Story from the Cross: The Crowds
Speaker: Rev. Shu-Ling Lee
Peter
March 17, 2024 • Pastor Angela Luk • Mark 8:27–38
Story from the Cross: Peter
Speaker: Pastor Angela Luk
Scripture: Mark 8:27-38
• What does Peter’s story tell us about ourselves?
• What does Peter’s story tell us about Jesus?
• How does Peter’s story call us to respond in this season of Lent?
3 conditions for true discipleship: we must
1. Surrender ourselves completely to him,
2. Identify with him in suffering and death,
3. Follow him obediently wherever he leads.
In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7 These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. 8 Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, 9 for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
—1 Peter 1:6-9
Judas Iscariot
March 10, 2024 • Pastor Joey Ling • Matthew 26:14–16
Speaker: Pastor Joey Ling
Scripture: Matthew 26:14-16
1. What does Judas’ Story Tell Us About Ourselves?
Then one of the Twelve—the one called Judas Iscariot—went to the chief priests and asked, “What are you willing to give me if I deliver him over to you?” So they counted out for him thirty pieces of silver. From then on Judas watched for an opportunity to hand him over.
—Matthew 26:14-16
What are you doing to control or eradicate the growth of the weeds?
How healthy is your soil?
2. What does Judas’ Story Tell Us About Jesus?
Friday is Good because Sunday is coming.
3. How does Judas’ Story Call Us to Respond in this Lent Season?When Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was seized with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders. “I have sinned,” he said, “for I have betrayed innocent blood.
—Matthew 27:3-4
Experience God through Repentance
a. Ask God for Mercy
b. Acknowledge the Sin
c. Confess Fully
d. Commit to Change
e. Embrace God’s Love
f. Seize the Hope
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
—Romans 6:23
