New Creation Albuquerque

John David teaches us the beauty of following Jesus into the practice of fasting.

Jesus calls us into regular and repeated practices that shape us in loving relationship to God and neighbor. Giving, prayer and fasting are gifts that grow us in God's love, not rules that earn God's love.

In Matthew 6:1, Jesus introduces the next section of the Sermon on the Mount, reminding us that The loving attention, affection and acceptance we are so anxiously trying to get from others is already ours in Christ Jesus.

Hannah brings us good news regarding God's faithfulness and our following from Exodus 14!

We live in a world that needs us to make enemies to stay in control and remain profitable.

We live in a world that teaches us to withhold love only for the special few who deserve it. 

Matthew 5:43-48 reminds us that

Jesus is freeing us from the “enemy making machine,” healing our hearts to love completely those who do not completely love us

In a world of retaliation and getting even, Holy Spirit is filling us with courage to resist evil with humanizing love. Jesus invites us into a life that disrupts cycles of violent retaliation with surprising acts of nonviolent resistance that humanize both the oppressed and oppressor, making space for restored relationships.

In a world wounded by words that deceive, demean and dismiss people, Jesus is inviting us to heal the wounds of deceit by being people who tell the truth with our words and our lives.

God’s loyal love is fully redeeming our marriage relationships. Jesus calls us into deep covenant commitment while protecting the vulnerable, especially women, in these covenant relationships. 

Matthew 5:27-30. Jesus describes the serious and sacred beauty of our sexual desire, inviting us to return to the goodness of our sexual desire that we might honor our own bodies and that of others.

Our series on the Sermon on the Mount continues as we look at Jesus teaching on murder in Matthew 5:21-26, declaring that:

The Holy Spirit is making a way to step toward the person on the other side of the anger that is dividing, destroying and de-humanizing us.