Happy Sabbath

This is the parable of the lost sheep.  Jesus started by telling the story to men called tax collectors and Pharisees.  These were men who thought they were more important than everyone else and they weren't very nice.  They were whispering about Jesus and how he shouldn't eat and talk with sinners.

It's funny they would say that because we all are sinners, we all do things we shouldn't.  The tax collectors and Pharisees thought that they were better than everyone else.  In fact, they didn't...

The message you're going to hear about today is all about blessings.  We use the word bless a lot but maybe don't know what it means.

If someone sneezes we usually hear someone say, "bless you!"  It's not completely clear why we say that but the word bless is a positive word.

Jesus had been walking with his disciples always teaching and talking with them.  More and more people would see Jesus and follow him because they could sense there was something special about him.  The way he spoke an...

Jesus had gone out and sat by the lake by himself.  Soon such large crowds gathered around Him that He got into a boat near the shore and people stood on the land to hear him.  Then he began telling them parables:

A farmer went out to plant his garden.  As he was throwing the seed on the ground some fell on the hard path nearby and the birds came and ate them.

The next seeds fell near some rocks the farmer had in a pile nearby.  There was not much dirt around the rocks so the seeds started to s...

It had been a very long day.  Jesus and his disciples had been out teaching about God and performing miracles.  Many people followed them and Jesus spent the rest of the day teaching and feeding five thousand people.

When the day was over and the crowds were leaving, Jesus told the disciples to go find their boat and go back to the other side of the lake.  When everyone left Jesus went up to the mountainside by himself to pray.

You see, Jesus needs to pray too.  He had a long tiring day and per...

One day Jesus was walking by the Sea of Galilee.  It was actually a big beautiful lake and many men would try to catch fish there.  

In fact,  if you were to walk along the beach you would pass boat after boat after boat.  With men working hard emptying their nets they used to fish with, getting ready to go back out to sea, or gathering all their fish together so they could take them to the store to sell them.

Jesus walked by many boats but stopped and watched some men at a particular boat.  Th...