Matthew 7:1-7

John 3:16-17, 12:46-48; Galatians 6:1-6

“Do not assume the place of God by declaring you have the right to stand in judgment over all—do not do it, in order to avoid being called to account by whose place you usurp.” —Don Carson

“Be careful not to measure your holiness by other people’s sin.” —Martin Luther King

Matt. 5:21-26, Exodus 20:13, Jer 17:9, Proverbs 29:22, Proverbs 14:16, James 3:8, Proverbs 15:18, Eph 6:12,

In week 4 of The God You Thought You Knew, Executive Pastor Jake Turner shows us in Matthew 5 how the command to "not murder" finds its root in anger. In his sermon he addresses 3 questions: What is anger, What does anger do, and What do we do with anger?

Matthew 7:7-12, Psalm 4, Psalm 5:1-3, 11-12

In week 10 of The God You Thought You Knew...

“Prayer unites the soul to God.” —Julian of Norwich

“We believe that prayer is something we should do, even something we want to do, but it seems a chasm stands between us and actually praying. We experience the agony of prayerlessness.” —Richard Foster 

“Theology reshapes prayer. What happens to our prayers if we really do believe that God is good? I am convinced that many of us, while we affirm that God is good and that God listens, do not act as if God really cares and listens." —Scot McKnight 

“We will never have pure enough motives, or be good enough, or know enough in order to pray rightly. We simply must set all these things aside and begin praying. In fact, it is in the very act of prayer itself—the intimate, ongoing interaction with God—that these matters are cared for in due time.” —Richard Foster 

“We must lay before God what is in us, not what ought to be in us.” —C.S. Lewis

“For most of us the problem is not that we are too eager to ask for the wrong things, the problem is that we are not eager enough to ask for the right things.” N.T. Wright

“The Bible’s teaching on prayer leads overwhelmingly to one conclusion: Prayer changes things.” —John Ortberg

“To pray is to change.” —Richard Foster

“Knowing God’s love, knowing God’s goodness, and learning to embrace those attributes of God prompts us to pray.” —Scot McKnight 

“We shall never really understand the wonder of God’s grace until, seeking mercy like beggars before a judge, we discover he wants us to be his sons and daughters.” —Sinclair Ferguson

“Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.” —Beth Moore

“History belongs to the intercessors—those who believe and pray the future into being.” —Walter Wink 

Matthew 7:24-29

In week 13 of The God You Thought You Knew...

Matthew 7:24-29

Deuteronomy 30:15-18

Proverbs 10:25

Psalm 128:1

“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” —Anonymous 

In week 11 of The God You Thought You Knew...

Matthew 7:13-14, John 10:7-10, 14:6 Acts 4:8, Mark 10:29-30, Psalm 1, Romans 6:23  

“This is not a matter of more or less successful attempts to follow the lifestyle of the kingdom of heaven, but being either in or out—saved or lost.” —R.T. France

“No one can follow Christ who has not first denied himself.” —John Stott

“Christ’s hard and narrow way is also to be welcomed as his ‘easy yoke’ and ‘light burden.’” —Chrysostom 

“What is immediately striking about these verses is the absolute nature of the choice between us. We would prefer to be given more choices, or better still to fuse them all into a conglomerate religion, thus eliminating the need for any choice. But Jesus cuts across our easy-going syncretism. He will not allow us the comfortable solutions we propose. Instead, he insists that ultimately there is only two possibilities to choose from.” —John Stott 

Matthew 7:15-23

In week 12 of The God You Thought You Knew...

Matthew 7:15-23

“We may be saved by faith, but we are judged by works. Every judgment scene in the Bible is a judgment by works.” -Scot McKnight 

“What a person believes must sooner or later manifest itself in what he or she does.” -D.A. Carson

Matthew 7:12

Matthew 22:36-40

Galatians 5:22-26

John 15:5

2 Corinthians 5:14-16

“Cheap grace is grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Matthew 5:1-12

In Week 1 of The God You Thought You Knew, Pastor Matt Jeffreys lays the foundation for The Sermon on The Mount.

Matthew 5:13-16

In week 2 of The God You Thought You Knew...Pastor Matt Jeffreys discusses how to be salt and light in the world.

Matthew 5:17-20, 4:23, 1:1 ; Genesis 1:26-31

In week 3 of The God You Thought You Knew Pastor Matt Jeffreys continues the study on The Sermon on the Mount. He explains that the Kingdom of God is where the Father’s rule is exercised through the Son by the power of the Spirit so that it is willingly obeyed, gloriously displayed, and gladly enjoyed among his people in the world.

Ephesians 2:1-10

Pastor Matt Jeffreys explains how our view of God shapes everything about us. When we see God as angry towards us and someone we have to work to gain favor with, anger is what comes out of us when we are stretched. When we see God as someone who has saved us out of his great love and delight in us, grace and mercy is what comes out when we are stretched.