Do you practice partiality? This message is the last of the teaching of the parable started in “take the lowest place.” In this final segment of the parable, we are taught to look at ourselves to see if we show partiality. What are our motives for...
Is your hospitality driven by pride? After, confronting the pride of the Pharisees’ guests and teaching them a lesson in humility, Jesus turned his attention to his host. Following the same teaching, ‘to be exalted one must first be humble and...
Pride brings embarrassment. A continuation of Take the Lowest Place. Travis teaches how having a humble spirit shows wisdom, but to learn wisdom and learn to be humble we must fear God. Proverbs 9:10, states “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of...
A lesson in humility. The Pharisees invited Jesus and His disciples for a meal on the Sabbath. Jesus finds Himself in an unfriendly environment that He turns into an opportunity to glorify God. He is going to show the Pharisees and scribes love by...
Jesus, God in Human Flesh. God, the Father, robed his one and only son in human flesh and sent Him to mankind to offer reconciliation between man and God. As you think about the information from these messages, do you take the humility of Christ for...
Palm Sunday has arrived! We have seen in this series that the Jewish people of Jesus’s day were expecting a conquering Messiah, who would overthrow Roman rule, but they are slowly discovering that in Jesus first advent He came for peace. He came to...
Jesus came to save the lost. The preparation for Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, as the prophesied King of the Jews, is nearly complete. The plan of salvation for mankind is coming to culmination. God the Father made the plan of salvation and Jesus...
Jesus, the prince of peace. We continue watching Jesus as He prepares for His triumphal entry into Jerusalem. During the series we will see that Jesus’ coming as King, didn’t match the expectation the people had for the king. Jesus came in peace to...
Jesus and His disciples head to Jerusalem. Jesus is orchestrating His travel and entry into Jerusalem. He is displaying His authority over everything involved. His characteristics of humility, tenderness, and love are being displayed. On His way to...
Jesus’s coronation preparation. What leads up to Jesus’ death on the cross, starts with His royal entry into Jerusalem. The triumphal entry does what it’s designed to do. It draws attention to truth, to meaning, to significance of a divinely...