Love Like the Father (not like the world)

By on Apr 13, 2025

Introduction: The Love Displayed on the Cross They had just driven the spikes through his hands and feet. Blood ran down his face from a crown of thorns they shoved onto his head and splashed into the puddles in the mud below him. Soldiers mocked and spit at him,...

Freed to Forgive from the Heart

By on Mar 30, 2025

Introduction: Why We Need to Understand Forgiveness Let’s get started. We are going to be not in Matthew chapter 5 today, but actually in Matthew 18. We’re going to take a little break to help us understand what we have to know to make sense of...

Trading Your Rights for Love

By on Mar 23, 2025

The Natural Desire for Retaliation I want you to think for a minute about the pleasure that people take in retaliation. Study after study—I was doing some reading in journals this week—show that humans are hardwired to like revenge. Neuroimaging experiments found that...

Let’s Have Fun!

By on Feb 9, 2025

Introduction Who here is looking forward to Camp? It looks like a lot of you are. I am very much looking forward to camp, and this is a great precursor for it because we are going to have a ton of fun at camp. We’re also going to be learning a lot from God’s Word....

Just Tell the Truth

By on Feb 2, 2025

All right, guys, take a seat. Good singing. That is the perfect song, the perfect plea that Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount should bring us to. We cannot obtain the righteousness that we need for heaven by keeping God’s rules. It’s only Jesus’...

Adultery of Divorce

By on Jan 19, 2025

And let’s pray. God, that is our prayer—that you would be glorified. Christ, I pray that you would be glorified as we listen to your words that you preached when you were here. The Father’s words ring out in my ears when you, Jesus, were transfigured: “This is my...

Fight Sin: Your Life Depends On It

By on Dec 8, 2024

So tonight we are going to continue in Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount. We are breaking up Jesus’s sentences that came one after another, and we are taking two or three sentences and doing one week on them. I want to remind you, though, that the audience sitting there...

Immorality Occurs in the Heart

By on Dec 4, 2024

Introduction I love the refrain of that song: “The strength to follow Your commands could never come from me.” As we’re going to see today, the strength to follow what God commands truly cannot come from ourselves. We’re continuing in Jesus’s Sermon on the...

Brothers Reconcile From The Heart

By on Nov 3, 2024

Introduction: The High Standard of Righteousness So, open up your Bibles to Matthew 5, starting at verse 21. If you remember, this is what we studied last week, and we’ll cover the entire section this time. I want to remind you that in Matthew 5:20, right before this,...

Don’t Murder (In Your Heart)

By on Oct 28, 2024

Introduction Today, we’re going to apply what we’ve been learning about reading the Bible by returning to God’s Word together. We’ll be back in Matthew, picking up where we left off. Turn to Matthew 5, starting in verse 21. Before we dive in, I want you to anticipate...