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Love Sees Differently: Learning to See People the Way Jesus Does
When a woman with a reputation crashed a Pharisee's dinner to wash Jesus' feet with her tears, Simon saw a sinner while Jesus saw her, and he saw Simon too. In week four of The Main Thing, Carlos walks through Luke 7 and shows how experiencing Jesus' love changes the way we see and love the people around us.
Trusting Jesus When It Doesn't Make Sense: A Spiritual Checkup from Luke 5
Peter had fished all night and caught nothing. Then Jesus told him to try again. Here's what Luke 5 shows us about trusting Jesus when it doesn't make sense.
Looking Back and Looking Ahead: The Mission Jesus Announced in Nazareth
When Charles learned to drive, he was taught to look back before moving ahead: check the mirror, glance over your shoulder, then ease off the brake. Cameras do most of that work now, but the principle still holds, and it's exactly the shape of this week's message from Luke. To move forward well, you first have to look back.
Continuing What Jesus Started: Why We're Not Finishing His Work, We're Joining It
So how does Jesus answer the "are we there yet" question? Not with a date, and not with a rebuke. He doesn't tell the disciples to stop asking.
Keep Your Receipts: The Journey from Doubt to Faith
As we close out the series in Psalm 73, we're looking at what happens when you're doing your best to stay on the right path and it stops feeling like it's leading anywhere good: the journey from doubt to faith.
Better Together: Why You Were Never Meant to Do This Alone
The picture behind Psalm 133, this week's text, and it names something worth saying out loud: our closeness to God and our closeness to each other were never meant to be two separate things.
The God Who Keeps You
Psalm 121 was written for God's people walking, sometimes 90 miles on foot, up to Jerusalem, singing to pass the time. It sits between a psalm of someone crying out in danger and a psalm of pure arrival, right in the middle of the journey, not resolved yet, not celebrating yet. If that's where you are today, this psalm was written for you too.
The Shepherd Who Brings Us Home
Chances are you've run into Psalm 23 in one of two places: the nursery, on a stuffed sheep that says "The Lord is my shepherd" in a cute little voice, or the funeral home, read to mark the end of a life. Beginning and end. That's where most of us have filed this psalm away.
When Your Soul Is Running on Empty
Most of us learned the same rule early: when someone asks how you're doing, you say "good," even when you're not. We tolerate anger, but real sadness and grief make us uncomfortable. So we hide it behind a smile, or we let it take over and stay stuck there. Neither one actually helps.
When Fear Feels Bigger Than Your Faith
When you were a kid, what scared you? Thunderstorms, maybe. The dark. Those thousand-legged bugs that show up in the basement out of nowhere. Simple fears, the kind you grow out of.
