Jul 14, 2013 | Matthew
As I said this morning, I believe that the underlaying theme of the entire chapter is “unity.” It is not the ecumenical, love-everyone-wearing-the-Christian-label variety of unity. Christ was speaking to His church – one in which there was a problem of pride and...
Jul 13, 2013 | Matthew
If you noticed the title of this message in today’s bulletin, and then heard the reading of the scripture, you could very well have jumped to conclusions about my theme. Perhaps it was my intention to misdirect you just a little bit, but I’ll not actually confess to...
Jul 12, 2013 | Matthew
It seems when Baptist church’s come to church discipline they often go to one of two extremes. Many churches do absolutely nothing to discipline errant members. While others move too quickly to dismiss people, without following proper Biblical guidelines....
Jul 10, 2013 | Matthew
The scripture which we read from Matthew 11 was our text for a message preached about a year ago. It was entitled – “Christ and His Father.” I hope that you will excuse me for returning to a couple of the thoughts which that message contained. But I want...
Jul 9, 2013 | Matthew
Have you ever meditated on “the will of God,” or as the Lord puts it here “the will of your Father in heaven”? I didn’t spend a lot of time on the subject this week, but I did come up with different areas to explore. There is the will of God –...
Jul 8, 2013 | Matthew
As I read these four verses a few minutes ago, they probably didn’t jump off the page at you. These are not among the gemstones of the scriptures – demanding, by their beauty, that we spend an hour studying them. In fact, we have seen two of these verses in a...
Jul 7, 2013 | Matthew
Mark, tells us that it was while the disciples were journeying back to Capernaum that they had began squabbling about pre-eminence in Christ’s kingdom. As I have said repeatedly, the kingdom of Heaven is a multifaceted subject. You and I are currently living in one...
Jul 6, 2013 | Matthew
After the first few years of my Christian life, I was inserted into an atmosphere of hyper-evangelism. By that I mean that men who pastored and taught me were so interested in what they called “the salvation of souls” that they were not above bending the...
Jul 5, 2013 | Matthew
This wonderful story is given to us only here in the Book of Matthew, and I am surprised at that. It has practical value for the Christian, so I’m surprised that the Lord hasn’t emphasized it for us. And it ought to be in the Book of John, because it clearly...
Jul 4, 2013 | Matthew
Let’s introduce our thoughts for this morning with a fictitious story. A wife and mother of five hasn’t been feeling well for several weeks – rundown, lethargic, constantly tired. She thinks that it is probably nothing, so she doesn’t tell her busy husband, but she...
Jul 3, 2013 | Matthew
Something not shared with us by Matthew is that the man and the lunatic boy were not the only people with the disciples at the foot of Transfiguration Mountain. Mark introduces the healing of this possessed boy by saying – “When he came to his disciples, he saw...
Jul 2, 2013 | Matthew
The title, if not this entire sermon, is probably not politically correct. I have entitled it – “Mercy on the Lunatic.” If I had to guess, I’d say that “lunatic” is not to be found on some accepted vocabulary lists. Both this word and the...
Jul 1, 2013 | Matthew
Let’s start this evening by returning to another question that I’ve asked several times already – Why did the Lord choose Moses and Elias to discuss our Lord Jesus’ decease – His “exodus.” There is no definitive answer to that question – at least there...
May 7, 2013 | Matthew
I would like to return to subjects to which I have already referred several times. The first relates to these three disciples who were invited to witness this transfiguration. And the second is one which has often popped up, but which has come up with a different...
May 6, 2013 | Matthew
As they were descending from the heights of this mountain, Jesus told His three disciples not to repeat what they had witnessed. At least they were not to talk about it until after Christ’s resurrection, ascension and glorification. “And as they came down from the...
