Posts in Love
Love Our Enemies & Be Perfect

September 22 2019

Matthew 5:43-48 — Love our enemies and be perfect as our Father is perfect. We are children of God. Therefore, we must love like God loves, with extraordinary love. We love our enemies with our actions, words, and prayers. In this world we live as God’s peculiar, radically different-from-the-world Kingdom people. This is possible because … We are perfect because we are in Christ. We are becoming perfect because the Holy Spirit makes us perfect.

This is part of our series, Living the Kingdom Life, based on the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5-7.

Read More
Pay Forward, Not Back

September 8 2019

Matthew 5:38-42 — Kingdom people respond to personal injury, insult, and persecution with love and generosity. We do not take revenge. We do not pay back. Instead we pay forward with love, joy, and generosity. We have a choice to make—our comfort or the cross? We have died to self. We are concerned for the welfare and wellbeing of the other person. This is radical! We are called to live the alternative, counter-cultural way of love. True love overcomes evil.

This is part of our series, Living the Kingdom Life, based on the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5-7.

Read More