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Main Preaching Theme: Jesus’ deliberate plan of heading towards the cross was for the atonement of our sin. Main Preaching Intention: I believe that people will be struck by the deliberate actions of Jesus on their behalf and that they will respond with gratitude and action. Scene 1: Jesus has a plan,…

The Purpose Fascination - Discovery - Identity - Authenticity One day, Napoleon was speaking of the Divinity of Christ; when General Bertrand said:— “I can not conceive, sire, how a great man like you can believe that the Supreme Being ever exhibited himself to men under a human form, with a body, a…

Jesus tells a story that shows the kingdom of heaven is full of both equality and inequality at the same time.

GOSPEL Matthew 20:1-16 Sermon Notes/Introduction The goal of the sermon is that we will be happy that God is so generous to all. The problem is that we sometimes live more under Law than under grace and do our share of pharisaic grumbling about others receiving more than we. The means to the goal is…

Check your heart! If you’re a member of Christ’s Kingdom, you’re only there because of His self-giving, generous love.

Introduction Like every passage in the Bible, in today’s Gospel reading, context is king. The first word in our reading is “for” because Jesus intends this parable to explain what he’s said moments ago. In fact, our English Bibles put a chapter break here, but Jesus is still continuing his discourse…

Let the Little Children Come to Me INTRODUCTION Now when Jesus finished these sayings, he left Galilee and went to the region of Judea beyond the Jordan River. Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there. Then some Pharisees came to him in order to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful to divorce…

Carrying on the Kingdom Pre-Introduction: Set timer, introduce, Introduction: I want to talk about turning points. Every good story has a turning point. Good literature always has a point in the story where the main character has something that happens, or some fact is revealed that makes for the turning…

WWJD (What Would Jesus Do)?

Influencing Change. Called to Lead: The Grounded Leader. Presented by OrLando Yarborough III Opening passage: Matthew 4:18–20 (NKJV) · At the age of 6 when I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, I knew my life was changed but I didn't know the full extent of that change. · I knew I was saved…

Introduction We have been walking through a series entitled “The Gospel in the Gospels” In this series, we are asking the question, “How did Jesus present the Gospel in His ministry?” We took the time to look at Jesus’ presentation of the Gospel to people He came across Now we are looking at how Jesus…

11th hour Christians Matthew 20:1-11 Like most people, I love the parables of the Word of God. Not only are they in the New Testament but they are in the Old Testament as well. One of the them is when Nathan the prophet told a parable to King David concerning a poor man being robbed of his one little…

“I shall be telling this with a sigh; Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” — Robert Frost “Somewhere ages and ages hence,”… somewhere much further down the road… we will be afforded the grace of “hindsight”……

Matthew 16:1-20 Words are more powerful than we ever give them credit. Who ever said “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me.” must have been living in a fantasy world. Words have power and have the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to…

1 “For the Kingdom of Heaven is like the landowner who went out early one morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 2 He agreed to pay the normal daily wage and sent them out to work. 3 “At nine o’clock in the morning he was passing through the marketplace and saw some people standing around doing nothing.…

Welcome... Introduce self... Pray... And the Lord said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles that I have put in your power. But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go. What is a hard heart? Biblical idea of heart: Described the entirety…

Mt 20.1-16 1 — Porque o Reino dos Céus é semelhante a um homem, dono de terras, que saiu de madrugada para contratar trabalhadores para a sua vinha. 2 E, tendo combinado com os trabalhadores o pagamento de um denário por dia, mandou-os para a vinha. 3 Saindo por volta de nove horas da manhã, viu, na…

We discussed how God has given us all a capacity for awe, How that there is a war that is happening in this world around us. Between our need to find our awe and fulfillment in God alone and our desire to find awe in the things that are around us. This lesson is about what happens when we have a wrong…

A denarius was equal to one whole day’s pay for working in a vineyard. The owner of the vineyard told the foreman to pay everyone the same, no matter how long they actually worked. They began to grumble against the landowner. Who could blame them? We too believe in equal work for equal pay, at least…

Palm Sunday Foretold by the Prophets 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey. 22 The stone which the builders rejected…

Where do we start? 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all those who do His commandments; His praise endures forever. What do we tend to fear? The unknown…

I. The Promise of Reward II. The Attitude Test III. What Are We Living For?

What is “Sovereignty?” Last week we answered this question, “What is ‘sovereignty’?” and we said that... Sovereignty is God’s right to do what He want s with what is His. Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? We then took the time to answer the…

Turn to and read Matthew 20:1-16. What is “Sovereignty?” Often we say, “God is in control!” And, that’s a fairly good way to describe “sovereignty” as it relates to God. Sovereignty is God’s right to do what He want s with what is His. Sovereignty is a matter of ownership. Is it not lawful for me to…

“In an article entitled “The Pursuit of Happiness,” posted at the Huffington Post July 4, 2007, Daniel Brook summed up what most of us learned in school: “The eighteenth-century British political philosopher John Locke wrote that governments are instituted to secure people's rights to ‘life, liberty,…