24-0721: Jesus reveals His worthiness as God for faith, but He is not obligated to satisfy our unbelief. When Jesus encounters the unbelief of the religious leaders, He responds in a curious way, with silence. Why would he not just correct them and move on? Why would he say nothing? In this message, Pastor...
24-0616: Jesus is worthy of our faith because He shows God’s compassion to all who are desperate for Him, and mercy to all who call on Him. When Matthew records Jesus’ encounter with two blind men on the road to Jerusalem, he reveals the true heart and nature of God. This journey on the...
24-0609: Greatness in God’s Kingdom is marked by humility to serve so others can hear the gospel and trust in Jesus. As Jesus journeys to Jerusalem with his disciples, a dispute arises about greatness. Jesus takes an opportunity to teach them about true greatness in the Kingdom of God. It is nothing like the...
24-0603: Jesus is the way to the true Jerusalem: He died for sin as the true Passover lamb and resurrects to new life with God all who believe in Him. On the way to Jerusalem to celebrate Passover, Jesus pulls the disciples aside to teach them one final time of what will occur in...
24-0526: God’s wage is one of favor above what is fair; He gives grace generously to all who believe in Jesus. How we view God is often determined by how the world operates, when we should view the world by how we understand God. In this parable Jesus teaches a lesson that can be...
24-0317: God is sovereign and worthy of all honor, glory, and praise because He holds life in His hands and gives eternal life in His Name. Daniel is called in for another Babylonian king, Belshazzar, to interpret a writing on the wall. He tells him that he too, like his predecessors, have hardened their...
24-0121: Christ-followers live by power of Holy Spirit to apply gospel truth to all of life and share it with all people. Continuing from last week’s message, Pastor Lane covers the last two of Four Core Elements of a Christ-follower’s new identity in Christ, Disciple and Missioner. Salvation in Christ brings about renewal of...
23-1105: The message of the gospel is our means and our mission; the grace of God through Jesus Christ from first to last. Paul is writing to Timothy his last words, and exhorting him to endure in gospel mission. His words are serious and weighty because he wants Timothy to carry on and multiply...
23-1008: Christ-followers live as stewards of the Lord Jesus in all of life to walk in His blessing. Jesus teaches his disciples how to live as faithful servants for the blessing of God on life. The way a servant lives to receive the master’s blessing is captured in one word, steward. A steward is...
23-1001: God entrusts the treasure of the gospel to all who believe in Jesus to serve in our generation and pass it on to the next. Paul, now advanced in years, writes to a younger Timothy while awaiting sentencing from his second imprisonment. There is a seriousness in what he writes to clarify what...