Today we’ll continue to look at TWO key themeswe see in Matthew 11: Previously, we discussed Jesus as our friend.Today, we’ll examine Fatherhood with God as our father Our key questions are:  A) How would your life be different if you knew – God as YOUR father? B) How would our world be different if we knew– God as OUR father?  What if the great social issue of our day…

This week we will look at TWO key themes we see in Matthew 11: 1. Jesus as our friend2. God as our father Here are a few questions to help you prepare your heart: A) How would your life be different if you knew – Jesus as YOUR friend and– God as YOUR father? B) How would our world be different if we knew– Jesus as OUR friend…

Matthew 11 and 12 is all about Jesus’ identity.  Today we will see three things we need to do if we are going to experience the transformation and power he brings.  We need to not stumble…We need to chuckle…We need to be humble…  Join us today as we look at: the shocking claims Jesus makes about himself. And…

Matthew is building up to Jesus’ climactic question found in chapter 16: Who do you say that I am?  But before Jesus asks us who we think He is…He tells us who He thinks He is.  This section is all about Jesus’ identity. Chapters 8-9 showed us His work, and chapters 11-12 show us his person.  And Jesus tells…

Matthew 10 is Jesus’ sermon on missions.He is preparing his followers for their mission.In verses 5-15 He gives them power. They have power over sickness, the devil, death, uncleanness,BUT they do not have the power to escape opposition. In verse 16 there is a shift in focus: what is the relationship betweenpersecutionandmission? Jesus is preparing them for some of the deepest…

As we continue our Mission series in Matthew chapter 10, we will see just how important it is to follow directions in order to live a mission-sent life.

Sometimes we find ourselves in situations we are not prepared for. In 1939 a Polish cavalry officer, and his horse, were sent to defend Poland against a division of German Panzer tanks during the Nazi’s invasion of Poland. The officer found himself in a helpless and hopeless situation as he was sent into a fight…

When Jesus began his ministry, he called his first disciples who were fishermen and told them to follow him and he would make them fishers of people. And he went from town to town teaching in the synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom. At that time there was an expectation that religion was something to…

One helpful way of thinking about Matthew’s gospel is that it is a training manual for discipleship. It is a curriculum for the Christian life. You could say that chapters 5 through 9 give us our first semester’s study of who Jesus is: the teaching and touching savior. We hear him teaching, giving us His…

One of the most famous psychology experiments of all time is the “invisible gorilla” test (You can take the test below). It is a funny test, that most people fail miserably…if they haven’t been tipped off in advance! But it shows us how much that is right before us that we don’t actually see. Matthew…