When it comes to the topic of Christ’s return, many Christians either get confused or become engrossed in speculation and date setting. However, in our study of Matthew 24:1-14, we are urged to focus less on predicting the end and more on how we should live in light of it.

It’s sobering to realize that some of Jesus’s harshest words were aimed at those considered the most religious. In Matthew 23, we find Jesus judging those whose lives are marked by hypocrisy, pride, and self-centeredness. At the same time, He urges His disciples to live lives marked by service, humility, and integrity.

Jesus' enemies have been trying to entangle him. And until this point, Jesus has been the one questioned. But in this week's passage, we see Jesus go on the offensive. Jesus asks his own question, and not surprisingly, it's the question.

This week we see that corporate prayer is an essential means of grace for the body of Christ.

Most of us spend most of our waking hours engaged in some kind of work. This is good because God created us to work. But it is imperative that we connect Sunday worship to Monday work. We must connect what Scripture teaches us about rest to what it teaches us about work.

In this well-known but sometimes misunderstood teaching of Jesus, we discover that love is the measure of spiritual maturity. Nothing else. And that Jesus’s definition of love differs greatly from our culture's.

Special songs often mark special occasions. On the happy occasion of our church's 40th anniversary, we will study an inspired song to help us respond to God's blessing.

Once again Jesus masterfully refutes the attacks of the religious leader. He takes their complete lack of knowing the Scriptures or the power of God as an opportunity to affirm the consummation and regeneration of all things in the resurrection.

Lying about taxes and bowing to public opinion could be called national pastimes. The Pharisees bring both of these to bear on Jesus in hopes of publicly entangling him in his words. Jesus easily exposes their hypocrisy and enlightens them, and us, to the right way to think about him, public opinion and taxes.