Author: Tim

Sermon Audio: Sons of Thunder
Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Mark 3:16-17
Duration: 20:32
Size: 14.0 MB

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Sons of Thunder
Mark 3:16-17

There are many people who have read this Sons of Thunder “nickname” and have come to the conclusion that this meant that James and John were angry and judgmental men.

But when Jesus renamed him Peter, He wasn’t looking at who Peter was. He was making a declaration of what Peter was going to be.

It seems the times thunder was mentioned in Scripture, it was a display of the power of God.

But apparently (if I’m right) during that 3 years James became a Voice for God; a man who declared the power of God.

But in spite of the fact that God believes in them, many Christians don’t. They don’t believe in themselves.

Too many Christians settle for less because they don’t think they’re worth that much.

Sermon Audio: The Tax Collector
Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Luke 5:27-32
Duration: 22:13
Size: 15.2 MB

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The Tax Collector
Luke 5:27-32

The focus of Matthew’s Gospel was to convince the Jewish people that Jesus was the Messiah.

As far as many in Israel were concerned, there were sinners…and then there was a special class of sinners called tax collectors.

It was only once Matthew belonged to Jesus that he was transformed from an annoying tax collector into one of the most influential men of Christianity.

The world labels people based on what they’ve done in their lives, and their value is tied to that label.

He’s never quoted in any of the Gospels or in any of the letters to the churches.

In other words, Paul was saying: I wasn’t worth saving, but Jesus did it anyway to prove it could be done.