The Key to Belief
Pastor Marc Tesch
Jesus makes two things very clear about our salvation: without His active work of revelation we could not be saved, and God specifically set up salvation as something that could not be found apart from this. This is a difficult truth about ourselves, as well as about God. It leads us to numerous questions about […]
Compassion of the King
Pastor Marc Tesch
Jesus shows his great compassion for the long suffering, the grief stricken, and the blind. A ruler with authority over people was powerless to save his own daughter. He places his faith for her life in the heart and hands of Jesus. Traveling to the home, a women inflicted with a blood ailment believes reaching […]
Secret Service
Pastor Marc Tesch
Christians have a Savior who lived sinlessly, served quietly, and gave sacrificially. Genuine disciples of Jesus do the same. Our spirit is willing, but our flesh is weak. All too often, Christians pursue right actions and perform good works with wrong motives. They sin by serving loudly and only give in order to obtain something […]
The Kingdom of God is at Hand
Pastor Marc Tesch
From that time Jesus began to preach saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” (V.17) As Jesus goes out to establish His kingdom, He does not assemble a collection of the best and the brightest. He moves to the middle of nowhere, recruits a few fishermen, and tells people they need to change. What Jesus is […]