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If Jesus' Kingdom has the same end goals, motivations, and methods as every other Kingdom of the World, it is useless. Jesus' Kingdom isn't like ANY other Kingdom. And His Kingdom goes on forever, won't you join Him? Trust that Jesus, God in a human body, died on the cross for your sins, believe that He was buried, and that He has now been raised from the dead and He will rescue you! Call on Him to be saved from this messed up world, from your messed up mind, messed up life! He will come to you, if you'll trust in Him and stop trusting in yourself, trying to be your own god, and pushing His Way, and His Kingdom aside. God has made this Jesus, both LORD and Messiah! Recorded at Refuge TLH on Sunday, May 26, 2019.

The just shall live by faith. Jesus has fulfilled the law of Moses. Those who trust that He died on the cross for our sins, was buried, and has been raised are justified by believing, by trusting Him. We cannot do enough good things to earn a place in God's perfect Kingdom. We must have His righteousness given to us as a gift in order to enter. In the Kingdom, we are no longer bound to Moses law. We recognize that all the law is fulfilled in this, Loving God with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength, and loving our neighbor as ourself. Jesus is our redeemer, saviour. He is both just and the justifier of all those who come to God through Him. There is no other mediator between God and man. Just Jesus. Please trust in Jesus. He is the only hope for our World. Recorded at Refuge TLH on Sunday, June 2, 2019.

God, Creator of All, designed the marriage of a man to a woman for both their lifetimes to reveal His glory and character and to establish order in human society beginning with the home, the smallest unit of natural human governance. Our desparately wicked hearts draw us away from God at heartbreaking speed and in tragic realities with severe consequences personally and in our society. God rescues sinners when they trust Him, believing that Jesus died for their sin, that He was buried, and that He was raised from the dead and is alive now both receiving and coming to live in those who've laid their hope, their confidence in Him rather than in themselves. Now, having been brought into His Kingdom by faith, He sets before us a new way to live, the way of His Kingdom and He is alive with us and in us to help us to walk in His Way! Where sin abounds... grace abounds so much more! Take joy in the God who saves sinners like you and I! Recorded at Refuge TLH on Sunday, June 30, 2019.

Pastor Chuck starts a new sermon series about the “Sermon on the Mount”. He describes how Jesus uses “The Beatitudes” help to us redefine what God wants us to admire in the world. Pastor Chuck provides a unique concept for us to use the Beatitudes as “not the attitudes we should have, but the attitudes we should be.” This week, Pastor Chuck’s topic is “Blessed are the Poor in Spirit.” Pastor Chuck describes how being “blessed” is a continuous spiritual condition of spiritual prosperity (being rich in spirit), contentment, and satisfaction in your life, not a physical feeling or state of physical material possession. Pastor Chuck will explain “one who is ‘poor in spirit’ has humbly recognized they have a deep need for God because they know they lack His Holiness and have a need for His forgiveness, grace, and mercy, and need Him as a Savior.” Pastor Chuck encourages us to become more aware of our desperate everyday need for God and to invite Him into our lives more every day.

The Setting Our theme for this weekend centres around the mountain passages of Matthew’s gospel. This isn’t a topical study of mountains (that might have been too similar to the subject matter of last year’s MSW); it is more of a book study of Matthew’s gospel with an additional topical focus on mountains…

The Setting We’ve reached our final mountain scene and it’s yet another mountain that is unique to Matthew’s account. The wider setting in which we find this mountain passage is the narrative section detailing the aftermath of resurrection , the appearance of the angel and then the Lord Jesus himself…

Salt and Light

The Setting Just as was the case with the mountain of temptation, we notice that this mountain scene appears in close connection with one of Matthew’s key structural markers : from that time on ( Mt 16:21 ). The previous marker (in Mt 4:17 ) came just after the mountain of temptation and marked the start…

Matthew 5:13 – 16 Salt and light. Jesus calls his disciples to be salt and light. Since we are his disciples, we are called to be salt and light as well. What does it mean to be salt and light? In our modern world salt and light have very different meanings than they did in Jesus’ day. Salt gets a lot…