All Sermons in The Gospel of Matthew

(Text and Audio) Title: Confrontation Protocol, Part One I LOVE practical theology.  I consider myself a teacher of practical theology.  Anyone know why I love it so much? “Confrontation Protocol” Confrontation:  A hostile or argumentative meeting or situation between opposing parties. Protocol:  The official procedure or system of rules governing affairs of state or diplomatic…

(Text and Audio) Title: Confrontation Protocol, Part Two First of all, I want to thank all of you for last Sunday.  I know it is extremely rare for me to teach for 57 minutes, but your patience and attention was incredibly affirming to me as I truly felt that it was in our best interest…

(Text and Audio) Title: Confrontation Protocol, Part Three Today we arrive at the conclusion of our 3 week study looking into this passage where Jesus is teaching us how to deal with conflict between two believers.  As we grow near to the final instruction Jesus gives on this matter we will talk about a topic…

(Text and Audio) Title: Apostolic Authority I’m going to begin this morning’s message with a rather peculiar statement: This verse isn’t directed at you.  Jesus’s instructions in verse 18 are not directed at anyone in this room.  We are not the audience of verse 18. Now, logically, if I begin a sermon with such a…

(Text and Audio) Title: Judicial Authority Last week, you may recall, we looked at the concept of Apostolic Authority and talked about Jesus told the apostles that the “keys to the kingdom” would be turned over to them once Jesus had ascended. Essentially, Jesus was granting the Apostles the authority to “bind” and “loose” things…

(Text and Audio) Title: Seventy Times Seven Lessons are almost always more powerful if they are illustrated lessons.  For example, when I am coaching basketball, I could hand out to my team written instructions on how one should shoot a free throw from the foul line.  And it may help.   But what will be…

(Text and Audio) Title: The Unforgiving Servant, Part One Last week we “set the stage” for the study of today’s parable.  If you recall, we highlighted a few points from verses 21-22 including the fact that Peter (rather peculiarly) wasn’t asking if he had to forgive his brother, but rather he was asking Jesus, “how…

(Text and Audio) Title: The Unforgiving Servant, Part Two Let’s begin today by looking at some thoughts: What is the common truth in these sayings, and the many others we have heard just like them over the course of our days? Last week we began our journey through this parable that Jesus offers and we…