Questions for reflection:
1. How can you offer hospitality to someone this week (a coworker, a neighbor or someone you disagree with)?
2. Review the section “Jesus’ Narrative: The Beatitudes Are Invitations of Inclusion,” on pp. 55-62 of The Good and Beautiful Life. How does the author’s interpretation resonate or differ from what you have been taught about the Beatitudes?
3. How can we, as followers of Jesus, live out the message of invitation to those who are seen by the world as ‘cursed’?

Who is my first love? Do I spend my time as if God is my first love? “Seek first the Kingdom of God.” (Matthew 6:33)

As we begin a new year we invite you to join us as we consider how to recalibrate our heart’s desires towards what really matters — to those things that are primary — to true north. Proverbs 4:23 says “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” We encourage you to keep that verse close over the next few weeks, maybe even memorize it. In John 1:35-39 Jesus asks his disciples what they want and we are asking the same question today. What do you desire? What does your heart seek? Listen here for more.

What can we learn from a parable that spans just two verses? We think quite a lot! Listen here as we dig into the Pearl of Great Price from Matthew 13:45-46.