Keystone Nazarene Church

John 12:20-33 Here’s the funny thing about life, it was made to be lived, but the more you try to hold onto it the more it slips through your fingers.  There’s a break in the human heart that tries to create life, to keep life by ourselves but Jesus teaches as we are willing, like […]

John 3:14-21 How far would you love go for someone?  Until they broke your trust? Spoke badly of you? Tried to ruin you?  Was physically violent towards you?  The God who created us showed his great love by the Father letting his son go and the Son choosing to go to certain death to offer […]

Ashes to Fire:  John 2:13-22 Life can sometimes start running us.  Routines, schedules, making a living.  God created all this to be lived in his order, but as we will see in our scripture, people began to use the very things God created to try to control and replace him.  Whenever this happens we are […]

Ashes to Fire: Mark 8:31-38 There’s great irony that we avoid suffering at most any cost.  Yet Jesus says this is precisely the road he will take.  Ironically while Jesus had a deep quality of life and resurrection, most of our attempts to gain life without Jesus’ way of love-led suffering fractures, does not last, […]

Ashes to Fire: Mark 1:1, 9-15 Life can be filled with the pressure and stress of trying to manage our commitments, allegiances, and purpose.  But Jesus lived a different, and opposite way.  He submitted to his Father in baptism, he trusted his Father’s wisdom, power, and resources in his time of temptation, and he lived […]

The characters are set, the curtain goes up.  What will they do?  What choices will they make?  Who will save them?  The message of Daniel is God’s invitation, and warning to make good choices.

The book of Ezekiel is extremely dramatic.  God’s punishment is coming but instead of being willing to accept it, Judah fights against it and causes even deeper hurt and pain for themselves.  Yet God is not disciplining them and letting them face the consequences of their actions just to get even.  No, like a loving […]

The book of Jeremiah paints a passionate picture between a God who is trying to get his people to trust him and the cost to his servant Jeremiah to be part of God’s message to ultimately save Judah’s life. Sometimes obeying God results in difficulty and pain.  There again we must trust him to choose […]

Hosea 1-13 The book of Hosea is an in-your-face appeal to exactly how much God cares about his people and exactly what their actions are like.  God is honest, but honest in love.  Apart from him there is no life, but death.  But Hosea invites the northern kingdom of Israel, and us, to repent.  Choose […]

Joel 1-3 The Day of the Lord. This is the recurring theme in Joel’s book.  To the readers the day of the Lord is first a time to fear, like a student who realizes they’re not ready for the pop-quiz.  But as they choose to repent, the day of the Lord becomes something to look […]

Matthew 2:1-11 The wise men were the last anyone expected to come worship Jesus.  They were outsiders, a different religion, and lived far away.   Yet in God’s invitation he showed his heart that reaches beyond and invites us to Jesus, and a lifetime journey with him!

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Luke 1:26-28, 46-55 We chase after peace in so many forms.  This pursuit can be exhausting.  But God comes to the unlikely, like a young girl named Mary, with a great and frightening invitation.  Join him and give up your current life, and you will find… amazingly, perfect peace.

John 1:6-8, 19-28 Christmas is the season of joy! But so often it, like our lives, are desperate grabs for a joy that eludes us or slips through our fingers.  John the Baptist gives a clear example and teaching that life’s Joy truly comes as we find our calling and purpose from God in Jesus.

Mark 1:1-8 We deeply need to be loved and to love.  Mark starts his gospel not with a birth, but a message: “God loves you! Repent and love him back!”  This is how we get ready for Jesus.  This is where we find the love of God through forgiveness we so deeply need. And here […]

Mark 13:24-37 December can be such a paradox.  With so much ‘holiday cheer’ people can so often be exhausted, depressed, and hurting.  In our scripture today Jesus tells the truth about the problems of the world (which begin in our own hearts and characters), but he also gives the good news!  He is coming, he […]

New Testament Jesus, God with us, bursts in the most unexpected way as God’s solution to the human heart-problem of sin.  His life, his death, and his resurrection not only give an example but break the power of sin.  He returned to heaven to send the Holy Spirit, God in us, to live and dwell […]

Solomon – end of Old Testament We continue the story through the very stormy years of Israel’s split, bad kings, destruction and exile, and God’s bringing them back from exile. What’s it about? God created us for a relationship with him, with one another, and to work in his world. We have chosen to reject […]

Genesis through Solomon If you had to tell the whole story of the Bible in three weeks, what would it be about? How would all the different stories tie together to one big story?  We begin this week to look at the Story of God throughout the Bible that explains who God is, who we […]