All Sermons in The Gospel of Matthew

(Text and Audio) Title: The Tempting of Jesus by Satan, Part Three Now, let us turn our attention to the the matter at hand. Today we will be concluding our three week study over the temptations of Jesus in the desert.  So far we have looked at the first two temptations:  Physical Drives and Pride. …

(Text and Audio) Title: The Timeline and the Timing Matthew reaches a transition point in his Gospel in the passage we are studying today.  What we have looked at thus far, through the first 3.5 chapters of Matthew, can essentially be broken down into two events:   Now the Gospel account turns its attention to…

(Text and Audio) Title: “The Setting, The Reason, and the Message” Sermon Outline Missing (Audio Only)

(Text and Audio) Title: The Calling I’m so glad in the way that God has allowed Betsy to come and talk to us today about missions in the midst of us arriving at this point in Matthew when Jesus calls the 4 to become apostles.  It’s neat the way that Betsy’s testimony coincides with what…

(Text and Audio) Title: Teaching, Preaching, Healing Today we see Jesus begin doing the work of ministry.  He has called the first of his disciples to follow him, and now we will look at the three-phase ministry that he begins in Galilee. Let me also offer a preview:  For those of you that love lists…

(Text and Audio) Title: The Rabbi’s Gospel Last week one of the ideas that I asked you to keep as a feather under your cap was this concept of just how Jewish Jesus was.  I explained that Jesus, as a Jew himself, reaching out to other Jews, was teaching in places and using methods that…

Title: The Transition At the conclusion of last Sunday’s sermon, Jenna Beadle asked a really good question.  She asked me why I didn’t include verses 11-12 in the Beatitudes.  Certainly, verse 11 does begin with “blessed”, so you’d think it would qualify.  I explained that 11-12 actually serve as a transitional statement from the Beatitudes…

(Text and Audio) Title: Salt and Light Sometimes we hear a Bible passage or phrase so many times that it looses it’s meaning.  We assume we understand the passage and it’s meaning, and, therefore, the passage lacks a certain “pop” or “power” that a newer section of scripture may have for us.   This morning…

(Text and Audio) Title: Every Jot and Tittle Last week we were in Romans 2, essentially preparing ourselves for what we are studying today as we move back into our discourse through Matthew.  Remember that as we looked at last week’s message from Paul concerning the Law, we came away with a few things to…

(Audio only, no outline) Title: Murder, Insults, and Reconcilliation

(Audio and Text) Title: Deal Ruthlessly With Sin For any of you who have spent any amount of time under my teaching, today’s passage will be a familiar one.  I quote it often, reference it often, and I teach it whenever I get a change to do so.   Many of you are also familiar…

(Audio and Text) Title: Divorce Unfortunately, today’s message does not cover something uplifting.  Today we talk about a plague that is infecting our society in America, both inside and outside the Church.  Divorce is a touchy subject to deal with because it has affected so many of our lives.   My mother and father were…