In this message we derive some good lessons from two confrontations between Jesus and Israel's religious leaders

The cursing of a fig tree isn't a story of Jesus' impatient anger, but a prophetic parable acted out in real life.

Christians are called to encourage one another. What does that mean, and how do we do it?

A look at the biblical qualifications and qualities of those God calls as elders

Jesus takes us back to Genesis as he teaches God's original intent in marriage

Jesus calls His disciples to a life of war against sin. A disciple deals drastically with sin; a disciple doesn’t make peace with sin or flirt with sin; a disciple doesn’t use grace and Christian liberty to justify sipping around the edges of the pool of sin testing how close we can get before we fall in. The disciple is called to hate sin; to crush sin; to root it out and kill sin.

There are two paths to greatness: pride's path which is characterized by me-first, and Christ's path which is characterized by serving.

Jesus goes from the mountaintop of transfiguration to the valley of a child possessed by a demon

Confessing Jesus as the Christ always comes with a cost.