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The Word, the World, and the Worries
The word of the kingdom is powerful, but hardened hearts, shallow roots, crowded lives, and deceptive riches can keep it from bearing fruit. Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23
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Resisting Hearts and Resting Hearts
Jesus exposes resistant hearts that always find reasons to refuse God’s message and messengers, and he invites weary hearts to come to him and find rest. Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30
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Small Faithfulness, Kingdom Weight
In the kingdom of Jesus, welcome is mission, small mercy matters, and nothing done faithfully in his name is wasted. Matthew 10:40-42
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Courage for the Costly Way
The way of Jesus requires courageous allegiance when following him becomes costly. Matthew 10:24-39
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Sent With Compassion
Jesus sees the crowds with compassion, teaches his disciples to pray, and then sends them into the mission they prayed about. Matthew 9:35-10:8
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The Way of Jesus
Billy introduces the upcoming series that will walk through the book of Matthew and follow along its lectionary readings. Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26
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Why Leviticus Feels Like Another Planet
Leviticus feels strange because it takes holiness, sin, cleansing, and access to God very seriously. But once we ask, “Where have I seen this before?”, Leviticus starts helping us see Jesus more clearly. Leviticus 16
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Let Revelation Be Weird
The strange symbols of Revelation are not there to feed speculation, but to reveal reality from heaven’s perspective and reshape our allegiance around the Lamb. Revelation 5:1-14
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God Did Not Speak Only in Bullet Points
Jesus often teaches in stories and images not to make truth less clear, but to reveal truth in a way that searches the heart and forms the listener. Matthew 13:10-23
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The Bible Is Not One Kind of Book
If we are going to read the Bible well, we have to let it be what it is: one unified story that points to Jesus, told through many kinds of writing that must be listened to on their own terms. Luke 24:13-35