Tags: Drop Everything
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Mark: Drop Everything; Empty Hands, Open Hands
October 27, 2019 — Costa MesaAs we step into following Jesus, we discover the “drop everything” is an ongoing process of releasing everything that gets in the way of our becoming like Him. Love needs a place to land – but if our hands – our lives – are too full, we will walk away from love sad. Jesus invites us to Life – not as an add on to what we already have, but of an entirely different kind that relativizes everything else we think of as life.
Scripture: Mark 10:13-23 -
Mark: Drop Everything; Apprentices of Jesus
October 6, 2019 — Costa MesaWhen Jesus calls us to follow Him – He is serious! He invites us into an apprenticeship where we first watch what He does – so that we can learn how to do it ourselves. As it turns out, the apprenticeship includes both learning to do, and to not do… and will cost us all the ways we have learned to manage our lives apart from Him.
Scripture: Mark 1:21-45 -
Mark: Drop Everything; The Wilderness
September 29, 2019 — Costa MesaWe become like Jesus in the affirmation of the Father and in the experience of the desert.
Scripture: Mark 1:9-13 -
Mark: Drop Everything; Follow Jesus
September 8, 2019 — Costa MesaJesus comes and proclaims the availability of the Kingdom of God – and there is only one possible response – to repent, to reorder life in the light of the reality of the Kingdom. Mark models this in the invitation that came to four fishermen – and which comes to us – to leave the life you have built for yourself, and learn the new life of the Kingdom from Jesus.
Scripture: Mark 1:14-20 -
Mark: The Good News
September 8, 2019 — Mission ViejoJesus has come to proclaim the good news of God’s Kingdom here on earth, the best days are ahead of you. But Jesus doesn’t just come to simply say those words He also leads us in a response to this Good News; repent and reorder your life in the light of the reality of the […]
Scripture: Mark 1: 1 - 18
