This week's passage offers us a particularly hard saying of our Savior, but one that is full of promise. In Matthew 10:34-39, we will see Jesus correcting expectations about his reign as the Messiah and what it means to follow Jesus. Regarding...

This week, we will review the saying of Jesus to refrain from judgement in Matthew 7:1-5. Although verses 1-2 are among the most well-known sayings of Jesus, this passage is often not understood and applied rightly. Instead of introducing a complete...

This week we continue our series looking at some of the hard sayings of Jesus. We have already covered Jesus' teaching on anger and on oaths. This Sunday we will see what Jesus has to say about retaliating against those who hurt or offend us...

This week we will study Jesus' hard teaching concerning our speech. During His seminal Sermon on the Mount, Jesus contradicts the religious teaching of the day that one could be relieved of the responsibility to fulfill one's oaths. Instead...

This week, we begin a new series called, "Hard Sayings of Jesus". We will be looking through the gospel of Matthew at some of the statements Jesus made that are difficult to understand and how they apply to us as His disciples. This week...

We will come together this Sunday for the same reason we do every week: because Jesus Christ is alive. This Easter, we will be studying 1 Corinthians 15:12-26. In this passage, Paul corrects false thinking about the resurrection that had crept into...

For Palm Sunday this year, we will be studying Jesus' anointing at Bethany in the gospel of John. After Lazarus has been raised from the dead, Martha and Mary host a dinner to honor Jesus. At this dinner, Mary performs an unconventional act of...

In the final sermon of our Genesis series, we will look at Genesis 49:28-50:26 and how the book ends with us expectantly waiting for the promised seed of Abraham to come. The passage begins with Jacob in his final act of life giving instructions...

We are at the very end of Genesis. Jacob will speak a final word to all 12 of his sons and then breathe his last. As one of the oldest poems, his words are brief, poetic, and figurative. This makes them difficult to fully understand. They also contain...

Discover God - Psalm 19