Growing Pains

Follow Along with the Message

The world has many different opinions about who Jesus is, much like many people did when Jesus was alive. Like the disciples, we must decide for ourselves who Jesus is.

Peter's understanding of Jesus as the Son of the living God also revealed Peter's…

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If we don’t understand God’s relationship with humanity as revealed to us in the Old and New Testaments, then how can we expect to understand how Jesus is the Messiah?

We have moments of bold proclamation of God’s truth, and then arrogant moments when we declare we know better than God.

Seeing Jesus as the Messiah opens our eyes to understand that…

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Taking up our cross daily is in effect the denial and dying of our self.

The author of “What Does It Really Mean to Take Up Your Cross and Follow Jesus?" wrote, “Our walk with Jesus is not an uneventful afternoon stroll. It is a march into denial, danger, and death.”