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In Luke 19, Jesus tells a parable to juxtapose himself with Gentile rulers of the day. They come with power to dominate, but Jesus enters Jerusalem in humility to die for the salvation of the world.
Jesus’ eternal kingdom isn’t based around a physical place or earthly power, but on the Spirit of God filling human hearts. This is the only way to navigate the now and not yet of our life on earth.
To live with power and peace, is to go low, to need Jesus.
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Thursday Jul 03, 2025
Thursday Jul 03, 2025
On Sunday we jumped back into our series on the book of Luke. In the beginning of chapter 19 we read a story about the salvation of a man named Zacchaeus.
In this story, Jesus highlights that Zacchaeus’ salvation has to do with being restored to the covenant family of Abraham. We all received this same invitation, to trust Christ like Abraham trusted Yahweh, and be grafted into the blessed family of God. Zacchaeus let Jesus come into his home that day, and shared a meal with Him that would change his life forever!
If faith in Jesus leads to consecration, let us be set apart again for His glory and His purposes.
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Wednesday Jun 25, 2025
Wednesday Jun 25, 2025
This last Sunday we continued in our Pentecost series with a teaching from one of our elders, Austin Smith, on how the Holy Spirit helps us grow and become like Christ.
Throughout the Scriptures, we see that the Holy Spirit’s main job is to reveal Jesus. When the Holy Spirit reveals Jesus, we see the love of God and we get access to God’s power.
In the same way that we were saved by faith, we also grow in our sanctification by faith. As the Holy Spirit continues to reveal Jesus to us, we make ourselves available to this revelation and exercise our faith to believe that it’s true and that it still means something for us today.
His grace then empowers us to live into the holiness that we are called to. He does the heavy lifting as we keep our eyes fixed on Him.
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Wednesday Jun 18, 2025
Wednesday Jun 18, 2025
On Sunday, Alex posed this question: How do you have a Spirit-filled and led people in a structure of church, authority, Scripture and interpretation, without quenching the activity of the Holy Spirit?
We learn in 1 Corinthians 12 that the gifts of the Spirit are there for the unifying and sustaining of God’s people in the age of the Spirit.
As we operate in the gifts, we discern together from our shared submission to the Holy Spirit what builds up in love and reveals Christ. Because we are humans, this will inevitably be messy, but we need the gifts and should humbly seek them out together.
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Wednesday Jun 11, 2025
Wednesday Jun 11, 2025
On Sunday we continued in our Pentecost series with a teaching from Pete on Acts 1v1-9.
In this key passage we find Jesus expressing a promise to His disciples, that they will be baptized with the Holy Spirit. Jesus explains that this baptism will bring power, which will enable them to fulfill their purpose as His witnesses in all the world.
We too, like the disciples, are invited to continually wait and pray for the filling of His Holy Spirit. When we are filled He will strengthen us to share the gospel, to cast out the demonic, to love our neighbor, to grow in holiness, and so much more.
Thank you God for being so generous in the outpouring of your Spirit, may we remain ever aware of our need for it.
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Wednesday Jun 04, 2025
Wednesday Jun 04, 2025
As we look forward to Pentecost, we want to spend a few weeks exploring the third person of the Trinity, Holy Spirit.
This week, Alex shared how the Church is the family of God, living by the Spirit in every way, revealing the desire of God.
The people of God were always meant to live with the Spirit of God, as an apocalyptic community. The word apocalypse in Greek means “uncovering, disclosure, revelation.” We are meant to be a people who reveal the hope of resurrection and the glory of God in the midst of life on this earth. We reveal this through our dependence on Him and connection to Him
Our greatest blessing is to live with the Presence of God, His Holy Spirit.
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Thursday May 29, 2025
Thursday May 29, 2025
On Sunday we jumped back into our Luke Series with a teaching from Alex on Luke 18v35-43.
On the surface, this is a story about Jesus healing a blind man. With a closer look, we realize that Jesus is illustrating much more than just his power to heal.
God meets us in reality. Beyond physical ailments that we experience in this life, we are spiritually blind without Jesus. Our reality is that we are in need of Him, and when we are able to recognize this, He meets us there with His love, His joy, and His freedom.
The blind man in this story knew he was blind, and was bold enough to ask Jesus to meet him in his reality of need. We too need a fresh revelation of the glory of Jesus, so that we can acknowledge our position before Him and receive his grace again for our lives.
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Wednesday May 21, 2025
Wednesday May 21, 2025
This new identity of adopted sons and daughters affects every part of our lives.
It means we can’t find identity in our giftings or what we can do for God anymore. We simply rest in His unconditional love, and yield to His perfect leadership. We get to labor alongside Him from that place of security.
It means that we can overcome any earthly circumstance, not with our own strength or wishful thinking, but because of who our Father is.
It is only as we stay connected to His heart, and receive everything we need from Him, that we will see the kingdom expand in us and around us.
Thursday May 15, 2025
Thursday May 15, 2025
In this passage Jesus reveals to his disciples that He is the Son of Man who was destined to do what humans have not been able to do, by trusting in God and therefore crushing the head of the serpent.
He is apart of God’s plan to redeem not just Israel, but the nations.
His death and resurrection were real and bodily, meaning when we are baptized into Him we obtain resurrection life now, and the future hope of heaven and earth being fully united.
And because He knows our frame, and that our ability to grasp the eternal is limited, He’s given us a meal.
Thursday May 08, 2025
Thursday May 08, 2025
We explored how Jesus isn’t after our performance, but our hearts. Like the young man, we’re often held back by what we won’t release, yet Jesus looks at us with love and calls us to trust Him. Following Him means letting go of our grip on control, possessions, and pride so that we can live in the fullness of His way. The call is personal, costly, and deeply worth it—and it begins with a surrendered yes.
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