"The characters work together to save their town or store or farm..." is the reason people have be tuning into a particular cable network searching for hope. Yet there is another place that can also meet that description and even better than what you can tune into on TV it is a group of people, a body, being built together by Jesus himself that we call the church.

Sometimes we may be helpless in the situation we are facing in life but that does not mean we have to be hopeless because there is always One we can go to and plead for mercy!

One of the most incredible miracles of Jesus recorded by all 4 Gospel writers is the Feeding of the 5,000. In it We see Jesus takes something small and use to provide for hungry tummies and along the way he teaches us just how much he cares about us and our brokenness and pain no matter how little or big if may seem.

Apart from regular reading of God's Word, this Christian life is incomplete. Jesus teaches us the value of connecting with Him in scripture. We also find, that all scriptures points to, and finds it's fulfillment in, Jesus Christ!

In this life of following Jesus, He invites into the home, hearts, and lives of people who may be nothing like Him, or nothing like us, so that we can invite them to follow Jesus. The message of life and salvation for the whole world, through faith in Jesus Christ, is for all people!

Jesus has a view of life, that not only looks to the temporary things of this world, but the eternal things of God's Heavenly Kingdom. In this sermon we learn how to better see this world, and the people around us, like Jesus sees them.

Jesus teaches us a prayer, in The Lord's Prayer, that connects us to the everyday truths of what it means to Follow Jesus. God is greater than all things. He gives us all things. We ask Him to Forgive us all things, and take care of us in all things!

Through water and the Word of God in baptism we are connected with the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ! Daily as we die to sin we rise with Christ and His forgiveness!

Thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

The mystery of the Trinity as God reveals himself as one God yet three distinct persons is beyond our comprehension. Fortunately though through Jesus we are given the facts about how God feels towards us and what he desires for us.