Who obeys Jesus better: Humans or Demons? (The answer is humbling(.Why do we find it so darn hard to obey? Pastor Ryan explores Obstacles to Obedience in the life of this leper and offers solutions for how we can begin to overcome them.

If you really want to pursue Jesus as your highest priority, you will disappoint people.In Mark 1:32-39, we get a seoond behind-the-scenes glimpse of the relationship Jesus has with His Father and we learn something about our own priorities.

Last week we learned that people follow Jesus because of the fullness of grace & truth contained in Him. This week Pastor Brett leads us through a lived-out picture of Jesus demonstrating both gracious compassion and truthful authority as He begins to defeat real enemies in our lives.

What is it about Jesus that makes him worth following? What about Jesus draws people to Him?And is there some kind in-between following where we might get-to-know Jesus but not really do precisely and at once what He says?

The time if fulfilled, the Kingdom of God is at hand."The Kingdom of God" is a phrase you may have heard before – it’s echoed in prayers, mentioned in hymns and praise music, it was even the title to a major motion picture. Yet most shrug their shoulders when asked about the meaning of the Kingdom and, worse, about the relevance of a Kingdom today (after all but four nations in the world claim to be democracies not monarchies). Yet in just these two verses Jesus points to the nature of His kingdom, how to gain entrance, and hints at how to join with Him in Advancing it until the day He returns.

What happens when Jesus baptizes a person with the Holy Spirit? When does that happen? Is it the same as being filled with the Spirit? And what's the point of it all?We find answers to a number of these important questions in an unlikely place - the person, baptism, and message of John the Baptist.

Mark describes everyone's first look at Jesus as like looking at a any other man who had showed up for a John the Baptist dunk in the water (1:9). And many people's experience of Jesus is limited to just this: Jesus showed up when they were a kid, in their Christmas celebrations, or at the occasional wedding or funeral.Mark gradually reveals to us that Jesus is more than a man who just shows up casually or only for special occasions. But he is worthy to be trusted as your God.

The church's worship of and approach to God far too closely mirrors the relationships of the world - just as it did in the 7th century B.C. when Isaiah prophecies to a people whose public lives didn’t reflect their private worship.So as we ask for and look to receive God’s glorious blessings, we must re-orient our approach for how we go about obtaining such blessings. God teaches us such an approach through the prophet Isaiah.

Everyone wants: To do work that lasts & to last at their work. Yet, even God promises that as long as we work we will find some level of frustration the prevents us from complete fulfillment.Learn two life-transforming keys as to how to do better and more lasting work as well as how to persevere in your work.

It comes as no surprise that we human beings are consumers. And in fact, the Bible teaches that God wants to give to us Abundantly. However, how we access that abundance is not how we'd expect (or even prefer)...