Kids and Youth

When we realize the price ofJesus’ ransom, we don’t walk away. We follow the King who became a slave to set us free. Jesus paid the ransom. Jesus serves the table. All we do is eat and follow.

Salvation is a free gift of divine grace totally devoid of human merit. To be saved, we need God to do the impossible!

Our responsibilities in the church that Jesus lays out for us in Matthew 18.

Five portraits of Jesus that we find in Matthew 17.

How Matthew 16 impacts our understanding of who we are and what we do as a church.

How pursuing change in our hearts impacts the Kingdom of God.

What you truly believe about the power and majesty of Jesus Christ is the single greatest factor in how you worship Him, how you serve Him, and how you weather the storms of life.

The Parable of the Sower and the Parable of the Weeds require us to stop looking around and start looking inward. We are commanded to examine the authenticity of our own faith. Our temptation is to become experts at spotting and treating the weeds in other people’s lives, but our divine mandate is to focus on our own fruitfulness. Humbly and joyfully receive the message, but do not stop there. Prove the message by the quality of your transformed life.

How Jesus explains our ability to hear from God in the Parable of the Sower.

In your life, will you gladly submit to the authority of Jesus? Will you submit to His authority, not reluctantly, but gladly, knowing His ways are best? He has met our deepest need through His death on a cross. And if we can trust Him to do that, then certainly we can trust Him in every other area of our lives.

Have you ever had doubts about God? About the gospel? About whether or not all of this is real? The reality is that even for those who seem to be the most faithful, faith is sometimes hard, particularly when the burdens of life feel heavy. But the good news is that even in our doubts, the God whom we seek to be sure of is certain to meet us where we are.

God can use you to do great things, but He can only use you if you’ll step out in faith. If the disciples had stayed in Jerusalem, they’d have never seen what God could do through them. God used a few ordinary men from Galilee to change the world. He can use you too—if only you’ll follow Him.

Five things we learn in Matthew 9 about Jesus' power and authority.

Four things we learn in Matthew 8 about Jesus' power and authority.

If you were to stand before God right now, would it be clear that Jesus is the Lord of your life? Is it clear that you know Him and are in a relationship with Him?

Understanding the promises that Matthew 7:7-12 declares: That we will receive when we ask and find when we seek and have the door opened for us when we knock.

We are immersed in a culture of criticism and judgement. We are surrounded by it on social media, in the news, and even in our personal conversations. The Bible doesn’t say we shouldn’t judge at all, but what is the right way and the wrong way to judge?

Jesus is presenting us with a single, continuous, and powerful lesson in Matthew 6. He isn’t just offering an invitation; He’s giving us a clear path to becoming a kingdom-oriented, non-anxious presence in the world.

How Jesus teaches us to pray with The Lord’s Prayer.

Is it possible for you to do good things in ways that are bad for you?

How and why we love our enemies.

How Jesus' teaching on oaths applies to us today.

What Jesus says about divorce in the Sermon on the Mount.

What Jesus says about lust and sexual sin in the Sermon on the Mount.

What Jesus says about anger in the Sermon on the Mount.

We live in a world that tells us at every turn that “you are the authority in your life”, and the world calls this freedom. But true life is found not in self-rule, but in surrender to the loving authority of Jesus and His word. True life isn’t found by grabbing the throne for ourselves, but by joyfully bowing to the One who rightfully sits on it.

Why Jesus compares our relationship with the world to salt and light.

The Beatitudes are more than just beautiful sayings. They are an open invitation from Jesus Himself to step out of the frantic, often disappointing, worldly pursuit of happiness through perfect circumstances. This is Jesus’ profound answer to our deepest question, ‘What do I need to be happy?’: You need the King and His Kingdom.

Many bible commentators believe that some significant time passes between Matthew 4:11 and Matthew 4:12 – maybe up to a year. All of this happened on the very edge. On the edge of Jewish geography, on the edge of Jewish history, and on the edge of Jewish religious understanding. Rob takes a look at how Jesus went the edge and His examples for us through it.

Do you love the Kingdom or do you love the King?

A couple of reasons why we can have hope that God's promises will never fail.

What Jesus’ genealogy shows us.

An introduction into who Matthew was and how he got a second chance from Jesus.