Teaching from 2026 (Page 6)

Teaching from 2026 (Page 6)

God’s Will to Save Us

Colossians 1:12-14 Well, we are in the opening chapter of Paul’s letter to the Colossians, and I invite you to turn there. Open, there, in your Bibles as we consider just a few verses this morning along this same theme of redemption. Colossians 1:12 to 14 will be our text and that will prepare our hearts to celebrate the Lord’s table. The theme this morning is redemption, or we could say gratitude for our redemption, just as we heard in…

Encouraging a Discouraged Church

Hebrews 1-13 Go ahead and take your Bibles and turn right over to Hebrews for what we’re going to do together, move through the entire book of Hebrews. I just want to give you a little bit of a running introduction. Over the past couple weeks, we’ve introduced the book of Hebrews and we’ve covered it, some matters of introduction. So it’s genre, authorship, recipients, occasion, even took a stab at the date of Hebrews, and here’s what we’ve come…

What a Worthy Walk Looks Like

Colossians 1:10-12 Well, as we turn to God’s Word this morning, you can open your Bibles to Colossians 1, which is Paul’s prayer report for the Colossians. So encouraging, strengthening, aspirational, and really, it’s worth reflecting on the power of giving prayer reports like Paul has done here. It’s a good, profitable, deeply encouraging thing, when more mature Christians tell less mature Christians that they are praying for them and how they are praying for them. Now, if some Christian…

Who Are These Hebrews

All right. We are starting into, as you know, a study of Hebrews and just getting started with some introductory matters, such as who wrote this letter to the Hebrews, to whom he wrote, when he wrote it, for what reason. And so we’re going to get into that more tonight, four points in total. So two last week and two more for tonight. I’m going to, just going to review very quickly the two we covered last week, starting…

Five Steps to Walk Worthy

Colossians 1:9-10 All right, open your Bibles to Colossians. We’ve started into a study of this short little letter, but make no mistake, though it’s short, it punches far above its weight and delivers to the church of all the ages the first of several New Testament treatises on the supremacy of Christ. The, the other two treatises that deal with this same subject, on the supremacy of Christ, Hebrews, but also John’s Gospel, both Hebrews and John’s Gospel are…

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…

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,…