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

This week our study reveals the “inappropriateness” of Jesus’ actions. He was not sinfully inappropriate but rather societally inappropriate. There were traditions and religious expectations that had been added to the Law of God that were not from His heart or for His glory. Jesus purposefully did works, made statements and chose apostles and friends that...

This week in our study of the book of Mark we had a guest leader for our Bible study, Michael Endicott. The study covers Jesus’ compassionate healing of a man with leprosy and His healing and even more miraculous forgiving of the sins of a paralyzed man.

We finished our last class by talking about Mark’s record of Jesus’ first preaching in Capernaum followed immediately by the first miracle that Mark records, Jesus’ healing of a demon-possessed man. Both His teaching and the miracle caused the people in Capernaum to be “astonished” at Jesus’ authority. They recognized that He didn’t teach like...

In our first two weeks of studying the book of Mark we have moved very quickly through the ministry of John the Baptist, Jesus’ baptism, His being “driven” by the Holy Spirit into the wilderness for 40 days of fasting and to be tempted by Satan, John’s arrest and the beginning of Jesus’ three years of ministry....

In our last class we began our study of Mark with a short introduction and the first eight verses of chapter one, tonight we will pick up at 1:9. John the Baptist is an exceedingly important character in God’s plan of salvation. While his life is not given a larger number of verses in the...

On Sunday’s this year we are studying the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus’ seminal teaching on the Kingdom of God. As we study His teaching about God’s kingdom I thought it would be a perfect complement to study Jesus’ actions of living out God’s kingdom in the book of Mark. In general the book of...

This morning I was reading Matthew 26, the account of Jesus’ arrest and trial before the high priest, scribes, and elders. We are most aware of Jesus’ crucifixion and the visuals of the nails, the cross, and the crown of thorns; they are both familiar and precious to us, especially during this season of the...

Maybe it is because I am in desperate need of a haircut, but I have been completely glued to Matthew 10:30 for the past few weeks: “But the very hairs of your head are numbered.” It’s a verse that I have heard read and quoted many, many times. I have to confess though; I have...

The end of the book of Hebrews does not only finish the matter of Jesus’ supremacy it actually brings the letter full circle. The author began His letter by writing “God, who at various times and in various ways spoke time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by...

Like most people I have made plenty of bad decisions. Some are now funny to look back upon like bad haircuts and fashion statements (I once proudly wore a mint green “Miami Vice” style sports jacket); some were painful, like asking not to get Novocain before a filling because of my fear of needles or...