River of Life Church Sauk Centre (Audio)

In Luke chapter 5 Jesus has an interesting encounter with a tax collector & his friends, and a group of religious leaders that we can learn a lot from about how Jesus sees people.

Wouldn’t it be amazing to leave a legacy of faith in the next generation? As mothers (fathers, grandparents, or even influences in your kid’s friend's lives), we have the opportunity to point the young people in our lives toward Jesus. At the end of our lives, let it be said of us that we had faith, lived it out, and passed it on to those around us.

Imagine having a disease so contagious and so deadly that you were exiled from any populated area and no one would even get anywhere near you. Now imagine a person who loved you so much that they didn't care about all that: They were willing to be close to you, talk to you, and even touch you. That's what Jesus does for a man in this week's encounter.

What can we learn from a woman who interrupts another miracle Jesus is on his way to? Her interruption inadvertently causes a little girl to die because the miracle was too late in coming... Or was it?

John the Baptist sends his disciples to ask a question that shows John's struggle with Jesus not meeting his expectations. We all have things that we struggle with when it comes to what Jesus teaches, does, or does not do. Jesus tells John not to let those things cause him to stumble. Do we have expectations of Jesus, maybe that we don't even realize, that are causing us to stumble?

The encounter that the woman at the well had with Jesus revealed a deep issue that plagues us all. We are all searching for something that will satisfy us and fill us up. Jesus tells the woman about the only thing that will satisfy each and every one of us.

Easter is a chance for all of us to see Jesus for who he really is. As we look at the journey of a man named Nicodemus and his journey to belief in Jesus, maybe you'll see a step or two that mirrors your own.

Today we are baptizing 18 people!!!

To get to the ends of the earth, you have to go through your own town. Reaching the people around us for Jesus is part of God's command to GO into all the world. So what does that look like? How does God want to go about that?

A main component to us being a people and a church on mission is having a heart for lost people. God's heart is that none should perish, and he wants us to do feel the same. So how do we develop this heart and what will it compel us to do?