In Luke 14:11 Jesus delivers a famous paradox “For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted”. How do we humble ourselves? Does the truly humble person know he is humble? We will explore this important truth and celebrate the Lord’s Supper this Sunday.

Jesus preached often about the Kingdom of God. In this week’s passage, Jesus reveals what it means to be saved, how we enter God’s Kingdom, and His attitude towards the lost. It is a reminder to the church to strive towards true discipleship.

Last week we saw how Jesus used the suffering in this world as a signpost for the need to repent and be right with God. In this week’s passage, Luke 13.10-17, we will see how Jesus’ compassion cuts through religious legalism to promise believers full restoration in God’s Kingdom. How comforting to envision God’s putting all things right in Christ.

Sin and Suffering

As our series Mind the Gap comes to a close, the question before us is, “how do we keep going? How do we keep pursuing God’s call on our lives?” The answer is we remain vigilant otherwise a new gap opens up in our lives that can sabotage what’s been previously accomplished. And so this Sunday, we’ll be looking at Acts 20:7-12 to look at how we can bridge the vigilance gap.

New Hampshire’s state motto is “live free or die.” The Christian’s motto is “Christ died that I might live free!” But how exactly do we live free? This Sunday we’ll turn our attention to Galatians 5:13-24 to explore how freedom misapplied can create a gap between us and our calling and what can be done to bridge that gap.

If there is one thing that seems to be universally true of Americans, it is that we are over-committed. We have too much on our plate, and the thought of adding something else seems impossible, even if it’s a good thing. However, our text for this Sunday, Luke 10:38-42, proposes that it’s not our commitments that are the issue, but our valuation of them. Join us this Sunday as we explore how we can bridge the value gap in our pursuit of where Jesus is calling us to be.

We are all creatures of habit. So much so that we typically sit in the same seats each Sunday. So as we explore the love gap, which shapes our habits, from Deuteronomy 6:4-15, we’d like you to try and break a habit.

Physical hunger can have a profound effect on us. It can bring about intense emotion (hangry), become a consuming drive, and if not dealt with, it can rob us of the strength to go on. So too the hungers of our heart. This Sunday we’ll be looking at the hunger gap from 2 Timothy 4:1-5 and see how we might bridge that in pursuit of where God’s calling us to be.

Over the next six weeks, we’ll be looking at how we can bridge where we are and where God calls us to be. But in order to do that we need to be clear on God’s calling on our lives. This Sunday, we’ll be in Acts 2:42-47 exploring how the early church pursued their calling and how we can as well.