The Pharisses challenge the authority of Jesus for healings of the man with the withered hand. Jesus makes it clear that the integrity of the healing that He does comes…
Jesus uses His relationship to His Father to reveal the power of being included in this relationship. Inclusion, by His Spirit, activates reciprocal love, abiding, knowing, acting, loving, and living.…
Jesus uses this dialogue with Thomas and Philip to earmark the absolute "oneness" that He has with God His Father. We are created to relate to Jesus like He related…
Through the emotions and actions of the son who styed at home and feels put upon by his father we see the way that many of us act. Yet, through…
Jesus makes sure that the joy of finding the one who was dead and lost is understood by the Pharisees and Scribes. The joy of the Father is like a…
Jesus describes himself as the Son of Man who came to befriend sinners... the broken and disenfranchised. Using the encouragement of Dane Ortlund's Gentle and Lowly we see the tenderness…
Pastor Dale gives a background to the profound moment when Jesus responds with tears regarding of of the emotions and deep truth of the resurrection scene with Lazarus, the friend…
Dane Ortlund said it best in his book Gentle and Lowly, “The atonement accomplished our salvation; intercession is the moment-by-moment application of our atoning work.” https://www.youtube.com/live/c9Fig4Tba2I?feature=share
Jesus' offer of Himself as the "Bread of Life" is the point of receiving His hold on on for eternal life (salvation). https://www.youtube.com/live/unVNyEBvhN4?feature=share
Jesus is able to deal with us gently because, as fully human, He touches everything human. Jesus is the God-man come to set Himself up to be the Redeemer of…