Peter, James, and John are encouraged by the transfiguration. At the transfiguration Jesus is with Moses and Elijah and they are discussing Jesus leaving. Moses and Elijah have always pointed their followers to Jesus. God the Father is unveiling...
How can we overcome our spiritual dullness. Jesus many times uses the metaphor of sleeping for dullness of our understanding. He gives the command to stay awake and be watchful. In these verses we see Peter, James, and John are asleep, but by God’s...
What do we learn from the transfiguration. The setting for this event commonly called The Transfiguration is eight days after Peter revealed that Jesus was THE Christ of God. Jesus took Peter, James, and John up Mount Hermon for the purpose of...
Jesus is always praying for us Jesus takes Peter, James, and John up Mount Hermon to Pray. Jesus has given the Apostles a lot of things to think about and he knows they are concerned about what he has been saying. Travis explains why Jesus takes...
The Spirit of Sabbath Law is to seek to do good We see Jesus ask a man with a withered hand to stand with Him in the middle of the synagogue crowd. The Pharisees are waiting to confront Him again, if He heals the man. The spirit of the law, the...
The Pharisees: Will He heal on the Sabbath or not! We join Jesus in another setting where He has the opportunity to heal on the Sabbath. The Pharisees have shown up in ambush style to catch Him showing mercy. In the message, Travis says that...
Jesus IS LORD of the Sabbath As the Pharisees and Sadducees question Jesus about his activities on the Sabbath day, Jesus challenges their error of elevating their oral traditions over Scripture. He then gives them an illustration from the Old...
The Sabbath was made for Man, not man for the Sabbath. The Pharisees challenged Jesus, yet again, on what he was doing on the Sabbath. He was first feeding his disciples and then he healed a man who was crippled for 38 years. Travis explains Jesus’...
Treat the Lord’s Day as Holy There is a controversy brewing between the religious leadership and Jesus because he is not following the man-made religious rules established by them for what can be done on the Sabbath. God established the Sabbath as...
Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath Jesus IS Lord of the Sabbath. We will hear today, in the message, that this infuriated the Pharisees and Sadducees and they tried desperately to “remove the irritant that was Jesus.” Travis explains why the good works...