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What do you do when Jesus stops being someone to admire and becomes someone who demands a response? In Matthew 12, Jesus confronts empty religion, reluctant hearts, and disordered love with one pressing question: what will you do with what you’ve seen? This Sunday, we’ll explore the King who refuses to remain optional.

Is it possible to do things right and still be wrong? This week, Jesus confronts a group of people who knew scripture better than anyone, and still missed the point. Join us as we explore the kind of obedience that reflects the heart of God.

What do you do when hope quietly slips into the past tense? On the road to Emmaus, two disciples discover that Jesus was with them all along, and that everything can change when we learn to trust the story God is telling. Join us this Easter as we explore how cold hearts burn again, and how resurrection meets us right where we are.

https://hockinson.org/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=ctc_sermon What happens when following Jesus takes you somewhere you would not naturally go? In Matthew 8:18–34, His authority carries the disciples across storms and into unfamiliar territory. This Sunday we’ll ask the same question they did: What kind of man is this?

What would change if you prayed the Lord’s Prayer over one real situation in your life this week? Why did Jesus embed this prayer in the middle of His teaching on the Kingdom? Together we’ll discover how prayer reshapes our hearts so the Kingdom comes near through us.

Why is it possible to do good things and still feel empty? Jesus exposes how good desires can quietly become bad saviors. This message explores how right vision leads to reordered motives and genuine love for others.

What if Jesus wasn’t trying to make God’s law harder to follow, but clearer to see? In this message from Matthew 5:17–48, we explore how Jesus fulfills the law by correcting our vision of God, others, and ourselves. Because the goal was never perfect behavior, but a people formed by love.

What if the Beatitudes aren’t a checklist, but a portrait? What do we discover about Jesus when we step back and see who He calls blessed? And how might that vision reshape what it actually looks like to follow Him together?

Testing in Scripture is not about passing or failing, but about revealing what we trust when life is stripped down. In the wilderness, Jesus faces the same tests Israel once faced, yet remains faithful where they and we often struggle. Jesus fulfills the story on our behalf and shows us how to live as beloved children who trust the Father in every season.

Matthew shows us that before Jesus is revealed to the world, He is entrusted to a man whose obedience comes at a real cost. Joseph’s quiet faithfulness reminds us that God’s peace is not found in control or clarity, but in trusting God when the path forward is uncertain. This Advent, we are invited to discover the peace that comes on the other side of costly obedience.