- Jun 22, 2020Chosen People | Week Five | Chosen to Not Retaliate (1 Peter 3:8-22)
- May 10, 2020Where Are You, God? | Week 4 | When We Desperately Need God to Show Up! Part 2
- Mar 15, 2020Clash of the Kingdoms | Week Six | Woe to You Pharisees! (Matt 23)
- Nov 17, 2019Great Expectations | Week Seven | Help My Unbelief (Matt 17:1-27)
- Jul 7, 2019Week Five | Amazing Things Happen on the Way (Matt 9:18-26)
- Mar 24, 2019Week 9- Giving to the Poor (Matt 6:1-4)
- Jul 15, 2018Oikos – Week 1 – What is Oikos?
- Apr 8, 2018Week 2- Convicting Power
- Oct 2, 2016Week 40- Extreme Home Makeover (Haggai 1-2)
- Apr 24, 2016Week 17- Elijah, a Man Like Us (1 Kings 12- 2 Kings 8)
- Dec 27, 2015All about Kings and Men
- Aug 30, 2015Week 13- Sowing and Reaping (Gal 6:6-18)
- Nov 23, 2014Week 4- Dating God’s Way
- Mar 9, 2014Week 27- gRace Relations (Acts 10)
- Oct 27, 2013Week 14- Is God Angry? (Acts 5:1-11)
- Mar 4, 2012Week 11- What is the Gospel? (John 3:14-21)

Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.
Part 2- We continue to follow Elijah's supernatural adventure with hearing and obeying the word of the Lord. Elijah must return to face the rulers and false prophets who are keeping Israel from experiencing God's plan. He will experience the high point of his life and ministry, only to be thrust into deep despair. Sounds a bit like bi-polar disorder? Join us as we delve into what God wants us to learn about following Him, and obeying his Word.
Jesus offers the greatest critique of the Pharisees’ hypocrisy. Don’t be a Pharisee. Stop acting. Be real.
The disciples experienced SO MUCH! Just take this section of Scripture we are looking at in Matthew: Peter, James, and John witness the transfiguration of Jesus, hear God’s audible voice, Moses and Elijah appear, and a bright cloud envelopes them. Not your ordinary day to say the least! Afterward, they could not drive a demon out of a boy. They asked Jesus why. His answer: they lacked faith. After everything they experienced?! Seriously? Yep! So it is with us. Why?
God’s timing is impeccable. He is orchestrating events all around us, all of the time. He is all-powerful and always working. He chooses to use us in this amazing adventure, just as Jesus demonstrated in our text. On His way to raise the dead, a woman encounters Him and finds healing for her long-suffering. Some of us may easily look at this meeting, or things we encounter as a detour or a ‘distraction’ at times. However, both were set-up to happen when they did for the power of God to intervene!
When Jesus says, “When you give to the needy…” He presupposes that His disciples would indeed give. We are not to give to make ourselves look righteous and good. It matters not just giving to the poor, but also why we give. Our motives are what is most important to God. Our motives is what He constantly checks in us by His Spirit.
The Holy Spirit’s role is to convict men of sin, righteousness, and judgement. His convicting and convincing power is what draws us to God to begin with. To ignore this we cannot have a healthy and fruitful relationship ongoing with Him. Sin still separates us from God and the Holy Spirit unites us to the Father. (John 16:7-15)