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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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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

admin Blog, Compassion, Disciples, Erik Garthe, Fed, Five Loaves, Five Thousands, Healed, Hell, Helpless, Hopeless, Impossible, Jesus, Jesus’ Divinity, Jesus’ Salvation, John the Baptist, King Herod, Loaves and Fish, Miracle, Multitude, No Longer Conformed, Party, Party of Five--Thousand, Sinners, Sufficient, Supernatural, Teaching, Twelve Baskets, Two Fish 0 Comment July 19, 2021

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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Work the Soil

admin Among Thorns, Analogies, Analogy, Blog, Christ, Crisis, Emotional, Erik Garthe, Evangelism, Fruitful, Gift of Grace, Good Soil, Gospel, Jesus, Love of Money, Love of the World, No Longer Conformed, Parables, Plant Seeds, Reap the Harvest, Rocky Ground, salvation, Soil, Sow, Sower, The Path, True Repentance, Truth, unbelief, Unbelievers, Understanding, Water Seeds, Word of the Kingdom, Work, Work the Soil 0 Comment June 14, 2021

The purpose of evangelism is simple: lead people to Christ. Matthew 13:1-23 begins by informing that Jesus told the people “many things in parables.” (v. 3) Parables are an analogy in the form More →

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Priority of Family?

admin Blog, born again, Brother, Earthly Blood Family, Erik Garthe, Family, Father in Heaven, Jesus, Mother, No Longer Conformed, Physical Birth, Priorities, Priority of Family, Sister, Spiritual Blood Family, Spiritual Rebirth 0 Comment June 7, 2021

When you read Matthew 12:46-50, at first glance, Jesus’ response to His mother and brothers’ request seems rather strange. Why would He treat them that way? These are Jesus’ own blood family members desiring More →

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A Healthy Heart

admin A Healthy Heart, Bad Fruit, Bad Tree, Blog, Commitment, Demon, Demons, Erik Garthe, Fruit, Good Fruit, Good Tree, Healthy, Heart, Heart Transplant, Holy Spirit, James, Jesus, Jonah, Nineveh, No Longer Conformed, Pharisees, Queen of the South, Regenerate Heart, Scribes, Solomon, Spiritual Heart, Tongue, Trees, Truth, Wisdom 0 Comment May 31, 2021

In Matthew 12:33-45, Jesus discussed spiritual heart conditions and the stages of a healthy heart—in reverse order because that’s the way He dealt with them. First, Jesus calls you to maintain a good heart—“Out of the abundance More →

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An Open Invitation

admin An Open Invitation, Bethsaida, Blog, Burden, Chorazin, Control, Erik Garthe, Gentle, Indifference, Invitation, Jesus, Lord of Heaven and Earth, Lowly of Heart, Mission, No Longer Conformed, Obedience, Repent, salvation, Sidon, Sin, Spiritually Received, Truth, Tyre, Yoke 0 Comment May 10, 2021

“Then he began to denounce the cities where most of his mighty works had been done, because they did not repent.” (Matthew 11:20) That verse is important to the entire passage (vv. 20-30) because More →