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Which Jesus

Jesus said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”  Matthew 16:15 We all have to wrestle with that question at some point. Who is Jesus? Peter’s response is recorded for us. “You are the Christ (Messiah), the Son of the Living God.” The people of Israel were desperate for the Messiah to…
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Kingdom of Heaven: Infiltrate

He told them another parable. “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened.” Matthew 13:33 Jesus compares the kingdom of heaven to the effect of a small amount of leaven. For all the non-bakers out there, once mixed in and allowed to sit…
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The Kingdom of Heaven

He told them another parable. “The Kingdom of Heaven is like … Matthew 13:33 Jesus repeatedly points to the Kingdom of Heaven but there is some debate about what exactly it is. The term doesn’t appear in the Hebrew Bible yet the Jewish sages refer to it in their writings. Jesus spoke of it as something…
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Faith and the Mustard Seed

Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?” He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be…
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