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“Jesus the Savior”: Weekly Leader Training—Unit 25, Session 4: Jesus Raises Lazarus
The Lord specializes in “hopeless” causes. When Jesus got to Lazarus’ grave, there was already a stench. The Lord, it seemed, was four days late. Lazarus was dead. He was deader than dead. In the hands of anyone else, this case would have been hopeless, impossible. But our God is the God of the “impossible.” …
Continue Reading“Jesus the Savior”: Weekly Leader Training—Unit 25, Session 3: Jesus Teaches Difficult Truths
One oddly encouraging thing about the Gospels is seeing just how confused Jesus’ disciples were. When Jesus was being literal, they took Him metaphorically. When He was being metaphorical, they took Him literally. They always seemed to be a few steps behind. Even after the miracle in John 6 when He fed the five thousand, …
Continue Reading“Jesus the Savior”: Weekly Leader Training—Unit 25, Session 2: Jesus Tells the Parable of the Sons
What Jesus proposed in this passage—no, in fact, commanded—is a fundamentally and wholly different way of looking at outsiders and the unsaved than we are accustomed to and inclined toward. Think of the daily outrage about “the culture” featured in evangelical social media feeds. We are offended, shocked, and often driven to attack by what should …
Continue Reading“Jesus the Savior”: Weekly Leader Training—Unit 25, Session 1: Jesus Tells the Kingdom Parables
As you read this right now, there are cares and worries in your life that can steal your joy in Christ if not submitted to His care. You may not be going through anything especially difficult, anything “big,” that could distract you from kingdom fruitfulness, but the danger to get off mission is always there. …
Continue Reading“Jesus the Servant”: Weekly Leader Training—Unit 24, Session 4: Jesus Is Transfigured
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 …
Continue Reading“Jesus the Servant”: Weekly Leader Training—Unit 24, Session 3: Jesus Walks on Water
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 …
Continue Reading“Jesus the Servant”: Weekly Leader Training—Unit 24, Session 2: Jesus Feeds a Multitude
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 …
Continue Reading“Jesus the Servant”: Weekly Leader Training—Unit 24, Session 1: Jesus Casts Out Demons
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 …
Continue Reading“Jesus the Servant”: Weekly Leader Training—Unit 23, Session 5: Jesus Teaches About the Good Shepherd
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 …
Continue Reading“Jesus the Servant”: Weekly Leader Training—Unit 23, Session 4: Jesus Teaches About Treasure
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 …
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