Are you a glass half-empty or a glass half-full person?

Does it depend on the day? The weather?

Your response to these words of Jesus might tell you.

Ask and it will be given to you.

Seek and you shall find.

Knock and the door will be opened to you.

At times those words have inspired me with great faith, boldness and hope.

At other times the same words have mocked me.

Some people have actually lost their faith because of these words.

At the Gathering Church this Sunday we will discover why these words made absolute sense to the one who said them and the ones who first heard them. Found in Matthew 7:7-12, they occur in the home-stretch portion of the Sermon on the Mount, a summary of Jesus’ teaching about how to live well by experiencing God’s kingdom now.

The secret of understanding these promises from Jesus is found in understanding the ‘scale’ of your life.

How does God change the scale of everything?

Half-empty or half-full?

Or maybe, “Where did you get the glass?”

Take a few minutes out of your life to listen to these important and wise words from a very important “spokesman of our generation”…

In all seriousness, this Sunday we’ll celebrate our moms, and we’ll also spend some time in prayer for those whom Mothers’ Day is less than a cheerful occasion.

Join us as we continue in chapter seven of Matthew’s Gospel and “Jesus’ teaching on living well.”  After talk about money and worry, the lilies and the birds, Jesus digs in on one of the most common and slippery ailments to the human condition: judgment.

Think you don’t judge?  I bet you judge other people for being judgmental!

Join us as we investigate just what Jesus is teaching us about himself and life with him in his Kingdom!