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 […]
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
Well, I hope that everyone had a merry Christmas. I hope that in the midst of the festivities that we didn’t lose sight of the incredible truth of why we celebrate Christmas in the first place. That truth of course being that God the Son, Jesus Christ, stepped out of the glory of heaven, to
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Last week as we gathered for church, I had titled the teaching simply as “Hope”. And we took the time last week to look all the way back to the garden of Eden where unfortunately, Adam and Eve sinned, and broke mankind’s relationship with God. And since then, every single one of us has been
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Last week we got learn from Jesus as He taught the parable of the Sower. We saw in His parable how the Sower is sowing seeds, or God’s word, across the hearts of people and these hearts are reflected by the different types of ground that Jesus spoke of. Some hearts are hardened and completely
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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
