Recipe For Failure

Would you buy a book titled, "A Recipe For Failure?"  Don't you think most people would use a title like, "7 Simple Steps To Success?"  But the Scriptures in Mark 14 tell the story of a tremendous and shocking failure.  Peter - a man's man - a devoted disciple - an apostle of Jesus Christ - crashes and burns in a spectacular and devastating way.

If Peter can fail like this, all of us are in danger of failure.  We had best learn from his experiences.

Who Wants Truth?

We are used to the idea that at a trial the judges would be seeking the truth... but when Jesus was on trial in Mark 14, the judges had already settled on his sentence - DEATH.  Now they just needed to figure out the charges.

We live in a time and place where anti-Jesus prejudice is growing. He is being rejected to some extent because in our culture it is assumed that there is not a single objective truth. Rather, people think that everyone has his or her own truth. They think there is no singular absolute truth and they reject Jesus because he said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except by me."

What is the truth about Jesus?

Where Do You Stand?

When Jesus was arrested in the garden of Gethsemane it was the last time all twelve of his disciples would be together in the same place. Judas would soon be seized with remorse and would take his own life. The other eleven were scattered for a while, but eventually regrouped.

None of the disciples did very well in that last moment and the lessons for us here are a number of bad examples. We should avoid making the mistakes that they made.

Sermon In A Sack: Sheep's Wool

The Bible uses sheep and shepherds to illustrate things about our need for salvation and a heavenly shepherd.  Jesus says that he is his the Good Shepherd who gives his life for the sheep.