Sermon Series: The Questions Jesus Asked
We don’t know if Jesus was aware of Socrates — who had lived some three centuries prior. But Jesus was certainly a master of what is now known as the Socratic method of teaching. That is, he constantly asked questions of his students and hearers; probing questions, personal questions, provocative questions designed to get us to think.
Questions are important because they open conversations, and get us to consider things we might rather ignore. So, in this sermon series this season we’re going to take up the challenge, and consider some of Jesus’ most important questions.
Watch Pastor Stuart’s sermons from the series below.
Blind Bartimaeus Receives His Sight
“What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus asked (Bartimaeus).
The blind man said, “Rabbi, I want to see.”
“Go,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you.”
Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus along the road.
Mark 10:51-52
A Sick Woman
The Good Samaritan
“What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?”
He answered: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.'”
Luke 10:26-27
Jesus Anointed at Bethany
“Leave her alone,” said Jesus. “Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me. She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial. I tell you the truth, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.”
Mark 14:6-9
Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard
“‘Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? Take your pay and go. I want to give the man who was hired last the same as I gave you. Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
“So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”
Matthew 20:13-16
The Parable of the Persistent Widow
‘And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’
“For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or are about men, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually wear me out with her coming!'”
Luke 18:3-5
Do Not Worry
“Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?”
Matthew 6:27
Peter's Confession of Christ
“But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?”
Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
Matthew 16:15-16