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Saturday, September 18, 2010

The Sermon on The Mount Series

Thursday, September 16, 2010

September 5, 2010 - Not By the Hairs of My Chinny Chin Chin: Standing on the Rock of the Gospel

I know I'm really behind but there were problems with the recording and audio and I just got around to fixing it. This is the message from two Sunday's ago and is the conclusion to our series on the Sermon on the Mount. In the near future I will post all links and messages from our long series on this wonderful and greatest sermon every delivered by our Lord.

In the meantime, here is the message from Matthew 7:24-29.

Audio
Notes

For more:
Whose Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?: A Children's Tale With a Biblical Message
January 17, 2010 - Matthew 5:1-12 - If Your Joyful and You Know It . . .
January 24, 2010 - Matthew 5:13 - Stuck Between Salt and Manure: The Call to Preserve the Gospel
January 31, 2010 - Matthew 5:14-26 - Its Dark in Here: The Call to be the Light of the World
February 7, 2010 - Matthew 5:17-20 - Medium Rare is Unbiblical or What Do Christians Do with the Law
February 14, 2010 - Matthew 5:21-22 - I Am a Murderer . . . And So Are You
February 21, 2010 - Matthew 5:23-26 - Resetting What Was Broken: The Necessity of Reconciliation
February 28, 2010 - Matthew 5:27-30 - America's Pastime: Our Lust for Lust
March 7, 2010 - Matthew 5:31-32 - The Gospel and Divorce: What Does the Bible Say?
March 14, 2010 - Matthew 5:33-37 - Allergies to Toast, the Gospel, and Integrity
March 21, 2010 - Matthew 5:38-42 - I Surrender! I Surrender!
March 28, 2010 - Matthew 5:43-48 - Love God as He Loved You
May 23, 2010 - Matthew Thus Far: Matthew 1-5
January 17, 2010 - Matthew 5:1-12 - If Your Joyful and You Know It . . .
January 24, 2010 - Matthew 5:13 - Stuck Between Salt and Manure: The Call to Preserve the Gospel
January 31, 2010 - Matthew 5:14-26 - Its Dark in Here: The Call to be the Light of the World
February 7, 2010 - Matthew 5:17-20 - Medium Rare is Unbiblical or What Do Christians Do with the Law
February 14, 2010 - Matthew 5:21-22 - I Am a Murderer . . . And So Are You
February 21, 2010 - Matthew 5:23-26 - Resetting What Was Broken: The Necessity of Reconciliation
February 28, 2010 - Matthew 5:27-30 - America's Pastime: Our Lust for Lust
March 7, 2010 - Matthew 5:31-32 - The Gospel and Divorce: What Does the Bible Say?
March 14, 2010 - Matthew 5:33-37 - Allergies to Toast, the Gospel, and Integrity
March 21, 2010 - Matthew 5:38-42 - I Surrender! I Surrender!
March 28, 2010 - Matthew Thus Far: Matthew 1-5
January 17, 2010 - Matthew 5:1-12 - If Your Joyful and You Know It . . .
January 24, 2010 - Matthew 5:13 - Stuck Between Salt and Manure: The Call to Preserve the Gospel
January 31, 2010 - Matthew 5:14-26 - Its Dark in Here: The Call to be the Light of the World
February 7, 2010 - Matthew 5:17-20 - Medium Rare is Unbiblical or What Do Christians Do with the Law
February 14, 2010 - Matthew 5:21-22 - I Am a Murderer . . . And So Are You
February 21, 2010 - Matthew 5:23-26 - Resetting What Was Broken: The Necessity of Reconciliation
February 28, 2010 - Matthew 5:27-30 - America's Pastime: Our Lust for Lust
March 7, 2010 - Matthew 5:31-32 - The Gospel and Divorce: What Does the Bible Say?
March 14, 2010 - Matthew 5:33-37 - Allergies to Toast, the Gospel, and Integrity
March 21, 2010 - Matthew 5:38-42 - I Surrender! I Surrender!
March 28, 2010 - Matthew 6:1-4 - Camouflaged Gold: Why Christians Should Give In Secret
May 30, 2010 - Matthew 6:5-8 - Jesus on Prayer: Our Inward Motivations
June 6, 2010 - Matthew 9-13 - The Model Prayer
June 13, 2010 - Matthew 6:14-15 - The Forgiven Forgive: The Inseparable Reality of the Gospel of Forgiveness
June 27, 2010- Matthew 6:16-18 - The Gospel of Self-Denial: Why Fasting is Biblical and What it Says About Our Faith
July 11, 2010 - Matthew 6:19-24 - Investing in the Kingdom of God
August 1, 2010 - Matthew 6:25-34 - Worry and the Providence of God: What Our Anxiety Says About What We Believe About God
August 8, 2010 - Matthew 7:1-6 - Judge Not But Please Remove This Speck. Its Killing My Eye: Learning to Judge Righteously, Not Hypocritically
August 15, 2010 - Matthew 7:7-12 - The Golden Rule and a Community of Love
August 22, 2010 - Matthew 7:13-14 - The Gospel is for Fools: How to Empty a Church and Grow a Kingdom
August 29, 2010 - Matthew 7:15-23: Watch for False Gospels

