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October 20, 2020
"Jesus the Savior": Weekly Leader Training—Unit 26, Session 4: Jesus Is Arrested
The contrast of Jesus’ disposition in Mark 14 and the rest of Mark’s Gospel is jarring. Up to this point, Jesus has shown a remarkable sense of controlled confidence. In fact, His calm dignity stirred up awe and amazement among those He encountered. Even when predicting His own death, there wasn’t the slightest hint of dread or trepidation. In...
October 19, 2020
“Jesus the Savior”: Preschool & Kids Leader Training for Unit 26, Session 4—Jesus Was Arrested
I have felt the sting of betrayal, and unfortunately, I am sure you have as well. What makes betrayal so difficult is that its power is in direct proportion to the relationship you have with the one who has betrayed you. If the relationship was marginal, betrayal can be more of an annoyance or frustration. But if the person...
October 19, 2020
Jesus' Prayer in the Garden [Ep. 191]
Was Jesus praying for God’s will to be done some kind of cop-out? That’s the question we’re discussing on The Hero of the Story. Listen in as we discuss: The importance of Jesus’ prayer in the gardenWhy we generally put Judas in a category apart from the Twelve when we read the Gospels (though we probably shouldn’t)What the High...
October 16, 2020
Exploring the Aspects of the Atonement [Ep. 190]
What did the death of Jesus accomplish? That’s the question we’re addressing on this episode of The Hero of the Story. Listen in as we discuss: Where we find different aspects of the atonement in ScriptureWhy we use the term “aspects” to refer to the different understandings of the atonementWhy we can’t ignore the substitutionary aspect of the atonement, but...
October 14, 2020
What Was God Showing Us in the Atonement? [99 in :99]
Christians call the death of Jesus good news. But how can the death of the only perfectly innocent man be good? While understanding everything that happened when Jesus died is challenging, and realistically, probably impossible to understand completely, when we look at what the Bible has to say about it, we can begin to see that Jesus’ death is...
October 13, 2020
"Jesus the Savior": Weekly Leader Training—Unit 26, Session 3: Jesus Shares the Lord's Supper
The providence and the planning behind the first Lord’s Supper is given to us in this passage. We see that the Lord orchestrated the very room where they would observe the Passover. He planned the meeting between a man carrying water and Peter and John and even instructed the very words that would be spoken between them. The Lord...