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 | Nov 8, 2012 | NT, Romans, Sermons
Quick review. “All things work together for good to those who love God…” If you don’t love God, you can’t bank on this promise. And we talked about what it means to love God. Loving God himself, not his gifts, not his benefits, but loving him for who he...
by ray | Nov 8, 2012 | NT, Romans, Sermons
What does it mean to love God? The best way I can think to make the answer clear is to say three things that love for God is not. The essence of love for God is not these three things. First, loving God is not meeting his needs. The way we love man is different from...
