Church Planter Rev. Mike McBride preaches at New City today.

In his ascension, Jesus brings us the challenge, comfort, and confidence of his Kingdom.

This is a shortened reflection on Psalm 90 occasioned by a worship service that included several baptisms.

Jesus delivers his people through the hour and power of darkness.

Life in the kingdom of God is often opposite of how the world thinks.

Jesus’ death on the cross as our Passover Lamb resulted in the creation of the new and eternal Israel of God, and fuels our joyful worship.

Jesus calls us to live faithful lives of alertness and confidence in the present age.

The gospel of the kingdom creates in us humility that causes us to give generously.

King Jesus is the Lord who makes us children of God and promises everlasting resurrection life.

Glad submission to Jesus’s authority is the way of life in the new world of the Kingdom of God. This entails recognizing the resistance inside (and outside) us, releasing our agendas, and rendering our self unto God.

Glad submission to the authority of Jesus is the way fo the life in the new world.

Jesus came to seek and save the lost. While this could be the “big idea'“ of every sermon in Luke and is, arguably, the main theme, we consider here Zacchaeus’s lostness, Jesus’s seeking, and what salvation looks like when it comes home.

Jesus brings into a long story of rest in a restless world.

The known presence of God brings rest in a restless world. Namely, he gives rest from fear, stress, and striving.