Jesus ends His ministry much like He began it, overturning tables in the Temple. Only this time, Jesus quotes from Isaiah 56 when He says, my House shall be a house of prayer for all nations. It's not our house, it's His House and He wants it to be a house of prayer.

After Jesus ditches His parents for 3 days so He can hang out in the Temple the story goes silent for 18 years until Jesus pops back up on the scene at a wedding and then immediately after that in the Temple again. These two polar opposite events highlight the difference between the relationships Jesus has and the religious practice of the people.

Joseph and Mary experience one of the worst moments as a parent, they left their child behind. Only, it wasn’t their child, it was the Son of God and they left Him, for maybe 5 days! But it’s not their parent fail that’s important it’s the exchange between them when they reunite. Jesus drives a steak in their heart but not on purpose, He is just passionate about His Father’s House and being about His Father’s business.

As we begin our first series in our first building what will we talk about? This House is about the kind of "house" this will be. It's not our house, it's God's house and that means it's a house for others.

The miracle of the story of the feeding of the 5000 is impressive but understanding the back story is more important. Jesus reveals the protective hearts of the disciples as well as what happens when we're willing to part with what we have to have all that we need.

If we're going to help every person possible find real life in Jesus and look more like Him every day we need to stop pointing out others sin and start pointing others to Jesus. In today's message we see that Jesus redirects us to be nearsighted about our own guilt and far sighted about others. This will help us present Truth with grace and stay relevant in a lost world.

Many Christians try to mask their real selves in order to portray who they think they should be instead of who they really are. Jesus puts an end to this and redirects us to not only be real about who we are but about what's most important in our lives.

The story of Ezekiel and his visions of a new Jerusalem were not about a restored Israel living in Jerusalem they were about restored individuals from every nation/tribe/tongue living as a family in Jesus.

Have you ever had anyone take the LONG way around to making a point? That's what God seems to do with Ezekiel, takes him to a valley of bones, gives him these commands, has to up the ante and then in the end is like, I said all "that" to say "this." It's a windy (you'll see 😉) way to get to the point... but it's an amazing point!

When we try to do life on our own we're telling God we don't trust His way of living in the Kingdom. And when we commit spiritual mutiny the result is always captivity to the things we sought to express our freedom with.