this is what it looked like to face down your temptation and to embrace your own belovedness

Jesus faces down the temptation to disconnect from the Father’s love and fix his situation by recalling this verse from the Old Testament book of Deuteronomy

The Tempter invited Jesus to fix a problem

This week we’ll be looking at the first temptation Jesus faced in the wilderness

Jesus tells a parable that gets inverted at the end with the master serving the slaves.

Time to take a break

I’m not supposed to be the end product of my own spiritual life.

Can’t we all identify with being anxious?

If we’re trying to make it on our own, we’re not going to make it.

Isaiah leaves us with a promise that God will bring renewal to the parched places in our life.

The Theological Dictionary of the New Testament says it takes about 750 mustard seeds to make up a gram (0.035 ounces)

In something that could come across as a silly extravagance, Jesus performs his first public miracle by turning water into wine.

We can make a choice to nurture the positive through a practice of gratitude.

Truth be told, the sower doesn’t sound like a very good farmer. 

Today we revisit the parable of the lost sheep

Imagine shepherding people

The Bible devotes a lot of content to expressing disappointment and disillusionment.

there is something about following Christ that seems to insinuate that we should have the answers nailed down.

This week in our sermon series Into the Mess, we looked at the parables about a lost sheep and a lost coin. 

There are lots of ways to think of ourselves in our culture these days.