Sermons from The Grove

When Jesus enters Judea, the Pharisees try to trap Jesus with a question about divorce. But as Jesus responds, he points to the heart of the Lord that marriages are meant to be eternal and that children are meant to be cherished.

As the disciples walk, they discuss who is the greatest among them, and then Jesus redefines what greatness truly means.

While Jesus is being transfigured on the mountain, nine of his disciples fail to cast out a demon from an afflicted boy. When asked why they could not cast the demon out, Jesus tells him that it's from a lack of prayer. Prayer is our source of power and our method of reliance on God.

After Peter confesses Jesus is the Christ, Jesus takes Peter, James, and John up the mountain and is transfigured before them. However, most of us live in the valleys of life instead of on the mountaintops, revealing that we need to be constantly reminded of the mountaintops while we're in the valley.

Peter confesses that Jesus is the Christ, but Jesus makes it clear that the disciples' image of the Christ is one that reigns but does not suffer, and this is an incorrect understanding of who the Christ was called to be. Then Jesus calls all of his followers to take up their crosses and follow him.

After his confrontation with the religious leaders, Jesus goes to the Gentile territory of Tyre and Sidon and heals a woman who is a Gentile and heals a deaf man, demonstrating that the Messiah came to save Jews and Gentiles.

In one of the first confrontations between Jesus and the Pharisees, Jesus reveals that God cares more about our hearts than our external actions.

As Jesus feeds the 5,000 and walks on water, He reveals that He is sustainer, sovereign, and shepherd. Knowing all of these things, we can be confident that Jesus is our true source of rest.

The Lord commands the people of God to pass on the laws of the Lord onto their sons and their son's sons. We are also called to serve the Lord as parents and invest in the next generations, whether as parents or as those who disciple.

To serve the Lord with our marriages and our singleness we look to the letters of Paul, specifically Ephesians 5, to learn the distinct roles that God has given men and women and how we can fulfill those roles.