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What does following Jesus have to do with running, lifting weights, or preparing for SFAS?

On the surface, not much.

But training has taught me something that has profoundly shaped the way I understand discipleship:

We become what we repeatedly practice.

The Sermon on the Mount Series, Week 4 – Christ Fulfills the Law

This week will be the most controversial section yet on the Sermon on the Mount. We will be going over Matthew 5:17-20, titled “Christ Fulfills the Law.” CSB Matthew 5:17-20 – “Don’t think that I came to abolish the Law of the Prophets. I did not come to abolish but to fulfill. For truly I tell you, until heaven and hearth pass away, not the smallest letter or one stroke of a letter will pass away from the law until all things are accomplished. Therefore, whoever breaks one

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2 days ago4 min read

The Sermon on the Mount Series, Week 3 – Believers are Salt and Light

Now that we have finished up with the eight beatitudes, which show us the characteristics of a heart that pleases God. Those characteristics showed how a heart aligned with the kingdom of heaven would interact with God and other people. At the time, the beatitudes also opened people’s eyes to the idea that the kingdom of heaven was being made available to the most unlikely people of that time, when it was thought that only the visibly righteous and those with material or soci

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7 days ago5 min read

Part 2 - The Last Four Beatitudes

We will continue our study of the beatitudes in Matthew 5:7-12. Last week we went over the first four beatitudes, which are all generally linked to how our posture should be between us and God. The last four beatitudes shift more towards how our transformed heart should produce action or interactions with others in this world if we are on the right path that God desires. 5:7 – “Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.” We have been shown an enormous amount of m

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Sep 265 min read

Part 1 - The First Four Beatitudes

Today we will officially begin our 20-week Sermon on the Mount series. We will be taking a quick deep dive each week into all the sections of Matthew 5 through 7. This week we will be going over the first four Beatitudes from 5:1-6, but before we do we should try to establish the big picture purpose that Jesus was communicating to us in the entire sermon. It is important to understand that Jesus was speaking to a very large crowd, that crowd did not just include all of the ri

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Sep 184 min read

Ten Categories of the Teachings of Jesus

1. Believe - Whoever believes in Jesus is washed with the Holy Spirit and has eternal life. a. John 3:16 – For God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. b. John 7:38-39 – The one who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, will have streams of living water flow from deep within him. He said this about the Spirit. Those who believed in Jesus were going to recei

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Aug 2012 min read

The Gospel

After a long time of struggling to read and understand the Bible when I read it in entirety for the first time and being uncomfortable with so many differences between all the denominations, I decided to make this with quotes from the four gospels only (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) and see what Jesus had to say about Salvation. You can then use it as a lens to understand the rest of the Bible. Here is my attempt to interpret what Jesus said! I'm not perfect, and I don't wan

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Dec 12, 20254 min read

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The Sermon on the Mount Series, Week 4 – Christ Fulfills the Law

The Sermon on the Mount Series, Week 3 – Believers are Salt and Light

Part 2 - The Last Four Beatitudes

Part 1 - The First Four Beatitudes

Ten Categories of the Teachings of Jesus

The Gospel

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