Podcasts
Believer or Make Believer?
Today, we will consider three distinguishing marks of those who choose to trust Jesus and those who choose to trust in themselves. In our time today, our hope is that we will all find a renewed determination to fight for our satisfaction to be found in Jesus.
Read more »A Lesson We All Need to Hear
The miracle of Jesus’ feeding should have been sufficient to inspire worship of Jesus, but Jesus mysteriously walks away. Why? The crowd wanted to make Jesus King and given it was the time of remembering Israel being set free from the tyranny of Egypt, this was the perfect time to rally all Jewish people around a new messiah! So why did Jesus refuse to be made King? Does Jesus fear the Roman Empire? After all Herod just killed John the Baptist. Does Jesus need time to plan? Is Jesus questioning His ability to lead the people, like Moses struggled with? … Continue reading
Read more »Control Freak
Today, we will see how self-righteousness seeks to achieve spiritual victory through its own power. Jesus will reject any attempt to establish His rule absent God-centered, Christ exclusive worship.
Read more »The Greatest Problem in the World
Today, we will see another example of self-righteousness in how the Jewish people valued the study of the Scriptures. The Jewish people had come to believe that it was through diligent and determined study of the Old Testament that marked them as being righteous, worthy of a relationship with God. However, we will see what their real problem was and how no amount of study would be able to remedy their dire condition.
Read more »Just Perfect
In John’s continued defense of Jesus’ identity as the Son of God who has the authority to judge on the Father’s behalf, we move from the proposition that Jesus has the power of eternal life and death to a discourse on how the Jews should use their sophisticated legal system to judge Jesus.
Read more »
