Teaching

  • 2. All Things are Possible to Him Who Believes

    Scriptures: Mark 9:14-29; Mat 17:14-21; Luke 9:37-42 Jesus Heals a Boy Disturbed by an Evil Spirit Mark 9:14-29  Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude around them, and scribes questioning them. 15 Immediately all the multitude, when they saw him, were greatly amazed, and running to him, greeted him. 16 He asked the scribes, “What are you asking them?” 17 One of the multitude answered, “Teacher, I brought to you my son, who has a mute spirit; 18 and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and wastes…

  • 1. My Beloved Son – Listen to Him!

    Scriptures:  Luke 9:28-36; Mat 17:1-13; Mark 9:2-13 My Beloved Son – Listen to Him! Luke 9:28-36  About eight days after these sayings, he took with him Peter, John, and James, and went up onto the mountain to pray. 29 As he was praying, the appearance of his face was altered, and his clothing became white and dazzling. 30 Behold, two men were talking with him, who were Moses and Elijah, 31 who appeared in glory, and spoke of his departure, which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem. 32 Now Peter and those who were with him were heavy with…

  • 6. Following Jesus Means Taking Up Your Cross

    Scriptures: Mark 8:31-9:1; Mat 16:21-28; Luke 9:23-27 Take Up Your Cross and Follow Jesus Mark 8:31-9:1 He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. 32 He spoke to them openly. Peter took him, and began to rebuke him. 33 But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of men.” He called the multitude…

  • 5. Peter Confesses Jesus as the Christ

    Scriptures: Luke 9:18-22; Mark 8:27-30; Mat 16:13-20 Peter Confesses Jesus as the Christ Matthew 16:13-20  Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?” 14 They said, “Some say John the Baptiser, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.” 15 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” 16 Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” 17 Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has…

  • 4. The Pharisees Demand a Sign

    Scriptures: Mark 8:11-26; Mat 16:1-12 The Leaven of the Pharisees and Herod Matthew 16:1-12  The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven. 2 But he answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ 3 In the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ “Hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you can’t discern the signs of the times! 4 An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there…

  • 3. Jesus Feeds the Four Thousand

    Scriptures: Mark 8:1-10; Mat 15:32-29 Jesus Feeds the Four Thousand Matthew 15:29-39  Jesus departed from there, and came near to the sea of Galilee; and he went up into the mountain, and sat there. 30 Great multitudes came to him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others, and they put them down at his feet. He healed them, 31 so that the multitude wondered when they saw the mute speaking, the injured healed, the lame walking, and the blind seeing—and they glorified the God of Israel. Jesus summoned his disciples and said, “I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue…

  • 2. The Faith of a Canaanite Woman

    Scriptures: Mark 7:24-37; Mat 15:21-31 The Faith of a Canaanite Woman Matthew 15:21-28  Jesus went out from there, and withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon. 22 Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders, and cried, saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David! My daughter is severely possessed by a demon!” 23 But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away; for she cries after us.” 24 But he answered, “I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” 25 But she…

  • 1. A Matter of the Heart

    Scriptures: Mark 7:1-23; Matthew 15:1-20 What Defiles a Person Mark 7:1-13  Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem. 2 Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found fault. 3 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews, don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders. 4 They don’t eat when they come from the marketplace unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups,…

  • 2. Words of Eternal Life

    Scriptures: John 6:60-71 The Words of Eternal Life John 6:43-71  43 Therefore Jesus answered them, “Don’t murmur among yourselves. 44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day. 45 It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to me. 46 Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father. 47 “Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me…

  • 1. The Bread of Life

    Scriptures: John 6:22-42 I Am the Bread of Life John 6:22-42 On the next day, the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except the one in which his disciples had embarked, and that Jesus hadn’t entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had gone away alone. 23 However boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks. 24 When the multitude therefore saw that Jesus wasn’t there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats,…