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Digging In

Unlimited Potential
Weekly conversations and teachings intended to help our community of professional baseball players learn a new way of life and a new way of thinking about the world based on the life and teachings of Jesus. Unlimited Potential is a small ministry team of seven former professional baseball players who are cultivating relationships with other players and helping them to follow Jesus.
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4. Hail, King of the Jews!

We had spent the last several months going through the gospel according to Matthew, and so I wanted to wrap up that series with a bird’s-eye view of the entire account so that we could see the big idea that Matthew is trying to present to his readers. A big reason that I wanted to do this is that I wanted to challenge some of our popular ideas and preconceived notions about what the gospel is all about. Many people in the church hear gospel and think of Jesus dying on the cross so that we could ...

Aug 23, 202016 min

3. Clean Hearts and Dirty Dishes

In this teaching, Jesus is warning is his own followers and he is pronouncing judgement against the leadership in Jerusalem. In their own efforts to do what they thought was pleasing to God, God’s own people were blind to the fact that they were rejecting him in the process. That is a very sobering reminder for all of us. This was a difficult message to prepare for and not the kind of message that you get excited to share. But it was a good reminder to me of what God truly wants from us; it real...

Aug 16, 202017 min

2. Ruling the World by Serving the World

In this teaching, Jesus is clearing up some misconceptions that his own disciples had about belonging to his kingdom and exactly how the kingdom of God was going to go about exercising power, overcoming evil and conquering the world. In this particular teaching to his disciples, Jesus directly challenges our normal ideas about power and redefines greatness and status in a way that was just as revolutionary then as it is today. This was a good reminder for myself and just like most of Jesus’ teac...

Aug 09, 202017 min

1. Forgiven People Forgive People

In this teaching, Jesus is answering a question that many of us might ask today and he shares a story that should rattle us a little bit. Jesus is laying out a requirement for those who belong to his kingdom movement and he wants to make sure that his followers get it. What Jesus teaches us here is clear and straightforward and it has me checking myself to make sure I’m obeying him in this area and being the kind of man that he wants me to be. We all need to embrace what Jesus is teaching here a...

Aug 02, 202020 min
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