God sent His son to be the propitiation for our sins. We continue to learn about the resurrection of Jesus. Why did Jesus have to die? Christ died to satisfy the just wrath of God for our sins and to make propitiation for the sins of the people...
Faith is a prerequisite for resurrection to eternal life. Jesus’s healing of a demon possessed boy displayed to the crowds and us, the amazing power of Jesus. But Jesus, asks us to look more deeply, to see things more clearly. As the demon leaves...
Trials expose what is in our heart. Seeing God for who He really is, is a sure way to strengthen your faith. Travis is teaching about the glory of God and how to respond to trials, whether they are moments of a trial, or even days or years. Trials...
Irrefutable evidence that Jesus is God! Jesus displays His irrefutable evidence of divine authority by rebuking the demon, which only God has command over in the spiritual realm. Jesus not only rebukes the demon, but He completely heals the boy...
David challenges his readers to assess their lives. In Psalm 1, David writes a contrast between a blessed man and a cursed man. Through the Psalm David is challenging the reader to complete a comprehensive assessment of their entire life to see...
Luke 20:34-40 The truth regarding resurrection. We continue to look at the challenge of the Sadducees, who didn’t believe in resurrection to eternal life. They live their lives as if their life on earth was all there is, yet Jesus, in humility and...
Luke 20:19-26 What authority are we to follow “Render to Caeser the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s.” Text like this gets wrongly applied, because they are misunderstood. One of the reasons this happens is many people...
Luke 20:5-8 The hypocritical authority of the Pharisees. As Jesus presses the Jewish leadership with a question of His own, we see the hypocritical authority of these Pharisees, in that they don’t actually care about the truth. They don’t actually...
Luke 20:5-8 How to follow teaching that Jesus would approve. In Luke 20:5-8, Jesus is being challenged regarding His authority to teach in the Temple. The Jewish leadership in Jesus’ day are examples of the wrongful use of authority. Every Christian...
Luke 20:1-4 How to live under authority without groaning. Christians need to have discernment when it comes to recognizing good authority and good shepherding in a church, and placing ourselves under it. The Bible teaches us how to live under that...