March 15, 2020 | Pastor Roger Melson | He Believed the Lord | Genesis 14:17-15:6

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March 15, 2020 | Pastor Roger Melson | He Believed the Lord | Genesis 14:17-15:6

                                               Roger and Marsha Melson

March 8, 2020 | Pastor John Bayles | Down the Mountain: Wait for Jesus to Arrive | Mark 9:14-29

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March 8, 2020 | Pastor John Bayles | Down the Mountain: Wait for Jesus to Arrive | Mark 9:14-29

Down the Mountain: Wait for Jesus to Arrive
Mark 9:14–29.

Jesus and His disciples are still in the region of Caesarea Philippi, the land of the Gentiles. They had been to the mountaintop, the “sacred mountain” (2Pet.1:17, 18), as Peter would later call it. They had seen the Lord transfigured and heard the voice of God. In contrast, now they were coming down from the mountaintop into a familiar world, a fallen world of sin, sickness, hopelessness and death. The contrast will continue to heighten as they are reunited with the other disciples who they find entangled in a great struggle with the Pharisees and the people. The disciples have no power or remedy for what they are facing – until Jesus arrives. This is the key to the passage and to all of life for believers. Wait for Jesus to arrive!

March 1, 2020 | Pastor John Bayles | Down the Mountain: Clarifying the Eschatological Players | Mark 9:9-13

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March 1, 2020 | Pastor John Bayles | Down the Mountain: Clarifying the Eschatological Players | Mark 9:9-13

Down the Mountain: Clarifying the Eschatological Players
Mark 9:9-13

From the moment of Peter’s confess: “You are the Messiah” (Mar.8:29), the disciples’ world began to change. In reality, the view of world they had lived in began to change. They had lived in a world of false teaching and deception. That world was controlled by an “adulterous and sinful generation” (Mar.8:38). They are witnessing the coming of the Kingdom of God in the coming of the Jesus, the Messiah. The disciples had misunderstood the person of the messiah and a proper understanding of the Kingdom (Rule) of God; they had misunderstood the cost of their calling to be disciples of Christ; and they had especially missed the mission and method of the Messiah’s coming. In this text today, Jesus will clarify the two main persons in God’s eschatological plan: John the Baptist and Himself.