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Whose Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?: A Children's Tale With a Biblical Message

This may be our conclusion tomorrow. A great story that remains practical today.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

August 29, 2010 - Matthew 7:15-12: Watch for False Gospels

Here are the audio and notes from last Sunday's morning message. We are quickly coming to the end of our study of the Sermon on the Mount. Next Sunday will be our final message on this wonderful text of Scripture. I hope it has been as much of a blessing for ya as it has been for me.

Monday, August 23, 2010

August 22, 2010 - Matthe 7:13-14 - The Gospel is For Fools: How to Empty a Church and Grow a Kingdom

Here are the notes and audio from yesterday morning taken from Matthew 7:13-14. Certainly it is an unpopular message, but the gospel is itself unpopular. Its is hard to believe and comes with a great cost. And let us preach it as fools!

August 15, 2010 - Matthew 7:7-12: The Golden Rule and a Community of Love

Thursday, August 12, 2010

August 1, 2010 - Matthew 6:25-34 - Worry and the Providence of God: What Our Anxiety Says About What We Believe About God

August 8, 2010 - Matthew 7:1-6 - Judge Not But Please Remove This Speck. Its Killing My Eye: Learning to Judge Righteously, Not Hypocritically

Here is the audio and notes from last Sunday's message.

Audio
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For more:

Bonhoeffer on the Golden Rule

I found this interesting from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's pen regarding the Golden Rule.

To sum up: it is clear from the foregoing that the disciple has no special privilege or power of his own in all his intercourse with others. The mainspring of his life and work is the strength which comes from fellowship with Jesus Christ. Jesus offers his disciples a simple rule of thumb which will enable even the least sophisticated of them to tell whether this intercourse with others is on the right lines or not. All he need do is to say ‘I’ instead of ‘Thou,’ and put himself in the other man’s place. ‘All things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for this is the law and the prophets.” The moment he does that, the disciple forfeits all advantage over other men, and can no longer excuse in himself what he condemns in others. He is as strict in condemning evil in himself as he was before with others, and as lenient with the evil in others as he was before to himself. The evil in the other person is exactly the same evil as in ourselves. There is only one judgment, one law, and one grace. Henceforth the disciple will look upon other men as forgiven sinners who owe their lives to the love of God. ‘This is the law and the prophets’ – for this is none other than the supreme commandment: to love God above all things and our neighbours as ourselves. -The Cost of Discipleship, 188.

Saturday, August 7, 2010

A Parable From Home Improvement

Tomorrow we'll be discussing hypocritical judgmentalism from Matthew 7:1-6. I thought the following clip from the show Home Improvement was a great illustration of the Jesus parable of the two men, one with a speck in his eye and the other with an entire plank.

Saturday, July 31, 2010

MacArthur on Anxiety

My favorite pastor/author is none other than Dr. John MacArthur. I have almost all of his commentaries and dozens of his books. I have listened to probably close to a 100 of his sermons and lectures and have benefited from him throughout my life. He has shaped my thinking and my sanctification.

In his commentary on Matthew 1-7, John MacArthur had some insightful things to say regarding our text for the morning: Matthew 6:25-34. This text discusses the issue of anxiety and worry in our lives and as MacArthur points out, what is really at stake isn't stress, but God's providence. Will we trust in the providence of God or will we seek to trust in our limited, temporal, and weak providence?

MacArthur writes:

Worry is the sin of distrusting the promise and providence of God, and yet it is a sin that Christians commit perhaps more frequently than any other. -419

I think he's right. The most neglected doctrines of God and how they show up in our lives are God's Providence, His Soveriegnty, and His Holiness. I believe the reason the church is so anemic today is because we do not appreciate (and barely believe if at all) these foundational doctrines of God. Affirm these and we will lives of peace, comfort, assurance, contentment, and righteousness (just to name the few).

MacArthur goes on to add the following illustration regarding the things we worry about:

It has been reported that a dense fog extensive enough to cover seven city blocks a hundred feet deep is composed of less than one glass of water – divided into sixty thousand million droplets. In the right form, a few gallons of water can cripple a large city. In a similar way, the substance of worry is nearly always extremely small compared to the size it forms in our minds and the damage it does in our lives. -419

What is it that they say? Only a very small percentage of things we worry about actually become reality. Its amazing how a cup of water can affect a city through fog and how the smallest thing can destroy our lives through needless worrying.

