Read Matthew 18:8-20 Look at Jesus’ language in verses 8 and 9. These aren’t easy words. But I do want to emphasize that Jesus is not talking about actually doing these things to yourself. This is being stated as a powerful figure of speech, not an actual command to self-mutilation. There have been people that have […]
Last week we saw this teaching moment that Jesus had with Peter. It revolved around taxes, but the greater lesson was about Peter’s witness before others. We’re going to be talking about that some more this morning, but we’re not going to start there, as we have to deal with a little situation with the
Last week we celebrated both Good Friday and Easter. We saw through that weekend the whole picture of the Gospel message. We saw Jesus choose to go down the path that would lead to His death, because He knew that His death and His blood was the only thing that could save all of us
Read Matthew 17:22-23 You probably didn’t think that we would be back in Matthew 17 this morning. But right where we left off last week, Jesus was once again having a little heart to heart discussion with His disciples. This isn’t even the first time that He has brought these things up. But as it says
Read Matthew 17:14-21 We’ve done this once or twice before, we read the account that Matthew recorded in his gospel, but I actually want to go base the beginning of our time today out of Mark’s account of the very same circumstance. Mark includes most of the same elements, but adds a bit more detail, and
