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
Last week we talked about Jesus building a new family of His followers and what it means to be a part of that and this week we get to really see how that is happening and what it means for us. Jesus wants us to be part of His family and He also wants us
Read Matthew 12:38-50 This passage starts and Jesus is still engaging with these same guys. With the scribes and these Pharisees. The same guys that have been trying to cause all of these problems for Jesus as we have seen in the last few chapters. These are the very same guys who at the beginning of
Last week we got to see this really cool talk that Jesus was giving about the Strong Man Satan being overpowered by the Stronger Man Jesus. How Jesus is rescuing His people out from Satan’s control and caring for them. A wonderful picture of our Savior, but this week Jesus turns the talk towards some
Last week we saw these Pharisees condemning Jesus’ disciples about picking some grain on the Sabbath Day. We talked about how they completely missed God’s heart and God’s purpose for the Law. They may have missed it, but we need to understand Who He is, and what He is about, so that we can share
Last week we looked at Jesus’ talk about judgement and rest. He told us that judgement is coming, but He followed that up and said, “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” He said that He will give us rest for our very souls and
Last week we talked about misconceptions or misunderstandings about Jesus. We saw that people were having them even when Jesus was right there with them. And some of those misunderstandings at times are that Jesus is just a God of judgement and the old fire and brimstone message, but other times it’s that Jesus is
Last week we finished up Matthew chapter 10. We talked about taking God seriously. Jesus made this incredible statement to His disciples because they were about to face all sorts of people problems. He said essentially: don’t fear these people that can just at the most kill your body, instead fear the almighty God Who
