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Stuffing the Pita of Life: Ecclesiastes 1:12-18
Something has gone terribly wrong and no matter how many organizations we start, elections we hold, wars we fight, dollars we spend, attempts we make, protests we hold, medications we prescribe, bad …
Published on 10 years, 4 months ago
History’s Wisest Fool Tells Truth about Everything: Ecclesiastes 1:1-11
According to Ecclesiastes, the evolutionary chart in school fooled us into believing that history is a straight line going up and we are more advanced than those primitive people who came before us. …
Published on 10 years, 5 months ago
Jesus’ True Family
Jesus teaches that identity results in activity: who we are in Christ determines what we do. If you are a light, shine in the darkness of the world. Your light also should continue to grow brighter. …
Published on 10 years, 5 months ago
Jesus Forgives a Sinful Woman
A notoriously sinful woman does the unthinkable: she goes, uninvited, to Simon the Pharisee’s home, where Jesus is eating with “holy” religious men. There, broken and sobbing, she lavishly worships J…
Published on 10 years, 5 months ago
John the Baptizer, Part 1
Jesus says that “among those born of women none is greater than John.” John was great because he sought answers for his questions about Jesus, because he trusted in Jesus, and because he was fearless…
Published on 10 years, 6 months ago
John the Baptizer, Part 2
John was great because he called people to true repentance (not its counterfeits, such as religious repentance, pagan repentance, worldly sorrow, mere confession, blame shifting, minimizing, and excu…
Published on 10 years, 6 months ago
The Beatitudes, Part 2
Pastor Mark continues preaching on the Beatitudes, examining principles from Jesus’ teaching: 1) Forgiven people should forgive; 2) Getters should be givers; 3) Leaders should lead themselves; 4) Goo…
Published on 10 years, 6 months ago
Jesus Heals a Centurion’s Servant
Jesus heals a centurion’s servant, a man who is near death. The religious people still do not understand that it is all about grace, not works or merit. Being a moral, upstanding citizen—like the cen…
Published on 10 years, 6 months ago
Jesus Raises a Widow’s Son
Jesus finds wrecked people. He pursues people who don’t ask for him and comforts people who don’t seek him. Jesus literally reaches into death and brings life, both for the dead son of the widow and …
Published on 10 years, 6 months ago
Jesus Calls the Twelve
Jesus calls the twelve disciples—and all of his people today—to transition from a come-and-see experience to a go-and-die life. We can learn eleven leadership lessons from Jesus’ selection of the twe…
Published on 10 years, 6 months ago