All Sermons in The Gospel of Matthew

(Text Only) Title: Swearing Oaths I remember during my elementary school years driving down with my parents every Christmas from Cleveland to Nashville, TN to see my family.  The car ride was long, usually about 10 hours, but as a 10 year old that felt like 40 hours.  I would do anything I could to…

(Text and Audio) Title: Context is King We have been in the book of Ruth for 10 months now, can you believe it?  In that time, we have seen time and time again, the importance of CONTEXT to fully understand the story and dialogue between the main characters.  Probably the best example is when Ruth…

(Audio Only) Title: Who is my Neighbor?

(Audio Only) Title: The Gospel According to Mr. Miyagi

(Audio and Text) Title: For Whom? May I just say as we begin today that it is truly good to be back.  And it is also good to be back in Matthew.  On the calendar it’s been three Sundays since last we were in Matthew, but with the holidays, the travel, getting the flu, my…

(Audio and Text) Title: Where to Pray As we delve deeper into the Sermon on the Mount, we have now turned a corner and arrived at one of the pinnacle teachings of Jesus…for it is here that Christ begins to tell us how we ought to pray.  Jesus deals with this topic in great detail…

(Audio and Text) Title: How to Pray, Part One I’ve done it to you again.  For those of you who may be newer to HBC, let me share a little tradition that has developed between myself and my beloved congregation.  I often begin teaching a sermon on a section of scripture and in the first…

(Audio and Text) Title: How to Pray, Part 2 So today we finally move into the actual section of scripture commonly referred to as the Lord’s Prayer or as the Model Prayer.  We’ve now spend two weeks working up to this point.  Two weeks ago we discussed the proper posture for prayer; things such as…

(Audio and Text) Title: How to Pray, Part 3 If you will, allow me for a moment to touch on something personal before we begin: After last week’s sermon I received much encouragement from several of you as I am attempting to give you a Christ-centered tool on “How to Pray”.  That encouragement always lifts…

(Audio and Text) Title: Fasting (Part One) Today we dive back into Matthew and we will be talking about a topic that most of us are familiar with, but few of us practice regularly:  fasting.  Before I go any further, let me say that I would count myself amongst this group.  I am familiar with…

(Audio and Text) Title: Fasting (Part Two) As we begin our second week on our study on fasting, I want to quickly revisit the end of last week’s message and look at the conclusions we drew as a refresher moving forward this week.  If you recall, the conclusions I suggested from last week’s introduction and…

(Audio and Text) Title: Treasure What makes you happy? That’s where we’re going to end up this morning, so I thought I would save us some time.  Jesus’ words here are poking, and prodding, and uncomfortable, if we allow them to be.  But if we read Jesus’ words and do not apply a hard look…