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Sunday, November 25, 2012

Family Life in the Kingdom (Matthew 18:15-35)

If the Church is meant to be more like a family than a business, how ought the family function? This passage is all about how to deal with someone in the family who has wronged you.

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Kingdom Identity (Matthew 18:1-14)

What's the best thing about you? The thing that gives you a sense of value, purpose, meaning? Or, to flip things around, where do you most feel like a failure? Both of those questions really get at the same thing - where we're locating our sense of identity! This week, we look at how Jesus wants us to answer those questions, by exploring his notion of kingdom identity - how he wants us to see ourselves, how he wants us to view others, and where we find the resources to actually live this way...

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

The Nature of the Kingdom


We're working through the Gospel of Matthew, looking at what Jesus teaches us about the Kingdom of God. This week, he teaches us how it comes - it's subversive, it's inclusive, it's costly - and he invites us to consider whether our kingdoms look like his...