Posts from June 2023

Blessed Are the Meek

This Sunday, we continue our series on the Beatitudes and the Sermon on the Mount.  We are now on the 3rd beatitude from chapter 5, verse 5.  Blessed, that is, to be approved of God, is the promise of these beatitudes that we are studying.  This time we look at the 3rd beatitude, which is…

Blessed Are Those that Mourn

This Sunday, we continue our series on Matthew 5-7, looking at the Beatitudes and the Sermon on the Mount.  We are now on the 2nd beatitude from chapter 5, verse 4.  In these verses 9 times we are called blessed, that is, to be approved of God, and that is what we are in Christ. …

Approved of God

This Sunday, we take a break, and step aside from our series in the gospel of John and start a new series on Matthew 5-7, looking at the Beatitudes and the Sermon on the Mount.  We start with verses 1-3 of chapter 5, looking at the first of the 9 times we, as believers, are…

Reactions to a Resurrection

This Sunday in our series (verse-by-verse study) in the gospel of John; we are finishing chapter 11, looking at verses 45-57; where we have looked at this major miracle of raising Lazarus from the dead.  We have seen what is most important in this miracle; that Jesus (God) has power over life and death.  And…

Why Don’t They Believe?

This Sunday in our series (verse-by-verse study) in the gospel of John; we are in chapter 11, looking now at verses 18-44; which is the center of this major miracle of raising Lazarus from the dead.  But what is most important?  The miracle of raising a man that has been dead 4 days?  Well that…