Pastor Lowell Nelson teaches about Mark 9:30-32 "The Saviors Simplified Summary Statement" on 3/1/2026 for our Sunday service.

Mark 9:30-32

30 Then they departed from there and passed through Galilee, and He did not want anyone to know it. 31 For He taught His disciples and said to them, "The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of men, and they will kill Him. And after He is killed, He will rise the third day." 32 But they did not understand this saying, and were afraid to ask Him.

The shift in narrative. From Mark 8:27-30. “You are the Christ.” Jesus is again moving from validating his identity with all the disciples and the multitudes John 3:2 we know you are of God for no one these signs You do unless God is with them.

To narrowing in, specifically, to His disciples moving from proving who He is, to preparing His disciples for what being the Christ really means. Not just the conquering King everyone expected but the truth of the suffering servant. Not just the Lion of the tribe of Judah, but what it means to be the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world.

Jesus in one statement, only one verse reveals and unravels clarifications of thousands of years of speculation and guesswork of what the scriptures have spoken of the Christ. What it really means to be the Christ in His first coming.

Jesus in this one statement, condenses, and clarifies thousands of years of prophetic anticipation. Thousands of years of prophetic pondering and prophetic theories of the Christ and His coming.

Deacon Tim Mortag teaches about Psalm 56 "In God I Trust" on 2/25/2026 for our Sunday service.

Psalm 56:1-13

In God I Trust

1 Be merciful to me, O God, for man would swallow me up;

Fighting all day he oppresses me. 2 My enemies would hound me all day,

For there are many who fight against me, O Most High. 3 Whenever I am afraid,

I will trust in You. 4 In God (I will praise His word),

In God I have put my trust;

I will not fear.

What can flesh do to me?

5 All day they twist my words;

All their thoughts are against me for evil. 6 They gather together,

They hide, they mark my steps,

When they lie in wait for my life. 7 Shall they escape by iniquity?

In anger cast down the peoples, O God!

8 You number my wanderings;

Put my tears into Your bottle;

Are they not in Your book? 9 When I cry out to You,

Then my enemies will turn back;

This I know, because God is for me. 10 In God (I will praise His word),

In the LORD (I will praise His word), 11 In God I have put my trust;

I will not be afraid.

What can man do to me?

12 Vows made to You are binding upon me, O God;

I will render praises to You, 13 For You have delivered my soul from death.

Have You not kept my feet from falling,

That I may walk before God

In the light of the living?

Pastor Lowell Nelson teaches about Romans 12:1-2 "A Living Sacrifice" 2/23/2026 on for our Monday Upper Room Bible Study.

Romans 12:1-2

A Living Sacrifice

1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.