by ray | Dec 3, 2012 | Matthew, NT, Sermons
What are they? What are some signs that you are a kingdom citizen? 1) You ask a lot of questions. 2) You are willing to give up everything to enter the kingdom. 3) You change. First sign that you are a kingdom citizen: you ask a lot of questions. Why do you ask...
by ray | Dec 3, 2012 | Matthew, NT, Sermons
Turn with me to Matthew 13. Keep it open. We’ll be covering most of the chapter. I want to talk about being a citizen in the kingdom of heaven. Most of us here are citizens of the United States of America. You are a citizen of this country because you were either born...
by ray | Nov 29, 2012 | Matthew, NT, Sermons
RECAP 1) Religion is all about rules. 2) Religious people are more interested in self than others. 3) Religious people think God wants them to sacrifice and mercy is completely foreign to them. 4) Religious people bear bad fruit. 5) Religious people deal with sin...
by ray | Nov 29, 2012 | Matthew, NT, Sermons
1) Jesus shows that religion is all about rules. 1 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them. 2 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “Look! Your disciples are...
by ray | Nov 29, 2012 | Matthew, NT, Sermons
Hope you had a good Thanksgiving. I heard that the dorms provided turkeys for dinner on Thanksgiving. And they were cooked by some of you here. I am not sure how those turkeys turned out. I trust they were good. If you are not an experienced turkey chef, you have no...
by ray | Oct 24, 2012 | Matthew, NT, Sermons
4) Rest for the sinner Jesus provides rest for those who minister, he provides rest for the doubters, he provides rest for those who are suffering, and lastly, Jesus provides rest for the sinner. Jesus prefaces the verses about rest with verses 16-24 about sin. Before...