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  • It Pleases God To Have People Reject Jesus?

    It Pleases God To Have People Reject Jesus?

    Jesus has been teaching about the rejection of His Gospel—despite our sin, God’s people are saved by grace through faith and not by any works of their own. Galileans are refusing to repent even though the kingdom of Heaven is at hand. In the previous passage, Jesus claimed that if Tyre, Sidon, and Sodom would…

  • God’s Judgment More Tolerable For Some Than Others?

    God’s Judgment More Tolerable For Some Than Others?

    Jesus has given His twelve disciples authority over evil spirits and sickness. He is sending them out to share the good news, everything prophesied about in the Jewish Scriptures, with the Jewish people in Galilee. The Christ had come! The Messiah is here! The kingdom of heaven is at hand! In tonight’s passage, Jesus instructs…

  • Christianity, More Than Belief in God or Church Attendance

    Christianity, More Than Belief in God or Church Attendance

    In the previous verse, we saw Jesus give authority to His disciples over unclean spirits and over every sickness. This authority was meant as a sign that they carried with them the authority of the Messiah. We also saw that God provides gifts to believers today, but not as signs of either salvation or authority.…

  • Is Your Life Bearing Fruit, or are you just playing religion?

    Is Your Life Bearing Fruit, or are you just playing religion?

    Every October, I spend time in deep and prayerful evaluation. This is evaluation of my own ministry in the context God has me in and of the church or ministry God has us leading. This year, my evaluations lead me to John 15. I was wondering if it was even Biblical to do evaluations because…

  • The Church is to Revitalize, Not Overburden

    The Church is to Revitalize, Not Overburden

    What do you think it means for people to be like sheep without a shepherd? Do you think people today are like sheep without a shepherd? Is our response condescension of or compassion toward people? Matthew 9:35-38 Jesus was going through all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of…

  • Are People Healed Because of Their Faith?

    Are People Healed Because of Their Faith?

    We prize servanthood. We believe that we ought to serve one another. There are a couple ways that the call to serve becomes too much for the person and really becomes sinful. As Jesus sets the example for Christian service in this passage, He makes a perplexing statement indicating that a woman’s faith is the…

  • The Fermentation of the Believer

    The Fermentation of the Believer

    After Jesus calls Matthew and claims, “I did not come to call the righteous but sinners,” Matthew takes the time to explain Christ’s work of sanctification a little more. In the previous passage, we saw that real sanctification follows true conversion. When the Holy Spirit regenerates the heart of the person called by Christ, that…

  • If Salvation is By Grace Alone, Why Are There Requirements?

    If Salvation is By Grace Alone, Why Are There Requirements?

    We are in the middle of this section of miracles in Matthew’s Gospel, and Jesus makes some statements about what it costs to follow Him. Costs? We hear often about free grace and about how nothing is required of us. We teach that salvation is a free gift. We teach that salvation is by grace…

  • Do Women Really Have To Remain Silent? (1 Timothy 2:12)

    Do Women Really Have To Remain Silent? (1 Timothy 2:12)

    Submit your questions using the contact form, on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or LinkedIn. This question was left over from a Stump the Elders panel at The Church at Sunsites and is not a new one, but it has been recently revived in our own culture and in a few societies around the world. Sadly, many…

  • Hypocrisy and Jesus

    Hypocrisy and Jesus

    We are a people lost in our own hypocrisy. I often get to talk with people who claim to love Jesus about why they are not a member of a local church. Almost always, the answer is that the church is full of hypocrites. We might jokingly say, “There is always room for one more!”…