Rhythms Of Grace Community Fellowship

Sermon on the Mount Part 2 The Beatitudes

These are not teachings! These are not telling us how to think about ourselves, not telling us what we should live up to. This is Jesus making a declaration about the world, that the world can be like this! Jesus is not teaching us about us, here. Jesus is telling us something about God.

The Apocalypse Part 7 Beasts and the Harlot

John is not giving us details because then it would look like his world. Instead, he gave us images, ideas, narratives that would force you to think and reflect - to slow down and ask yourself this hard question. What do these beasts look like in my world? When I honestly and critically look at my politics, my religion, and my economics and I don't see Jesus, then I have some choices to make.

Sermon on the Mount Part 1 Poor in Spirit

May you know yourself as God knows you today, as blessed and beloved, as welcomed and accepted, as invited into everything you might become if only you could begin to see yourself as beautifully as God sees you right now. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for the kingdom of God has come near to you!

The Apocalypse Part 6 Great Red Dragon

The reason that evil roars in Revelation is because it knows the story is over. We really don't fight fire with fire. Evil is only undone when we trust that the work of Christ is real and we allow the peace and the forgiveness and the sacrifice that defined His story to then define us! The victory that Christ won is NOT simply that He won - the victory is HOW He won! That's what we are invited to participate in!

Reflection and Change

Because you've gained a lot of experience working in different games and culture settings, learning to play by different sets of rules, you start to realize - everybody thinks they are right. Everybody's viewpoint is Just a view from a point!

The Apocalypse Part 5 Seven Trumpets

Six trumpets have sounded and there has been no redemption, no transformation and no repentance. Why? Then John is told to measure the temple of God. If the temple of God is the worshipers, then how do you measure the worshipers?

The Real Gospel

The Gospel is an announcement. What kind of announcement? Of a religious Savior, No. It was an announcement of a political Savior. The announcement was of a victory that had already happened! A victory in battle, not a metaphorical victory but a literal victory.

The Apocalypse Part 4 Loosening the Seals

John is trying to unsettle you. He's trying to shake you. He's trying to make you question things, only so, at that moment - when you finally think you've lost your footing, you doubt, you think all is lost and there's nowhere to turn. This is where Hope will come to find you!

Abraham Part 8 The Binding of Isaac

This is a tough story to digest, but it's the foundation for the Christian story that follows it because God is moving the bar - one step closer to the full picture we will eventually see in Jesus. God is not looking to take away your Isaac.

The Apocalypse Part 3 The Lamb on the Throne

My prayer is that you would be enlightened, not to fear and confusion and dread and destruction, but enlightened to the Spirit of God speaking grace and peace to your heart in the midst of your struggle, just the way that way John intended - for you to know that this is the Revelation of Jesus Christ. Love changes everything and makes all things new!