930 Kingdom Values - Suffering For What Matters

930 Kingdom Values - Suffering For What Matters

Closing message in our series recentering on the Beatitudes. This week, we sit with the question: What is persecution in our actual context? The Kingdom of Heaven is not fragile. The kingdom of God will not be defeated. The kingdom is still open to all. “There’s trouble ahead when you live only for the approval of others, saying what flatters them, doing what indulges them. Popularity contests are not truth contests—look how many scoundrel preachers were approved by your ancestors! Your task is to be true, not popular." Luke 6:26 (the Message)

929 Kingdom Values - Unexpected Jesus

Luke 24 "I have never had clarity; what I have always had is trust.  So I will pray that you trust God.” Mother Teresa

928 Easter - A Scandalous Invitation

John 20 - Faith comes before understanding... "Almost nothing that makes any real difference can be proved.  I can prove the law of gravity by dropping a shoe out the window.  I can prove that the world is round if I’m clever at that sort of thing – that the radio works, that light travels faster than sound.  I cannot prove the greatness of the great or the beauty of the beautiful.  I cannot even prove my own free will; maybe my most heroic act, my truest love, my deepest thought, are all just subtler versions of what happens when the doctor taps my knee with his little rubber hammer and my foot jumps.” Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking Link for Art Study - Two Disciples at the Tomb by Henry Ossawa Tanner [https://www.artic.edu/artworks/87643/the-two-disciples-at-the-tomb]

927 Kingdom Values - Lived Out

“And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume...” Mary took the most precious thing she possessed and spent it all on Jesus. Love is not love if it nicely calculates the cost.  It gives its all, and its only regret is that it has not still more to give.

925 Kingdom Values - From Stone to Story

Guest Speaker: Rachel Yokers