Big Idea: Believers salt their politics best by replacing their old impulse for criticizing, complaining and condemning with a new habit of intercession.

Big Idea: Believers salt their politics best by choosing to assist their governing authorities instead of to resist them

Jesus didn’t call everyone to agree on everything, but he did command his followers to be united in the main thing.

Big Idea: Jesus tells us he is the vine who reaches lost people by maximizing the fruitfulness of his disciples.

Big Idea: Jesus tells us that if our troubled hearts want to see, know and be with the Father in heaven, we’ll rest in him alone.

Big Idea: Jesus tells us he is the only way to live again, even after dying. 25 Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying. 26 Everyone who lives in me and believes in me will never ever die. —John 11:25–26 (NLT)

Big Idea: Jesus is the suffering shepherd who lays his own life down for his sheep.

Big Idea: Jesus is the only door a person enters into the people of God, whom he knows, saves and protects.

Big Idea: Jesus thinks He is the only way for humans to see God in the darkness of sin.

Big Idea: Jesus thinks He was sent from God to eternally satisfy our deepest cravings.

Big Idea: Only when you know who Jesus truly is will it transform who you truly are.

What is the hope of heaven and how do we get it?

Jesus' words teach that the next chapter of our story begins with "the renewal of all things," by which he means the earth we love in all its beauty, our own selves, and the things that make for a rich life: music, art, food, laughter and all that we hold dear. Everything shall be renewed "when the world is made new."…

Jesus' words teach that the next chapter of our story begins with "the renewal of all things," by which he means the earth we love in all its beauty, our own selves, and the things that make for a rich life: music, art, food, laughter and all that we hold dear. Everything shall be renewed "when the world is made new."…

Jesus' words in the gospel of Matthew, describe the next chapter of our story and it begins with "the renewal of all things," by which he means the earth we love in all its beauty, our own selves, and the things that make for a rich life: music, art, food, laughter and all that we hold dear. Everything shall be renewed "when the world is made new."…

BIG IDEA: Is something under the surface getting in the way of you expressing God’s compassionate forgiveness to the people you despise?

BIG IDEA (1:17-2:10) God changes our lives with His supreme grace by arranging or allowing us to reach rock bottom.

God is willing and able to throw at us anything he desires in order to accomplish our salvation or correction.

When God said to get up and go to his enemies, Jonah got up to get away from his God.

BIG IDEA: A neighborhood transformed by the Gospel advances the Kingdom of God

BIG IDEA: When you root your trust in Jesus, God transforms you from the inside out – including your home. PROBLEM: When you know Jesus, but live with no change.

BIG IDEA: A Gospel transformed heart trusts and treasures Jesus above everybody and everything.

BIG IDEA: Jesus offers us the only transformation that solves humanity’s sin problem and results in eternal life with him.

Big Idea: You can only understand missions rightly, if you understand God rightly.

Big Idea: Christians should relate to their neighbors as lovers and givers who generously show and share what God has given them.

Big Idea: The way you treat your children has the power to either provoke or prune them.

Big Idea: God designed us to love our parents with obedience and to thank them with honor.

Myth My marriage is primarily for me & my happiness. Big Idea Our marriage relationship is designed to shine as a bright and attractive reflection of Jesus’ humble self-giving love.

Big Idea: Our new life in God provides new wisdom and power to relate to our self.

BIG IDEA: Jesus’ followers are filled with joy knowing his ascension completed his earthly mission and signified his enthronement as their heavenly priest and king.

BIG IDEA: The resurrection of Jesus solves history's greatest mystery.

BIG IDEA: In Jesus’ work on the cross, people of all race, religion, and rank are welcomed into restored relationship with God.

BIG IDEA: On his painful path of suffering Jesus shows us how God uses our suffering to shape our desires & strengthen our dependence.

BIG IDEA: The sacrificial death of Jesus was the atonement that was able to fix our main problem.

MAIN IDEA: People can wander from the truth and believers have a God-given responsibility to rescue them and bring them back to the truth. "My dear brothers and sisters, if someone among you wanders away from the truth and is brought back, you can be sure that whoever brings the sinner back from wandering will save that person from death and bring …

MAIN IDEA: You should depend on the power of God available through prayer to overcome any weaknesses caused by suffering, sickness and sin.

So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord—who is the Spirit—makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image. - 2 Corinthians 3:18 [NLT]

WARNING: There’s a coming judgement for wealthy oppressors and a coming justice for those they’ve oppressed.

Humble believers plan their lives around God’s desires instead of their own.

MAIN IDEA: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God. So humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up in honor.

True wisdom comes from God.

CAUTIONS FOR THE CHURCH Faith without good deeds is dead and useless, unable to save you.

WARNING: If you claim to have faith in Jesus, showing favoritism is forbidden.

PROBLEM: Some people are fooling themselves with their worthless religion.

Consider your troubling circumstances an opportunity for joy.

God's gift of a new start allows us to approach God. By trusting him, we can be filled overflowing with the hope & joy of being clean & free.

Christmas rescues you out of loneliness and into a friendship with God.

6 ‘And you, O Bethlehem in the land of Judah, are not least among the ruling cities of Judah, for a ruler will come from you who will be the shepherd for my people Israel.’

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