Douglas Mennonite Church

Sermon: Becoming the Perfect Church Date: September 14 Scripture: Matthew 5:43-48 Speaker: Paul Walker Jesus tells his disciples to “Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”(5.48) This can sound like an impossible ideal from Jesus. Really, how can anyone be perfect? The key to understanding this passage is “therefore,” because it shows us that this verse is the conclusion of the...

Sermon: Jesus Shaped Speech  Date: August 31 Scripture: Matthew 5:33-37 Speaker: Nicole Marble Israelites took oaths that made their statements legally obligating because they implored the presence of God in the commitment—but this only happened because half-truths, deceptions, and lies were all too common. To take oaths was to assume that honest speech was not always present. Jesus speaks to a cu...

Sermon: Re-humanizing Objectified People Date: August 24 Scripture: Matthew 5:27-32 Speaker: Paul Walker Jesus continues his antitheses statements by addressing adultery and divorce. The Law prohibited adultery, which is having sex with anyone other than your spouse. Jesus goes further than the law by speaking against the root cause of adultery: lust. Lust is when we look to desire and intentional...

Sermon: Murdering Our Hostilities  Date: August 17  Scripture: Matthew 5:21-26; Numbers 35:16-28  Speaker: Paul Walker Murder was a serious offence in the Torah. (Numb.35:16-28) To deliberately kill another human was punishable by death. Even if the killing was unintentional, the guilty person would need to flee to a city of refuge to escape retaliation. Simply put, the Law tried to limit murder f...

Sermon: Laying Down The Law? Date: August 10, 2025 Scripture: Matthew 5:17-20 Speaker: Paul Walker Jesus insists he’s come to fulfill the Old Testament, and fulfill it completely. He hyperbolically says “not one letter or stroke of the pen will pass away until I fulfill it.” He’s going to fulfill the law in a way that goes beyond the righteousness of the Pharisees, not by literally adhering to eve...

Sermon:  Salty Jesus People Date: August 3, 2025 Scripture: Matthew 5:13-16 Guest speaker: Nicole Marble After giving us the Beatitudes, Jesus then immediately begins talking about being salt and light. Salt & light people inhabit the way of Jesus to be a radical alternative to a darkened world. Both salt and light are images for impact on something else: salt impacts, for instance, meats, whi...

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