Today, we continue our series You’ve Heard It Said, walking through Jesus’s teaching in the Sermon on the Mount. This week, we focus on one of the most candid passages in Scripture — Matthew 5:27–30 — where Jesus shifts the conversation about desire and faithfulness from behavior to the heart.

<description>&lt;p&gt;Today, we continue our series You’ve Heard It Said, walking through Jesus’s teaching in the Sermon on the Mount. This week, we focus on one of the most candid passages in Scripture — Matthew 5:27–30 — where Jesus shifts the conversation about desire and faithfulness from behavior to the heart.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Week Two

Today, we continue our series You’ve Heard It Said, walking through Jesus’s teaching in the Sermon on the Mount. This week, we focus on one of the most candid passages in Scripture — Matthew 5:27–30 — where Jesus shifts the conversation about desire and faithfulness from behavior to the heart.

You Were Made to Want Things

Most of us have never murdered anyone. Jesus says that’s not quite the point. In Matthew 5:21–26, he reveals that unresolved anger, contempt, and the stories we tell about people carry the same moral weight as the act of murder itself. This is Week 1 of You’ve Heard It Said — a 5-week series in the antitheses of the Sermon on the Mount.

<description>&lt;p&gt;Most of us have never murdered anyone. Jesus says that’s not quite the point. In Matthew 5:21–26, he reveals that unresolved anger, contempt, and the stories we tell about people carry the same moral weight as the act of murder itself. This is Week 1 of You’ve Heard It Said — a 5-week series in the antitheses of the Sermon on the Mount.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Week One

Most of us have never murdered anyone. Jesus says that’s not quite the point. In Matthew 5:21–26, he reveals that unresolved anger, contempt, and the stories we tell about people carry the same moral weight as the act of murder itself. This is Week 1 of You’ve Heard It Said — a 5-week series in the antitheses of the Sermon on the Mount.

More Than Murder

Sixteen years ago, on an Easter Sunday, we opened the doors of this building for the first time — an incomplete building with broken but hopeful people. We are still those people. And this is still that church. This Easter, we are looking at John 20 and the surprising cast of characters who encountered the resurrection — and what the difference between a skeptic and a cynic has to do with any of it. You do not have to have it figured out to be here. Thomas didn't. Mary didn't. Come as you are.

<description>&lt;p&gt;Sixteen years ago, on an Easter Sunday, we opened the doors of this building for the first time — an incomplete building with broken but hopeful people.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We are still those people. And this is still that church.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This Easter, we are looking at John 20 and the surprising cast of characters who encountered the resurrection — and what the difference between a skeptic and a cynic has to do with any of it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You do not have to have it figured out to be here. Thomas didn't. Mary didn't. Come as you are.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Easter Sunday

Sixteen years ago, on an Easter Sunday, we opened the doors of this building for the first time — an incomplete building with broken but hopeful people. We are still those people. And this is still that church. This Easter, we are looking at John 20 and the surprising cast of characters who encountered the resurrection — and what the difference between a skeptic and a cynic has to do with any of it. You do not have to have it figured out to be here. Thomas didn't. Mary didn't. Come as you are.

Something's Different

Good Friday is the one night a year we are allowed — even invited — to sit with the darkness without rushing to the light.

<description>&lt;p&gt;Good Friday is the one night a year we are allowed — even invited — to sit with the darkness without rushing to the light.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

The Weight of It

Good Friday is the one night a year we are allowed — even invited — to sit with the darkness without rushing to the light.

Good Friday 2026

Today is Palm Sunday — the final week of our series Good News People. We’re in Matthew 21:1–11, and we’re asking a question that the crowd on that road couldn’t answer: are we following Jesus, or a version of him we’ve built ourselves? This week’s message, The Humble King, looks at why the crowd got it half right — and what it means for us as we step into Holy Week.

<description>&lt;p&gt;Today is Palm Sunday — the final week of our series Good News People. We’re in Matthew 21:1–11, and we’re asking a question that the crowd on that road couldn’t answer: are we following Jesus, or a version of him we’ve built ourselves?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This week’s message, The Humble King, looks at why the crowd got it half right — and what it means for us as we step into Holy Week.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Week Six

Today is Palm Sunday — the final week of our series Good News People. We’re in Matthew 21:1–11, and we’re asking a question that the crowd on that road couldn’t answer: are we following Jesus, or a version of him we’ve built ourselves? This week’s message, The Humble King, looks at why the crowd got it half right — and what it means for us as we step into Holy Week.

The Humble King

State Street Community Church is a just and generous expression of the Christian faith in downtown LaPorte, Indiana. This is the weekly Sunday service podcast. Find more information about State Street Community Church at statestreet.church. 

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