True North High School Ministry

Jesus told “The Parable of the Two Sons” to the Jewish religious leaders to prove that repentant sinners are going to heaven before hypocritical religious people. Lots of kids make professions of faith while they are young and going to church, but only those who actually do God’s will with their lives show evidence of true saving faith.

Jesus warns his disciples to avoid the hypocritical heart that seeks attention and admiration from others for devotional activities such as fasting. While fasting for the sake of focused prayer and increased devotion to God is rare in the modern American church, our students would gain a lot by experiencing a voluntary and devotional fast.

Accept God’s act of love by trusting in Jesus to be saved from eternal death.

Jesus elaborates on the forgiveness clause of the Lord’s Prayer by telling people that forgiven people should be forgiving to those around them. But sadly, many people deceive themselves about their own standing before God, and an unforgiving heart is a certain sign of a wrong relationship with God.

Jesus tells us to pray for our basic needs, forgiveness from sin, and protection from temptation and sin. The problem is, entitled people don’t pray because they think God owes them, and self-sufficient people don’t pray because they don’t think they need God. We ought with an attitude of genuine dependence on God.

Jesus starts the model prayer with an address to God as our Father in Heaven, and then gives three God-centered requests that should orient our prayers. We need to get our eyes off ourselves and start praying for big things that God cares deeply about.

RWE 2024

RWE 2024

RWE 2024