I this week's message, Pastor Paul invites you to think about what it would look like to take up your cross and follow Jesus. Jesus is teaching his followers about what comes next for Messiah, and through this story we learn more about being a disciple. Even Peter struggles!

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Jesus asks the disciples who they say that He is and what follows is testimony. How are today's followers of Jesus called to witness to, to testify to who Jesus is for us?

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Does Jesus change his mind when the Canaanite woman continues to plead for mercy? At this pivotal point in the gospel, the abundance of God’s mercy, grace and love becomes available to the Gentiles, the outsiders of the House of Israel and an outsider is told she has a great faith. In this week’s message, Pastor Paul looks at what a great faith is.

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In this week's message, Pastor Paul talks about two types of kingdoms modeled through a meal. One kingdom that relies on violence and one that relies on love.

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Jesus uses parables to help people think about things like the Kingdom of Heaven, as in today’s reading from Matthew’s Gospel. Today, Pastor Paul helps us think about the value of heaven even as we carry on with life today.

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Jesus continues to teach in parables. This time it’s about weeds and wheat, which would have made sense to his audience. What should they do about the weeds that grew next to the wheat? Thankfully, the following verses include Jesus explaining to his followers what the parable means. Evil will be among us and it’s up to God to deal with that. What can we do? Grow.

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In this week's message, our readings from Mathew's Gospel turn to the parables of Jesus. Pastor Paul looks at God's generous sowing of the seeds of faith and Pastor Jerry's lawn care challenges, before helping us understand how Jesus' words get lived out today.

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What kinds of expectations do you have about Jesus? In this week's message, Pastor Paul talks about these expectations and about the the expectations Jesus may have for us.

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In this week's reading we continue to hear from Jesus' missionary discourse. Jesus' followers will be sent out and they need to understand what it means to truly welcome the other. What does that have to do with us? Pastor Paul tells a powerful story of welcome and then invites us into how Jesus' message applies to our lives today.

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Jesus is teaching his disciples how to go out into the world to share the Good News and what that will look like, but it doesn't stop there. Matthew's Gospel, written in the late 1st Century, uses Jesus' words to speak into incredibly difficult times for the Jewish people. Finally, these words speak into our own context today. Pastor Paul talks about all three of the arcs presented in the reading and tells us how they apply for our lives today in this week's message.

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