Sep 6, 2012 | Matthew
This message could, and probably should, be divided into a dozen separate sermons. But I am thinking that there might be something useful in stepping back and looking that the larger picture. Why did the Son of God become incarnate? Why did Christ come into the world?...
Sep 5, 2012 | Matthew
In the edition of the Bible which I use, verse 9 is marked as a paragraph all unto its own. I am not going to directly refer to this verse tonight, because that was our text in the first message which we had in this series. It introduces Matthew to us, a man who is...
Sep 3, 2012 | Matthew
Generally speaking the more someone meditates on the Word of God, the more God will bring to his heart. It doesn’t matter if that scripture has been studied a hundred times, on the hundred-and-first there still may be something which has never been considered before....
Sep 3, 2012 | Matthew
Are there any words or phrases which are particularly yours? A couple of weeks ago, Bro. Bill saw where I had used the word “serendipity,” and he jokingly said, “Hey, you can’t use that word; it is mine.” I laughed at him and then agreed, although he didn’t create...
Sep 2, 2012 | Matthew
A few days after I mentioned the evangelistic DVDs on the back table, one of the members asked me to look at a website criticizing their producer – Ray Comfort. The critic didn’t just criticize – he condemned Mr. Comfort, calling him a “damnable heretic.” I know...
Sep 1, 2012 | Matthew
This is a passage of scripture which appeals to every level of Christian experience. It is good for Sunday School lessons from pre-schoolers to the teens and adults. And it contains enough mystery to baffle John Gill and John Calvin combined. There are lessons here...
Aug 11, 2012 | Matthew
I am told that the beautiful stones, which we call diamonds, are not at all beautiful when they are pulled from the ground. And I suppose that if it was up to me, I’d probably not be aware that I was looking at a raw diamond if I saw one. However, if you showed me a...
Aug 10, 2012 | Matthew
I have lots of questions about this scripture and all the other scriptures which speak about demons. Twenty years ago, I spent weeks studying what the Bible says about Satan and his armies. I read several scholarly works on Satanism, several of which I pulled out...
Aug 9, 2012 | Matthew
Following the spectacular miracle in the midst of the sea, the Lord and His disciples made it across to Gergesa. One of the apparent results of the storm was that the hoard of eavesdroppers all returned to Capernaum. When they had set sail, “there were also with him...
Aug 8, 2012 | Matthew
The great Baptist Missionary Adoniram Judson was in a Burmese prison for preaching the gospel. The king of that country was a Buddhist and was thoroughly intolerant to everything foreign, and Christ is definitely foreign to a Buddhist. It is said that one day Anne,...
