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The Heart of Humility Introduction: In the Gospel of Luke, we come to a profound teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ A parable that contrasts two men, two prayers, and two very different spiritual conditions. Imagine standing at a crossroads, two paths diverging before you, each leading to a destination…

10 For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the Lord , and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel. Interesting Facts: It contains 28 chapters. It contains 20 parables. It contains 21 miracles. It is an ecclesiastical gospel. Meaning it is the only gospel to use the word church (16:18)…

Luke 18:9-14 “ Also He spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other…

Introduction Summarize: This past Christmas fell on Sunday and we were blessed to consider our savior, the promised messiah, and how He was born in humility. We saw the genealogy of Christ, the birth of Christ, the seeking of Christ by the wise men, and the rejection and persecution of Christ by Herod.…

Struck with astonishment By this time in ministry Jesus is bringing out lots of different thoughts and emotions. After the paralytic it was astonishment and fear, bringing glory to God (5:26) After the leper it drew even larger crowds wanting healing (5:15) When calling Peter, James, John, Andrew it…

If we are not careful, there comes a time in our desire to live Christ-honoring lives when we establish rules to live by that may be helpful, but are not scriptural mandates. What happens from time to time is churches might take an application of a biblical principle and make it the biblical principle.…

INTRODUCTION . “ Mississippi Squirrel Revival ” - Ray Stevens First Self-Righteous Church - Pascagoula The day the squirrel went berserk In the First Self-Righteous Church In that sleepy little town of Pascagoula (Pascagoula) It was a fight for survival that broke out in revival They were jumpin' pews…

Luke 19:1-10 Zacchaeus Last Sunday we were in Luke 18 - The story of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector. The Pharisee stood up proudly saying - I thank you that I am not like those others. The tax collector beat his breast. Turning to God and asking for mercy and help. We read the words of Jesus: The…

What is forgiveness and how does it affect our lives? Forgiveness, according to the Bible, is generally understood as God's promise not to count our sins against us. Biblical forgiveness requires us to repent of our past by confessing and turning away from our old life of sin and growing in faith and…

Jesus calls Sinners The call of God is for every sinner. As we discussed last week, a sinner is one who has fallen from the original righteousness given when God created man. Because man choose to listen to the voice of one other than God Almighty, he became a transgressor and pulled all of humanity…

Introduction: It has been said in the past that the church is the only fellowship in the world where the one requirement for membership is the unworthiness of the candidate (repeat). What a statement, Church. Wouldn’t churches across the world look a little differently if this was how we truly viewed…

Jesus Calls Matthew Matt 9:9-13 “As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him. And as Jesus reclined at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Jesus…

Reflections Study group Joy & Helen attended Rev. Geoff New’s seminar on preaching the parables Geoff has developed, based on the work of Warren Wierbse, and with its roots in Ignatian spiritual disciplines, a way of reading the parables that immerses us deeply in the Living word of God. We’ve had two…

This morning we are continuing series titled Criticizing Jesus: The Words of Jesus. In this five-week series we will look at the criticisms Jesus faced during his ministry. What does each criticism reveal about Jesus’s character, priorities, authority, and mission? If you look at the Gospels you can…

I. The Unlikely Prospect. (v.13-14) 13 He went out again beside the sea, and all the crowd was coming to him, and he was teaching them. 14 And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him. A. Jesus Calls Levi.…

Big Idea: Jesus has called sinners, and only sinners, to follow Him. Even the worst of the worst can be saved Salvation calls for Celebration Righteous people don’t need saving The beauty of the gospel of Jesus Christ should be evident this morning in our text as we see the event of Jesus calling Levi,…

Has anything exciting ever happened in your town? (Allow response.) Maybe a circus or a fair or even the President came to your town! What do people usually do when something exciting is going to happen? (Allow response.) They might put posters up or show what is happening on TV. They could even post…

The Persistent Widow Last week Hope spoke to us about the need to pray always and not to lose heart. The parable that Jesus told - of the persistent widow. How she kept on bothering the unjust judge, knocking on his door - persistently pestering until eventually he relents... The New Revised Standard…

A Scandalous Friendship Mark 2:13–17 The essence of believing in Christ is believing, first of all, that you are a sinner, hopeless, not redeemable by any of your own works. Cultural Comments The Savior, the Messiah had come into the world in our time, to our country in the year 2022. He had come for…

Title : Repent to be Ready Text : Luke 3:1-14 INTRODUCTION Let’s turn together in our Bibles to Luke’s gospel. Luke, chapter 3. & we’re gonna read verses 1-14 . Luke 3:1-14 . & when you find that in your Bible Pls stand for the reading of God’s Word. The title of today’s teaching is: Repent to be Ready.…

1 And getting into a boat he crossed over and came to his own city. 2 And behold, some people brought to him a paralytic, lying on a bed. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Take heart, my son; your sins are forgiven.” 3 And behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, “This…

Jesus Saves The mission of Jesus is to preach the good news the miracles was only to prove to the world that He was the Messiah so Jesus came to His home town to start His mission by proclaiming who He is “ THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME , BECAUSE HE ANOINTED ME TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR .…

I recently went in to see my dear friends Ed & Sue. We watched a movie together. If you ever get to see the movie, “The World’s Fastest Indian”, see it. You may ask, why did we watch it? It’s not about an indian- it’s about an Indian. An Indian Motorcycle That is Burt Munro’s 1920 Indian Scout. It had…

After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, “Follow me.” So, leaving everything behind, he got up and began to follow him. Then Levi hosted a grand banquet for him at his house. Now there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others who…

Introduction: Many of us in here this morning made at least one New Years' resolution. We want to be fitter. We want to travel more. We want to read through the whole Bible. We want to deepen relationships. Resolutions are made because we want something different in our lives. We want to make a change…