Posts with the category “mark-my-words”

A man asks Jesus to settle an inheritance fight, and Jesus answers with a story about overflowing barns, spoiled manna, hungry ravens, and the real meaning of “enough.” From Genesis to Paul’s letters, the Bible keeps circling one stubborn question: where does your sufficiency come from? This week’s passages pull that thread tight—and Wesley’s second rule for handling wealth lands right in the middle of it.  Read More

This Sunday we begin a three‑week stewardship series built around John Wesley’s simple rules: Gain all you can. Save all you can. Give all you can. It’s not your typical stewardship season—come see why.  Read More

What do movie spoilers and the Gospel of Matthew have in common? More than you’d think. Pastor Mark shares a personal story that leads into one of Scripture’s most unexpected turns—and what it means when God rewrites the ending we thought we knew.  Read More

Canaanite: A people who lived in the land of Canaan before and alongside theIsraelites, the region roughly covering modern day Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, and partsof Syria and Jordan. In the Old Testament they represent the nations Israel encounteredwhen entering the promised land, often associated with different religious practices thanthose given to Israel.Son of God: A title used in Scripture ...  Read More

Everyone builds their life around whatever they believe is most valuable. Jesus said it plainly: where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. So, the question is never whether you will give everything for something. You already do. The question is what you have decided is worth everything. In Matthew 13, Jesus tells five small stories about a kingdom that starts quiet, grows unseen, and turns out to be worth more than everything we own. This week on the blog, we look at what it means to sell the field, buy the pearl, and let the yeast keep working.  Read More

This Sunday, we turn to one of Jesus' most striking parables, the Wheat and theWeeds (Matthew 13:24 30, 36 43). A farmer plants good seeds, but in the night anenemy scatters weeds into the same field. When the workers want to rip the weeds outimmediately, the farmer stops them: wait for the harvest, or you'll destroy the wheatalong with it.One of the things I find most helpful in reading this para...  Read More

We Get To…This week, we turn to one of Jesus’ most generous parables—the Sower who scatters seed everywhere, on every kind of ground. Some falls on the path, some on rocks, some among weeds, and some in good soil. What makes the story so striking is the farmer himself: he throws seed with no hesitation, no calculation, no fear of running out.Jesus isn’t just telling an agricultural story. He’s des...  Read More