Who’s side are you on? The truth may surprise you. In the midst of a verbal back and forth with the Jewish leaders, Jesus said something very revealing in Matthew 12:30. He said, “Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.” Do you know what there means? It means that there is no middle…
CONNECT people to Christ and POUR into their lives His teaching so they'll OVERFLOW for the glory of God
CONNECT people to Christ and POUR into their lives His teaching so they'll OVERFLOW for the glory of God
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Is there ever a wrong time to do good? Those who opposed Jesus thought so. On one Sabbath day, Jesus and his disciples were exceedingly hungry as they walked through ripened wheat fields. So, food was all around them. But it was the Sabbath, and they weren’t supposed to do anything resembling work. So, what were they to do? Eventually overcome by…
Life gets heavy sometimes. Are you burdened down with the cares of this world? Are you discouraged? Are you hurting? Jesus speaks directly to your heart in Matthew 11:28 when he says, “Come to me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.” You see, you don’t have to carry your burden alone. Jesus will carry that burden…
Don’t you love to read the words of Jesus? He shared so many encouraging things with us. But make no mistake about it. Jesus was no ear-tickler. He said what needed to be said and often spoke strong words of judgment and rebuke over others. Toward the end of Matthew 11, he began to call out cities who had rejected him. “Woe…
Critics of Christianity claim that real men have a hard time connecting to the church. It’s too effeminate. It’s too introspective. It’s too touchy feely, they say. But we see real men all over the Bible, and John the Baptist was one of them. Speaking about John, Jesus basically said in Matthew 11, you didn’t come to see some soft, preppy dude…
Have you ever had a moment where you doubted who Jesus is? Sometimes even the strongest among us in the faith have moments of weakness and doubt. When you think of giants in the faith, John the Baptist has to be in that discussion. And guess what: even he had a moment of doubt. And so he sent messengers to Jesus to…
When you stand before God one day, would you like to receive a great reward? Well, in Matthew 10:40-42, Jesus tells us one way how, and here it is: show hospitality to and be supportive of the ministers of God in your community. Jesus was just about to send out his twelve disciples to do ministry in his name all throughout the…
Have you ever heard it said that Jesus is the Prince of Peace? Well, He certainly is. But that doesn’t mean that those of us who follow Him will always experience peace on this earth. No, sadly, Jesus is a dividing line. He makes this clear in Matthew 10. There will be those who will say, well, if you’re going to follow…
Just keeping it real, being a Christian is not always safe. Jesus makes that clear in Matthew 10. If they called our Lord and Savior the devil, what will they call us? If they crucified Him, what won’t they do to us? A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master. Jesus, to his credit, never hid these…
Jesus had lots of disciples, but there were 12 that he chose to be especially close to him. We read their names in Matthew 10:2-4, “…Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot,…