Join us at the Costa home at 7:30am Sat., Mar. 5, for our monthly men’s breakfast as we discuss this blog post: “Worship as Edifying Love.” Please bring a dish to share, and invite a friend if you’d like! RSVP to Eric.

Here are some questions based on last Sunday’s sermon text (Matthew 5:33-37), in case they’re helpful to you for personal growth or group discussion… “Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil [or the evil one]” (v. 37). Speech is a relational activity. The rejection of truthful speech… Read more »

Here are some questions based on last Sunday’s sermon text (Matthew 5:27-32), in case they’re helpful to you for personal growth or group discussion… The Triune God is relational in his being. He cares about our relationships, and he has told us how to live in them. What he has told us about how to relate… Read more »

Here are some questions based on last Sunday’s sermon text (Matthew 5:21-26), in case they’re helpful to you for personal growth or group discussion… [21-22] Jesus says that God’s commandments can’t be truly obeyed at a merely superficial, external level, but that God considers the secret motives and affections of the heart to be just as… Read more »

Here are some questions based on last Sunday’s sermon text (Matthew 5:17-20), in case they’re helpful to you for personal growth or group discussion… [17-18] When Jesus says, “Truly, I say to you…,” it is a claim to divine authority that is self-referential, and that is not in any way contradictory to the authority of the… Read more »

Here are some questions based on last Sunday’s sermon text (Matthew 5:11-16), in case they’re helpful to you for personal growth or group discussion… Jesus says that following him, living in relationship with him, being a citizen of the kingdom of heaven will make you distinct from this world in ways that are contrary to the… Read more »

Here are some questions based on last Sunday’s sermon text (Matthew 5:10-12), in case they’re helpful to you for personal growth or group discussion… “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake… Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice… Read more »

Here are some questions based on last Sunday’s sermon text (Matthew 5:9), in case they’re helpful to you for personal growth or group discussion… The Bible speaks of the relational disintegration that is the default state of sinful human beings since the fall of our race (Gen. 3). We automatically tend toward division, and the root… Read more »