Finally, MacArthur offers the final bit of wisdom and exhortation:

‘You believe that god can redeem you save you from your sin, break the shackles of Satan, take you to heaven where He has prepared a place for you, and keep you for all eternity,’ Jesus is saying, ‘and yet you do not trust Him to supply your daily needs?’ We freely put our eternal destiny in His hands, but at times refuse to believe He will provide what we need to eat, drink, and wear. -424-425

Once again, MacArthur confronts us with a reality we must face. Why is it do we trust God with eternal realities and not with present and future earthly realities? Could it be that since we have no control over our eternal souls we are forced to trust in Him? But the present world, on the other hand, we feel as if we are in control. How foolish we are. Or as Jesus puts it in this passage, O you of little faith!

See you in the morning.

For more:
Bonhoeffer on Anxiety

Friday, July 30, 2010

Bonhoeffer on Anxiety

In his chapter on Matthew 6:19-34, Dietrich Bonhoeffer has some excellent things to say regarding the Christian and anxiety. Though the following quotes are longer than normal, they are well worth our read. These are taken from his book The Cost of Discipleship:

They way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day. By trying to ensure for the next day we are only crating uncertainty to-day. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. The only way to win assurance is by leaving to-morrow entirely in the hands of God and by receiving from him all we need for to-day. If instead of receiving God’s gifts for to-day we worry about tomorrow, we find ourselves helpless victims of infinite anxiety. ‘Be not anxious for the morrow’: either that is cruel mockery for the poor and wretched, the very people Jesus is talking to who, humanly speaking, really will starve if they do not make provision to-day. Either it is an intolerable law, which men will reject with indignation; or it is the unique proclamation of the gospel of the glorious liberty of the children of God, who have a Father in heaven, a Father who has given his beloved Son. How shall not God with him also freely give us all things?

"Be not anxious for the morrow.’ This is not to be taken as a philosophy of life or a oral law: it is the gospel of Jesus Christ, and only so can it be understood. Only those who follow him and know him can receive this word as a promise of the love of his Father and as a deliverance from the thraldom of material things. It is not care that frees the disciples from care, but their faith in Jesus Christ. Only they know that we cannot be anxious (verse 27). The coming day, even the coming hour, are placed beyond our control. It is senseless to pretend that we can make provision because we cannot alter the circumstances of this world. Only God can take care, for it is he who rules the world. Since we cannot take care, since we are so completely powerless, we ought not to do it either. If we do, we are dethroning God and presuming to rule the world ourselves.

But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is also no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety nor work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father. The birds an lilies neither toil nor spin, yet both are fed and clothed and received their daily portion without being anxious for them. They need earthly goods only for their daily sustenance, and they do not lay up for a store for the future. This is the way they glorify their Creator, not by their industry, toil or care, but by a daily unquestioning acceptance of his gifts. Birds and lilies then are an example for the followers of Christ. ‘Man-in-revolt’ imagines that there is a relation of cause and effect between work and sustenance, but Jesus explodes that illusion. According to him, bread is not to be valued as the reward for work; he speaks instead of carefree simplicity of the man who walks with him and accepts everything as it comes from God. -178-179

Anxiety is a gospel issue. Let us not forget that. If God is provident, then why do we worry? Worry is for those who have no such God.

Monday, July 12, 2010

July 11, 2010 - Matthew 6:19-24: Investing in the Kingdom of God

Here is the audio and notes for yesterday's message. We will not be at church next week (which is no excuse to play hooky!) and so we will finish chapter 6 of Matthew two weeks from now. I have really enjoyed our study of the Sermon of the Mount so far. I can't wait for chapter 7.

Anyways, here are the links:

