as a good idea, appears so seemingly impossible to do?

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Welcome to another episode of our podcast series working through the book of Luke, with Justin Sytsma interviewing Grant Vissers. This week, we're exploring the Beatitudes from Luke 6, musing about the rich and poor (is there a "happy medium"?) as well as what it actually makes to be "hated" for the sake of the Son of Man.Feel free to use this as a launching pad for your small groups, or simply to listen if you want to go deeper into the passage! If you have questions that you're curious about and would like to send them to Justin and Grant, please send them to [email protected].

Series: The Gospel of Luke

Message: The Way to the Good Life

Speaker:  Grant Vissers

Passage: Luke 6:20-26

This past week we started our Community Bible Study which continues in the course of our study in Luke. For the next 4 weeks our Sunday message will follow up on what was discussed at CBS. This week, the blessings and woes of Luke 6:20-26.

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Series: The Gospel of Luke

Message: With the Kingdom Inside You

Speaker:  Grant Vissers

Passage: Luke 6:12-19

As our study of Luke continues the time has come for Jesus to pull together the ones that he will entrust to take his message out into the world. Grant asks us to consider what it means to be called and sent out as the Apostles were.

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Welcome to another episode of our podcast series working through the book of Luke, with Justin Sytsma interviewing Grant Vissers. This week, we're exploring the Biblical role/office of "apostle" and exploring how the people of Jesus' day might interpreted Jesus' movements in Luke 6 as he mirrors what Moses did as he ascended the mountain and returned with the 10 Commandments.Feel free to use this as a launching pad for your small groups, or simply to listen if you want to go deeper into the passage! If you have questions that you're curious about and would like to send them to Justin and Grant, please send them to [email protected].