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Warning: Human Inclinations Ahead

admin Angels, Atonement, Believer’s Judgment, Believers, Blog, Church, Crowns, Earth, Erik Garthe, Eternal Life, Eternal Plan, Eternal Punishment, Father, Glory, God, God’s Grace, Hell, Hindrances, Human Nature, Jesus, Jesus’ Return, Judgment of the Lost, Last Judgment, Mind, Natural Inclinations, Natural Response, No Longer Conformed, Peter, Punishment, Rapture, Revelation, Rewards, salvation, Satan, Scripture, Sin, Son of Man, Spiritual Truth, Tribulation, Tribulation Judgments, Unbelievers, Warning: Human Inclinations Ahead 0 Comment September 5, 2021

Our natural response to a situation is often diametrically opposed to what God calls for. Our human nature is bent toward sin and rebellion. Matthew 16:21-28 presents this reality in several ways. First, natural inclinations More →

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A Foundation Confessed

admin A Foundation Confessed, Authority of the Church, Blog, Christ, Church, Confessed, Confession, Disciples, Erik Garthe, Foundation, Gates of Hell, God’s Word, Head of the Church, Jesus, Judgment, Keys of the Kingdom, Mankind, Ministry, Miracles, No Longer Conformed, Obedience, Peter, Rock, Son of Man, Spiritual Insight, Stone Rejected 0 Comment August 30, 2021

Jesus’ disciples must know the truth regarding who He is and His plan for saving mankind. They must understand the nature of His church and serve Him obediently. Matthew 16:13-20 presents three revelations More →

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Wisdom vs Ignorance

admin Blog, Church, Counterfeit, Disciples, Erik Garthe, External Things, Hypocrites, Ignorance, Internal Matters, Jesus, Legalistic, No Longer Conformed, Pharisees, Physical Wisdom, Religious, Religious Leaders, Sadducees, Signs of the Times, Spiritual Reality, Spiritual Truth, Spiritual Wisdom, Spiritually Ignorant, Sunday School, Unbeliever, Wisdom, Wisdom vs Ignorance, world 0 Comment August 24, 2021

Spiritual wisdom doesn’t just happen, it is gained. Matthew 16:1-12 reveals three truths as we observe the Lord’s encounter with some religious leaders and His own disciples. First, More →

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Another Picnic

admin Another Picnic, Blind, Blog, Compassion, Crippled, Erik Garthe, Healed, Hunger, Jesus, Lame, Lord, Magadan, Miracles, Multitudes, Mute, No Longer Conformed, Physical Sicknesses, Power, Satisfied, Spiritual Illnesses, Suffering 0 Comment August 16, 2021

Matthew 15:29-39 presents what the Lord does for those in need. First, He spared their suffering—“Bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at His feet, More →

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Faith that Walks

admin Believers, Bible, Blog, Canaanite Woman, Children’s Bread, Christ, Christian, Compassionate, Crumbs, Demon-Possessed, Disciples, Dogs, Erik Garthe, Faith, Faith that Walks, Gentile, House of Israel, Jesus, Jesus’ Power, Knees, Lord, Lost Sheep, Mother’s Prayer, No Longer Conformed, Pray, Prayers, Problem, Sidon, Sinner’s Faith, Son of David, spirit, True Faith, Tyre, Walks, world 0 Comment August 9, 2021

Matthew 15:21-28 tells of a woman with a demon-possessed daughter, who sought Jesus’ power. The circumstances are interesting. First, true faith is sometimes found where least expected—“A Canaanite woman More →

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Tradition vs Commandment

admin Blog, Christians, Church, Commandment, Covetous, Disciples, Doctrines, Elders, Erik Garthe, God’s Laws, Human Authority, Hypocrites, J C Ryle, Lord, Lord’s Table, Neighbors, No Longer Conformed, Pharisees, Principles, Puritan, Religion, Richard Baxter, Scripture, Scriptures, Self-Righteous, Tradition, Tradition vs Commandment, Word of God, Worship 0 Comment August 3, 2021

Matthew 15:1-20 reveals some important truths for us today. The principles of the Pharisees never die. First, hypocrites place great importance on outward things in religion—“Why do your disciples break More →

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Like Raging Storms

admin Adversity, Blog, Boat, Circumstances, Darkness, Difficulties, Disciples, Erik Garthe, Faith, Fourth Watch, God, Hell, Jesus, Life, Like Raging Storms, Lord, Mountaintop, No Longer Conformed, Overwhelming, Peter, Power, Problem, Save, Sea, Serving, Situations, Storm, Sufficiency, Survive, Trust, Valley, Walking, Water, Waves, Wind 0 Comment July 26, 2021

The God who saved us from hell can also help us live this life. Life’s circumstances can often seem too much to handle. The disciples just experienced the feeding of 5,000, and Matthew 14:22-36 finds them in More →

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Party of Five—Thousand

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Matthew 14:13-21 records one of Jesus’ greatest miracles, feeding thousands with a few loaves and fish. The passage begins, ‘When Jesus heard this …” that John the Baptist was dead. King Herod murdered him More →

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A Sticky Situation

admin A Sticky Situation, Bitterness, Blog, Condemning, Conscience, Daughter of Herodias, Erik Garthe, Forgiveness, Guilt, Herod the Tetrarch, Herodias, Incest, Jesus, John the Baptist, King, Miry, No Longer Conformed, Oaths, Philip’s Wife, Pit, Rock, Ruler of Israel, Seduction, Sin 0 Comment July 12, 2021

Psalm 40:2 states, “He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock.” At first we think we can handle sin, but then we begin to sink and get caught in its powerful More →

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Fork in the Road

admin Blog, Church, Contempt, Doctrine, Erik Garthe, Faith, Fork in the Road, Human Perspective, James, Jesus, Jude, Nazareth, No Longer Conformed, Offense, Opportunity, Preaching, Pride, Prophecy, Prophet, Revealed Truth, Sight Versus Faith, Spiritually Blind, Synagogue, Truth 0 Comment July 5, 2021

The church is surrounded by spiritually blind people who desperately need to know Jesus. Matthew 13:53-58 records Jesus making a visit to His hometown, where His family lived. While there, He taught in the More →

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