A Brief Pastoral Exhortation
Hebrews Welcome to our Sunday night service, and welcome as we’re embarking on a really fascinating study, exciting study of Hebrews, this excellent book. You can turn there. And due to how much we don’t know about this amazing book, I know that I’m going to need this week and next week, hopefully just the two weeks, but these two weeks to work through some introductory matters. So if you’re in Hebrews, we’ll look at chapter 1. I’m going to…
Why We Give Thanks
Colossians 1:3-8
For Staying Stable and Steadfast
Colossians 1:1-2 We have an opportunity this morning to do something we don’t often get to do, which is to start a brand new study in the book of the Bible. So open your Bibles to the letter of Paul to the Colossians. Any introduction to a literary work, especially a book of the Bible, will involve several elements; talk about the title, Colossians; name for the people to whom Paul wrote; the date of the writing; the author, it’s…
Happy Are the Persecuted
Matthew 5:10-12
Happy Are the Peacemakers
Matthew 5:9
Happy Are the Pure
Matthew 5:8
The Worship of the Magi
Matthew 2:1-12 If the music didn’t give it away and the Scripture reading didn’t give it away, I’ll have you turn to Matthew chapter 2, because that’s the text we’re going to cover tonight, in just a few moments of reflection on the worship of the wise men, the worship of the Magi. We ended this morning taking note of those whom God had favored when he chose to reveal the birth of Jesus Christ. We talked about Zechariah, the…
True Glory, Real Peace
Luke 2:14 Well, as we come to our time in God’s Word this Christmas morning, I’d like to return to what was just read for us in Luke’s Gospel. So go ahead and open your Bibles to Luke chapter 2. Luke chapter 2 and as we think about the meaning of Christmas, which we really love to do every year in this season, I want to draw your attention to really what is the centerpiece of that text that Bret…
Happy Are the Merciful
Matthew 5:7
Why Christ Went Away
Selected Scriptures Well, as I mentioned last week, before closing the book on Luke’s Gospel, I wanted to come back for one more sermon on the Gospel’s final event, which is the ascension of Jesus Christ. As a matter of fact, you wouldn’t know it unless I told you maybe, but in the exposition I gave last week on the final paragraph, I passed by one significant word in the text and set that word aside so we could address…