Dec 9, 2012 | Matthew
You and I should have a great deal of interest in this scripture – because this scripture has interest in us. There is one word – repeated – which throws these somewhat mysterious words right onto our laps. I am thinking about the word “Gentiles.” As far as I know,...
Dec 8, 2012 | Matthew
If I told you that when I awoke this morning, there was a thousand pounds of pure gold at the foot of my bed, you probably wouldn’t believe me. That is preposterous. If nothing else, how could someone walk into my bedroom with a thousand pounds of gold, and I didn’t...
Dec 7, 2012 | Matthew
You might think that this scripture has no relevance to your life or to anyone else in the 21st century. In verse 14 we have something which is repeated in different ways a dozen times in the New Testament. You might consider it a matter of historical curiosity; a...
Dec 6, 2012 | Matthew
Last Wednesday I received this email – which I immediately dispatched to the virtual round file. But I resurrected it later when I began thinking about our message for this evening. It reads – “Pastor David Oldfield. It is with a sense of urgency that I contact you...
Dec 5, 2012 | Matthew
Two weeks ago, on Sunday morning, I preached a message entitled – “The Lord of the Sabbath.” The title was related to the last point in that message. I was attempting to bring glory to our Saviour, by looking at several things from these verses. First, the Lord...
Dec 4, 2012 | Matthew
I probably shouldn’t be preaching this subject this evening – for several reasons. First, we’ve already moved on to the next paragraph, so we are we re-tracing our steps. (You wives know how hard it is for husbands to turn the car around once they are on the road....
Dec 3, 2012 | Matthew
I am calling this sermon “The Parable of the Withered Hand” although I have no Biblical right to do so. This scripture did not start with the words, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man with a pair of hands,” or “salvation is like hand surgery.” In the three synoptic...
Dec 2, 2012 | Matthew
I’d like to share a little topical message, coming out of what the Lord Jesus told the Pharisees. Those Pharisees had problems with many of the things which the Lord Jesus did, and with the way that He did them. Of course, those problems stemmed from their unbelief...
Dec 1, 2012 | Matthew
If a stranger visited with us this morning and then was asked to describe our church in a single word, what would he say? Perhaps it would be better if he visited for a month or perhaps a year, before he was asked to describe us. And of course his answer would be...
Nov 13, 2012 | Matthew
It might be fun to make a survey based upon this question: What is the greatest word in the English language? Some of the more pious might answer – “love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith….” Others might come up with words like: “friend,...
