Holy Week Parables

Gracious heavenly Father, we cling to your promise that your Word never returns empty, always accomplishes its purposes and so we pray that we might have good hearts to be good soil. We might not be hardened; we might be made soft and pliable. You might till the soil of our hearts to receive your…

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…

O Lord, we ask with the psalmist, teach us the way of your statues and we will keep them to the end. Give us understanding that we may keep your law and observe it with our whole heart. Lead us in the path of your commandments for we delight in them. Incline our hearts to…

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…

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…