Seven Mile Road

Luke momentarily pauses his account to give us a quick glimpse into the makeup of the “ministry team” that accompanied Jesus.

With Him were the 12 men he prayerfully appointed to the office of Apostle AND a number of women.

This brief snapshot accords with how God intends for gospel advance to happen in a home, church, and city: men and women rightly-related and fully-engaged on mission together.

This Sunday we’ll unpack this glorious truth and ask the Spirit to make it real at Seven Mile Road.

The depth of our love for the God of the gospel is directly tied to how clearly we see our need for His grace. This Sunday Luke juxtaposes for us two sinners: one who owned how bad her sin was, and the other who refused to do so. It's no surprise whose affections for Christ are richer. Which type of sinner are we?

Luke 7:36-50

While Christ 100% calls us to practice critical thinking, he 100% calls us away from embracing a critical spirit.

This Sunday we are back in Luke's gospel where we'll see Jesus calling out the religious elites of his day on their closed and critical spirit. In rejecting both John's message and His own they were in danger of missing out on the Spirit's work. May it not be so with us!

Luke 7:31-35

Sara and Michael get you caught up on all things Seven Mile Melrose for this month!

As a bookend to the Vocation Workshop we held on Friday night, this Sunday we are going to preach about how the gospel informs the way we view our work.

Whatever you do for work - whether teacher or accountant or plumber or or anesthesiologist or mother or marketing manager or social worker or pediatric pharmacologist or quarterback for the Patriots or cook or receptionist or pastor or disc jockey or actuary - do you view it as a job or a calling?

The way you answer this question changes everything about what it means for you to go to work this week. Let's get it right!

One of the things that Jesus loved and affirmed about His cousin John what that John was not a soft man.Yet even this steel-in-the-back prophet was susceptible to wavering doubts.This Sunday we’ll see where John went with His doubts and how Christ received them.And in doing so we doubters will find great hope, too.

Reference: Luke 7:18-28

We live in a post-Christian context, so we are neither surprised nor thrilled when we see Jesus moving toward those who are hurting with compassion."

He's Jesus, That's what He does, right?"

But this is not how it had to be.This Sunday we are (hopefully!) going to be surprised and thrilled as we see Christ - moved with compassion - give a grieving widow her son back.

This Sunday we jump back into Luke's gospel.

At the start of chapter seven, Christ is caught happily off guard at the insight that a most unlikely character (Roman military) has into His person and work ... an insight that only a man humbly oriented to the reality of authority in this world could have.

May we share it.

Luke 7:1-10 

Matt and Sara give a quick update on some changes to viewing our Sunday services online. 

This Sunday we welcome 6 new sons and daughters into the life of Seven Mile Road. In the coming years, these boys and girls are going to bring us joy in so many ways. But they are also going to disappoint and hurt us, sometimes deeply.

How does a gospel-centered father or mother respond when their kids hurt them? For that matter, how does any of us respond when we are hurt by those in our marriages, homes, or church?

Our text this Sunday offers a surprising and beautiful answer.

2 Timothy 4:16-17