Eyes on the Harvest (Steve Hicks) | Set Your Sights
Jesus lifts our eyes to a field that’s ready and sends ordinary followers into it as his representatives.
Snapshot: Jesus lifts the disciples’ eyes and points them at a field. The harvest is plentiful, he says, but the workers are few, so beg the Lord of the harvest to send out workers. Then he makes them the answer to their own prayer. He sends out seventy two of his follower, two by two, ahead of him into every town he is about to enter. Travelling light. Lambs among wolves. Eyes on the harvest, not on their own comfort or safety. The mission we’ve been given isn’t a mission that’s best left for the professionals. It’s ordinary disciples carrying his peace and his kingdom onto a real street. Don’t skip the woes in verses 13 to 16. The same gospel that brings peace to one house hardens the next, and to hear these messengers is to hear Christ himself. The Sender is the Lord of the harvest, and the message is his own presence drawing near. The gospel is the peace he holds out to every house that will receive him.
13 Oct 2026
No Detours (Derik Fuller) | Set Your Sights
In this passage we encounter three would-be followers of Jesus, and every one of them wants a detour before he follows. One word keeps surfacing. First. Let me first bury my father. Let me first say farewell. Each request sounds reasonable, but each is a detour. Jesus refuses the detour every single time. Here’s the thing though, all of us get detoured sometimes. Jesus alone is the only person who ever walked the whole road with no detours at all. He fixed his sights and never once looked back, all the way to death, and he did it so that failures like us could belong to him. He had nowhere to lay his head so that we could have a home with him forever. This week let's call people to name their own detours: comfort, family expectation, keeping their options open, and lay them down for the sake of Jesus and his mission. This is Seek First lived out.
28 Sept 2026
And All These Things (Steve Hicks) | Seek First
When you seek first the Kingdom, God takes care of the rest.
In week 4 we circle back to where we started and preach the half of the verse we left unpreached in week one.
Week 1 was seek first the kingdom. Week 4 is and all these things will be added to you. This answers the question that three weeks of pushing outward will have quietly raised in every honest heart. If I really put the kingdom first, ahead of my security and my plans, what happens to me, my job, my mortgage, my kids? Jesus answers the way he always does, with a Father who feeds the birds and clothes the grass and knows what we need before we ask. Paul calls us to take all these concerns to our Father in prayer. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer let your requests be made known to God, and the peace of God will guard your heart. When we’ve started with a posture of putting the King and his Kingdom first, we can be assured that when we turn to him in prayer he hears, he answers and he offers us his supernatural peace.
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