Watching and Waiting

Watching and Waiting

Father in heaven, help us now as we come to your Word. We want to be a confident people, you want us to be an assured people, but oh Lord may we not be a presumptuous people. Help us to have a keen eye to see our own sin and hypocrisy and then to cast…

When Jesus Speaks Against You

When Jesus Speaks Against You

The text this morning comes from Matthew’s Gospel, first book in the New Testament, Matthew chapter 21, looking at verses 33 through 46 as we continue with this series leading up to Easter and these parables that Jesus tells during Holy Week. These conflicts in and around the temple on this one Tuesday, as He…

The Other Two Sons

The Other Two Sons

Father, we have just sung these words and we trust that we paid attention to the words that we were signing and so we ask again truly from the bottom of our hearts that you would show us Christ. I need your help to preach, I am inadequate in myself for the task so send…

God With Us

God With Us

Our text this morning is Matthew chapter 1, beginning at verse 18 through the end of the chapter.  Matthew chapter 1.  As you find your way there, let’s pray that the Lord would help us. Gracious heavenly Father, we come to this text which may be new to some of us, familiar to many of…

The Genesis of Jesus

The Genesis of Jesus

Father in heaven, help us now as we learn, perhaps for the first time or become reacquainted for the hundredth time, this great, great story of salvation and the birth of our Savior and King, the Lord Jesus Christ, in whose name we pray.  Amen.    Follow along as I read from the Gospel according…

What Will You Do With Jesus?

What Will You Do With Jesus?

Continuing our reading from Matthew chapter 27, beginning at verse 15. “Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release for the crowd any one prisoner whom they wanted. And they had then a notorious prisoner called Barabbas. So when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release…