This 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 20:1-16Christians disagree about almost everything. And when we disagree, we usually start a new church. Which reminds me of a […]
Text: Acts 15:36-41Lord, don’t you care – that my child is sick, my marriage is falling apart, I have no money, I feel so alone? All of us have moments when life tumbles in around us, when we feel utterly alone and forgotten by God. In those moments we have a choice to make.
Text: Mark 4:35-41When you pray for a loved one who seems hardened against the Lord, pray that the eyes of their heart might be opened so that the light of God can come flooding in. And if that seems hopeless, at least it puts the hopeless case at God’s doorstep, which is where it belongs.
Text: Ephesians 1:18Last week’s sermon was called Straight Talk About Predestination. If I were giving someone else advice, I would say that […]
Text: Romans 9:30-33With this message we come to the final installment in the series called Adventures in Prayer. When we started I […]
Text: Romans 8:26-27Our basic problem is that we have allowed God to be everywhere but on his throne. No wonder we are unhappy and frustrated and unfulfilled. Let God be God and all will be well.
Text: Romans 9:6-18In the end we will discover that though we failed the Lord a thousand times, he never failed us, not even once.
Text: Romans 9:6-18Have you ever wondered what life would be like if you weren’t married? If somehow you were suddenly single again? […]
Text: 1 Corinthians 13:7Are you familiar with term asymmetric warfare? It’s a concept that has received lots of news coverage in the recent […]
Sermon Series: Asymmetric Spiritual Warfare