Teaching on Matthew
To present Jesus of Nazareth as Israel’s long-awaited Messiah and royal King, in such a way as to strengthen the faith of Jewish Christians and provide an apologetic tool for Jewish evangelism.
How to Defeat Anxiety, Part 2
Matthew 6:25-34 As we come to the preaching of God’s Word this morning, we come to a very helpful portion of the Sermon on the Mount where Jesus gives some much-needed light to our dark world. If you’re not there, turn with me to Matthew chapter 6, where Jesus shines the light of truth on a dark, troubling, and pervasive problem, the problem of anxiety and worry. As we noted last week, many in our world are enslaved to anxiety…
How to Defeat Anxiety, Part 1
Matthew 6:25-34 Good morning, everyone. It is a privilege to be able to open the Word of God with you this morning. I’ll be preaching today and next week out of Matthew chapter 6. And starting in October, after much deserved rest, Travis will be back in the pulpit. They’re back from Minnesota. They’re here with us today. It’s a joy to have them back, but he’ll be back in the pulpit in October. So if you would, turn in…
Resurrection Hope Today
Matthew 17:1-8 Well, as we come to our time in God’s Word this morning, I’d like to return to Matthew’s Gospel, if you have your Bibles, you can take them and turn to an earlier scene in Matthew’s Gospel. Remarkable, very special event, occasion in Matthew known as the Transfiguration, which you’ll find in Matthew chapter 17, Matthew 17, the transfiguration is really a preview of resurrection glory. And now from the vantage point of hindsight, hindsight is 2020. We…
Happy Are the Persecuted
Matthew 5:10-12 For today, we are finishing up a series on the Beatitudes out of Matthew chapter 5. If you want to turn in your Bibles there, you can do that now. But it’s really been a joy for me to have this opportunity to preach and teach through the Beatitudes. It’s been convicting, but also encouraging to my own soul. And I just find our Lord’s teaching to be absolutely fascinating, brilliant. The depths of which we cannot plumb,…
Happy Are the Peacemakers
Matthew 5:9 Well good morning, Grace Church, we are starting off the new year this year, 2026, by continuing on in a study on the Beatitudes from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. If you want to, you can turn in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 5. And give or take a few years, it was right around 2000 years ago that Jesus preached what we have recorded in the Gospel of Matthew as the Sermon on the Mount. Nearly 2000…
Happy Are the Pure
Matthew 5:8 Well, it is a joy to be here with you this morning. It’s a joy to bring God’s Word to you this morning. It’s a privilege. But we are in the middle of a series on the Beatitudes out of Matthew chapter 5. So if you want to turn there in your copy of God’s Word, we’re going to read that in just a few moments. But here in the Sermon on the Mount, in this section on…
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…
Happy Are the Merciful
Matthew 5:7 If you are new, I started a series in the Beatitudes out of Matthew 5, back in the summer and we made it halfway through the Beatitudes before Travis got back in the pulpit in order to try to finish Luke. And as I mentioned earlier, he finished last week and so I am jumping back into the Beatitudes. But August 24th, that was a long time ago, the last time I preached out of the Beatitudes. So…
Happy Are the Satisfied
Matthew 5:6 For today, we are back in our study in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew chapter 5. And this, probably for me, is one of my favorite sermons, that things that I’ve learned and, and studied in Scripture. And so, I hope that, that comes out and is translated to you today. But for today, what I want to start with just a very simple question for you today. Are you satisfied with life? Are you satisfied…
Happy are Those Who Inherit the Earth
Matthew 5:5 A few months ago I had the opportunity to preach for a couple of weeks and I thought that I would do just a short series on the Beatitudes out of Matthew chapter 5. But then after two weeks had passed, I only actually made it through two of the Beatitudes. So we are going to return there for today and next week to continue just to glean as much as we can from the most brilliant and…