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Jesus drove. Part 5 in our Jesus _______. (verb) series

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The image Matthew chapter 21 paints of Jesus doesn’t seem to fit with the rest of the gospel descriptions. (kinda like the game; “One of these things is not like the other”). Here Jesus departs from our familiar image of He with folded hands, holding lambs and softly touching sick people on the head. Here […]

Jesus withdrew. Jesus _______. (verb)

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In Luke 5:12-16 Jesus touched a man with leprosy. Rabbis would not violate the law in this way, to touch what was unclean would be self defiling and disrespectful to the Law of Moses and to the Lord of the Law. Yet Jesus (being a Rabbi) did so not because he was a rebel but […]

Jesus _______. (verb): Jesus Saw and Looked

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What Jesus said is vitally important, we love to read the red words in the Bible. Rightly so, we tend to focus on the words of Jesus. In this series however we will focus on what Jesus did (the action he took) in the ordinary interactions of everyday life. What Jesus did provides cues to […]

Tug O’ War: The Fighter Still Remains

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In Matthew 16 Jesus begins to share of his near future sufferings and death. Peter rebuked him and said “Never Lord!” Peter had one outcome in mind and Jesus had quite another. “It is not hard to grasp at particular outcomes, especially outcomes that we know to be worth pursuing. Even if Peter was the […]

Tug O’ War: Still Not Outnumbered

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Nearing the end of his gospel Matthew records Jesus asking his disciples a weighty question: “Who do people say that I am?” after a variety of responses ranging from John the Baptist to Elijah, Jesus asked another. “Who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter said: “You are the Messiah, the Son of the […]