Empty Hands, Open Kingdom

Our walk with Jesus isn't promised to be free from challenges, difficult times, or even persecution. In fact, living for Jesus often sets us apart - and many won't like it. Does your life reflect the righteous living Jesus wants? The reward is worth it.

There is a pattern to peacemaking, and it starts in the home. The Apostle Paul outlines what brings stability to our family relationships, allowing us to then become peacemakers to the world.

God in his rich mercy has given us His peace, "shalom," a complete wholeness that cannot be compared - the presence of Himself. By staying focused on Him, we can both experience and share God's peace.

Don't settle for secondhand accounts of who God is! He gives us the promise in Matthew 5:8 that the pure in heart will see Him. So how can we improve our vision?

God's mercy applied to our lives is a gift as we do not get what we all deserve, the penalty of sin. With the mercy applied to us, Jesus calls us to a new level of mercifulness in Matthew 5:7. In today's message, Pastor Scott discusses the Construct, Cost, Challenges, and Consequence of Mercy.

So often we fill our lives with things that leave us empty.God will never disappoint.Are you ready to pursue Him intentionally? To then receive the satisfaction of a fulfilling life with Him?It's time to get hungry.

Join us for part 2 of Matthew 5:5, "Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth."Meekness - great strength under great control - is rooted in us knowing our identity in Christ. Who does He say we are? Once we know that, we don't have to strive to prove anything!

Pastor Scott breaks down Matthew 5:5, "Blessed are the meek..."Meekness goes against the grain of our nature - if we have the power, why not use it? But God's way may require something different. Are we willing to lay down our strength for His?

God comforts those who mourn not just for what's been lost, but for what sin has broken. Jesus, who took on our grief, is that comfort.

Pastor Scott opens the Beatitudes on the portraits of poverty in Matthew 5:3. Being poor in spirit is not the start of the list, it's the threshold to everything else. But we must overcome the tragedy of self-sufficiency.