Cross Training - Week One "Eyes On The Goal"
This Sunday is the First Sunday of Lent, and the beginning of a new sermon series that will take us all the way to Palm Sunday ---a series entitled "Cross Training." The focus of this series is on lessons that we can learn from the life of Jesus that will enable us to endure hardship, have faith during times of trouble and draw closer to Christ in our journey toward ultimate redemption. Sound good? Awesome. Let's roll. Read this passage of Scripture so we can get started: Luke 6 :17-26 7 He went down with them and stood on a level place. A large crowd of his disciples was there and a great number of people from all over Judea , from Jerusalem, and from the coastal region around Tyre and Sidon, 18 who had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. Those troubled by impure spirits were cured, 19 and the people all tried to touch him, because power was coming from him and healing them all. 20 Looking at his disciples, he said: “ Blessed are you...