Teaching by Travis Allen (Page 5)
A Brief Pastoral Exhortation
Hebrews Welcome to our Sunday night service, and welcome as we’re embarking on a really fascinating study, exciting study of Hebrews, this excellent book. You can turn there. And due to how much we don’t know about this amazing book, I know that I’m going to need this week and next week, hopefully just the two weeks, but these two weeks to work through some introductory matters. So if you’re in Hebrews, we’ll look at chapter 1. I’m going to…
Why We Give Thanks
Colossians 1:3-8 It is a good spirit of gratitude and thanksgiving that we find in our text this morning. Turn in your Bibles to Colossians chapter 1, as we start to make our way through this short epistle, just start making some progress into it. We’re at the very beginning of the letter, just past the greetings and the salutations in verses 1 and 2. We’re entering into a section of thanksgiving that begins the long introductory section that goes…
For Staying Stable and Steadfast
Colossians 1:1-2 We have an opportunity this morning to do something we don’t often get to do, which is to start a brand new study in the book of the Bible. So open your Bibles to the letter of Paul to the Colossians. Any introduction to a literary work, especially a book of the Bible, will involve several elements; talk about the title, Colossians; name for the people to whom Paul wrote; the date of the writing; the author, it’s…
The Worship of the Magi
Matthew 2:1-12 If the music didn’t give it away and the Scripture reading didn’t give it away, I’ll have you turn to Matthew chapter 2, because that’s the text we’re going to cover tonight, in just a few moments of reflection on the worship of the wise men, the worship of the Magi. We ended this morning taking note of those whom God had favored when he chose to reveal the birth of Jesus Christ. We talked about Zechariah, the…
True Glory, Real Peace
Luke 2:14 Well, as we come to our time in God’s Word this Christmas morning, I’d like to return to what was just read for us in Luke’s Gospel. So go ahead and open your Bibles to Luke chapter 2. Luke chapter 2 and as we think about the meaning of Christmas, which we really love to do every year in this season, I want to draw your attention to really what is the centerpiece of that text that Bret…
Why Christ Went Away
Selected Scriptures Well, as I mentioned last week, before closing the book on Luke’s Gospel, I wanted to come back for one more sermon on the Gospel’s final event, which is the ascension of Jesus Christ. As a matter of fact, you wouldn’t know it unless I told you maybe, but in the exposition I gave last week on the final paragraph, I passed by one significant word in the text and set that word aside so we could address…
The Joy in Christ’s Ascension
Luke 24:50-53 We’ve come to the final verses of Luke’s Gospel. I invite you to turn there, Luke 24:50 to 53. And as I’ve anticipated preaching this final paragraph, I’ll admit to having some mixed emotions about this. I’m somewhat reluctant to come to the end of this magnificent and beloved Gospel that’s taught me so much about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. But on my reflection and study, I’ve changed my mind that I’m not mournful to leave…
The Continuing Commission
Luke 24:47-49 We return to our Lord’s Great Commission, which you’ll find in Luke 24:44, Luke 24:44, and through verse 49. This is the epilogue of the Gospel of Luke that really is summing up the first volume for us. And then Luke points us ahead to the second volume, the book of Acts. The theme of the first volume, which we learned about last week, is certainty in the truth. Like I say, we learned about it last week.…
The Only Source of Certainty
Luke 24:44-46 Well, I’d like to invite you to open your Bibles to Luke 24, Luke 24. And at the end of that chapter, we are in verses 44 to 49. We find here Luke’s record of Jesus Great Commission, a Commission that he gave on several occasions and this is Luke citing one of those. Luke 24:44 to 49 form something of an epilogue to Luke’s Gospel, kind of sums up the message of the entire work and then…
The Lord of Peace
Luke 24:36-43 We are at the end of Luke’s Gospel in Luke chapter 24, so you’ll want to turn there in your Bibles, and you can follow along as I read. I’m going to jump right into it, Luke 24, starting in verse 36 to the end of Luke’s Gospel. “Now while they were telling these things, he himself stood in their midst and said to them, ‘Peace to you.’ But being startled and frightened, they were thinking that they…