Matthew 5:17-20 Jesus helps his followers understand both the overarching story of the scriptures as well as the desperate condition of our own hearts.

Matthew 5:13-16 Jesus moves out of the beatitudes and connects the rest of the Sermon on the Mount with two very familiar passages. Woven into Jesus’s statements are questions like, what does it mean to be salt and light? Can we lose our saltiness and...

Matthew 5:1-12 Those who know the heart of the King enjoy his blessing. A fact that is not always appreciated by the world.

Matthew 5:1-20 In the sermon on the mount disciples are made privy to a way of life that both honors Jesus as King and brings blessing for those who follow him.

Who belongs in God’s family? Isaiah 56 gives a beautiful and challenging vision for the people of God, joined together through the common experience of his relentless grace.

As we come to the end of Mary's recorded story we realize that it is only the beginning of the ongoing story of the mission of her Son, a story in which we find ourselves.

As we journey with Mary on her road of discipleship we find that grief is to be expected, yet ultimately Jesus not only bears our grief but he transforms grief to joy.

Mary’s experience with family was both typical and extraordinary. She bore the Messiah as a virigin, but with Joseph raised a NT Jewish family to put their hope in God the father, and her son Jesus. That is where the extraordinary comes in. We discuss...

Mary's song is a an explosion of Gospel truth and a prism through which we see God our Savior more clearly.

Mary, an ordinary girl from an out of the way place, shows the way to blessing as she surrenders in faith to God's intervention in her life.