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...
Jun 29, 2015 | Matthew, Sunday Evening
If I am not mistaken, the general characteristics of fiction writing have changed over time. Correct me if I am wrong, but one, two and three centuries ago, most novels depicted the good-guy, the protagonist, in the best light. Of course there have always been...
Jun 22, 2015 | Matthew, Sunday Evening
Without apology, I return to a subject which I have preached many times. We should pray that I never stop returning to the subject of the deity of Christ. The crucifixion of Christ Jesus must never be separated from the fact that He is God. As well as being the Son...
Jun 8, 2015 | Matthew, Sunday Evening
Our title this evening is – “Jesus’ Friend, Judas” – taking, as our text, Christ’s words in verse 50 – “Friend, wherefore are thou come?” You might think, incorrectly, that this is more about Judas than the Lord Jesus. We had our message about...
Jun 1, 2015 | Matthew, Sunday Evening
The events of this text occurred one evening about 2000 years ago. The participants involved here, in many respects, were quite different from you and me. They had no technology; they spoke a different language, and their clothing was different. They ate different...
May 25, 2015 | Matthew, Sunday Evening
The Saviour and His disciples were on the move. They were going to a place they had apparently visited on previous evenings – the Mount of Olives. Judas was aware that this has been the Lord’s practice for most of this week. There was a private and peaceful garden...
May 18, 2015 | Matthew, Sunday Evening
I think it was last Wednesday night that Brother Berg mentioned talking to some Baptist preacher. The subject of the Lord’s Supper came up, and eventually the questions focused on the difference between open and closed communion. If I heard and understood correctly,...
May 4, 2015 | Matthew, Sunday Evening
I confess to borrowing this outline from the 19th century Baptist preacher, Alexander MacLaren. About the time that Spurgeon was in London, MacLaren was preaching in Manchester. His best known work is the 31 volume, “Exposition of Holy Scripture” – a...
