Oct 12, 2015 | Matthew, Sunday Evening
We all have criteria which we use to measure other professing Christians. Some of these are clearly scriptural, while others are based on conclusions which we only think come from the Bible. I am obviously more spiritual than you because I am wearing a tie this...
Oct 5, 2015 | Matthew, Sunday Evening
Our subject for this evening involves what particular day of the week Jesus died. In the back of my mind, I picture myself teaching or preaching a message on this subject, but I couldn’t find that message or any record that I’ve ever taught it. Perhaps it was a part...
Sep 28, 2015 | Matthew, Sunday Evening
I have very eclectic reading habits. For the past several weeks now I have been re-reading Baptist history books. But I admit that I enjoy reading various kinds of mystery books. My last one involved the theft and forgery of some very valuable postage stamps. One of...
Sep 20, 2015 | Matthew, Sunday Evening
This afternoon I would like us to step back a few minutes during the events of the crucifixion. And let’s leave Matthew in the process. There is an invaluable lesson in these few words. Not only do we learn a little more about the Lord Jesus, but we have an example...
Sep 14, 2015 | Matthew, Sunday Evening
Computers are marvelous instruments. I bought my first computer while visiting here on a visit from Calgary in 1987, and I haven’t looked back. I’m not sure anymore that I could prepare four messages a week, if it was not for my computer. And I know that I couldn’t...
Sep 7, 2015 | Matthew, Sunday Evening
Our message tonight is theological. Let’s go through the back door to consider the omnipotence, omniscience and sovereignty of God. Of course by “omnipotence” I refer to the fact that the power of God knows no limitations whatsoever. As Jesus reminded the...
Aug 31, 2015 | Matthew, Sunday Evening
Twenty years ago – in 1995 – I preached a two part message entitled, “If I was the Devil.” I didn’t pull them up to check, but if I remember those sermons, I suggested things that I would do if I was in charge of a God-hating world. And it just so happens...
Aug 24, 2015 | Matthew, Sunday Evening
I have decided to cancel this evening’s sermon – but you aren’t invited to leave just yet. I don’t know how to describe this message, but it is not a sermon. It might be a lecture, a lesson, an address or merely just rambling, but it is not a sermon. I thought that...
Aug 16, 2015 | Matthew, Sunday Evening
Briefly, I want to share with you some of my cogitations on another of the Biblical men named “Simon.” And right off the bat we are confronted with a lot of nothing. There is very little that we know about him. He is mentioned in only three scriptures –...
Aug 10, 2015 | Matthew, Sunday Evening
You young people might disagree, but I am not yet an old man – older every day – but not “old” as yet. One aspect of that point is the fact that I still learn things. I can’t say that I learn something new every day, but I do learn things from time to...
Aug 3, 2015 | Matthew, Sunday Evening
In the years preceding 1994, the Quaker Oats Company had posted strong financial earnings. At the same time, the company which produced Snapple teas was doing equally as well. So that year the chairman of Quaker Oats pushed his company into buying Snapple for $1.7...
Aug 2, 2015 | Matthew, Sunday Evening
I’d like you to consider Barabbas this morning, because, ironically, he has wonderful lessons to teach us. He was an evil, wicked man, who was “saved” by the grace of God – in a certain sense of the word. But first, let me try to set the stage just a...
Jul 19, 2015 | Matthew, Sunday Evening
I’ve titled this message “Christ’s Trial before Pilate.” I have probably used the word “trial” many times over the last couple of weeks, and I will do so again. Jesus stood before the Jewish council, then before Pilate, then before Herod and...
Jul 13, 2015 | Matthew, Sunday Evening
Years ago, I awoke one Saturday morning with a terrible pain in my gut, low on the right side. Knowing my body fairly well, I told Judy, my wife, that I had appendicitis. When she replied me that I needed to go to the hospital – our doctor’s office was closed. I...
Jul 6, 2015 | Matthew, Sunday Evening
Sometimes I feel like a reporter, or perhaps the publisher, for one of those grocery store tabloids. I rake up the muck in some people’s lives and spread them all over the front page. But I hope that no one ever thinks that it is for the headlines or for some sort of...
