How can one go through the narrow gate? Jesus is using parables to show us that we need to strive, now, to enter God’s kingdom. For we do not know when we will die and possibly face judgment or Jesus comes again to bring judgment. Jesus explains...
Heed the warning Jesus gives in this teaching. Jesus is pressing His listeners to make a decision to either repent and follow Him or stay in their comfortable life and sin. Jesus tells the listeners, through the two parables, that He is using to...
Everyone must make this decision. In Luke 13:22-24, Jesus pushes His listeners to make a decision about following Him or continuing in their sin. He tells them, “Strive to enter through the narrow gate.” All followers of Jesus need to make this same...
Jesus tells two parables explaining the Kingdom of God Travis goes through the two parables that Jesus uses to teach us about the Kingdom of God. Discover what Jesus shows us about the kingdom of God. Travis explains how the understanding of these...
What is the Kingdom of God like? In this passage of Luke, Jesus speaks about the kingdom of God. Jesus’ teaching is upsetting the expectations and assumptions of believers in Jesus’s day and expectations and assumptions of Christians today. We have...
Matthew 5:5-7
A Repentant heart changes your life Have you turned from your sin? If your answer is, yes – praise God! But you might say: Now what?” Ask yourself – does your life bear the fruits of repentance? How do I determine what are the fruits of...
Repentance preaching is uncomfortable. Is it worth it? Repentance preaching is uncomfortable for both the one giving the Gospel and the one receiving the information. Repentance calls the hearer to evaluated their lives and the recipient can respond...
Bear fruit in keeping with repentance John came with a message of repentance, but he confronted the people and then he provided correction for their misunderstanding of repentance. He asked, “What is the real root of your religious works?” He...
John questions the motives of his followers John’s questioning of the people who came to be baptized is penetrating. It gets into the heart of their thinking; it causes them to examine their motives. People are religious for all the wrong reasons...