All Sermons in The Gospel of Matthew

(Text and Audio) Title: Jesus, Lord of the Sabbath (Part Three) Today we conclude our 3 week study on this passage from the beginning of Matthew 12 on how Jesus is the Lord of the Sabbath, and what, exactly that means for us today. I also promise that at the conclusion of today’s message we…

(Text Only) Title: Different Issue, Same Conclusion Very quickly after leaving the scene with the discussion between Jesus and Pharisees over the picking and eating of grain on the Sabbath, we see Jesus in another confrontation, most likely with the same Pharisees. How the Pharisees try to corner Jesus, and how Jesus responds, sheds light…

(Text and Audio) Title: Reasons for Secrecy But when Jesus knew it  Somehow, Jesus was aware of the plot of the Pharisees to destroy him.  We don’t know if this was a supernatural knowledge (he knew their hearts) or if someone had alerted Jesus to the Pharisees schemes.  Either way, we see Jesus’ reaction is…

(Text and Audio) Title: Logically Speaking, Jesus is Lord Because of the grouping and language here, it is probably safe to assume that this man’s natural state at birth was not being blind and mute, but that, somewhere along the way, this demon entered him, rendering him blind and mute.  In healing this man, Jesus…

(Text and Audio) Title: The Unpardonable Sin In all honesty, this was one of the more grueling messages I’ve ever written.  I am so thankful that the Lord let me prepare this message in front of such an awesome display of his beauty.   I’d also like to think it’s one of the better sermons…

(Text and Audio) Title: The Tree, The Fruit, and the Unspoken Seed One of the challenges of preaching through books like we do here at Heritage is that we sometimes miss, or forget that the passage we are looking at today is part of a greater context.   For the last three weeks we’ve been…

(Text and Audio) Title: What’s in the Basket? What is Good? Everyone think of something good.  It doesn’t have to be complex.  It can be a car, brownies, a person.  Think of something good. (Now ask people to share and ask, “What makes that thing good?”) Today we pick up from last week, looking at…

(Text and Audio) Title: Who Seeks a Sign? Let’s suppose one day Steve and Daisy drive to church in a new hot rod car.  (Obviously, this is already a hilarious opening story because I can’t envision a scenario where Steve and Daisy would drive to church at all.  I could literally throw a rock from…

(Text and Audio) Title: Jesus and Jonah This morning we will pick up where we left off from last week.  Jesus is responding to the request from the Scribes and Pharisees that he perform a miracle for them on demand. How many of you did your homework?  How many of you read Jonah? If you…

(Text and Audio) Title: The Unclean Spirit Today is a very interesting teaching from Jesus, and it applies on at least two levels.  Both are important for us to understand, and today’s message lends itself to conversation even more than usual, so I want us to be ready to contribute thoughts and ideas as well….

(Text and Audio) Title: Family Today we are going to wrap up our study in Matthew chapter 12 with a teaching on the topic of family.  Now, chronologically speaking, there is no time break between what Jesus says at the end of chapter 12, and what he begins to teach in chapter 13. If you…

(Text and Audio) Title: The Sower (Part One) Today we move into the 13th chapter of the Gospel of Matthew, and also into the third main section of Matthew’s writing.   This shift that we begin today takes us into a look at the Kingdom of Heaven, a concept that Jesus explains largely with the…