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
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
Read Matthew 16:13-20 This passage starts with Jesus and His disciples entering yet another new area. Jesus had just been dealing with the challenges of the Pharisees and Sadducees last week, He had left once again onto the sea with His disciples, they made it to the northern edge of the Sea of Galilee and traveled
Last week we saw a really interesting interaction between Jesus and this Canaanite gentile woman. A person that most Jewish people at that time wouldn’t even consider associating with and talking to, but Jesus does talk to her. This conversation definitely read kind of odd at first glance, but as we worked our way through
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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
