Holy Week an invitation to receive the fullness of God love through the cross.

Would you watch the end of an anticipated movie without watching the middle of the film?

I don't think so.  Take the journey with Christ to the cross, you will get so much more out of it.

What is in your life that oppress you?  Christ has died that you would be set free.

Will you walk with Christ to the Cross this week and experience the freedom from all that oppress you.  His ways are so much greater.

Pastor Sean Miles from SALM 67 Ministries shares his heart and passion for Vietnam and how the promises of God open the door for those who follow Jesus.

Have you ever heard a story or read an article and thought to yourself there has got to be more to the story?  

This morning you may have found yourself asking a question very similar to this as we read our Gospel lesson.  

If not today, maybe you have read some text in the Bible before and asked yourself, is that it, is that all there is?  Our minds tell us, there has got to be more to the story.   

The only problem that I have found in asking this question is that when you start to look for the answer, it is usually something you wish you could have left alone.  But now that you know the more, you have to respond, the more demands that you to do something.

We read our Gospel lesson and hear some things that don’t make much sense, and then there is a story about a fig tree that should be pulled up and burned, instead finding special attention by the gardener and getting one more chance to produce the kind of fruit that the gardener knows it is capable of producing.  How do these stories fit together?  What is missing, there has got to be more to the story.

There is indeed a whole lot more to the story.  Now that you know, how will you respond?  Examine the fruit of your life and see where it is that you need to repent and turn from your wicked evil ways.   

Where does your life look more like the world that Jesus? 

Where have your resources become more important than the kingdom of God? 

Where do you spend your time finding your identity instead of being still and waiting upon the Lord to renew your strength, transforming your mind through His word and presence so that you can test  and approve His will, His good, pleasing, and perfect will for you? 

Seek first His kingdom and all these things will be added unto you.

Repent and turn towards Jesus.

Hold on to Jesus, seek his face, seek his heart, 

Three temptations that you can expect if you are living our your faith.  For the enemy of our soul desires to see us stuck in the mud instead of reaching our end point of Eternal Life with the Father and the fullness of Life that Jesus Promises.