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Links

For more:
Bonhoeffer on Treasures in Heaven
Treasures in Heaven and the Great Commission: An Important and Timely Sermon
Calvin on Treasures in Heaven
DC Talk - Things of This World
January 17, 2010 - Matthew 5:1-12 - If Your Joyful and You Know It . . .
January 24, 2010 - Matthew 5:13 - Stuck Between Salt and Manure: The Call to Preserve the Gospel
January 31, 2010 - Matthew 5:14-26 - Its Dark in Here: The Call to be the Light of the World
February 7, 2010 - Matthew 5:17-20 - Medium Rare is Unbiblical or What Do Christians Do with the Law
February 14, 2010 - Matthew 5:21-22 - I Am a Murderer . . . And So Are You
February 21, 2010 - Matthew 5:23-26 - Resetting What Was Broken: The Necessity of Reconciliation
February 28, 2010 - Matthew 5:27-30 - America's Pastime: Our Lust for Lust
March 7, 2010 - Matthew 5:31-32 - The Gospel and Divorce: What Does the Bible Say?
March 14, 2010 - Matthew 5:33-37 - Allergies to Toast, the Gospel, and Integrity
March 21, 2010 - Matthew 5:38-42 - I Surrender! I Surrender!
March 28, 2010 - Matthew 5:43-48 - Love God as He Loved You
May 23, 2010 - Matthew Thus Far: Matthew 1-5
January 17, 2010 - Matthew 5:1-12 - If Your Joyful and You Know It . . .
January 24, 2010 - Matthew 5:13 - Stuck Between Salt and Manure: The Call to Preserve the Gospel
January 31, 2010 - Matthew 5:14-26 - Its Dark in Here: The Call to be the Light of the World
February 7, 2010 - Matthew 5:17-20 - Medium Rare is Unbiblical or What Do Christians Do with the Law
February 14, 2010 - Matthew 5:21-22 - I Am a Murderer . . . And So Are You
February 21, 2010 - Matthew 5:23-26 - Resetting What Was Broken: The Necessity of Reconciliation
February 28, 2010 - Matthew 5:27-30 - America's Pastime: Our Lust for Lust
March 7, 2010 - Matthew 5:31-32 - The Gospel and Divorce: What Does the Bible Say?
March 14, 2010 - Matthew 5:33-37 - Allergies to Toast, the Gospel, and Integrity
March 21, 2010 - Matthew 5:38-42 - I Surrender! I Surrender!
March 28, 2010 - Matthew Thus Far: Matthew 1-5
January 17, 2010 - Matthew 5:1-12 - If Your Joyful and You Know It . . .
January 24, 2010 - Matthew 5:13 - Stuck Between Salt and Manure: The Call to Preserve the Gospel
January 31, 2010 - Matthew 5:14-26 - Its Dark in Here: The Call to be the Light of the World
February 7, 2010 - Matthew 5:17-20 - Medium Rare is Unbiblical or What Do Christians Do with the Law
February 14, 2010 - Matthew 5:21-22 - I Am a Murderer . . . And So Are You
February 21, 2010 - Matthew 5:23-26 - Resetting What Was Broken: The Necessity of Reconciliation
February 28, 2010 - Matthew 5:27-30 - America's Pastime: Our Lust for Lust
March 7, 2010 - Matthew 5:31-32 - The Gospel and Divorce: What Does the Bible Say?
March 14, 2010 - Matthew 5:33-37 - Allergies to Toast, the Gospel, and Integrity
March 21, 2010 - Matthew 5:38-42 - I Surrender! I Surrender!
March 28, 2010 - Matthew 6:1-4 - Camouflaged Gold: Why Christians Should Give In Secret
May 30, 2010 - Matthew 6:5-8 - Jesus on Prayer: Our Inward Motivations
June 6, 2010 - Matthew 9-13 - The Model Prayer
June 13, 2010 - Matthew 14-15 - The Forgiven Forgive: The Inseparable Reality of the Gospel of Forgiveness
June 20, 2010- Matthew 6:16-18 - The Gospel of Self-Denial: Why Fasting is Biblical and What it Says About Our Faith

Saturday, September 18, 2010

The Sermon on The Mount Series

Thursday, September 16, 2010

September 5, 2010 - Not By the Hairs of My Chinny Chin Chin: Standing on the Rock of the Gospel

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Whose Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?: A Children's Tale With a Biblical Message

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

August 29, 2010 - Matthew 7:15-12: Watch for False Gospels

Monday, August 23, 2010

August 22, 2010 - Matthe 7:13-14 - The Gospel is For Fools: How to Empty a Church and Grow a Kingdom

August 15, 2010 - Matthew 7:7-12: The Golden Rule and a Community of Love

Thursday, August 12, 2010

August 1, 2010 - Matthew 6:25-34 - Worry and the Providence of God: What Our Anxiety Says About What We Believe About God

August 8, 2010 - Matthew 7:1-6 - Judge Not But Please Remove This Speck. Its Killing My Eye: Learning to Judge Righteously, Not Hypocritically

Bonhoeffer on the Golden Rule

Saturday, August 7, 2010

A Parable From Home Improvement

Saturday, July 31, 2010

MacArthur on Anxiety

Friday, July 30, 2010

Bonhoeffer on Anxiety

Monday, July 12, 2010

July 11, 2010 - Matthew 6:19-24: Investing in the Kingdom of God

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