Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer

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Teaching | On Listening | Gospel of Matthew Jul 21, 2023

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At the fulcrum point in Matthew’s gospel, Jesus goes up on a high mountain where he is transfigured before his apprentices. Over their fear, the apprentices hear a voice from heaven saying, “listen to him!” Thousands of years later, in our own fears, the call to find a mountain and listen to Jesus is greater than ever.

Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 16v28-17v13

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Teaching | Take Up Your Cross | Gospel of Matthew Jul 14, 2023

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What if control is actually an illusion? What if yielding is actually the path to freedom and joy? John Mark explores Jesus' call to deny your self and take up your cross and follow Him. In a culture of hedonism, digital instant gratification, and postmodern propaganda, this call sounds bizarre. But in yielding control to God in trusting love, we enter the Kingdom.

Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 16v21-27

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Teaching | Who Do You Say I Am? | Gospel of Matthew Jul 07, 2023

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"How you answer the question, 'who do you say I am,' will define you."

John Mark explores Simon Peter's confession of Jesus as the Christ. He shows us that in seeing Jesus rightly, we move from fear to faith.

Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 16v13-20

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Teaching | Jesus on Becoming a Non-Anxious Presence | Gospel of Matthew Jun 30, 2023

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In this well known, but often missed-out-on story of Jesus walking on the water, we notice the writer Matthew’s key insights from Jesus’ life and teaching about becoming a “non-anxious presence” in a world caught in a vicious cycle of anxiety. We have faith and release control.

Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 14v22-36

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Teaching | We’re All Thomas Now | Gospel of Matthew Jun 23, 2023

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Jesus warns and encourages his disciples about what will come as they live into his Kingdom mission. What would it look like to live as a disciple, free of all fear, fully alive to his power?

Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 11v1-15

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Teaching | A Haunting Way to End a Sermon | Gospel of Matthew Jun 16, 2023

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What do we do the Jesus’ teachings in the Sermon on the Mount? Jesus ends his manifesto of life in the kingdom of the heavens, not with a pep talk or feel-good story, but with a warning about what happens when we don’t put his teachings into practice. John Mark argues that, in the “information” age, where things go in one ear and out the other, we need to be diligent to do what Jesus taught.

Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 7v24-29

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Teaching | Here Comes the Wolf Pack | Gospel of Matthew Jun 09, 2023

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With so many voices claiming to be the truth, how do we discern what is from God and what isn't? John Mark examine's Jesus's warning to beware false prophets in the Sermon on the Mount and Jesus's three "tests" for who to believe.

Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 7v15-23

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Teaching | The Golden Rule | Gospel of Matthew Jun 02, 2023

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We all know the Golden Rule, but do we actually live by it? John Mark teaches on how this summary of the teachings of the Bible was familiar during the time of Jesus, but how Jesus makes it even more radical and powerful. He concludes by challenging us to actually try living by this rule and doing to others what we would have them do to us.

Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 7v12

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Teaching | The Tyranny of Living for the Approval of Others | Gospel of Matthew May 26, 2023

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Are you tired of trying to earn other's approval? John Mark looks at the first of Jesus's teachings of practicing righteousness before others to be noticed by them in Matthew chapter six. He encourages us to break free from the bondage of seeking the approval (or disapproval) of others by doing good works in secret in order to be rewarded not by others, but by our Father in Heaven.

Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 6v1-4

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Teaching | Jesus on His Most Radical Idea: Enemy Love | Gospel of Matthew May 19, 2023

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Is it practical to love our enemy? John Mark exegetes from Jesus's final teaching in Matthew chapter five on enemy love. He challenges us to take this teaching seriously by showing historical and personal examples of Jesus's way bearing fruit, and encourages us to lean into our questions about this teaching with honestly before God and our communities.

Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 5v43-48

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