by ray | Jul 31, 2012 | Matthew, NT, Sermons
Examine your life. Have you taken the Law and changed it to suit your preferences? Take for example, this command to love your neighbors as yourself, which includes your enemies. There are some who have no enemies, which is hard to believe, but if you stay away from...
by ray | Jul 3, 2012 | Matthew, NT, Sermons
How can we be merciful? First, you have to see how much sin you have been pardoned by a Holy God. Second, you have to see that the same sins that you see in others are in you. Take for example a sin like sexual harassment. Let’s say the person guilty of sexual...
by ray | Jul 3, 2012 | Matthew, NT, Sermons
The next relational blessing is related to meekness. v7– 7 Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. I think you can see how these 8 qualities are all connected. Christians ought to progress in all 8 of these areas simultaneously. If you are poor...
by ray | Aug 31, 2011 | Devotionals
Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. 2 Corinthians 5:18 The world abounds with people whose sin has alienated them from God. Christ’s sacrificial work has restored Christians...
by ray | Aug 29, 2011 | 1 Cor, NT, Sermons
2) The cross shapes our relationships The symptoms of spiritual sickness at this church were jealousy and quarreling. This is related to the first point about our new identity in Christ because underlying the in-fighting was a skewed self-identity. If you recall from...
