Mark 7: 31-37; Mark 8:22-26; John 9:1-41 When studying the Bible, one of the most important things for us to do is also one of the most difficult. We need to take ourselves out of the equation. When we’re studying the Bible, it’s not a question of how something sounds to us or how something makes us feel. When we interact with…
Sermons on Jesus
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 I could spend months looking solely at the letters to the Thessalonians! But today, I’d like us to look towards the end of the letter. For, as we find ourselves nearing the end of the letter, Paul turns to the biggest problem that was facing the hearts of the Christians in Thessalonica: a similar problem facing many of us…
1 John 4:7-21 This morning, we discussed how we are to have love for our brothers and sisters and how this love is to be a sacrificial love. Tonight, we are going to look at the very fount of love, Himself: God. So much of what the world views as love today has nothing to do with the true and pure love…
1 Corinthians 15 The church in Corinth struggled with an understanding of what really mattered. They were so focused on the “show”—praising those who could miraculously speak in tongues—in foreign languages they’d never practiced or studied—and failed to show love for one another. But another reason for their failure was a sort of hardline materialism: they struggled to believe that there was…
Matthew 8:14-17; Mark 1:29-34; Luke 4:38-41 Today, we’ve all of us had our fingerprints taken—whether as a child or…in experiences we’d rather not discus from our wilder youths. Even today, we recognize that you can see evidence of a person’s connection with the world around them by seeing their fingerprints. Like us, Jesus left his “fingerprints” everywhere he went.