The world isn’t safe.  Jesus isn’t safe.  But He’ll keep you safe.

Jesus gives the life and is the life we long for.

Our coming to Christ is traced to our being drawn by the Father.

1 Peter 3:1-7

The Lord has called us out as “sojourners and exiles.” This means our lives are to look different – including our marriages.

God has promised to preserve us in His grace.

We need to live by faith in Jesus. We have nowhere else to go.

Jesus has called us to follow Him.

Because the nature of Jesus’ teaching is unlike any other, we must be prepared to engage with it in a completely different way.

Jesus is offering to slake our thirsty souls.
But the offer must be accepted on His terms.

John 7:40-52

We need to accept Jesus’ offer of this new life,
lest our lives take on the ugliness of religious opposition.

Luke 19:28-40

Jesus has come as the long-awaited King.
And we must entrust and submit ourselves to His reign.

Luke 24:13-35

The startling news is that Christ is risen, risen indeed.
And there are some startling things He wants us to hear.

Matthew 13:1-23

With the coming of Jesus has come the Kingdom of God.
We must then lay aside our assumptions and pay heed to what He says.

Matthew 13:24-43

The coming of the Kingdom is more real than we think.
And we need to take hold of that and take it seriously.

 Jesus has come to rescue the caught.
We need to then acknowledge our plight and turn to Him.

God has provided abundant evidence for the NT canon
which easily stands up to its critics – if we would but have eyes to see.

The New Testament Canon

God has provided abundant evidence for the NT canon
which easily stands up to its critics – if we would but have eyes to see.

John 8:12-30

Jesus is the Light of the world
and we must “follow Him” to have the light of life.

John

John 8:31-47

True freedom is found in Jesus Christ.
We must then abide in Him to be free from what enslaves us.

John 8:48-59

Jesus really is God.
And that has to mean something in terms of who we understand God to be.

John 9:1-41

Jesus is the Light of the world, the revealer of God.
We must continually recognize our spiritual blindness that we might gain spiritual sight.

John 9

God is the One who gives us spiritual sight.
It is good and right for us to reflect on how He does this.

John 10:1-21

Jesus is the Shepherd whose care extends far beyond our expectations.
We need take seriously His words to us and entrust ourselves to Him.

John 10:1-29

We have confidence and assurance before God (and one another)
because Jesus laid down His life with a definite people in mind.

John 10:22-42

The Trinity is one of the most fundamental of Christian doctrines.
And we need to not only affirm it but consider its implications.

The nature of the delays of God are such that
we can trust Him even when we cannot understand His ways.

Jesus is the Lord of life.  And death. 
Knowing this transforms our response to it.