Linworth Road Church Sermons

Welcome to Linworth Road Church! We are glad you've found us online and pray that this message is meaningful to you. Linworth exists to help the spiritually lost and wounded join a community of people becoming fully alive, fully mature, and fully on-mission through the healing power of Jesus Christ and His Word. NEXT STEPS: OTHER SERMONS /// Website Facebook Instagram Join us in person at 10 am on...

Welcome to Linworth Road Church! We are glad you've found us online and pray that this message is meaningful to you. Linworth exists to help the spiritually lost and wounded join a community of people becoming fully alive, fully mature, and fully on-mission through the healing power of Jesus Christ and His Word. NEXT STEPS: OTHER SERMONS /// Website Facebook Instagram Join us in person at 10 am on...

Welcome to Linworth Road Church! We are glad you've found us online and pray that this message is meaningful to you. Linworth exists to help the spiritually lost and wounded join a community of people becoming fully alive, fully mature, and fully on-mission through the healing power of Jesus Christ and His Word. NEXT STEPS: OTHER SERMONS /// Website Facebook Instagram Join us in person at 10 am on...

Welcome to Linworth Road Church! We are glad you've found us online and pray that this message is meaningful to you. Linworth exists to help the spiritually lost and wounded join a community of people becoming fully alive, fully mature, and fully on-mission through the healing power of Jesus Christ and His Word. NEXT STEPS: OTHER SERMONS /// Website Facebook Instagram Join us in person at 10 am on...

Welcome to Linworth Road Church! We are glad you've found us online and pray that this message is meaningful to you. Linworth exists to help the spiritually lost and wounded join a community of people becoming fully alive, fully mature, and fully on-mission through the healing power of Jesus Christ and His Word. NEXT STEPS: OTHER SERMONS /// Website Facebook Instagram Join us in person at 10 am on...

Welcome to Linworth Road Church! We are glad you've found us online and pray that this message is meaningful to you. Linworth exists to help the spiritually lost and wounded join a community of people becoming fully alive, fully mature, and fully on-mission through the healing power of Jesus Christ and His Word. NEXT STEPS: OTHER SERMONS /// Website Facebook Instagram Join us in person at 10 am on...

Welcome to Linworth Road Church! We are glad you've found us online and pray that this message is meaningful to you. In 1 Kings 19 we encounter Elijah--the greatest Old Testament prophet--experiencing profound despair. In response, God first comforts, then challenges him. In the first two parts of this series, we have sought to comfort those enduring depression or mental afflictions...

Welcome to Linworth Road Church! We are glad you've found us online and pray that this message is meaningful to you. Linworth exists to help the spiritually lost and wounded join a community of people becoming fully alive, fully mature, and fully on-mission through the healing power of Jesus Christ and His Word. NEXT STEPS: OTHER SERMONS /// Website Facebook Instagram Join us in person at 10 am on...

Welcome to Linworth Road Church! We are glad you've found us online and pray that this message is meaningful to you. Linworth exists to help the spiritually lost and wounded join a community of people becoming fully alive, fully mature, and fully on-mission through the healing power of Jesus Christ and His Word. NEXT STEPS: OTHER SERMONS /// Website Facebook Instagram Join us in person at 10 am on...

Welcome to Linworth Road Church! We are glad you've found us online and pray that this message is meaningful to you. Linworth exists to help the spiritually lost and wounded join a community of people becoming fully alive, fully mature, and fully on-mission through the healing power of Jesus Christ and His Word. NEXT STEPS: OTHER SERMONS /// Website Facebook Instagram Join us in person at 10 am on...

Welcome to Linworth Road Church! We are glad you've found us online and pray that this message is meaningful to you. Linworth exists to help the spiritually lost and wounded join a community of people becoming fully alive, fully mature, and fully on-mission through the healing power of Jesus Christ and His Word. Here in Matthew 7, Jesus talks about the choices we make. There are two kinds of roads...

