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Scott Hetherington examines Matthew 7:1–12 as Jesus’ teaching on relationships, calling listeners to reject condemning judgment while practicing wise, loving discernment. He connects asking, seeking, and knocking with dependence on God’s wisdom, and closes with the Golden Rule as the shape of kingdom life.

Garrett Shelp explores Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 6:19–34 to contrast the values of God’s kingdom with the false security of wealth and worry. He invites listeners to focus their lives on God, invest in relationships, and take the next faithful step as they trust God’s provision.

Josiah examines Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 6 on generosity, prayer, and fasting. He calls disciples to practice these disciplines from the hidden well of God’s grace rather than as an outward performance.

Scott continues The Mount by exploring Jesus’ call in Matthew 5 to fulfill the law through a transformed heart rather than outward performance. Through anger, desire, marriage, integrity, retaliation, and enemy love, he shows how disciples receive Christ’s grace and grow into whole people.

In the same way, let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good deeds and give honor to your Father in heaven. – Matthew 5:16 Alison continues our series The Mount with an exploration of the metaphors of salt and light that Jesus used, and how we can become influencers for God’s kingdom.

Then he began to teach them by saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them.” – Matthew 5 This week, Scott opens our new series The Mount with a tour of the Beatitudes, or – as he had printed on a shirt, once – what be your attitude?

Garrett shares his own story of pastor grief and 5 principles that he “sort of stumbled into” in the years that followed, as he and his family moved towards hope.

Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. As we grapple with the grief of sudden pastorloss for a second time, Alison shares a Biblical framework for grief from 2 Corinthians 1, and a recipe for your very own grief smoothie.

From Numbers 13 and following, Scott tells the story of Caleb, the famous spy from the Sunday school earworm “10 Were Bad And 2 Were Good”.

As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? – Psalm 42

Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth. Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. – Psalm 100 Scott Hetherington leads us through Psalm 100, five short verses containing Scripture’s clearest invitations to worship.

My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. – Psalm 84 Teaching elder Scott Hetherington takes us through the three beatitudes of Psalm 84: dwelling, journeying, and trusting.

Praise the Lord, my soul. Lord my God, you are very great; you are clothed with splendor and majesty. The Lord wraps himself in light as with a garment; he stretches out the heavens like a tent – Psalm 104 Ryan Plantz returns to continue our Summer in the Psalms series with a message on Psalm 104.

The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures, – Psalm 23 This week, Scott brings us a fresh take on perhaps the most famous Psalm in the Psalter, exploring the metaphor of God as our Shepherd.

Though my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will receive me. – Psalm 27:10 Guest speaker Garrett Shelp leads us through the twenty-seventh Psalm.