The words of Jesus are life-giving, often counter-cultural, and transformative. In a world saturated
with noise, opinion, and ideology, Jesus speaks with an authority unlike anything the world has
ever heard — “not as the teachers of the law, but as one who had authority” (Mark 1:22).
During September we will explores four key teachings of Jesus that shape how His followers think, speak, and live.
We begin with the Beatitudes and their radical redefinition of blessing, move through the costly
call of discipleship, examine the receptive soil of the heart, and conclude with Jesus’ personal
invitation to rest. Each passage reveals something profound about the Kingdom of God — a
Kingdom that operates by entirely different rules than the kingdoms of this world. Come with
open hands and an open Bible.
During October, we will look at the works of Jesus.
The works of Jesus are not simply miracles — they are signs that reveal who Jesus is and what
the Kingdom of God looks like when it breaks into the ordinary fabric of human life. We will
move from what Jesus said to what He did. Each story we examine is layered: a man with
leprosy restored to community; a storm silenced on a terrified sea; five thousand people fed from
a child’s lunch; a man called back from the grave. But beneath every miraculous surface lies a
deeper reality about the character of God, the nature of faith, and what it means to live in the
presence of Jesus. These accounts do not merely invite our admiration — they confront us with
the power, the compassion, and the absolute authority of Christ, and they call us to believe more
deeply, love more boldly, and hold our fears more loosely.
Lastly, during November we will look at the ways of Jesus.
The ways of Jesus are the rhythms, postures, and patterns He modeled in His own daily life —
not extraordinary events, but the ordinary shape of His existence. This final month moves from
what He taught and what He did to how He lived. There are four passages for this month’s journey: His
rhythm of early morning withdrawal and prayer, His pursuit of the one person in Jericho that no
one else would approach, His quiet act of washing His disciples’ feet on the night He was
betrayed, and His final upper-room command to remain in His love. Together, these four
passages form a portrait of what it looks like to actually walk as Jesus walked — not just admire
Him from a distance. This month is about imitation. It is about apprenticeship. It is about the
slow, beautiful work of becoming the kind of person who naturally does the kinds of things Jesus
naturally did.
I hope you can join us this fall as we look at the Words, Works and Ways of Jesus.