The Fellowship Podcast

Gay marriage is a painful subject that can lead to brokenness on all sides. It presents a huge challenge to us as Church and as families living in our modern society.

What does the Bible say about marriage? Does it rule out the possibility of same-sex marriage being God’s design? Just as importantly, how should we hold such a truth once we believe it?

Culturally speaking, sex is seen as freedom. We are deceived into thinking that we define its meaning.

The fact is that sex was created with a specific, holy intention. It’s already been defined. When we define sex for ourselves, we experience brokenness, not the intended blessing.

Today we remember God's unfailing love for us as we take communion.

Are you for us or against us? The political partisans of Jesus’s day attempt to use a hot button issue as a litmus test of his loyalty to their cause. To force the issue, they bring an adulterous woman before him. The truth is: she is wrong, but so are they. But Jesus holds this truth with an extraordinary grace that transcends the debate.

Zacchaeus was despised by Jesus’ peers. A Roman sellout, he embodied everything wrong with society. He was the left-wing liberal threat to the conservative crowd of his day, embodying all of what was threatening Jewish life as they knew it.

But Jesus pursued relationship over politics and treated Zacchaeus as a person. He invited him with grace and so softened his heart to hear him speak Truth.

Increasingly, it seems the world is dividing between liberal and conservative. Social media and political leaning news outlets only amplify the echo chamber stoking fear and robbing our joy. The same was true in Jesus’ day. But Jesus would not be drawn in to assume the Lord was on one side or the other. Instead, he stood in the radical middle.

Our series on the Sermon On the Mount ends with a mic drop from Jesus.

"Do not judge, or you too will be judged," are some of the most quoted words in the Bible. But what do they really mean in light of the rest of the Sermon On the Mount?

Worry is foreign to the Kingdom of God. Jesus tells us so in the Sermon On the Mount. But how can we live in that reality, when the cares of life weigh so heavily on us?

Where is your treasure? Jesus calls us to change our minds from the temporary to the eternal; from the things that are passing by to the things that are permanent.