All Sermons in The Gospel of Matthew

(Text and Audio) Title: Tense, Because it’s all Greek to Me I don’t often get this much into the Greek in a sermon setting, but this morning I feel it is essentially to fully explain what the Greek actually says, because it matters so very much in our full understanding of how to interpret this…

(Text and Audio) Title: The Mission of Christ We are going to open today’s dialogue with a visual aid.  I need Cory and Jim to come up here.  Use the visual example of having Cory (WORLD) and Jim (GOD) stand next to each other, representing pre-fall man. Can I point at both of them?  Yes. …

(Text and Audio) Title: Why Do We Love Christ? We See Jesus give three qualifications of being worthy of following him: When I was a child, it was unfathomable to me to love anyone, or anything more than my parents.  Simply put, they were my world.  They were all I knew.  When I was hungry,…

(Text and Audio) Title: The Full Qualification Today we reach the end of Jesus’ impassioned teaching as he is about to send the 12 out for the first time without Jesus himself present.  And if we look to the text, we see that, starting in verse 32, Jesus begins using a pattern to distinguish the…

(Text and Audio) Title: Evidence I want to begin today with a bit of discussion, so just look up here, we’ll get to scripture in a moment, but let’s just chat for a bit, shall we? How many of you have ever struggled with your faith? How many of you have ever struggled with doubt?…

(Text Only) Title: The Mystery of the Master Teacher Jesus begins this discussion with the masses by asking three questions of John. John preached and baptized at the Jordan River.  Reeds are very common to this day at the banks of the Jordan River.  To see a reed shaken by the wind would not have…

(Text and Audio) Title: The Sad State of “This Generation” The state of the union address with the Browns and the upcoming draft.  Nobody is ever brutally honest to public, but Jesus was. Jesus, speaking directly concerning the Jews, in verses 16 and 17 laments the fact that despite both John the Baptist’s and Jesus’…

(Text and Audio) Title: A Tale of Two Cities Today sermon deals with a very interesting passage, and I’m going to treat it a bit differently in my presentation because of that.   In an extremely mathematical way, I’d like for us to work through this passage in the following manner: First I want us…

(Text and Audio) Title: Real Wisdom  Today’s introduction comes courtesy of the wisdom of Cory Finton: The Cult of Oprah. Cory’s point that the conclusion point of almost every film in existence is that you should follow your heart to make yourself happy, no matter what.  Any other examples of the difference between real wisdom…

(Text and Audio) Title: Need Can Be A Powerful Motivator Who in your life knows you the best?  (Take answers, most will say best friend or spouse.) Who knows you better than you?  (Your maker.) Because the Father and Son come from one, are one, there is no lack of knowledge between them.   There…

(Text and Audio) Title: Jesus, Lord of the Sabbath (Part One) First of all, let me say that it is truly good to be back amongst my people.  I thank you for the grace in allowing me to travel to my cousin’s wedding two weeks ago, and also to travel to DC with the school…

(Text and Audio) Title: Jesus, Lord of the Sabbath (Part Two) Today, of course, we are picking up where we left off last week in this passage where Jesus is explaining the justification of picking the grain on the sabbath against the Pharisees charge that Jesus and his followers are breaking the Law of Moses….