Have you wondered as you've read through the gospel: Does God Heal Today? The gospels are 20% to 30% stories about God's healing power. Does that still happen today?

That's the question that we wrestled with this Sunday!

Enigma was a tool that the Axis powers used to scramble their messages into codes. Only when the Allies discovered keywords in the message were they able to crack the code.

Sometimes, reading the Bible is like reading a scrambled message because we don't have all the cultural and historical nuances. This week, we used a code word to unpack 4 stories in Matthew's gospel!

Theologian William Barclay tells us that with Matthew there is always a reason he orders the stories in his account of the life of Jesus. So why is this story here?

Let's find out.

At the end of this message, we watched a clip from the show "The Chosen." Here is a link to that video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL8DThllZAY

This week we concluded our fall series with the third and final goal of apprenticeship to Jesus: To Do What He Did.

No one apprentices to be a plumber or electrician to only be with a journeyman or to know how to do it. They do it so they can also "do the stuff". The same is true of Jesus's apprentice. Take a listen!

“…whoever is fully trained will be like their rabbi.” This week, we explored the second goal of apprenticeship to Jesus: Become like Him. For us to do that, we need to be fully trained.

What does that mean?

Apprenticeship to Jesus requires us to order our lives around 3 goals: Be with Jesus, Become like Him and Begin to do what He did.

This week, we looked at the first goal: Be with Jesus.

How can we be with Jesus today? Let's talk about it!

We can become people capable of extravagant love, who exude inner peace, who live with radical generosity. But here’s the key: we need the right teacher.

Enter Jesus of Nazareth.

The ministry of bodybuilding is about each one of us playing our part—using our gifts, big or small, to build up the church, to build each other up, and to continue the mission of Jesus here in Delisle and beyond.