by lightinthedesertchurch | Mar 13, 2024 | News
Church family, Continuing our slow march towards Easter, this past Sunday we looked at the Wednesday of Passion Week. Here we saw tremendous contrast between two figures: the unnamed woman who anointed Jesus with expensive oils and Judas who betrayed Jesus for thirty...
by lightinthedesertchurch | Mar 6, 2024 | News
Church Family, This past Sunday we looked at the Tuesday of Passion Week. Being that this day spans the entirety of Matthew 21:19-25:46 and would likely have taken our entire gathering time simply to read the text, we narrowed in on the parable of the wedding feast in...
by lightinthedesertchurch | Feb 28, 2024 | News
Church Family, This past Sunday we considered the Monday of Passion Week as portrayed in Matthew 21:12-22. Here we saw Jesus make repeated use of the Old Testament to commend those who were rightly praising Him as Lord, as well as to demonstrate the evil of false...
by lightinthedesertchurch | Feb 21, 2024 | News
This past Sunday we began our long lead-in to Easter by looking at Palm Sunday as it is described in Matthew 21:1-11. Pastor Bryan put particular emphasis on the cry of “hosanna” repeated by the crowd that gathered as Jesus entered Jerusalem. This cry is a...
by lightinthedesertchurch | Feb 14, 2024 | News
Church Family, This past Sunday concluded a wonderful sermon series of walking slowly and studiously through the book of Hebrews. In the final verse of this book we see what good and godly leadership looks like, the value of such leadership, and how we should respond...
