Sunday Sermons

This week's text serves as a bit of a bridge between two dramatic encounters involving Jesus and the Pharisees. Matthew placed it here to bring the reader's attention toward more fully understanding the overall purpose of Jesus' earthly ministry. Through it, we get a better idea of why Jesus responds so differently than how we might have expected.

Following Jesus’ words in Matthew 11:29-30 about finding true rest in him, this week’s passage brings us two separate confrontations between Jesus and the Pharisees concerning the Sabbath. In these two scenarios, Jesus addresses the accusations of the Pharisees by not merely arguing about Old Testament law but by declaring some shocking things about himself.

In this week's passage, we continue in Jesus’ discourse to the crowd who had gathered after representatives of John the Baptist were sent to him. In this part of it, we are confronted with the realities of stubbornness of the human heart toward Jesus and what it looks like when someone does follow him.

This Sunday we jump back into the gospel of Matthew for 2025. As we start in chapter 11, it begins with a concern that is raised by an imprisoned John the Baptist. Jesus takes this interaction and uses it to teach the crowds about a wrong expectation that people often hold to in their response to him.

As we enter a new year, there are many priorities vying for our attention. The concept of Rest is rarely put at the top of one’s list of New Year’s Resolutions. We’ll look together at what Biblical rest is and why it should be important to all of us.

Merry Christmas!

As we now step away for a time from our normal rhythms of teaching on Sunday morning, we step into the Advent season together. This year, we are walking through some selected Psalms together. While this may be a bit of a deviation from some of the expected texts during this time of year, we can see how many of the psalms fit perfectly with the theme of the season.

As we now step away for a time from our normal rhythms of teaching on Sunday morning, we step into the Advent season together. This year, we are walking through some selected Psalms together. While this may be a bit of a deviation from some of the expected texts during this time of year, we can see how many of the psalms fit perfectly with the theme of the season.

As we now step away for a time from our normal rhythms of teaching on Sunday morning, we step into the Advent season together. This year, we are walking through some selected psalms together. While this may be a bit of a deviation from some of the expected texts during this time of year, we can see how many of the psalms fit perfectly with the theme  of the season.

As we now step away for a time from our normal rhythms of teaching on Sunday morning, we step into the Advent season together. This year, we are walking through some selected psalms together. While this may be a bit of a deviation from some of the expected texts at this time of year, we’ll see how many of the Psalms fit perfectly with the tone of the season.

In these two weeks leading up to Advent, we are going to take some time to discuss a topic that affects how we move forward together in the mission we have been called to. That topic is church membership. We want to explore what the Bible teaches about it and where we need to grow.

In these two weeks leading up to Advent, we are going to take some time to discuss a topic that affects how we move forward together in the mission we have been called to. That topic is church membership. We want to explore what the Bible teaches about it and where we need to grow.

In the closing verses of Matthew 10, Jesus gives some of the strongest words about what it means to follow him in carrying out his mission. We are called to put Jesus above even the most precious things in this life. And, consequently, this means strife and division. But encouragingly, he ends with words that show us that the cost isn’t paid in vain.

As we continue on in this week’s passage from chapter 10, Jesus addresses some fears we will face in our mission to proclaim His name to the world. In his explanation of these things, the Lord speaks in stark terms. It is a text that all Christians should find massively encouraging in the struggle of making Him known to this world.

In this week's passage, Jesus continues to talk about the mission ahead for the disciples he is commissioning. But the content of what he tells them makes a slight switch between verses 15 and 16. Jesus goes from giving their exact marching orders to what they can expect when it comes to the reaction of those they go to. Our Lord doesn’t mince words when he explains the nature of the persecution a...

Chapter 10 of Matthew begins with Jesus preparing his disciples to go out and do the ministry that Jesus alone has been doing up to this point. And while many of the particulars in Jesus’ instruction to the 12 were specific to them at that point, there is a word for us today as we consider the kingdom mission that all Christians are a part of.

In this last short paragraph from Matthew 9, we see some familiar language concerning Jesus’ ministry to the crowds as well as a glimpse into how our Lord responds to the situation at hand. This week’s passage is a call to his disciples about what we are to do as we look upon the crowds as well.

In Matthew 9:18–34, we are presented with more miraculous work done by our Lord. But in the story of these works of Christ, there is a bit of a spotlight put on the response of the people toward Jesus and what he does. And what we see is a connection between the way a person approaches Jesus and whether they receive what he has for them.

As we continue through chapter 9 of Matthew, we find two situations where Jesus is the source of controversy. But it certainly isn’t because Jesus is wrong or that he is stirring the pot for no good reason. The presence of the Son of God on earth signals a complete and monumental change of everything.

In last week’s passage, we were given a taste of what it costs to follow Christ. But for this week, Matthew gives us a fuller view of the one we are following. Through the three stories presented to us in this text, we see a display of power that separates Jesus from anyone or anything before him.

Last week’s passage gave us a glimpse of the authority that Jesus has from his healings and miracles. This week, we get a look at what it really means to follow him. From the response that he gives to two different people, Jesus bluntly describes the nature of discipleship.

As we turn the page from the Sermon on the Mount, we are immediately confronted with three different stories of Jesus’ miraculous healing work. But the reason for the recording of these healings goes far beyond Jesus being kind to the people around him. The people who he serves and the way he does it tells us a great deal about the nature of our Lord.

This week's passage concludes the Sermon on the Mount. And in it, we are given an illustration that sums up the consequences of what we do with it. It is a passage that certainly holds a warning for the reader, but also serves as a great encouragement.

Matthew 7:13-23 presents to us some of the most difficult teaching from Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount. It is a passage that draws attention to the fact that real followers of Jesus must be a transformed people and that there is no room in the kingdom for mere pretenders.