Be Clean

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Be Clean

January 30, 2022 • Greg Pinkner • Matthew 8:1–4

This week, Greg Pinkner, continues our series in Matthew and looks at Christ's healing of the leper. Under Jewish law, lepers were total outcasts and considered unclean; they were to be removed from society and live in isolation. After teaching the Sermon on the Mount, the man with leprosy was the first person Christ encountered. The man came to Him and asked to be healed and Christ reached out His hand and touched him. He took his uncleanliness on Himself and restored his life. In the same way, when Christ died on the cross, He took our uncleanliness and restored our lives for eternity.

The Very Heart of Jesus

April 10, 2022 • RD McClenagan • Matthew 11:28–30

In this week's teaching, RD McClenegan encourages us to consider three things about this passage in Matthew: Christ's invitation, His yoke, and His heart. Christ's invitation to us is three-fold: it's personal, offered to all who labor and are weary, and restorative. Being yoked with Christ provides a way of learning to live that is more restful and can change the quality of our souls. Christ is not austere and demanding in heart, rather gentle, lowly, and approachable.

Are You the One?

April 3, 2022 • Greg Pinkner • Luke 1, Matthew 11:2–19, Isaiah 35

This week, Gospel Sunday, Greg Pinkner continues our series in Matthew and speaks on the relationship of Jesus and John the Baptist. After all John the Baptist experienced in his life, he still questioned if he had chosen to follow the right person when he was in prison. John the Baptist was a symbol that the law was done, that the old kingdom had passed away. The law is not evil, it is good and it shows us that we have no chance of getting into heaven on our own, but the old kingdom asked us to prove our goodness. Only faith and trust can save us in the new kingdom. The old kingdom has to die and doesn't die easily because, like John the Baptist, we have all looked at Jesus and wondered if he was the one because of things that have happened in our lives.

Stewarding Leadership Power

March 27, 2022 • Rick Dunn, Harv Powers • Matthew 20:20–26, Matthew 23:1–12, Philippians 2:5–11

This week, Rick Dunn and Harv Powers speak on how Christ calls us to lead. It is easy to abuse leadership power for personal gain and human praise, but Christ calls us to make a radical shift in our thinking of what power is. We are to steward leadership power, with humility, for the glory of Christ and for the sake of others through a redemptive process of being transformed into the likeness of Christ in our inner being.