By Pastor Glenn Pease Neil Armstrong was the first man to set his foot on the moon, but long before that momentous event he was a dreamer. As early as age 2 he fell in love with airplanes, and for the rest of his life that was a focus for him. He made model planes as a child, and at age 14 he got a job…

Sometimes we are imprecise when we talk about God. We don’t mean to be inaccurate but we are. We mentioned last week that sometimes we say, “The Bible contains the Word of God” but the truth is that “the Bible is the word of God.” We say that God “loves everybody” (and in one sense that is true), but…

Love the Giver More Than His Gifts Molly and Abby are out of town right now for her sister’s graduation, so the other night I went to the ASU / U of A baseball game. It was a beautiful night and I was sitting out with some friends on the grass hill down the third base line. We’re sitting there talking…

Luke 18:9-14 This parable is simple. And devastating. It strikes at a spiritual condition that anyone who has been a believer for some time can suffer from. The sense of security in God morphs into personal smugness. What once was thanksgiving to God becomes self-congratulation about one’s life of faith.…

Luke 13:6-9 (KJV) 6 He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. 7 Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why…

By Pastor Glenn Pease A king once stopped at a village inn to rest after and unsuccessful attempt at hunting. While putting his horse in a barn he noticed several chalked targets drawn on the barn wall with bullet holes right through the bull's eye. He was impressed and asked the inn keeper to call the…

Sunday, March 21, 2021. Matthew 7:24-27 | "It Did Not Fall" [The Life]. Everyone hears, but not everyone does. This is the lesson Jesus reinforces at the end of The Sermon on the Mount using a parable of two builders. How does your life align with the the parable? *Take heed to the warning at the beginning of this sermon. It may be in your best interest to STOP listening!!

Matt 13:31-35 [Read Matt 13:31-35] These two parables – at first glance – are quite easy to understand. The Kingdom of God has very small and inconspicuous beginnings but in time has magnificent and mighty results. And as is the case with parables – the ordinary is extraordinary. Like a small seed which…

By Pastor Glenn Pease A fisherman's experiment is described in a tract. It tells of how he caught a large black bass and instead of putting it in the frying pan he put it in a glass tank. Each morning he would bring a minnow to the tank and drop it in. The bass would make a dash for the minnow and soon…

Similar to the allegory in Genesis, the parable of the barren fig tree in Luke 13 depicts a vineyard. We are calling this parable The Unfinished Parable. In this parable, the land owner is disappointed that the fig tree is not bearing fruit and wants it to be removed. The gardener pleads with the land owner to give it one more year and he will dig around it and fertilize it. We are a fruit tree in the vineyard and we are expected to produce fruit. If we do not bear fruit and become useful to the land owner, we will have to be removed to make room for a tree that WILL bear fruit. The parable ends just shy of a conclusion because the ending is not written yet - WE are writing the ending with our lives, one day at a time. Will we say in the garden? Listen and follow along with the points as we dig in to this parable in detail and break down the analogies that relate to our lives.

The people in Boston have experienced a roller-coaster week for emotions. For the last 36 hours, Boston has been euphoric. Their joy is understandable, but it is nothing compared to the joy in heaven when men are reconciled to God. LAST WEEK: (See previous message by clicking on my name above) God is…

We often struggle with service that drags on longer or is more intense than we thought we were signing up for! Imagine yourself in this situation: You decided to get married and have children. But serving your spouse and your kids day after day, hour after hour, proves to be an incredibly tall task—to…

Text: Mt 13:24-30 Theme: Believers are precious to God Doctrine: visible and invisible church Image: wheat and weeds Need: tolerance Message: always act like the other is wheat, not a weed Wheat and Weeds Mt 13:24-30 Intro Most farmers are fastidious about weeds in their fields. But we had a neighbour…

PRAY Do you ever get nervous about your future? Are you ever tempted to worry and fear about the future condition of the world for your children or grandchildren? Intro: Jesus is our confidence in the present, and he is our assurance about the future. What will the end look like? Will people recognize…

Our discipleship and service are measured by our actions over our words. Jesus favors the humble repentance of a sinner over the moral and verbal grandstanding of “the righteous”. This kingdom story demonstrates that the religiously observant can know what to say and surprisingly not fulfill the will of their father. And even more surprisingly still (and amazingly for that matter)- God’s love accepts the genuine actions of those rejected and discarded by the religious establishment.

Saarnassa käsitellään Jeesuksen vertausta kahdesta rakentajasta. Tarkastelussa ovat sanan kuuleminen ja rakentaminen, eli Jeesukseen uskominen.

Jesus speaks three parables against the hardness of the Pharisees' heart in comparison to the forgiving heart of God.

PRAY Intro Review: *** In this setting of confrontation with the leaders, and still on the topic of authority, Jesus now goes on the offensive. He tells a parable that is relevant to us in its theme of our accountability to God’s ownership and authority. It is a particularly stinging indictment, though,…

WHAT ARE YOU DOING? MT. 25:14-30 JANUARY 20, 2008 BBC: STEWARDSHIP. MATTHEW 25:14-18 14 1 FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AS A MAN TRAVELING INTO A FAR COUNTRY, WHO CALLED HIS OWN SERVANTS, AND DELIVERED UNTO THEM HIS GOODS. 15 AND UNTO ONE HE GAVE FIVE TALENTS, TO ANOTHER TWO, AND TO ANOTHER ONE; TO EVERY…

Restoration Christian Church

Jesus' teaching on prayer here is in context of His coming Kingdom. This is a call to look beyond what we see and experience to see God’s great purpose. It is a call for us to fix our prayers not in what is but what will be. Jesus is encouraging us to keep praying and not get discouraged because He will answer His people's prayers.

Matt 20:1-16 This parable (like them all) draws us in and has us objecting and joining in with the complaints. We can see the unfairness quite easily. It is plain that this is unjust. In anyone’s language this is no way to treat people. From those who worked all or most of the day – especially at the…

Last week we began a series called Prayer that Works. We looked Elijah’s prayer and how we can pray like a righteous man. Today we are going to look at the prayer of Daniel. How many of you pray a prayer and then you feel like giving up? Supposedly this is a true story. There was a Welsh Woman who lived…

Jesus tells the Parable of the Soils

Intro: The tale of two neighbors. You have one set of neighbors that are great. Your other neighbors are a sorry excuse for neighbors. The carouse at all hours, frequently having equally rowdy guests. They drink and smoke and carry on. They don’t take very good care of the place: the lawn is long, the…