During the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5 Jesus commanded to love your enemies, and to pray for those who persecute you. But what better example He would later give than while hanging on the cross offering up just such a prayer for those that drove the nails through His hands and feet. And that’s one of seven declarations Pastor Brett Meador examines for us in Today’s Word.

The fact that we worship a living Jesus, a risen Jesus – we can rest in His divine authority that death has been defeated; and the price of our salvation has been paid. And so coming up on Today’s Word, Pastor Brett Meador says the only thing left for us to do to be saved is to confess with our mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in our heart all that He’s done for us.

The fact that we worship a living Jesus, a risen Jesus – we can rest in His divine authority that death has been defeated; and the price of our salvation has been paid. And so coming up on Today’s Word, Pastor Brett Meador says the only thing left for us to do to be saved is to confess with our mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in our heart all that He’s done for us.

The fact that we worship a living Jesus, a risen Jesus – we can rest in His divine authority that death has been defeated; and the price of our salvation has been paid. And so coming up on Today’s Word, Pastor Brett Meador says the only thing left for us to do to be saved is to confess with our mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in our heart all that He’s done for us.

He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die - an assuring promise of Jesus having power over life and death to be sure. And in a world fearing mortality, in God we can trust in hope and victory. Coming up, a message of good news indeed delivered by Pastor Brett Meador on Today’s Word.

Judas’ betrayal is complete in John 18 as a mob comes to arrest Jesus, which leads to a series of corrupt trials. Meanwhile, the Apostle Peter provides a reckless example wielding his sword to defend Jesus, only to deny Him three times shortly after. In Today’s Word with Pastor Brett Meador, we’re reminded of our need for courage, faith, and Christ’s restoring grace.

Our verse-by-verse study of the Gospel of John continues depicting the betrayal of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. But coming up in Today’s Word Pastor Brett Meador notes why Jesus was in Gethsemane in a revealing passage from Matthew’s gospel – and that was to pray. There, Jesus modeled both trust and obedience to the Father by praying, ‘Not as I will, but as You will.’

From a passage in John 18 we read how the religious leaders thought they had everything about Jesus figured out, but were sadly mistaken in their assumptions and were acting ignorantly. However, Pastor Brett Meador points out in Today’s Word how their errant beliefs in fact helped fulfill prophecy of Jesus’ ultimate purpose of dying on the cross for the salvation of all who believe.TWR Week of Septembe

In the fateful encounter in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus boldly stepped forward declaring to those who came to arrest Him, I am the one you’re looking for. This powerful scene reminds us that Jesus willingly gave Himself up. Even in betrayal, He remained sovereign, yet demonstrating obedience to the Father’s redemptive plan

From a passage in John 18 we read how the religious leaders thought they had everything about Jesus figured out, but were sadly mistaken in their assumptions and were acting ignorantly. However, Pastor Brett Meador points out in Today’s Word how their errant beliefs in fact helped fulfill prophecy of Jesus’ ultimate purpose of dying on the cross for the salvation of all who believe.