February 2012
All of us experience moments in our faith journey where we face a crisis: do I really believe what I thought I believed? Is what I believed really true? In this message, we'll consider how Jesus responds when he comes face to face with a faith crisis moment.
Every person has a desire to know that their actions are just or right. We have some standard by which we measure whether what we are doing is good or whether it is bad, and like a scale, we weigh our good deeds against our bad deeds to see how we measure up. In this message we'll consider the scale that the Pharisees used, and what Jesus thought about their system and how a person can truly be justified.
In this message we'll consider two types of fear. The fear of the known, and the fear of the unknown. Jesus stands between the two and promises to make the unknown, known. "Don't fear, just believe."
We either observe the sabbath because it is something we must do to please God, or something that we get to do because God is already pleased with us in Jesus. In this message, we'll consider Jesus actions on the Sabbath day and how he redefines for us what it truly means to rest.
