James and John, what Jesus taught them and how they responded. James and John were known as the Sons of Thunder. They were bold, loud, brazen fishermen. Jesus had to teach them not only divine love, agape love, but humility, truth and obedience...
A study of God’s love James and John needed to learn about agape love, sacrificial love. They ultimately learned from Christ what it meant to love God and love people. It’s interesting that Jesus used love to mold James and John and their...
Forgiveness is a work of God alone. Peter was not perfect, but Peter is forgiven. Forgiveness didn’t just come to Peter nor does it just come to us. It requires something from us: repentance. Peter is a model of repentance and he demonstrated his...
A Lesson about God’s Divine Love. Loving someone is not about alleviating their suffering. Peter didn’t want Jesus to suffer, but that wasn’t love and that was the lesson that Peter had to learn. This life isn’t about our comfort, it’s about obeying...
Divine Love versus Worldly Love. One of the great problems in evangelicalism today is that we have moved away from a truly biblical understanding of love. Christians have started speaking about love in the world’s terms. Travis takes us into Peter’s...
Practicing the one another commands shows a transformed Life. I want to encourage you to believe what God teaches us in His Word. Believe it deeply, and obey it boldly. Do what Christ commands about life in the local church, entrusting yourselves...
The deep love of others creates humility in us. Christ wants love to saturate every one of His churches. Closely connected to love is the virtue of humility, which causes the constant pursuit of unity in the church. Do you seek to love others in the...
Love is the defining virtue of the Local Church. The Lord will produce joy in our church as we continue to submit to His design of the Local Church. This means day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year we submit to his...
True Faithful churches will suffer and be persecuted. Churches that remain faithful to Scripture are going to suffer in this life, but there is nothing to fear. Paul says in, 2 Timothy 1:7, “God has given us a spirit not of fear, but of power and...
Jesus intended the local church to be where discipleship happens. In Jesus’ Great Commission, Matthew 28:18-20, Jesus gave a single command to the church: Make disciples. Jesus did not intend His Great Commission to be detached from the local church...