The Good Samaritan

Pastor Daniel Goulding · May 13, 2024

In Matthew 5 and Luke 10, Jesus exposes humanity's tendency to find loopholes in God's commands — loving only those who look, vote, and believe like us — and raises the bar to an impossible standard: love your enemies, be perfect as your Father is perfect. This impossibility is the point. Jesus, the true Good Samaritan, has already paid the ultimate price for broken humanity. Our call is not to be the hero, but to receive what He has given us and steward it faithfully as innkeepers — leveraging our time, treasure, and testimony to care for the people He brings into our lives.

Pastor Daniel Goulding · Jan 27, 2020

In week three of the 'Won't You Be My Neighbor' series, Pastor Daniel argues that the greatest obstacle to loving our neighbors is not lack of opportunity but our unwillingness to say yes when those opportunities feel inconvenient, disruptive, or expensive. Drawing from the parable of the good Samaritan and two healings in Luke 5, he shows that Jesus modeled exactly this kind of costly, interruptive love — and calls every believer to follow suit, trusting that a life surrendered to divine interruptions yields a harvest of blessing beyond anything we could arrange for ourselves.

Pastor Tim Beal · May 28, 2018

In Luke 10, Jesus challenges a religious expert — and all of us — to stop asking who qualifies as a neighbor and to start being a neighbor to anyone in need, even those who are nothing like us. Through the parable of the Good Samaritan and the story of Mary and Martha that immediately follows, Pastor Tim shows that loving the unlovable is not a matter of willpower or good intentions. It flows naturally from spending time with Jesus — learning His Word, sitting at His feet, and being shaped by His reckless, compassionate love for us.