in Jesus Christ
Matthew 11:25-30 (3/5/2017)
It’s not hard. It’s not complicated. It’s not more than you are capable of. You can do it. You can do it! You can come to Jesus. You can lay down your heavy loads. You can find rest.
the man of Nazareth
Matthew 15:21-28 (3/12/2017)
A mother’s love for her child helped Jesus see a Father’s love for his children, for all his children.
our crucified and risen Savior
Matthew 16:21-26 (3/19/2017)
Why is the gospel all about turning the world upside down? Or maybe it’s the world that is upside down, and maybe it’s the world and all of us that need to be turned upside down in order to be right side up!
you have come to us
Matthew 21:33-43 (3/26/2017)
In Jesus Christ, the man of Nazareth, our crucified and risen Savior, you have come to us … and shared our common lot. Beautiful and terrifying! Awesome and astonishing! You have come to us.
And what do we do to you?
and shared our common lot
Matthew 25:31-46 (4/2/2017)
Shared our common lot! One of us! Not merely like us, but one of us. Not disguised as one of us, but one of us. Not temporarily talking on our form and likeness, but one of us.
conquering sin and death
Matthew 27:45-51 (4/9/2017)
Gabriel Fauré, Requiem
In Jesus Christ, the man of Nazareth, our crucified and risen Savior, the Lord has come to us and shared our common lot, conquering sin and death. So may the Lord give you courage in life and hope in death, and may the Lord grant you rest, today and forever!
and reconciling the world to yourself
Matthew 28:16-20 (4/16/2017)
We did everything humanly possible, everything worldly possible, to deny God’s overtures, to reject God’s love, to cut God entirely out of our lives and out of life itself. And God took it. God took it all. God accepted the terms of divorce and swallowed the bitter poison of our hatred to the last drop … and lives, lives not to exact revenge, but to reconcile.