The Unsettling Solution for Just About Everything Part 2: From Brunch to Broken

December 5, 2021 • Michael Wright

God’s grace means there is unearned, unearnable, undeserved forgiveness for us all through Christ. And what’s more-we all need it! Often, we don’t recognize just what is being offered to us in Jesus, or what He’s really done for us. Without considering where we have been, and where Jesus meets us, we then judge others who we think are “really bad”. We resist the continued gracious hand of Jesus in our own life, as we simultaneously look down on those who are working through mess to find grace. What would it look like if we stopped trying to stifle God’s grace, and started to be moved and broken by the love of Jesus in our lives?

The Unsettling Solution for Just About Everything Part 3: Party Pooper

December 12, 2021 • Zach Thwaits

The end times banquet is a theme we see throughout scripture. Isaiah prophesied about this banquet roughly 700 years before the birth of Jesus (Isaiah 25:6-9). It is a beautiful picture of how God will have a feast for people from all over the world at the end of the age. At the time of Jesus, there was much debate over who would participate in this feast. Isaiah’s prophesy became quite unpopular due to his belief gentiles would be a part of the banquet. At a sabbath meal, presumably after worshipping together at the synagogue, a Pharisee asks Jesus his views on who will be present at the end times meal.

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