City Harbor Church – Hampden, Baltimore, MD

Key Verses: Matthew 13:24-30; 36-43

Mark 4:1-9, 4:13-20

Matthew 25:1-13

Revelation 5:5

The Parable of the Vineyard Worker

PREVIEWING our series on the KINGDOM of Heaven

Revelation 1:5-6

Ephesians 1:19-23

Hebrews 9:15

Amos 3:3

Romans 4:24-25

2 Corinthians 5:15

2 Corinthians 5:21

Romans 3:23-26

Matthew 5:1-16

– Matthew 5:13-16   Context: The teaching of Jesus, in Matthew 5:1-16, helps us learn more about who God is and invites us into a blessed interaction with God. Jesus teaching about those who have received salvation through faith in the grace given by God and are responding in wholehearted devotion. We read about the heart […]

The teaching of Jesus, in Matthew 5:1-10, helps us learn more about who God is and invites us into a blessed interaction with God.

Blessed  The teaching of Jesus, in Matthew 5:1-10, helps us learn more about who God is and invites us into a blessed interaction with God.   Jesus is teaching the Good News and inviting people into the Kingdom of God.   “This is how God showed his love to us: He sent his one and only Son into […]

The teaching of Jesus, in Matthew 5:1-10, helps us learn more about who God is and invites us into a blessed interaction with God.

The kingdom of God is the very essence of God and He wants us to interact with his Kingdom every day.

Hebrews 11:6

Jesus teaches that Father God is a Provider.

We can all “seek first” the Kingdom of God in our prayer and daily living.

Marked by pain, and yet Jabez asked God for blessing, expansion, God's presence (guidance), and protection from “trouble and pain”.

“There was a man named Jabez who was more honorable than any of his brothers. His mother named him Jabez because his birth had been so painful. He was the one who prayed to the God of Israel, ‘Oh, that you would bless me and expand my territory! Please be with me in all that […]

Matthew 2:1-12 3 kings “magi” – men of wisdom who studied the stars, a person noted for unusual capacity of understanding, combining both the secular and religious, one with special wisdom about the meaning of the course of the stars and its interconnection with world events. Most likely from Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia The “magi” […]

Genesis 1:26-28  “Then God said, ‘Let us make human beings in our image and likeness. And let them rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the tame animals, over all the earth, and over all the small crawling animals on the earth.' So, God created human beings in […]

“Then God said, ‘Let us make human beings in our image and likeness. And let them rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the tame animals, over all the earth, and over all the small crawling animals on the earth.' So, God created human beings in his image. In the […]

We may find ourselves asking: What am I doing here? Why do we exist? First, we should understand that God has purpose.

God's Purpose for Humanity includes Relationship, Character, Function, & Reproduction – Genesis 1:26-31

God Exodus 34:6-7…merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding (overflowing) in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin… US Genesis 1:27a So God created human beings in His own image. We aren't God, but we bear his likeness! If God overflows with good stuff, […]

Philippians 4:12-13 Through Christ -> The Power of Joyful Strength

Fixing Your Thoughts So You Can Fix Your Thoughts. Chiquacta Hodges brings us a message from Philippians 4:8.

What does the joyful prayer of faith sound like?

Philippians 3:12-21

Kingdom Citizenship

The Mindset of Jesus

Philippians 1:25-26

Acts 16:18-40, Philippians 1:1-7

Acts 16 - helpful story of the beginning of Christianity in Philippi

Matthew 22:34-40 (NLT) But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees with his reply, they met together to question him again. One of them, an expert in religious law, tried to trap him with this question: “Teacher, which is the most important commandment in the law of Moses?” Jesus replied, “‘You must […]

This morning we spend time in prayer that is prompted by the Scriptures we have studied in recent weeks.

What does it mean to be "with" God, as described in Matthew 22:37?

Following Jesus includes praying for and pursuing a loving unity among fellow Christians.

We can all follow the teaching and example of Jesus, in persistent prayer.

We start by reading the story of Saul (later renamed Paul) receiving Jesus as the "light of the world", and describing the meaning of the experience, in Acts 9:1-18 and Acts 26:23.

“God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.” - 2 Timothy 1:7 ESV

Matthew 6:19-24 – Generous Stewardship

John 17:20-26

Our Savior Jesus is victorious over death. In John 11, we read the account of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead and Jesus' teaching around it. We can all respond by believing in and receiving Jesus as Savior. In our next steps, we grow in faith and see sharing our faith as a priority.

I. What do we learn from Moses' Holy Ground experience? – Exodus 3:1-12   God wants to meet with us. Giving priority to “holy ground” places, for interaction with God, will help us see our identity, value, and purpose.   A. God is worthy of our respect and focus. God meets with Moses. Moses listens […]