Bible Text: Mark 12:38-44 | Preacher: Ron Johnson | Series: When God Chose Sandals
Jesus compares the scribes who want to grab everything they can for themselves with the widow who gives everything she can to God. He challenges us to give everything we have to God’s service.
Bible Text: Mark 12:13-37 | Preacher: Ron Johnson | Series: When God Chose Sandals
The religious leaders now try to trap Jesus with issues of politics, theology, and legalism/obedience. He refuses to get side-tracked by these and keeps pointing them back to loving and serving God.
Bible Text: Mark 11:27-12:12 | Preacher: Ron Johnson | Series: When God Chose Sandals
The religious leaders confront Jesus about cleansing the temple, but He uses it as an opportunity to show how unreceptive their hearts were. What blinds us to the work of God?
Bible Text: Mark 11:20-25 | Preacher: Andrew Gilmore | Series: When God Chose Sandals
The fig tree provides a living parable: the temple looked fruitful but in fact was fruitless, just like the fig tree on the side of the road. The missing ingredient was faith and faith leads us to dependent, confident prayer to the God of the impossible.
Bible Text: Matthew 2:1-11 | Preacher: Ron Johnson | Series: When God Chose Sandals
We are challenged with how to respond to Jesus’ birth by looking at the Magi and their response of joy, worship, and giving.
Bible Text: Matthew 1:18-25 | Preacher: Ron Johnson | Series: When God Chose Sandals
If we are to give like Jesus this Christmas, we need to understand how He gave. Listen and discover how Jesus gave intentionally, personally, sacrificially, and abundantly.
Bible Text: Mark 11:12-19 | Preacher: Ron Johnson | Series: When God Chose Sandals
On Monday of Passion Week, Jesus curses a fig tree for not bearing fruit and then clears the vendors out of the temple as they were keeping Gentiles from prayer and worship. What do we do that hinders worship and people from finding Christ?
Bible Text: Mark 11:1-11 | Preacher: Ron Johnson | Series: When God Chose Sandals
Jesus reveals that He is the Messiah as He enters Jerusalem in the triumphal entry. May we see Him in awe as King and worship Him, trusting that He is working His plan.
Bible Text: Mark 10:46-52 | Preacher: Ron Johnson | Series: When God Chose Sandals
As He travels from Jericho to Jerusalem towards the cross, Jesus stops and heals a blind man. This blind man exhibits faith and discipleship in the midst of difficulty and cries out for mercy.
Bible Text: Mark 10:42-45, 1 Peter 5:2-8 | Preacher: Ron Johnson | Series: When God Chose Sandals
Jesus compares how his disciples should lead with how the world leads. There is a remarkable difference between servant leadership and power leadership. Pastor Ron gives an overview from scripture of how to be a servant leader in the church family and in your home.