Category: <span>Sermons</span>

Matthew 7:1-5 Last week we started this portion of the Sermon on the Mount by talking about judgment, what it is and how it affects us. R.T. Kendall defines the judgment that Jesus warns us against in this Scripture as “uncalled for criticism”; it is when we apply our convictions to someone else’s life, when...

Matthew 7:1-5 The Sermon on the Mount is God’s description of His character, His kingdom and His requirements for our hearts. “Surpassing righteousness” is not about curbing our behavior it is about opening our hearts to the conviction and direction of the Holy Spirit who always glorifies Jesus and leads us in the Way to...

This Sunday our prayer pastor Geannine LeBude was our speaker. Below is the introduction to her sermon.   I shared in May how Queen Esther prepared a Banquet of Wine for the King instead of petitioning him with her request. She prepared this lavish dinner with the best of wine for the soul purpose of...

Matthew 6:25-34 This week we concluded our series on anxiety Matthew 6:25-34 by focusing on Matthew 6:32-34. We have been studying that anxiety will ask questions that we cannot answer and tries to convince us to take responsibility for things we are not responsible for. Jesus reveals to us that we are not condemned for...

Matthew 6:25-34 In our text today Jesus doesn’t ask questions that reveal the nature and creator of anxiety as He has done so far in this passage; instead He attacks the questions of anxiety with one truth that He has been building toward in the entire Sermon on the Mount. The Sermon opened with the...

Matthew 6:25-34 So far we have studied Jesus’ first three questions of this passage: “Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?” “Are you not of more value than [the birds]”? And“Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?” Each of these questions has been asked...

Matthew 6:25-34 Anxiety asks questions that we can’t answer in an effort to diminish the truth we are confident in. As we have been studying, Jesus’ approach to dealing with anxiety is to expose it for what it is and who it comes from. He doesn’t do this by answering its questions though. For so...

Matthew 6:25-34 Last week we began this section of the Sermon on the Mount in which Jesus questions anxiety. His repeated statement “Do not worry” is an encouragement and a comfort; it is not an assignment that we have to find the ability to accomplish or even a command that we have to summon up...

Matthew 6:25-34 Have you ever been anxious? Most of us have been anxious and the truth is that many of us live with anxiety, not as a companion but as an almost constant adversary, questioning everything about us and trying to unravel everything given to us. The Bible says some very specific things about anxiety....

Matthew 6:24 This morning as we move forward in the Sermon on the Mount I want to remind us that the key verse to the sermon continues to be Matthew 5:20, “unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will be no means enter the kingdom of heaven.” Everything after that...