Welcome to Linworth Road Church! We are glad you've found us online and pray that this message is meaningful to you. Linworth exists to help the spiritually lost and wounded join a community of people becoming fully alive, fully mature, and fully on-mission through the healing power of Jesus Christ and His Word. This week in Matthew, Jesus urges us to not store up treasure in heaven nor to be anxi...

If the WWII generation was known as the "Greatest Generation" that ever lived, unfortunately it's looking like we might become known as the "Most Anxious Generation" that ever lived. While the information and digital age have brought along many blessings and benefits, they have also increased and exasperated our anxiety. Thankfully though, anxiety is a human problem and therefore it is not new, an...

In Matthew Chapter 6, after having talked about our prayer life, Jesus switches to talking about our pocketbooks. Most of us would prefer that Jesus keeps his hands off of our money, but he loves us too much to do that. In fact, money and possessions are some of his favorite teaching subjects. In this section, Jesus issue us a command as it relates to money. Thankfully, unlike some parents, he act...

In Matthew Chapter 6 Jesus changes directions slightly in his Sermon on the Mount. He goes from warning his followers about the dangers of evil works to warning them about the potential dangers in good works. In Chapter 5, Jesus is concerned that his followers are misunderstanding or misapplying particular aspects of the Old Testament law. At the beginning of Chapter 6, he is concerned that they a...

“Turn the other cheek.” It’s one of the most common phrases people quote from the Bible. If properly understood, it’s one of the most powerful things Jesus taught! Unfortunately, it’s often misunderstood or neglected, and when that happens, we do great damage to ourselves and our relationships.

After telling the people that he came not to abolish the law or the prophets, but to fulfill them (vs 17), Jesus now moves on in his Sermon on the Mount to lay out six different examples that prove his point. In verses 21-30 of chapter 5, he starts out by looking at two of the Ten Commandments: murder and adultery. Instead of abolishing them, Jesus reveals their fuller meaning. By doing so, he dee...

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Moving from the Beatitudes with their emphasis on inward devotion, Jesus next talks about the impact His disciples will have on the world. By living out Jesus’ calling to be meek, to mourn, and to be poor in spirit, they will preserve their culture from decay and embody a compelling vision for a better way to live. Yet all this required active resistance to the world’s pressure to mold them into i...

All four of the gospels emphasize the importance of Jesus's teaching ministry but perhaps Matthew, more than the others, highlights it the most. In fact, Matthew goes out of his way to arrange his book around five major discourses of Jesus's teaching. The first, and perhaps most powerful, one begins in Chapter 5 with what has become known as the "Sermon on the Mount." Some have called it the "Moun...

Fresh off His victorious encounter with Satan in the wilderness, Jesus is now ready to begin his ministry. In three paragraphs, Matthew gives us an introduction to that ministry in the form of a highlight reel: What will Jesus do? Who will He do it with? And where will He do it from? The answer to each question is packed with insight about Jesus and the Kingdom He is bringing. Finally, we'll answe...

In our previous message we saw at Jesus's baptism that his Father blessed him with the Holy Spirit and with an affirmation of his identity as the Son. As we move into Chapter 4 we see all of that immediately tested. The Spirit leads Jesus into the wilderness to be tested, and if Israel's history is anything to go by, this is a dangerous situation. Will Jesus give in to evil and idolatry like Israe...

Matthew chapter 2 ends with Jesus being a small child, as his family returns to Israel after having fled to Egypt for safety. However, when we continue to chapter 3 we see that 25-30 years have passed and Jesus is now an adult. Chapters 1 and 2 are filled with many supernatural encounters and expectations, and yet now several decades have passed and nothing has really changed. What is Jesus doing?...

As the election approaches, what are you feeling? Afraid, confused, detached or cynical? Is there any guidance from the Bible regarding how to approach the election and our politically polarized world? Is it possible to think, feel and see like Jesus, even though His world seems so far away from ours? I believe it is. In a powerful encounter towards the end of His life, Jesus offered a radically n...

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