Teaching on Sermons (Page 8)
Happy Are the Persecuted
Matthew 5:10-12 For today, we are finishing up a series on the Beatitudes out of Matthew chapter 5. If you want to turn in your Bibles there, you can do that now. But it’s really been a joy for me to have this opportunity to preach and teach through the Beatitudes. It’s been convicting, but also encouraging to my own soul. And I just find our Lord’s teaching to be absolutely fascinating, brilliant. The depths of which we cannot plumb,…
Happy Are the Peacemakers
Matthew 5:9 Well good morning, Grace Church, we are starting off the new year this year, 2026, by continuing on in a study on the Beatitudes from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. If you want to, you can turn in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 5. And give or take a few years, it was right around 2000 years ago that Jesus preached what we have recorded in the Gospel of Matthew as the Sermon on the Mount. Nearly 2000…
Happy Are the Pure
Matthew 5:8 Well, it is a joy to be here with you this morning. It’s a joy to bring God’s Word to you this morning. It’s a privilege. But we are in the middle of a series on the Beatitudes out of Matthew chapter 5. So if you want to turn there in your copy of God’s Word, we’re going to read that in just a few moments. But here in the Sermon on the Mount, in this section on…
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…
Happy Are the Merciful
Matthew 5:7 If you are new, I started a series in the Beatitudes out of Matthew 5, back in the summer and we made it halfway through the Beatitudes before Travis got back in the pulpit in order to try to finish Luke. And as I mentioned earlier, he finished last week and so I am jumping back into the Beatitudes. But August 24th, that was a long time ago, the last time I preached out of the Beatitudes. So…
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…