Family Pastor Troy Puryear is in 1 John this week for our family worship, where John testifies to the reality of Jesus as the Word of life, urging believers to walk in God's light, confess sins for forgiveness, and recognize their sinfulness while trusting in God's faithfulness to cleanse them.

In Matthew 24:1-14, Jesus predicts the temple's destruction and describes signs of the end times, including wars, famines, earthquakes, and persecution, urging disciples to endure and proclaiming that the gospel will be preached to all nations before the end comes.

This Sunday looks at Jesus' second critique of the scribes and Pharisees is that they do the religious practices for the wrong audience.

This week's message from Pastor Mike we hear how the Pharisees attempt to test Jesus by asking which commandment in the Law is the greatest.

The Sadducees, a Jewish sect denying the resurrection, try to trap Jesus by presenting a hypothetical scenario about a woman who marries seven brothers sequentially, asking whose wife she will be in the afterlife.

The Pharisees and Herodians, attempting to trap Jesus, ask him if it is lawful to pay taxes to the Roman emperor, hoping to force him to choose between angering the Jewish people or the Roman authorities.

Jesus tells the parable of the Wedding Feast, comparing the Kingdom of Heaven to a king who throws a grand banquet for his son, but the invited guests refuse to attend.

This week's message focused on The Parable on the Talents, who refused to pay the owner His agreed upon share of the crops. Instead, they mistreated and killed the servants he sent and then killed the owner's son.

Pastor Mike looks at the parable of the two sons. Like the parable of the prodigal, this one reveals the stunningly good news that God loves us like a father. God does not hold our sins against us, nor does he expect us to perform and work to earn his love.

We've returned to our series in Matthew, looking at the 21st chapter where Jesus is found in the temple as He is challenged by priests and elders.