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Our brokenness is our blessing in this sense – we don’t have to work to become “poor in spirit.” We already are “poor in spirit.” This beatitude is not about our performance. We do not have to become poor in spirit to be blessed. Rather, this beatitude is about our condition we are blessed to be in a condition where we can receive God’s grace. · If we will not deny our brokenness · If we will not project our brokenness on to others · If we will not self-manage our brokenness · If we will not surrender to our brokenness If we will acknowledge our brokenness and bring our poor spirit to Jesus, then we are blessed because . . .the kingdom of heaven is ours!

Jesus’ instruction to His disciples provided a pattern for corporate prayer which helps us to maintain a proper course for effective communication with God.

Our heart should be to proactively do good to others, expecting nothing in return.

Jesus is looking for those who will come to Him and be saved, then follow Him with their life. He promises blessedness to those who accept His invitation. Will you become the Master’s Disciple-Maker?

Don’t allow unrestrained anger to tarnish your testimony to a point that you lose your influence to present the gospel.

Let us trade our hypocritical prayers of publicity and verbosity for the sincere prayers of privacy and simplicity.

King Jesus‘ guide on worry focus and kingdom living

As we move towards the end of the sermon, it might seem like Matthew is just gathering disconnected fragments of Jesus' teaching. But there's a clear thread still running through this middle section of the sermon, focussed on Christian behaviour, and that's our relationship with 'our Father in heaven'. In 7:1-12, it's this relationship that must shape our relationships with others.

How are we as Christians to face the uncertainty and chaos around the world as COVID-19 touches every community and neighborhood? Pastor Clay shares with us a common thread through Matthew 24 where Jesus speaks to us about how to be strong in our faith while watching the world around us.

We all mourn. The difference between those who receive the divine grace of comfort and those who do not receive that divine comfort is in the coming to Jesus. The comfort of God is always near to us, but if we refuse to come to Jesus we will never have the comfort that is closer to us than our own breath – for it is the comfort of the life of God himself in us!

Can we really expect to trust Jesus when he commands us to rejoice and be glad during life's worst moments?

Pastor Cory started a new series on the Sermon on the Mount found in Mathew 5:3

Jesus is looking for those who will come to Him and be saved, then follow Him with their life. He promises blessedness to those who accept His invitation. Will you become the Master’s Disciple-Maker?

We've all be infected with our culture's value of self-sufficiency and it is the key hindrance to feeling God's love.

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy

Today Josh Schroeder, one of our own, brings the Word of God to life through Matthew 5:38-42. The topic of loving our enemies can easily make us cringe, mainly because we are horrible at it. Josh brings great balance to this topic and ends with a very practical way on how to do this. Listen up, enjoy!

Matthew 6:5-8, 16-18

GEX 2/18/18 Sermon on the Mount series

Join us this week as Pastor Jayson continues our series of City on a Hill.