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John 20:1-18 Have you ever walked to a friend’s grave?  For Mary it must have brought back so many memories of Jesus.  She had accepted the ‘facts’.  She had seen him die.  Then terror struck when she saw the tomb open.  She accepted the ‘facts’ that he must have been taken away.  Next she was […]

Luke 19:28-40 On the road into Jerusalem his disciples and followers began to praise him.  Yes there were very difficult times to come, but as they remembered all he had done they were filled with joy.  As we keep our eyes on Jesus we are offered the same joy that comes form the Holy Spirit!

Luke 10:25-37 What does God want from me?  It’s a question we ask and it’s a question that was asked to Jesus. Love God and love others was the answer.  But the attitude of the asker often reveals our own. Who, exactly do we HAVE to love?  Then Jesus tells a very familiar story, that […]

Ashes to Fire Series Luke 4:1-13 In the story of Jesus’ temptation he faces up to the same temptations to physical things, personal glory, and religion without commitment that are so common in our lives.  The amazing thing is it is his willingness to let his Father take him into the wilderness and to his […]

Matthew 13:1-23 It’s a story about dirt.  Hard dirt, rocky dirt, weedy dirt, and good dirt.  But Jesus wasn’t just talking about farming he was talking about people.  The point is simply this, what kind of dirt are you?  Because if we will let God break us up, if we will pull the crowded weeds […]

Matthew 13:31-33 We are impressed with big things; wealth, mass rallies, massive churches, large companies.  These have the sense of being unstoppable. This often leads us to live our lives for big things, even big religious things. But Jesus’ parable of the wheat and mustard seeds reveal that God’s kingdom looks different than what the […]

Matthew 21:33-34, 25:14-30 The word ‘mine’ comes so naturally to people.  It’s one of the first words children learn to say!  The reality is, there are lots things that we don’t technically own, but take care of and are responsible for.  Jesus, in these Kingdom Sketches, challenges us to recognize that our very lives themselves […]

Luke 15:1-32 Jesus was a genius story-teller.  And in the short stories, called Parables, he used something as basic as the things we lose, to illustrate the incredible heart of love God has for the lost.  Jesus paints a picture of a world where even and especially the least and worst are relentlessly pursued by […]

Matthew 2:1-23 The beginning of the life of Jesus was anything but quiet.  He was hunted by a despotic king, surprised by wise men bearing valuable and prophetic gifts, and protected by the simple yet profound obedience of his father Joseph.  All three of these characters anticipated the King in a different way, and in […]

Micah 2:2-5a We have our ideas of how God could come into our lives.  Fix our finances, help us get the promotion, enable us to be great evangelists.  But the funny thing is apart from God, human thinking has a ‘bigger is better’ idea.  Micah prophecies that God’s salvation for the world will come in […]

Zephaniah 3:16-20 In Zephaniah God not only speaks truth about Judah’s broken ways of living, but he erupts into a prophecy of his great, merciful, and joy-filled goal for his people if they will trust in him.  For us in the midst of wars, massacres, job and family stresses and frustrations, and our own sinfulness […]

Malachi 3:1-3 It’s easy to anticipate Santa’s coming, unless he actually does give coal for being a bad boy or girl!  It’s easy to anticipate Jesus’ coming, unless he actually will judge the earth and our lives with justice!  This advent season Malachi reminds us that God’s amazing love happens as we let him continue […]

Revelation 21:1-5 What would be your idea of a perfect day?  The best things of our world come from the one who created us, for he is the giver and source of all good things.  Sin has twisted and broken even the best of things, but God has made a promise.  Jesus will come, he […]

Matthew 25:31-46, Revelation 22:17-21 So where does it all end, this story of planet earth and God’s interaction with it?  God makes the wrong things right, he takes his children home!  The frightening part is that we will be shown exactly for who we are, not just what we say.  But the great hope is […]

John 16:5-16 When Jesus was with his disciples near the end he made very clear that his upcoming death and resurrection God was using to offer them a new kind-of life, a spirit-filled life, a life completely set apart, entire sanctified for God.  So often believers continue like the disciples before pentecost, loving Jesus but […]