How will I be remembered? It’s a question we all ask ourselves as we live our lives and do the best we can. The truth is, even the best of our accomplishments will be forgotten in just a few short years. Timothy’s story helps us see that the only thing that will truly last is the legacy of treasuring Jesus we pass on to the next generation.
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Most of us spend our lives avoiding uncomfortable situations. Most of the time God does his most profound work through uncomfortable situations. So what do you do when God calls you someplace you’d rather not go? Ananias gives us a good picture of the person God calls and how to respond when he does.
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(We apologize, the first portion of this recording is missing) We all have a story to tell. Some of us think our story has been told- we’re just living out the foregone conclusion. Others feel like they’ve been written off. Scripture teaches us that God is never done writing our story. But the story that gets told isn’t always pretty. So what does your story say? What will be your legacy?
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Sometimes our place in this world can seem very small. In the face of such massive problems facing our country and in our own lives, we can seem very insignificant. How can we make an impact on something so much bigger than us and seemingly out of our control? The bible gives some pretty counter-intuitive advice. Wanna change something big? Start small. The power to change the world begins in your own local church.
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Forgiveness is one of the cornerstones of the Christian faith. It is also one of the most difficult things to put into practice. What does it look like to truly forgive others and do we really have to do it? Jesus shows us that it’s not an optional part of the life of a disciple.
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Love- it seems like a simple enough concept. But it all depends on the definition you use. The biblical picture of love is a lot more than simple affection and affirmation. In the end, love is helping one another become more like Christ. What we see in Matthew 18 is that God has a structure in place to help us in that pursuit- The Church.
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Sin is not to be taken lightly. Jesus makes it clear that we need to take sin with the utmost seriousness. He certainly does. Some of Jesus’s strongest words in all of scripture are in relation to sin and those that lead others into it. That’s scary for us sinners. But thankfully he doesn’t stop there—he also shows us a beautiful shepherd that seeks us out and saves us from ourselves.
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When Yoda attempts to train the prideful, impatient Luke Skywalker, Luke’s misconceptions about Yoda lead him to miss amazing things. Yoda warns him that you can’t judge things by their size. Jesus has similar instructions for his disciples. Can you heed the lesson of Jesus and let the small things become the things that teach us the most? Can you change your view of yourself and the things you feel you are owed? It’s the mark of maturity, humility, and a disciple.
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Peter’s confession marked him as a new man, but that was just a moment in time. What happens after that confession? How does it change us? For Peter, he still had a lot to learn. The road we walk when following Jesus is rarely comfortable and frequently far from what we’d expect. How do we trust Jesus’s plan when it’s so different from ours? Jesus lays out for the disciples, and for us, that every day is an excercise in faith.
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Who do you say I am? It’s the question we all have to answer. Just who is Jesus and what does it matter? Peter’s confession is a dramatic moment in Matthew’s gospel- a turning point. But the confession doesn’t just acknowledge who Jesus is- it marks Peter too. The confession forever changed Simon and marked him with a new name and a new responsibility.
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Have you ever trusted your GPS only to end up completely lost? Few things will get you lost faster than a GPS that is always recalculating. Yet so often, we chart our life’s course on a map that is always recalculating. Jesus knows how important it is that we choose our guides and our maps carefully. So who is your guide? How do you orient your moral compass? Jesus shows us why the only answer that we can trust is found in him and him alone.
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Religious rule followers can look like they’ve really got their act together. The problem is that it can often be just that… an act. Full obedience is about a lot more than following the rules and the two pictures in Matthew 15 highlight the difference. One the chosen nation of Israel, the other no more than a “dog,” but it’s the humility and desperation of the outsider that Jesus points us to as an example.
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Perhaps Jesus’s most well-known miracle is his ability to walk on water. When you study the story, the “WHAT” (walking on water) is amazing, but the WHY is where we can truly be comforted. God is always working in our lives, even when we don’t understand it or even know it.
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The feeding of the 5000 is one of Jesus’s most famous miracles. What makes it so memorable and what kind of lessons should we learn from it? How will your react when you have nothing to offer and Jesus looks to you and says “You feed them”? What we see is that when we have nothing to offer, God is ready to go to work.
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Jesus of Nazareth- That’s what they called him. Yet the people of Nazareth couldn’t believe that the Jesus they knew was anything more than just the kid from down the street. They assumed he was ordinary- and missed out on God in their midst. Have we made the same mistake today? Have missed on the extraordinary and reduced it to the everyday and ordinary? How do we make sure we haven’t made the same mistake as the people of Nazareth?
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