In the first verse of the transfiguration account that we will consider in this week’s session, Jesus takes Peter, James, and John up the mountain so they can see His glory. This must have been a fantastic and yet terrifying scene to behold. Many of us would love a chance to climb the mountain and get a glimpse of...

More often than not, the main point we should take away from a story within the Gospels occurs near the end of Matthew 14, the passage of our study. Such is the case with Jesus’ walking on water. After Jesus rebuked Peter for his lack of faith, the disciples in response to His power over creation worshiped Jesus and...

The passage for our study this week, John 6, contains a nugget regarding Jesus’ deity and His supernatural knowledge: Jesus saw the hungry crowd, and already He knew how He would feed them. Yet Jesus took this opportunity to test Philip with a question, not for His sake but for Philip’s. A test shows something about the person being tested. The...

In His brief conversation with the demon-possessed man in Luke 8, Jesus asked for the demon’s name, perhaps to highlight the complexity of the scenario for His disciples who were with Him. He certainly did not do this as a means to gain power over the demon. He already had the power. No, this was not an example of...

As we will learn in this session, Jesus in John 10 painted a picture of two voices calling out to sheep: one is the good shepherd and the other is a sheep thief, and they are both calling the sheep to follow them. The sheep respond to and follow the voice of the shepherd but run away from the...

In this passage, Jesus reminds us that God is our Father, not an austere miser in the sky waiting to withhold good things from us. We can trust Him to do right by us and by our earthly treasure because He has stored up myriad eternal treasures for us. In fact, the greatest treasure is the Person speaking to...