Good soil can be hard to find, but when you find it, amazing things can happen.
Text: Matthew 13:1-9; 18-23This parable is not just teaching us about final rewards. It is also probing at the level of our motives. Why are we doing what we do? If it’s a straight reward you want, fine, you’ll get it. God will never cheat you. But that’s all you’ll get. And you’ll go to heaven grumbling all the way, always checking to see how you are doing compared with someone else – overestimating your own importance and underestimating the grace of God. But if you decide to do your work for the Lord’s sake alone, you will never be disappointed.
Text: Matthew 20:1-16“Then He said to his disciples, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few…’ What did Jesus mean? He meant there were many people ready to be harvested for the Kingdom. All around us there are broken, bleeding, hurting people, ripped apart and left to die, they are ready to be reached if only someone will go to the harvest fields. If only someone will tell them about Jesus. Where are the harvest fields today? Let me name a few ….
Text: Matthew 9:35-38[Note: A spike was placed under every chair in the sanctuary] It’s a bit awkward for me to be speaking […]
Text: Matthew 1:18-25(A few days ago I received a letter that took over a month to finally reach me. It came from […]
Sermon Series: Christmas MessagesJesus stands at the end of life’s road for all of us. In the end there can be no middle ground.
Text: Matthew 2:1-6One Sunday morning a wife tried to wake her husband up for church. He kept his eyes closed and said, […]
Text: Matthew 18:15-20I had the honor of hearing the Messiah give an amazing message on the side of a mountain last year […]
Text: Matthew 5:23-24Let’s begin with a little quiz. What well-known television actor said the following? “To me the greatest Latin lover in […]
Text: Matthew 19:6(Date: January 20, 1991) What a week it’s been for all of us! This has been one of those rare […]
Text: Matthew 24:6