Pine Tree Church of Christ's Podcast

Series: Emotionally Healthy Discipleship

Sermon: Break the Power of the Past

Main Texts: John 8:14; 2 Tim. 1:5; Exodus 20:4-6; John 9:1-3; Ezekiel 18:20

Senior Sunday - 5-7-23
 2 Tim. Ch. 2

If we are growing spiritually, we simultaneously mature emotionally. One of the ways we can measure our maturity is by our love. How can we love like Jesus? Jesus gives us the practical examples of s…

Emotionally Healthy Discipleship Part 3 - Processing Grief & Loss

Throughout our lives, we all accumulate losses. Some are devastating or unexpected, and some are natural/expected losses. Regardless t…

Part 2 of the Emotionally Healthy Discipleship Series...

When presented with opportunities and invitations, how do we know what to say yes to and what to say no to? We can't say yes to everything, and…

New Series - EHD = Emotionally Healthy Discipleship

Luke 10:38-42 is that main text... 

Easter 2023.

Start with Luke 24 & Acts 1 - why is it so obvious to the Angels that Jesus is not among the dead, but it's not so obvious to the human eye? Why is it so obvious to the Angels that Jesus …

Luke 23:26-31 

Today's lesson is designed to help us begin drawing near to the cross of Christ this week. 

Jesus taught a lot of "stranger things." These words from Christ would fall under that categor…

Today's text is Titus 1:5-9 & 1 Timothy 3:1-7. We are looking at the character sketch of an Elder that Paul gives us. Although this presents the type of character we are looking for in an elder, thes…

1 Peter 5:1-4 & Ezekiel 34:1-6

What is an elder of a church? What do we call them? If we can figure out what we call them, that will give us a better idea of what their role is. 

The final Apostle of the original twelve: Judas Iscariot. He is forever known as the "betrayer." Why did Judas follow Jesus to begin with? Was he sincere at the beginning and then inauthentic as time…

Mark 3:13-19 - Which Apostle do you connect with the most and why? Also, in this lesson we talk about meeting God on the mountain, the Apostles James the Younger, Simon the Zealot, and Judas (not Isc…

The Apostle Thomas is known most popularly as "Doubting Thomas." Some also refer to him as "Thomas the Pessimist." Thomas stands in the tensions faith & doubt, of faith & pessimism. If you've ever st…

Who is the most unlikely person who you think might become a disciple of Jesus? That is who Matthew was; an unlikely candidate.  Yet Jesus called him and he said yes. What do we learn about disciples…

continuing our series studying the 12 Apostles, today we look at two of them. Philip (from the Gospels, not from Acts) & Bartholomew (most suggest is Nathanael).

John 1:43-51
John 6:5-7
John 12:20-23
Joh…

Continuing our 12 Apostles series, a character study, as we also consider our mission to Make, Mature, and Multiply Faithful Followers of Christ. 

Today we focus mainly on the Apostle John. In the Syn…

Today we study the Sons of Thunder, which is the nickname that Jesus gave to James and John. These two were being trained to not only be disciples and disciple-makers, but they were also being traine…

Today we study the Apostle Andrew. He is mainly known for being "Simon Peter's brother."  He was in Peter's shadow and worked in the background. We no very little about Andrew. In the Gospel of John,…

A study of the Twelve Apostles as we consider our own Mission and Vision.

This is the Apostle Peter Part 2. The main text is John 21. 

What do we know about Peter?

What do we know about his character?

What do we know about his name: Simon or Peter?

It seems that a lot of us can relate to Peter, he fluctuated between his old self and ne…