The “why’s” and “what ifs” are not always important.  The “Because…of Jesus” is all important.   Simon, James and John were partners in a fishing business and sometimes they fished all night without any results to show for all their hard work. Because Jesus was in Simon’s boat one day, He asked Simon to […]

   Simon and his partners had fished all night…nada, zilch, nothing had been caught… all      night      long. Jesus used Simon’s boat as a means to speak to a crowd on the shore of Lake Galilee.  Then Jesus asked Simon to “Put out into deeper water and let down your nets for a catch.”  (See Luke […]

   Jesus was teaching a crowd of people from a boat put out from shore and: (NASB) Luke 5:4 “When He had finished speaking, He said to Simon, ‘Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch.’” First: Jesus finished teaching the crowd. Second: Jesus began a ‘teachable moment’ to […]

 (NASB) Luke 5:1-2 “…He was standing by the lake of Gennesaret; 2 and He saw two boats lying at the edge of the lake; But the fishermen had gotten out of them and were washing their nets.” NEED: The people crowding around Jesus could hear Jesus but what about those on the outer edges of […]

  If you want to hear a speaker better, don’t you try to get closer and you move forward through the crowd?  Others may bump you or push past you, or you may do that to others.  It takes work getting around the person in front of you, then the next and the next until […]

This month of December, Christmas will be celebrated by followers of Christ (NASB) Isaiah 9:6 “For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.” This “child” […]