Jan 4, 2013 | Matthew
Thursday, as I was getting ready for my plasma donation, the man across from me was being sent home. He was told that he couldn’t return for several months. The machine which had drawn his blood had permitted some of his red blood cells into the container which was...
Jan 3, 2013 | Matthew
Here are a couple of obvious, but hated Bible doctrines. First, God gives His saving Grace only to those who are empty – not to the proud, satisfied or self-satisfied. The second principle is that God likes to give more and more – “He giveth more Grace.” God gives...
Jan 2, 2013 | Matthew
Let’s begin this morning with a short philosophical question: “What is the purpose of life?” “What is the purpose of life?” I suppose that the answer depends on the person. I saw a television commercial the other day showing some sports star whose name I can’t...
Jan 1, 2013 | Matthew
I feel as though a dozen of you might be able to preach this scripture as well as I can. This is one of the great and glorious parables of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is one of the stories of the Lord which children learn fairly early in their Sunday School classes....
Dec 20, 2012 | Matthew
That the Son of God came into the world through a normal human birth is a basic part of Bible Christianity. We call it the “incarnation” of Christ – where “incarnation” in this case means “to take a human body.” In the incarnation – the Son of God was conceived...
Dec 18, 2012 | Matthew
These three verses develop into a very good gospel message – a salvation message. But since most of us here today are professed Christians, I would like to take this in a slightly little different direction. And yet I cannot ignore the salvation aspect of these...
Dec 17, 2012 | Matthew
Have you ever read or heard much of Shakespeare? It is said that William Shakespeare wrote 68 plays, 122 sonnets, several narrative poems, as well as a few other things. The numbers vary between scholars, because there is debate about what he might have written and...
Dec 15, 2012 | Matthew
Please turn to Acts 26 and let’s think about Paul’s defense before King Agrippa. “Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself: I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall...
Dec 14, 2012 | Matthew
If I was the produce manager of a grocery story, my job would be to display and sell fruit and vegetables. If I laid out light bulbs instead of apples or batteries instead of bananas, I would probably be fired or sent to a mental hospital. As your pastor, my most...
Dec 13, 2012 | Matthew
This was Christ Jesus’ response to the Pharisees’ charges that He was a tool of Satan – if not Satan himself. “Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw. And all the...
Dec 12, 2012 | Matthew
It is not a major part of my ministry to attack other people’s doctrines – heretical though they might be. I would prefer to preach positive truth and let heresy just slide naturally into the mud by the force of gravity. But that doesn’t always work, and sometimes...
Dec 11, 2012 | Matthew
I wish that we had a choir. I wish that our church in Post Falls had a 120 or 150 voice, well-trained choir lead by a musical master. I wish that we had a group of people to whom we could listen as they sang the praises of God, lifting us up to the very gates of...
Dec 10, 2012 | Matthew
I don’t plan to keep you long this afternoon. My message has only about a dozen primary points. I call this a “message” or perhaps a “discourse,” but it would be hard to call it a “sermon.” It’s not that it’s without a purpose, but that purpose is more to inform and...
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...
