Teaching on Sermons (Page 47)

Teaching on Sermons (Page 47)

The Preparatory Work of Repentance

Luke 3:4-6 John’s life and ministry, it provides us, all of us, the people that he preached to, but also us as well living in the 21st century, John’s ministry provides us with a very necessary perspective that we need to understand the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. You need to get what John is saying because otherwise, it’s very easy for you to maybe to misinterpret, especially in this modern world, to misinterpret what Jesus is actually saying.…

Before You Get the Gospel

Luke 3:1-3 I’d like to begin this morning by reading a good portion of this third chapter. So follow along with me as I read verses 1 to 23 of Luke Chapter 3. “In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, Herod being the tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the…

Why Jesus Endured the Cross

Psalm 22:21-31 We come to our time in God’s word this morning. I want to invite you to turn in your bibles to the twenty second psalm. We’re gonna finish what we started last week in psalm 22 as we considered what Jesus endured on the cross. And you’ll remember that as we looked at Psalm 22 in preparation for Passion Week, we looked back at that Psalm because Jesus had intentionally directed us there from the cross. He cried…

How Jesus Endured the Cross

Psalm 22:1-21 In anticipation of our time around the Lord’s Table, I thought we could take some time, as I mentioned, to reflect on the cross. And I’d like us to meditate on some themes that we heard in our reading this morning out of Mark’s Gospel, which portrayed the depth of Jesus’ suffering for our sins. So just by way of introduction, go ahead and turn in your Bibles back to Mark’s Gospel, chapter 14, and follow along as…

The Theology of the Messiah’s Growth

Luke 2:49-52 Last week we started reading the story of Jesus as a 12-year-old boy, visiting the temple, and you can find that story at the end of Chapter 2. We’re going to start there reading this morning in Chapter 2, verse 40. Like I said, we’ll just begin by reading the account this morning and refresh ourselves with the truths that are here. It says in verse 40,  “The child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom. And the…

The First Words of the Divine Child

Luke 2:39-49 We have been enjoying a rich, rich study of the infancy narratives about Jesus as a baby, and here, we’re going to see this morning, as a little boy. Luke has been preparing us in these narratives, these first two chapters, by setting our expectations about what we’re going to find about who Jesus is because he wants us to properly, rightly receive Jesus and his ministry. That’s been the intent of these first two chapters. Luke has…

Run to Win

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 If you can take your Bibles and open them to 1 Corinthians chapter 9 this morning. Normally on Sunday mornings, we’re going through, working our way through Luke’s Gospel, but I felt compelled this week to direct our attention to the example of the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 9:24-27. The elders met a couple of weeks ago to discuss some of the amazing things God is doing in our church these days. We are, all of…

The Testimony of a Senior Saint

Luke 2:36-38 The section that we’re finishing today, looking at the character and the testimony of Simeon and then Anna. It’s provided an opportunity I’ve longed desired. It should not escape our notice, if you’ve read the narrative, if you’ve been with us, that Simeon and Anna just like Zechariah and Elizabeth back in Chapter 1, they were, as the Bible so delicately puts it, they were “advanced in years.”  That is to say they were old people. In Anna’s…