Sunday Sermons

Now that we are firmly into 2026, we enter into the home stretch in our journey through the Gospel of Matthew. In this week’s text, Jesus addresses a question that his disciples, and all followers of his since, have asked: When will the end come? Our Lord gives us a word here that is meant to steel our resolve and prepare us to persevere in this age.

As we move beyond the Advent season, we look ahead to journeying together into 2026. Our hope is that we will grow in our love for Christ and mature as his followers. Our engagement with his Word is central to this goal. Deuteronomy 6:4–9 gives us a picture of what it means to be God’s people and shows how our approach to Scripture shapes our relationship with him.

Christmas Eve service

As we move into the third week of Advent, we continue to see what the New Testament epistles have to say about the incarnation of Jesus. Interestingly, in the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Galatian church, where he is emphatic about living in the truth of the crucified Christ, he takes a turn in chapter four to also recognize the importance of the incarnate Christ. 

The second week of Advent is often associated with the idea of peace. As we continue to anticipate “God With Us” by exploring what the New Testament epistles say about the incarnation, we as believers, can rejoice and rest in the peace that comes only through the generosity of Jesus Christ.

Advent is a season for us to reflect upon the profound miracle that God would become fully man in order to save us. But it is not something that is to be merely appreciated from afar. The incarnation of the living Lord is meant to be embraced in such a way that we are changed in meaningful and magnificent ways.

This week we took a look at the topic of assurance of salvation. Whether we can be sure that we are truly saved is a question that almost all believers struggle with from time to time, but it is not a question that lacks an answer.

In this final passage that we will look at before the Advent season, we see our Lord’s last verbal confrontation with the Pharisees in Matthew. It proves to be the strongest indictment against the religious establishment yet. The nature of the Pharisees’ hypocrisy is laid plainly before them and we get a glimpse of what is to come as a result of their sin.