Matthew 9: 9-13, 18-26 I think we’ll talk a little bit about sin this morning. A twenty-seven-year-old minister was assigned to his first church only a short time when he noticed that one of his parishioners, an elderly woman, had missed several Sundays in a row. He decided to see her and find out the…
Tag: Pharisees
Our Epiphany
Matthew 3: 1-17 Christmas break was over and the teacher was asking the class about their vacations. She turned to one boy and asked him what he did over the break. “We visited my grandmother in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania,” he replied. “That sounds like an excellent spelling word,” the teacher said. “Can you tell the class…
Make Yourself Rich
Luke 12: 13-21 Someone in the crowd asked Jesus to tell the person’s brother to divide the family inheritance with him. This sounds like the story of the prodigal son. There was an inheritance. There was a son/brother who wanted his share of the inheritance before the father died. He got it. The person in…
We Come Alive Inside
John 6: 63-69 Through this journey in John 6 we’ve come to Jesus’ question to the twelve that remain, “Do you also wish to go away?” The term disciple means learner. For many who followed Jesus, their learning had ended. Whatever encouraged them to follow in the first place was replaced with discouragement, and they…
Psalm 102 in The Message 