Continuing in Mark 4, Jesus uses the illustration of the lamp, being Himself. God has given light to a people who walked in darkness. That light is His Word revealed to us in Jesus Christ, and it will shine on us forever as our eternal light. We live by that light and we live to reflect the light.

We're back in Mark, right where we left off! The parable of the sower teaches us how Jesus disciples, how we are to disciple, and how God has revealed Himself to those who are in Him. We're reminded that we sow everywhere because God is the One who brings growth, so we should trust Him to grow where we might never imagine.

This is the last week in our Everyday People sermon series; Pastor Matt is talking about the unexpected beauty we find that God built into the prescribed christian life through the church. We find this unexpected beauty as we purposefully commit to the Lord, His Word, the Family, and the Family Business because it points us back to Himself- our ultimate good.

Being purposefully committed to the family business is our last measure of how we live as everyday people revealing the unxpected beauty of a life committed to Christ in all we do. Jesus made disciples that made disciples. We follow his example- this is part of the Christian life.

Our next measure of being "everyday people" would be that we are committed to our local church family. God has prescribed a way that christians are to be supported by one another and belong to each other, and that takes place in church membership.

This week Pastor Matt talks through our second measure of being everyday people, purposefully committed to God's Word. We can only commit to the Lord by knowing Him how He has taught us to know Him through His Word, so we anchor ourselves to the book.

We're continuing in week 2 of our Everyday People series and hitting our first measure for ourselves as everyday people: are we purposefully commited to the Lord? Is the Lord our treasure? As we experience our great salvation, we delight in him to endless measure.

This week starts our first of a six week vision series we're calling Everyday People. We come to the church to be strengthened to go back out to our mission fields: the shops, kitchens, and tanneries.

The bread and wine of the Lord's Supper point us to Jesus' fulfillment. We're reminded who we are, as adopted children of God, unified in Christ and His body, the church. It helps us look forward to the feast that is to come.

We're taking a quick break from Mark and this week Pastor Matt talks about baptism and how it forms our identities as beleivers. We have died in God's judgement through Jesus to be made new creations in Him, uniting us to Him so that we are no longer searching for an expressed identity but now identify as children and heirs to the Kingdom of God.