Questions From Jesus

Questions From Jesus – December 7, 2025

Read the passage: Luke 20:1-8

When churches emphasize spiritual experiences, there are often false prophecies and false miracles. It’s also very common among those churches for people to abuse the Bible because they want to claim the Bible says certain things when it really doesn’t. So some skepticism is healthy.

On the other hand, it’s possible to be too skeptical. And if we’re too skeptical we could end up opposing God himself as he works among us.

So my big question today is: How can we be the right kind of skeptic?

My big idea today is that we need to be as truthful as possible.

And to be as truthful as possible, we need to:
1. Seek the truth
2. Accept correction

Questions From Jesus – November 30, 2025

Read the passage: Luke 7:36-50

Many of us look down on people who act or live differently than we do. The longer we stay comfortable in our churches, the more diligently we need to examine our own hearts.

It gets easy to fall into the same trap as the Pharisees. Sure, maybe we become outwardly flawless, rule keeping and it looks like we have our lives all together. But deep down in our hearts, where many people can’t see- we are prideful, lustful, self centered and judgmental.

We lack love, we lack mission, lack commitment to Jesus and our hearts are hard. Sure, we’ll do some things right, just like Simon the Pharisee did. But we’ll be missing the intensity that we see from this woman in our story. In Jesus’ words, we will love little.

Questions From Jesus – November 23, 2025

Read the passage: Luke 17:11-19

We hear about the promises in the Bible – about the peace of Jesus, the joy and contentment that we can have in every circumstance, and being fully alive in Jesus. Yet, our actual experience of “being a Christian” is “eh”. Rushed. Distracted. Dysfunctional. No different from people who aren’t following Jesus.

We’re told that the Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead lives in us to empower us for great things. However, most days we settle for comfort, convenience and mindless entertainment or curating a version of ourselves to impress others. That’s like being given the power of a nuclear fusion power plant that can light up the entire world and the only thing you do with it is charge your phone.

You can’t help but wonder, “Is this it? Is this all Jesus has for me?” What if there’s more? What if Jesus is offering us something far better than we realize and we’re walking right past it every single day.

That’s what today’s Bible passage is about. In Luke 17, Jesus performs a miracle, a God-moment happening right in front of 10 people, and yet only one of them truly sees it.
Ten people receive something from Jesus, but only one experiences the fullness of what Jesus wanted to give.

Questions From Jesus – November 16, 2025

Read the passage: Luke 8:40-50

We sometimes do crazy things when we’re desperate. We are willing to break the rules and take risks. This is what we see in our passage today- a woman with a terrible illness and she’s desperate for healing. So much so, that she was willing to break all the societal rules just to get to Jesus.

Questions From Jesus – November 9, 2025

Read the passage: Luke 8:22-25

We often forfeit a lot of peace that we can have because we don’t want to trust God. That is what the Christian life is based on – it’s based on trust! Trusting that God loves us and will take care of us.

But for many of us, we struggle trusting an invisible God. So today I want to focus on a question that Jesus asked: Where is your faith?

Questions From Jesus – November 2, 2025

Read the passage: Luke 9:18-22

There’s a lot of information out there that’s not worth remembering. Once in a while we come across an idea that’s so precious that everyone should know it. Today I want to talk about one of those super important ideas. It’s an idea that will more or less determine the success or failure of a Christian’s life.

So my big question today is: How can we be successful Christians? Meaning, how can we be Christians who fulfill God’s mission and also end up as the happiest people in the world?

My big idea today is that we need to really know Jesus, and we need to really follow Jesus.

Some people know Jesus a little bit and some people follow Jesus a little bit, but we need to really know him and we need to really follow him.

That’s what we’ll see in our Bible passage today.

Questions From Jesus – October 26, 2025

Read the passage: Luke 5:17-26

What is on your heart determines EVERYTHING about you.

In Luke 6:45; Jesus teaches us: For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.

However, it not only speaks.

Out of the overflow of the heart, a person acts and lives and breathes and moves and does all things.
That’s why Jesus wants to deal with the heart. He doesn’t just wanna fix the surface level behavioural issues, he wants to save you at the deepest root level parts of you so you can overflow with HIS life and HIS love and His peace and HIS joy..

So what’s going on in your heart?

We’re starting a new series today called “Questions from Jesus”; and today; we’re looking at this big question:

“WHY ARE YOU THINKING THESE THINGS IN YOUR HEARTS?”

Throughout the gospels, and we see in this story as well, Jesus is teaching profound things, and healing a bunch of people and casting out demons and everyone is amazed and praising God because of it, EXCEPT FOR the religious leaders. There’s something broken and misaligned in their hearts that blinds them from enjoying the amazing works and presence of God RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM in the person of Jesus.

Which shows us, the thoughts in our hearts are often the obstacles to our connection with God.