Kingdom: The Way of Jesus

Jesus’ teachings astounded and confounded His listeners … yet He was more than a great teacher.

Jesus’ life and morality have inspired millions … yet He was more than a moral example.

Jesus’ miracles brought hope … yet He was more than a miracle worker.

… Jesus came to inaugurate a new kingdom.

But lest we be confused—this wasn’t, and isn’t, a kingdom like we might think. “My kingdom,” Jesus said, “is not an earthly kingdom. It’s not of this world” (John 18:36). 

It’s the kingdom of heaven, and it’s upside-down in the best way possible—unexpected and counter-cultural—piercing through human systems to begin with the human heart.

Jesus came with both the promise & the power to transform both our hearts & this world through reconciled relationship with our Maker. And from that place—we live differently. Pray differently. Give differently. Disagree differently. Love differently. We view success, money, and even our deepest worries through an entirely different lens. 

Ultimately, He came to make us into the kind of people who live captivated by this wild vision: that a new way of life and a new way to Life is possible. Convinced that it is only possible through Jesus. And committed to begin living into this heavenly reality, right in the midst of our earthly one—following the way of Jesus as He brings His upside-down kingdom, here on earth, as it is in heaven (Mt. 6:10).  

What might that look like?

Welcome to Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount.