Note: If you're following along in the Bible study, you should complete Week 7 before listening to this teaching.

In today’s episode, join Christine as she shares from Matthew 20:26-28 and also jumps over into Luke 17:7-10. We’ll use these passages to answer the question, “What is meant to characterize the family of God?” And then we’ll talk about how we each can live according to this community.

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Note: If you're following along in the Bible study, you should complete Week 6 before listening to this teaching.

In today’s episode, Christine teaches from Matthew 20:10-16, one of the many parables Jesus tells in the book of Matthew to help us understand the characteristics of his kingdom. We’ll learn what, as believers, we all have in common, what is unique to each of us, and how we can fight against the comparison that can rise up in our hearts when God calls us to different things or gives us difficulties he doesn’t give others.

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Note: If you're following along in the Bible study, you should complete Week 5 before listening to this teaching.

In today's episode, Christine shares from Matthew 10 about Jesus’s call on the disciple’s lives (and ours) to go out and make disciples. If you’ve ever wondered what “kingdom work” is or how you can participate with God in what he’s already doing, you’ll find answers today in this teaching.

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Transforming Discipleship by Greg Ogden

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Note: If you're following along in the Bible study, you should complete Week 4 before listening to this teaching.

In today's episode, Christine teaches from Matthew 6:25-34. We discuss what it looks like to live the kingdom life, zeroing in how the kingdom of God is applicable to our daily lives, especially in the area of worry and uncertainty regarding the future. What we’ll find are some important truths, spoken by Jesus himself, that settle us in the midst of our anxieties.

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Note: If you're following along in the Bible study, you should complete Week 3 before listening to this teaching.

In today's episode, Christine teaches through Matthew 5:17-20. This passage gives us an understanding of the culture of the kingdom of God. As Christine shares from her own life in this talk, it’s vitally important to understand the culture of the kingdom because it determines how we relate to God and whether or not we experience joy in following Him. 

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Note: If you're following along in the workbook, you'll want to complete Week 2 before listening to this teaching.

In today's episode, Christine teaches through Matthew 19:16-29. In this passage, Jesus interacts with two men and offers them both an invitation into the kingdom. Their responses help us examine our own hearts and both the costs and rewards of following Jesus.

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Note: Before listening to the episode, complete Week 1 in your study and download this listening sheet.

In today's episode, Christine kicks off her Bible study, Seek First the Kingdom, with an overview of the kingdom of God in Scripture, from Genesis to Revelation.

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Books mentioned in the teaching: God's Big Picture by Vaughan Roberts // Worthy: Celebrating the Value of Women by Elyse Fitzpatrick and Eric Schumacher

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Starting in two weeks here on By Faith, Christine will begin teaching through her new Bible study, Seek First the Kingdom, an 8-week exploration of the kingdom theme in the Gospel of Matthew. In today's episode, she shares an introductory teaching to help familiarize you with the book of Matthew: its author, audience, and themes.

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The study releases April 1 and the teaching covering Week 1 will release April 6. 

Through Seek First the Kingdom, we'll:

• Explore the kingdom of God in-depth, learning what the kingdom of God is, and how we enter it.
• Embrace the life Jesus offers us within the kingdom and the way we find joy as His subjects.
• Understand how the ways, values, and cultivation of the kingdom of God define who we are.
• Learn to confront our allegiances to idols and false kings, re-ordering our worship.
• Identify our places in the kingdom of God and how we can join in the work that God is doing here and around the world.

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