Biblical Preaching

This message launches from Matthew 11:28-30 and explores the Book of Hebrews to recognize the rest that Christ gives to those who are weary and burdened by life.

This message draws from Jesus's instruction to His apostles on the night of His betrayal. In John 15, Christ revealed that His followers must bear fruit or they will be cut from the vine and cast into the fire. Christ is the vine and all Christians must bear fruit. Other scriptures expand on this truth and encourage the faithful to find joy in Christ by being fruitful.

This message launches from Acts 17 to observe how the apostle Paul spoke before Greek philosophers in the ancient city of Athens and how he opened the door leading people to consider Jesus. Paul began with the greatness of God and how God created the nations to seek and find Him for He is not far from anyone. This message continues by recognizing the model of evangelism in the New Testament and how Christians can begin to imitate this approach today.

This message draws from Matthew 22:23-33 to see how Jesus responded to the Sadducees' test to disprove the resurrection. Christ confronted their mistake as He revealed that they did not know the Scriptures nor the power of God.

In this lesson, Jesus teaches us how to apply the Scriptures written long ago as though written to us today and Jesus revealed how the very tense of a word proves that God is the God of the living including those who passed away and who will resurrect on the last day.

This message is drawn from Jesus's reading in Matthew 21:33-44. Jesus taught in the Temple telling the Parable of the Vineyard Owner. This lesson looks at Jesus's claim to be the rejected stone that became the cornerstone and explores the imagery of the stone predicted to conquer the world.

Launching from Jesus's response to religious leaders after cleansing the temple, this message draws from those events to see whom Christ received in the Temple including children praising Him as God from Psalm 8.

This message draws from Matthew 19:3-9 to observe what Jesus teaches about marriage and how divorce was not permitted from the beginning when God created humanity male and female. Furthermore, Jesus defined another marriage after divorce as adultery with exception if one divorced a spouse for extramarital sex.

This is the 2nd lesson in this series. This sermon series launches each sermon from Jesus's response to religious leaders asking, "Have You Not Read?"

Jesus often responded to religious leaders asking an exposing question: "Have you not read?" This message draws from Matthew 12:1-8 to see how we need to read the Bible, handle it rightly, practice mercy, and recognize the authority of Christ over religious traditions.

What is God doing during world affairs --- plagues, famines, and wars? This message draws from Psalm 46 and other Psalms to see how God has been active in influencing the nations and enacting justice. This lesson considers the authority of Christ now from Psalm 2 and from Revelation 19.

What makes America great? Should it be freedom or righteousness? This message draws from Proverbs 14:32-35 among other scriptures to recognize how Christians are free in Christ and how that freedom has blessed the world. Biblical truth has set the fundamental values that have made America free.