Love Your Enemies
"Love your enemies." It's probably the most quoted — and least practiced — command in the entire Ser...
A Different Kind of Resistance
"Turn the other cheek" is one of the most quoted — and often most misunderstood — commands Jesus eve...
The Whole Truth
You already know how this works. "I'll try to make it." "We should get together sometime." "I'll pra...
What God Joined
Most of us read the Bible's teaching on divorce with a knot in our stomach, bracing for the verdict....
The Heart of the Matter
In week five of First Christian Church's journey through the Sermon on the Mount, Pastor Justin Stur...
The Most Misread Verse in the Sermon on the Mount
"I did not come to abolish the Law and the Prophets, but to fulfill them." It's one of the most impo...
You Are The City On A Hill
Jesus didn't say His followers should try to be salt and light someday. He said they already are. In...
"Bless Your Heart" — What We've Been Getting Wrong About the Beatitudes
Everybody wants the good life. Almost nobody agrees on what it is. In the opening message of the Ser...
What If You Actually Believed It?
If Jesus is still in the tomb, none of this matters. If He's not, everything does. In this Easter 20...
Palm Sunday — The Wrong King
The crowd thought they were welcoming the king they wanted. They didn't realize they were crowning t...