Walk the Way
Jun 15 2025 • Cedrick Baker, Dan Kent, Greg Boyd, Shawna Boren
Jesus called himself “The Way,” and his first disciples called themselves followers of “The Way.” God’s way is a reflection of his nature and his character, but life will try to pull us in other directions. It pulls us away from things like gratitude, forgiveness and generosity toward things like jealousy, bitterness and greed. We need to ask ourselves, are we being propelled towards or away from God? In this series, we explore the way of Jesus and how we can walk in it.
Sermons in this series:
God calls us to the way of generosity and Dan Kent shows how this call is much larger than a set of rules for how we use our money. It’s about recognizing the story of the world versus the story of God. To be shaped by the world’s story is to only see what we possess because there is no ultimate victorious ending. But to be shaped by God’s story is to see the grandeur of what God is doing and the culmination of all things, which dwarfs anything that we can store up for ourselves.
Topics: Generosity,
Greed,
Transformation
Greg calls us into the Jesus way of forgiveness, contrasting it with the way of bitterness. He does this by explaining the parable of the unforgiving servant, as he helps us to see the inherent destructive forces that control our lives when we choose unforgiveness toward those who do us harm.
Topics: Forgiveness,
Relationships
Cedrick Baker challenges us to walk in the way of integrity, living with our actions aligned with our beliefs. In this way of life our actions are not determined by what fits the situation, but by how our conscience determines what we will choose to do in the moment.
Topics: Disciplines,
Hypocrisy,
Transformation
In this sermon, Dan Kent challenges us to enter into the way of empathy, which he says is crucial to our ability to connect with others by sharing in their feelings. It is a way exemplified by Jesus as he entered into the common human condition so that he might know what we experience from the inside.
Topics: Community,
Presence of God,
Relationships
God calls us to live in contentment, which comes in two forms. First, there is basic lifestyle contentment, where we are at peace when our basic needs are met and we are not driven to pursue unnecessary things. Second, there is radical contentment, where we are living without anxiety, when we are facing a situation that could cause it. In this sermon, Greg offers us direction in how we can grow in both kinds of contentment.
Topics: Disciplines,
Identity in Christ,
Prayer
This first sermon in our Walk the Way series addresses the importance of practicing gratitude and how it impacts our ability to receive God’s salvation. Greg Boyd looks at the story of Jesus healing the ten lepers, and how only one returned to express his gratitude to Jesus, and in doing so received something the other nine did not.
Topics: Gratitude,
Healing,
Salvation
