God has redeemed us and has given us gifts, and the parable of the sheep and goats shows us that there is a way to mishandle these gifts. God’s people are marked by lives of generosity that are not always conscious of their generosity. However, Jesus is clearly calling us to be mindful of our generosity and sense of gifting to others in our Finances, Intellects, Physical presence, Relationships, and Spirituality. Our lives of generosity show how generously we receive His gifts.
Nov 24, 2014•17 min
Last week we talked about having the capital that we need, this week, we talk about the growth of that capital in our lives. In our culture, we are used to spending our capital, but not necessarily used to the ideas that surround the investment of our capital. We’ll talk about investing our Finances, Intellects, Physical time and body, Relationships, and Spiritual lives in order to show growth before Jesus returns, and how investing these things is actually more fun than hiding them away because...
Nov 17, 2014•17 min
Do you have what you need in the areas of Financial, Intellectual, Physical, Relational, and Spiritual capital? Or have you allowed your gifts to burn down to the nub? How do we show ourselves as ready for the Bridegrooms return, even if we don’t feel like we have all that we need right now? What does God have to give us and how does He give His capitals of love?
Nov 11, 2014•23 min
Do you have what you need in the areas of Financial, Intellectual, Physical, Relational, and Spiritual capital? Or have you allowed your gifts to burn down to the nub? How do we show ourselves as ready for the Bridegrooms return, even if we don't feel like we have all that we need right now? What does God have to give us and how does He give His capitals of love?
Nov 03, 2014•15 min
Starting with the Gospel reading and Jesus’ statement that wisdom is justified by her children, we examine what the wisdom of the Reformation was. In Romans, we find that this wisdom is the full justification of the human being with God through nothing but God’s own grace. We revel together in this wisdom and continue to stand in this tradition of the Reformation some almost 500 years later.
Oct 31, 2014•17 min
Some love songs are just about our praise to our beloved. Love songs that describe the attributes of the beloved are often this way. We hear “the way your blue eyes sparkle” and we think of the way that our lover’s green eyes sparkle. Pslam 96 engages in this kind of love song showing attributes of the God whom we worship and praise.
Oct 31, 2014•18 min
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Oct 31, 2014•17 min
It’s hard to get around the familiarity we all have with Psalm 23 and view it in a new light, but that the first lines of the Psalm, “…I shall not want…” reveal a similarity to love songs that talk about how the sun and the moon rise and set and the lover may be oblivious to these things if his/her lover is (or is not) around. The Psalm also has a feeling of”no matter what happens, as long as you’re with me, everything is ok.”
Oct 13, 2014•14 min
Pslam 25 cries out to God with the tenor of a lover who fails to know how to show his/her love to the Beloved. David cries, "make me to know Your ways, O Lord" with the same feeling as someone who feels inadequate to their love. So often, when we don't know how to show our love, we show it in inappropriate or at least non-specific terms which result in actually hurting the object of our love. That is the same thing with God - we cry out "How do we show our love to You?" and He responds, "Love my...
Oct 03, 2014•17 min
Psalm 27 is about declaring that God is “the one for me”, a theme found in many different love songs. In these love songs, often the author of the love song sings about how he or she looked to others, but in the end, it was about “the one for me”. Jesus is our “the one for me”.
Oct 03, 2014•18 min
A multigenerational Jesus Centered Community of Scripture, Faith, and Grace located on the campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL
Jun 15, 2014•1 min
A multigenerational Jesus Centered Community of Scripture, Faith, and Grace located on the campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL
Apr 20, 2014•16 min
As we enter into Lent, we enter into it considering our own mortality that comes through our fall into sin, and how that fall has made us utterly afraid of death - but needlessly because we have a Savior who took death for us.
Mar 09, 2014•19 min
Who do people see? "And when they lifted up their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus only"
Mar 02, 2014•15 min
Who is the hardest person to forgive? A man who kills 5 children and wounds 5 more? That person in your neighborhood or work? No, it's yourself. In fact, it's impossible to forgive yourself. Thank God you don't have to.
Feb 23, 2014•16 min
Do you believe everything that you say you do? Do your actions reflect those beliefs, or do they betray your sinful heart? Check out how Jesus believes, what He believes, and how He shows that on the cross
Feb 16, 2014•17 min
Are you willing to show the holiness that you were Baptized into? Today we take a pondering look at how we like to "hide it under a bushel"...
Feb 09, 2014•17 min
We're talking today about commitment and being ready to die to self as Simeon was, and how that works with knowing a Savior who died and was Resurrected.
Feb 09, 2014•16 min
Are you sneezing what it means to be a Christian to others?
Jan 19, 2014•16 min
What does working memory have to do with the Slaughter of the Innocents? Find out!
Dec 29, 2013•14 min
Are you looking for a leader? What does it mean to look for a leader in our culture and what does that tell us about our worship of Jesus?
Dec 22, 2013•16 min
Are you looking for change in the wrong places? Many of us are waiting for change, but not sure where the good changes in our life actually come from.
Dec 15, 2013•14 min
#tipsforJesus is a huge hashtag, but what do hashtags and other symbols have to do with the Gospel?
Dec 08, 2013•16 min
We start our series "Waiting for Love" talking about how we are invited into a loving relationship with Jesus
Dec 01, 2013•15 min
Commitment Sunday is here and we're talking about committing to seeing God's love at work in our lives, following like Peter followed in the forgiveness of Jesus Christ
Nov 24, 2013•20 min
God wants to show the world His love through us, but too often we're not willing to let His love shine, but regardless, Jesus brings His light to bear in our hearts and lives.
Nov 17, 2013•16 min
How much do you love God and how do you engage with Him to find out how much He loves you?
Nov 10, 2013•18 min
We start off our I Love U sermon series about our annual focus talking about Reformation Day and love and Lutherans
Oct 27, 2013•18 min
How are your manners? Part of having manners is saying thank you at the right places for the right things. How are your manners with God?
Oct 13, 2013•14 min
Who does the dishes in your house? Hear some rules about doing the dishes in PJ's house that apply to the Gospel reading and what Jesus' Kingdom is like
Oct 06, 2013•16 min
