John 8:1-11 1Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 3 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her...
Jesus prayed a lot. Prayer was routine for Jesus. Luke 5:16 says, “Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.” The disciples knew that prayer was fueling Jesus. They knew it was keeping Him connected in a special way to the Heavenly Father. They knew it was...
In both Matthew’s and Luke’s account of the Wilderness Temptations, Satan began his speeches with, “If you are the Son of God…” He went right to an attack on Jesus’ identity. If Satan can get you to doubt your identity, your value, your worth, he can cause a...
Matthew 4:1-11 tells us that Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. If you want to develop a winning strategy to beat Satan in the battles he wants to wage in your life, you must be led by the Holy Spirit. If the Holy Spirit leads...
I’ve been thinking about the people that were on Jesus’ team. Oh, lots of people followed Jesus, but there were twelve who became part of His inner circle. I don’t know if you know, but back in that day, when a rabbi and his students were entering into a teaching...
Passion is a matter of the heart. Passion for God is addressed in Revelation 2 where Jesus gave the church at Ephesus several compliments. He said he saw their hard work and perseverance. Both of those are commendable, right? Hard work and the tenacity to not give up...
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