Redeemer Bible Church Santa Barbara

Today’s text reports two famous encounters of Jesus. We are meant to compare and contrast them, and weigh their vastly-important core issue: Who gets to enter Jesus’ Kingdom?

Issues of marriage, divorce, and children might, at first, seem far-removed from training for real discipleship. In fact, there are basic, first principles here.

Come, let’s reason together, taught by Dr. Joe Keller as he leads us through Psalm 34. Come magnify the Lord with us; Let us exalt His name together!

With anything truly meaningful it’s crucial to see the big picture, but also to grasp the details, even when they seem overwhelming. Jesus clarifies for His followers the specifics of Real Discipleship.

Mountain-top experiences – who doesn’t love them? But real discipleship is lived-out in life’s valleys. And sometimes it can be pretty dark down here. Rest assured the Master prepares his own for those times.

The mysterious Transfiguration is one of the more unusual events in Jesus’ astonishingly unusual ministry. Its purposes and message were and are crucial for all His followers.

As we resume our Mark series, Jesus turns His face toward Jerusalem and all that awaits Him there. As He does, his message for disciples is plain and sobering: following Him means we too must walk the Calvary Road.

If you are not content with the truth, you will resort to deception. How do you gain this contentment? How does wisdom remove your need for falsehood?

Your heart is the wellspring of life. What does this mean? How can we manage the core of our being with wisdom, in the Fear of the Lord?

These days, sex is everywhere! Yet, in some senses, that’s nothing new; the divinely-inspired text of Proverbs has much to say about this ever-present, and sometimes volatile topic.