Matthew // Pastor Gene Pensiero

Matthew ends his Gospel with Jesus giving His followers what has been called the Great Commission throughout the church age (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Matthew tells us that when Jesus was crucified graves were opened and afterward many bodies of the saints were raised (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus chooses to give His life on the Cross out of obedience to His Father and love for us (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Pontius Pilate is stunned when the Jews demand he release to them the notorious criminal bar-Abbas instead of Jesus (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

The chief priests and elders of Israel refuse to help Judas while themselves betraying Jesus to His death (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

In order to convict Jesus the Jewish authorities produce a number of false witnesses (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus uses the occasion of Peter cutting-off a man’s ear with his sword to show the superiority of the Word of God (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

In the Garden of Gethsemane Jesus lets us know He is determined to go to the Cross in perfect submission to the will of His Father (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus shares the Passover dinner with His disciples as the final lamb of God Who takes away the sins of the world (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus praises a woman whom the disciples accuse of wasting a precious resource (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

At His Second Coming Jesus will separate all nonbelievers for eternal punishment (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus proclaims that He will return “on the clouds of Heaven with power and great glory” (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus warns the Jews in the Great Tribulation to not be fooled into coming out of hiding by reports He has returned prematurely (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus sends a shockwave through His disciples when He informs them that the Jewish Temple is doomed to be destroyed (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus decries the hypocrisy of the Pharisees by pronouncing a series of “Woes!” against them (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus answers a series of loaded questions put to Him by hypocrites hiding their sinister motives (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus tells a parable in which He compares the earthly kingdom God promised the Jews to a wedding banquet (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus tells two parables that remind the Jews God provided all they needed to be His fruitful vineyard (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

The disciples marvel that Jesus causes a fruitless fig tree to wither (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus makes His triumphal entry into Jerusalem as King riding on a donkey (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus heals two blind men who follow Him shouting for mercy (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus describes His ministry to us as that of a slave serving His Master (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus tells a parable in which the owner of a vineyard purposely pays the day laborers he hired in reverse order to reveal his generosity (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus emphasizes the difference between human goodness and His saving grace in His call to the rich young ruler to follow Him (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus rebukes His disciples for trying to prevent children from being brought to Him to be blessed (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus puts the brakes on the Jewish practice of divorce for any reason (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus stuns His disciples by telling them that they must forgive others “up to seventy times seven times” (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus instructs His followers how to go after a brother who sins in the hope of restoring him to fellowship (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus instructs us to remain childlike while waiting for Him to return for us (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus continues to prepare His disciples for the wait between His two comings (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus tells His disciples whoever loses his life for His sake will find it (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus calls Peter a rock, then tells him that believers are the living rocks with which The Lord is building His church in His absence (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus warns His disciples that the Pharisees and Sadducees are like yeast corrupting the pure Word of God (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus surprises everyone by referring to a Canaanite woman who has come to Him for help as a dog (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

In a parable, Jesus says it’s not what goes into the mouth that defiles you, but what comes out of it (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

In this study, at first thinking it is a ghost walking on the water, the disciples trust it is Jesus when He speaks to them (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

In this study, Jesus withdraws when He hears that John the Baptist was executed after Herodias had her daughter dance for Herod and ask for John’s head on a platter (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

In this study, Jesus informs us that as we are sowing the good seed of the Word of God, our enemy will be at work sowing weeds (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

When the nation of Israel rejected Jesus, He told the Parable of the Sower to explain to His disciples God’s new program for spreading the Gospel (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus tells Israel’s leaders they will get no further sign from Him until His resurrection from the dead (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus’ exorcisms proved He had the power and the authority to bind Satan and hold him captive (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus says hurting people are like bruised reeds whom we should seek out to serve (Pastor Gene Pensiero)