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In May of this year, Point University welcomed 185 new graduates to the alumni family. Graduation is often a bittersweet time as we celebrate the accomplishments of the past four years and say goodbye...
View ArticleAdventure: Week Eight
If you were asked to give a one sentence definition of what it means to be a follower of Jesus, many of you might simply quote Philippians 2:5: “Have this mind in you which also was in Christ Jesus.”...
View ArticleAdventure: Week Nine
This week’s reading has us traveling through Matthew’s story about Jesus, including what we have come to call The Sermon on the Mount. Who can read Matthew 5 – 7 without thinking that it is a...
View ArticleAdventure: Week 10
The assumption Jesus makes in our key text for the week is that we are all in the process of going all the time. Despite what it often sounds like in English translations, the command of Matthew...
View ArticleAdventure: Week 11
Our focus text this week is Hebrews 12:1-3. The words of these verses resonate with nearly everyone because we all have experiences in life that make us think the writer of Hebrews knew about our lives...
View ArticleAdventure: Week 12
Maybe it was a while back when we were reading through Matthew and the Sermon on the Mount and you thought, “Did Jesus really say that?” Or perhaps you thought, “He couldn’t have meant what it sounds...
View ArticleAdventure: Week 13
Maybe you remember, early in the semester when we read through Acts, that Peter’s sermon on the Day of Pentecost (Acts 2) reminded the Jewish people who heard him preach that “this Jesus whom you...
View ArticleAdventure: Week 14
According to some traditions, the early apostolic father Polycarp, received his name for the Greek phrase in verse 5 that is translated “much fruit.” Apparently those who knew him best believed that he...
View ArticleAdventure: Week 15
The short little epistle we know as 1 John is an incredible gift to us from God. In it we find encouragement to allow our hope to be real. That reality is rooted in our faith that Jesus came in …...
View ArticleAdventure: Week 16
In the Christian calendar, the beginning of new year begins with Advent – a time of waiting. In the civil calendar, we are nearly to mid-December and “waiting” is the last thing we have time to do....
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