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

Our last time together we studied Jesus’ statement to the disciples “whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it.” It’s a statement that we hear often but I’m not sure we have contemplated enough. When Jesus made this statement He was “greatly displeased”, the literal...

Jesus’ teaching about marriage, divorce and God’s grace in response to the condition of our hearts is immediately followed by another rebuke of the disciples for not understanding of His leadership, a lesson on the true requirement of faith and then a sad revelation of how easily our hearts can become dependent upon lesser loves....

Wednesday night marked the Jewish celebration of Purim, two days to remember and celebrate the deliverance of the Jews from the hands of the Persian Viceroy Haman as detailed in the book of Esther. A small group from our church gathered to remember Purim and to pray for the protection and peace of Israel. Part...

After a five month layoff my wife started a new job this week. Being laid off from a job she loved, in a community she enjoyed with people that had become like family was difficult, but God, in His infinite generosity prepared her and strengthened her through the process and the details. The five months...

Tonight we will move into Mark 10, a chapter that shows Jesus moving toward Jerusalem, to the fulfillment of His earthly purpose in death and resurrection and His final preparation of His followers to take up their cross and to follow Him. In tonight’s passage Jesus is tested by those looking to find fault in...

Unfortunately the audio is not available from last week’s Mark Bible Study. Below you will find the introduction. If you would like a copy of the full notes from this week’s study please email [email protected] to receive the notes in a Word document. The last time we were together we saw Jesus dealing with the...

In tonight’s passage we get to see the continued revelation of Jesus’ humility as the Messiah and the difficulty that the disciples had in letting go of their view of what the Messiah would accomplish and how He would accomplish it. At the same time that we see the humility of Jesus we get a...

Tonight we are going to attempt to have a discussion about something that troubled the disciples and often seems to trouble us as well: why we sometimes appear to be powerless. Just as a quick reminder of the context of our short text, Jesus had taken Peter, James and John with Him to a high...

As if often the case in each one of our lives Jesus leaves an incredible experience and is immediately met by a difficult, even frustrating one. As we discussed two weeks ago, the transfiguration of Jesus was a gift of the Father to the Son. Jesus took Peter, James and John up on a mountain...

Tonight we move from Jesus’ first teaching about His cross and ours into one of the most amazing and important moments in Jesus’ life on earth. The transfiguration is a moment that most of us have read about but I’m not sure that we have thoroughly studied its importance to Jesus at the time and...