Category: <span>Blog & Bible Study</span>

Once Pilate gave in to the wishes of the Sanhedrin and the cries of the people that had been “stirred” by the chief priests he turned Jesus over to be scourged and then to be crucified. In this text Mark walks us from Jesus’ scourging to being nailed to the cross. We don’t know how...

Mark 15 records the details of Jesus’ crucifixion from the moment that the Sanhedrin binds Him and hands Him over to Pilate to the moment when His body is laid in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea. This is the last 12 hours of Jesus’ pre-resurrection life but it is also the last 12 hours...

Jesus’ arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane set off hours of frenzy. By mid-afternoon there would be three trials, dreams of warning, multiple denials, political posturing, a feeble and failed attempt to free Jesus and then beatings, humiliations and ultimately Jesus’ death, literally all within the course of less than 18 hours. Tonight we will...

“Hear, God, as I express my concern; protect me from fear of the enemy.” Psalm 64:1 (International Standard Version) One of my favorite things about David’s psalms is his pure honesty. David isn’t afraid to show God his heart, in fact, David isn’t even cautious in telling God how he feels. In his sorrow he...

Tonight we are going to talk about all that was happening around Jesus both during and after his time of prayer in Gethsemane. As He prayed, as He wrestled with His own desires and yielded to His Father’s heart the three friends He took with Him, that He asked to support Him, to watch and...

We have arrived at Jesus’ night of travailing prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane. Rather than just teaching through these verses I hope that we can come together and discuss them. This prayer of Jesus, repeated word for word three times according to Mark is our clearest glimpse of Jesus’ humanity in the entire Bible....

Tonight we inch closer to the cross with Jesus. We move from Jesus’ serving of the Lord’s Supper for the first time to His sharing that before the night was over all of the eleven apostles that would not betray Him would end up denying Him. Those words from Jesus led to what we have...

Tonight we get to see the initiation of one of the essential elements of our worship, the Lord’s Supper, or communion. On the night of Jesus’ arrest, after He washed the disciple’s feet, announced that one of them would betray Him, commanded them to love one another and as He finished eating the Passover meal...

The book of Hebrews uses the phrase “once for all” five times in referring to Jesus’ sacrifice for the sins of the world. The phrase has a dual meaning, it means that Jesus’ sacrifice was “once for all” meaning that it was the final sacrifice, never needing to be repeated or renewed and it also...

Tonight we move into the “passion” of Jesus, the few days that describe the suffering and death of Jesus the Messiah. R.C. Sproul writes “The word “passion” is rooted in the concept of suffering.” That’s not generally how we use the word. When the think of passion we think of something we are invested in,...