by Ron Barnard
We’re convinced God wants to be present and powerful in every part of our lives, church, and community. We know it’s not all good. In fact, sometimes things are downright difficult. However, even when life gets hard, God is working for our good. (Romans 8:28) Real deal relationship with Jesus is the key to overcoming. His legendary ability to redeem, reconcile, and restore is the big news of the biblical narrative. Believing in and connecting others to that reality is what we’re all about …
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June 16, 2024
<p>Title: The Lavish Love of the Father.</p><p>Scripture: Luke 15:20</p><p><br></p><p>Parable defined.</p><p>A parable is, literally, something “cast alongside” something else. Jesus’ parables were stories that were “cast alongside” a truth in order to illustrate that truth.</p><p>Prodigal defined</p><p>A person who spends money in a recklessly extravagant way. Having or giving something on a lavish scale.</p><p>The word prodigal can describe lavish behavior whether it is directed towards oneself (as in the younger son who wasted his inheritance on lavish living) or on the father, who was lavish in his forgiveness and acceptance of the younger son when he returned home.</p><p><br></p><p>Tell the Story of the Prodigal Son.</p><p>1st point.</p><p>Sin does more than breaking the rules. It is the breaking of Relationship. </p><p>Isaiah 59:2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. </p><p>2nd point.</p><p>Love releases what it loves. Love gives freedom to be. </p><p>John 8:36 He whom the Son sets free is free indeed.</p><p>3rd point.</p><p>We run from legitimate authority and become enslaved to illegitimate authority. </p><p>James 4:7 Submit yourself to the authority of God. Resist the devil and he will flee. Amplified Bible</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>4th Point </p><p>The father runs — and shames himself.</p><p>Luke 15:20 So he returned home to his father. And while he was still a long way off. His father saw him coming. Filled with love and compassion, HE RAN TO HIS SON, EMBRACED HIM, AND KISSED HIM</p><p>Kezazah, A Jewish Ceremony</p><p>5th point </p><p>You’re Not So Far Gone That God Can’t Restore You.</p><p>Luke 15:32 We had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again, he was lost and is found.</p><p>1John 3:1 See what great love the Father has Lavished on us, that we should be called children of God.</p><p><br></p>
June 9, 2024
<p>Matthew 14:22-24 Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd. 23 After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Later that night, he was there alone, 24 and the boat was already a considerable distance from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>John 16:33, which says -In this godless world, you will continue to experience difficulties. But take heart! I’ve conquered the world.”</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Don’t let the wind determine your direction.</p><p><br></p><p>John 6:19 says - 19 When they had rowed about three or four miles,</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Mark 6:47-48</p><p>Later that night, the boat was in the middle of the lake, and he was alone on land. 48 He saw the disciples straining at the oars because the wind was against them.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Romas 7:5 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. </p><p><br></p><p>Matthew 14:25</p><p><br></p><p>25 Shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake. 26 When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost,” they said, and cried out in fear.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Sometimes, God’s provision doesn’t look like we think it will, and we become afraid of what will ultimately be our deliverance. </p><p><br></p><p>Matthew 27 But Jesus immediately said to them: “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”</p><p><br></p><p>Mark 6:50 Immediately he spoke to them and said, “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”</p><p><br></p><p>John 6:20 But he said to them, “It is I; don’t be afraid.”</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Dr Tom Constable Said it this way. “Where Jesus is present, fear is unwarranted.”</p><p><br></p><p>I am is bigger than anything we could ever face in life, and he is for us.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Matthew 14:28-29</p><p>28 “Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you on the water.”</p><p>29 “Come,” he said.</p><p>Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. </p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Being in the storm with Jesus is safer than being on a boat without.</p><p><br></p><p>Verse 30 But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me!” </p><p><br></p><p>Don’t let FAITH fatigue rob you of a TRUST you once knew.</p><p><br></p><p>Matthew 14:31 offers us hope. </p><p>31 Immediately, Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. “You of little faith,” he said, “why did you doubt?”</p><p><br></p><p>Partial Trust is not trust at all; it’s doubt</p><p><br></p>
June 2, 2024
<p>We do missions because we are the Kings kids on a mission! </p><p><br></p><p>The Word became flesh and blood, moved into the neighborhood. We saw the glory with our own eyes… like Father, like Son, generous inside and out, true from start to finish. John 1:14 MSG </p><p><br></p><p>You show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. 2 Corinthians 3:3 ESV </p><p><br></p><p>While he was in one of the cities, there came a man full of leprosy. And when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and implored him, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.” And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately the leprosy left him. And he charged him to tell no one, but “go and show yourself to the priest, and make an offering for your cleansing, as Moses commanded, for a proof to them.” But now even more the report about him went abroad, and great crowds gathered to hear him and to be healed of their infirmities. But he would withdraw to desolate places and pray. Luke 5:12-16 ESV</p><p><br></p><p>One of those cites… </p><p><br></p><p>We are meant to live as Jesus lived, intentionally on mission in our world everyday.</p><p><br></p><p>Full of Leprosy! </p><p><br></p><p>There is no broken to broken for Jesus! </p><p><br></p><p>Jesus’s compassionate reputation preceded Him! </p><p><br></p><p>Coming to Jesus is always the right choice! </p><p><br></p><p>And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately the leprosy left him. Luke 5:13 ESV </p><p><br></p><p>God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. James 4:6 ESV</p><p><br></p><p>Jesus lived a hands on approach to mission and that’s how we’re meant to live on mission too.</p><p><br></p><p>And immediately the leprosy left him. </p><p><br></p><p>No one can heal the broken but Jesus! </p><p><br></p><p>And he charged him to tell no one, but “go and show yourself to the priest, and make an offering for your cleansing, as Moses commanded, for a proof to them.” Luke 5:15 ESV </p><p><br></p><p>When a life is truly transformed by the touch of Jesus the testimony will always point to the finished work of the cross! </p>
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