Lying affects the world we live in every day. It is extremely easy to tell a fib to cover our backs or more often cover our friend's back. This week we learn about the truth that Jesus tells in "The Sermon On The Mount" that have to deal with lying and backing out of commitments. Though the truth is harder to tell sometimes and some commitments are even harder to maintain, building a strong Christ like character and telling the truth always like Jesus is the greatest way to live our lives.

Throughout this sermon series we are teaching through a famous passage of the Bible called "The Sermon On The Mount." Throughout this whole passage Jesus preaches the truth about different topics and questions we all have sometime or another. This specific week we come to a portion where Jesus talks about adultery, divorce, and sex. We want to warn you that some of the portions of this may be PG-13. But, we promise to try our absolute best to speak only the truths that are in the Bible. No matter what your marital status is you don't want to miss out on this week's message.

Jesus was topical often when teaching to His disciples or in crowds. Anger is definitely one of those topics. With statements that grind against what the norm is for our culture Jesus states the truth and nothing but to bring us close to Him and learn how to deal with anger. Anger can consume us. So, tune in this week to hear how Jesus is the answer.

This week at Venture we welcome home Maria Hall. Maria left about a year ago to go on the World Race which takes you to 11 countries in 11 months as a missionary to each country. We are excited to hear from her journey, what God has shown her, and what God has taught her. You don't want to miss this podcast. You'll hear about mind blowing stories and full of the power of God. Tune in this week to hear about how amazing God is.

Leaving a legacy seems to be something important across the board for mankind. If you died today, what do you think people would remember you for? There should be only one reason to live, to make Jesus known. With that as your purpose in life God will show you a much better way to live than for ourselves.

Jesus' teaching throughout the Bible seems farfetched at times. Backwards from what our western society teaches, Jesus teaches the last will be first and the first will be last... As different as His teachings are, they are true and by following them they bring life to the full. Tune in this week as we dissect the beginning of "The Sermon On The Mount" and how we can live a life to the full.

Feeling worthless is a common struggle in our society. The truth is that Jesus still died for you in love so that you could be with Him forever. God wants to bring value to your life and show you that He is worth being confident in. Give God control of your life. It's worth it!

We've talked about the "Rest Of Us," now it is time to talk about God. Who He is, and what that means for us.  Why does it even matter that a God is for mankind? Tune in this week to learn about the character of God.

God is for you. No matter what you are going through God is for you. He wants you to win. He wants you to be filled with unending joy. Sometimes the masks of our lives just get in the way of that. Let's let the love of Jesus, who loves us for who we are under the mask, shine through.

You may think your family is the craziest family out there and you just may be right about that but, God can work through the dysfunction. Jesus had a dysfunctional family himself. He can relate to us in the same way and He also brings life throughout it all.