Welcome back to our continued study on the nature of the church. This evening we will be finishing our study on the Metaphors of the Church…the pictures of the Church that we find in God’s Word. Over the last several weeks we have looked at the metaphor of the Church as a body with Christ…
Today’s sermon is entitled simply, “The Cross!” Before Jesus the cross was despised, a symbol of the worse kind of cruelty and horrific barbarity imaginable. Its sole purpose was to execute offenders in the most hideous and protracted means, producing the greatest amount of pain and agony over an extended time. Many a criminal hung…
Welcome again to our continued study on the Church and, over the last few weeks, the Metaphors of the Church. Over the past two weeks, we have had the pleasure and privilege of looking at one of my favorite passages of scripture…Psalm 23. We were able to trace the tremendous care and love the Great…
Now, today’s Sermon is from Luke 23:1-25. We start out this sermon, following Our Lord’s nighttime arrest at the Garden of Gethsemane…and during His hearing before Caiaphas, the high priest used specific Jewish legal language to necessitate a legal answer from Jesus…As Matthew puts it this way in 26:63…”But Jesus kept silent. And the…
Well, hello again to everyone. Welcome back as we continue in our study of the Church and, most recently, the Metaphors of the Church. A couple weeks ago we looked at the metaphor of the Church as the Body of Christ and Jesus as its Head. Then last week, we started our examination of the…
Sorry, but the video recording of this message is not available. Last time with brother Alan we looked at our Lord’s struggle in Gethsemane. We said it was in Gethsemane that Jesus overcame the reluctance of His flesh to submit to the trial and task of the cross. Having spent time in prayer with…
Good evening. Welcome back to our continued study in God’s Word and our examination of the Metaphors of the Church. Last week we spent our time together looking at the metaphor of the Church as Christ’s Body and Jesus as its Head. We looked at our interdependence and the fact that we all have…
The sermon for today is from Luke22:31-46…This segment of scriptures comes on the heels of our Lord’s Supper…and the loud debate that had ensued between His disciples as to who was the greatest…Now, Simon, also called Peter, who had grown up on the western side of the Sea of Galilee…was perhaps one of the loudest…
Good evening. Welcome back to our time of study for this week. We are continuing on in our study of the nature and practice of the Church. Up to this point, we have looked at the Majesty of the Church, the Master of the Church, and the Mystery of the Church. You may have detected…
Jesus ate the Passover meal with His disciples, but immediately after that, His disciples argued over which of them is the greatest. Jesus stops them and lets them know who will truly be the greatest in the kingdom. He also tells them of the reward they will get for their faithfulness to Him.(v.14)When the hour…