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Sermon on the Mount: Questions for Anxiety Part 4

Matthew 6:25-34 So far we have studied Jesus’ first three questions of this passage: “Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?” “Are you not of more value than [the birds]”? And“Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?” Each of these questions has been asked...

July 14, 2014July 14, 2014by
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Sermon on the Mount: Questions for Anxiety Part 3

Matthew 6:25-34 Anxiety asks questions that we can’t answer in an effort to diminish the truth we are confident in. As we have been studying, Jesus’ approach to dealing with anxiety is to expose it for what it is and who it comes from. He doesn’t do this by answering its questions though. For so...

July 7, 2014July 7, 2014by
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Sermon on the Mount: Questions for Anxiety Part 2

Matthew 6:25-34 Last week we began this section of the Sermon on the Mount in which Jesus questions anxiety. His repeated statement “Do not worry” is an encouragement and a comfort; it is not an assignment that we have to find the ability to accomplish or even a command that we have to summon up...

July 1, 2014July 1, 2014by
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Sermon on the Mount: Questions for Anxiety Part 1

Matthew 6:25-34 Have you ever been anxious? Most of us have been anxious and the truth is that many of us live with anxiety, not as a companion but as an almost constant adversary, questioning everything about us and trying to unravel everything given to us. The Bible says some very specific things about anxiety....

June 23, 2014June 23, 2014by
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Sermon on the Mount: “The Master and Our Money”

Matthew 6:24 This morning as we move forward in the Sermon on the Mount I want to remind us that the key verse to the sermon continues to be Matthew 5:20, “unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will be no means enter the kingdom of heaven.” Everything after that...

June 16, 2014June 16, 2014by
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Sermon on the Mount: “One Heart, One Master”

Matthew 6:24“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other.” This morning, on Pentecost Sunday, we return to our study of the Sermon on the Mount. Because we have been away from this sermon...

June 9, 2014June 9, 2014by
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“The Parable of the Running Father”

Luke 15 This week we took a short break from our study of the Sermon on the Mount to look closely at Luke 15. In the chapter Jesus was confronted with a complaint from the scribes and the Pharisees as to why He ate with tax collectors and sinners. Jesus answered their complaint with three...

May 28, 2014May 28, 2014by
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Posture of Intimacy

This Sunday our prayer pastor, Geannine LeBude, was our speaker. Below is an introduction to her sermon:   Last month I shared how we often take on the position and mindset of the persistent widow when we approach our Father in prayer. We often pray in the same manner as the widow in anguished, fear...

May 18, 2014May 18, 2014by
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Sermon on the Mount: “The Eyes Fill the Heart”

Matthew 6:22-23 Last week we talked about the relationship of treasure and worship: we worship what we treasure and we treasure what we worship. The Sermon on the Mount, as a whole, is about our hearts, their condition, their capability and God’s calling and provision of surpassing righteousness. We closed last week with verse 21,“For...

May 12, 2014May 12, 2014by
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Sermon on the Mount: Treasure and Worship

Matthew 6:19-21 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will...

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