Coming up on 32 years ago I preached for the first time. Armed with 11 pages of notes, I preached for what seemed to be hours. When I sat down, I glanced at a clock to realize that I had blazed through those 11 pages of notes in 9 minutes. I share...

The parable before us is typical of how Jesus used the parables. He simply threw the story alongside the teaching. So, we probably ought to back up just a bit this morning and present several principles for interpreting parables. These principles will...

Jesus was a master storyteller. People of Jesus’ day were not really any different from people of today in the sense that they related to stories. Jesus took these stories using the familiar things of everyday life to capture the attention of His...

John wrote to us that he had written “these things” to us so that we can know that we have eternal life. What are these things? If we are going to understand “these things,” we must consider the whole letter of John. I want to show you six questions...