Hey thanks for visiting my blog. Often times when I am preparing a sermon an idea comes to me that I want to unpack a little more. Hopefully, this blog will allow me the place to do that. Then again, maybe I’ll just talk about my kids. I’ll try to update it once a month..

I’m really excited about this week’s sermon. Not only because I’m back from vacation but because the text we are studying is so cool. Anytime we can learn from Jesus it’s awesome.

When I read the Bible I like to ask a lot of questions. Why did Jesus say that? Where are they? Why didn’t Jesus just…(insert my brilliant idea here)? So when we get to the text in Matthew 9 where Jesus goes out into all the towns and villages I have to ask myself, “Why is He doing that? Why is He going?"

He’s already insanely popular. When he healed the paralytic Luke says that there were leaders from every village in Galilee, Judea and Jerusalem that had come to hear Him. He could have set up shop and just hung out. Those who wanted to find Him could find Him and He could just sit there like a one of those wise dudes on the top of a mountain. If you could make the trek, He’d answer your question or heal you or something. I mean what’s a guru without a mountain? He didn’t have to go anywhere. But He did. In fact, He went everywhere.

I started thinking about my relationship with Jesus. He is constantly calling me to move forward. Constantly calling me to leave my place of comfort, of acceptance and go! Before I became a pastor I would travel to different cities for my work. Sometimes I would take a couple planes to get where I was going. I would try to time the connecting flights close to the arrivals so I wouldn’t have to wait because I’m so impatient. Sometimes I’d be literally running through the terminal with bags flying trying to make that connecting flight.

With Jesus there is always a connecting flight. The minute you get somewhere, His voice comes over the loud speaker and calls you to the next flight. Sometimes you have time to grab a cup of coffee and sometimes you just have to pray your bags make it. But make no mistake, we are always called to go.

We aren’t designed to live in the terminal.

This week we are going to talk about our relationship with God being a "growing" and "going" relationship. Hope to see you there!