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 17:14-21 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
Read Matthew 17:1-13 So, just under a week after the previous conversation that Jesus was having with the disciples, we find ourselves at this interesting moment in history. Jesus took Peter, James, and John and they went up a high mountain in the area. There’s a bit of debate over which mountain that this was, that
Read Matthew 16:21-28 Let’s take a moment to remember what lead up to these verses. As we looked at last week Jesus had questioned His disciples on what other people thought of Him, but also what they themselves thought of Him. He asked His disciples, “Who do you say that I am?”. This was an incredibly
Last week Jesus was dealing with the scribes and the Pharisees again about them leading people towards man’s traditions, but not actually towards the words and commands of God. That’s something that we absolutely still need to be careful of in this day and age. And Jesus is still going to be breaking through tradition
Last week we got to see another incredible miracle happen as Jesus walked across the water and had Peter come out and join Him. We talked about what faith was, that faith is the God given gift that allows us to see the truth that our eyes aren’t able to see. Peter saw that truth
Last week we looked at the moment when Jesus took five pieces of bread and two little fish and miraculously fed somewhere near twenty thousand people. It’s an incredible account and it’s the only miracle besides the resurrection that was recorded in every Gospel. But I think what is missed sometimes in this story, is the
So last week we finished chapter 13 and started into chapter 14. We got to see some hard moments in Jesus’ life as He was rejected by His own town’s people, by His family, and then His cousin John the Baptist was killed in a horrible way. We also took the opportunity to consider these
Last week we looked at more of Jesus’ parables. We got to see this beautiful picture of just how much Jesus values saving His people. He compared us to a treasure or to an incredible pearl with both of these things being extremely expensive. This price tag was so high on these things that the
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