Matthew 14:1-12 |Transcription: So I was wrestling through what to preach this morning. Not that I was wrestling through it this morning, but, Pastor Ryan told me, you know, one of the joys of being Protestant is you can just preach the next verse. And so, we'll be in Matthew 14 this morning, which is the martyrdom of John the Baptist, but it is a very appropriate story for Easter Sunday. It was about a year ago when I started a study on John the Baptist. If you remember, we

Matthew 13:53-58 |Transcription: Matthew chapter 13, verse 53 is where we'll begin this this morning. I'm gonna read from verse 53 to the end of the chapter, and this will conclude our time in Matthew's thirteenth chapter. We have been in this chapter for a while now, and it's been an encouragement to my heart. So, we say goodbye to it this morning. Matthew 13 verse 53. When Jesus had finished these parables, he went away from there. And coming to his hometown, he taught them

Proverbs 23:27-35 |Transcription: Proverbs 25. I'll read beginning in verse six. Do not put yourself forward in the king's presence or stand in the place of the great. It's better to be told to come up here than to be put lower in the presence of a noble. What your eyes have seen, don't bring hastily into court. What you do in the end, put your neighbor to shame. Argue with your neighbor in secret rather than bringing him before others because you don't know how your case wil

Matthew 13:47-52 |Transcription: Matthew 13 verse 47, Jesus says, again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind. When it was full, the men drew to shore and sat down and sorted the good into containers and threw the bad away. So it'll be at the close of the age the angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous, Throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 13:44-46 |Transcription: Matthew 13 this morning as we continue our study in the parables. I've got two two wonderful, short parables, very concise, well known. Beginning in verse 44. The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up, and then in his joy he goes and sells all he has and buys that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls, who on finding one pearl of great value went and sol

Proverbs 28:1-28 |Transcription: Proverbs. We've been working our way through Proverbs, as you know, and our approach so far from chapter 11 all the way to chapter 29 has been to find themes that are predominant in different chapters of Proverbs, pull those out and then gather all the other Proverbs on that theme. And so we really only have one more of these left next Lord's day And by the end of next Sunday night, we will have looked at every proverb in the book of Proverbs

Proverbs 27:1-27 |Transcription: Proverbs 27 has a few verses that describe the power of friendship. Beginning in verse nine, oil and perfume make the heart glad. And the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel. Do not forsake your friend and your father's friends. Don't go into your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who's near than a brother who's far away. And jump down to verse 17. As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens anot

Matthew 13:31-35 |Transcription: This morning, Matthew 13. I'll read it. These three verses, two parables, packaged so tightly together. What an economy of words from our Lord. Matthew thirteen thirty one. Jesus put another parable before them, saying, the kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it is grown, it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so the birds of th

Ecclesiastes 8:14-9:10 |Transcription: In the classic modern novel Things Fall Apart, we read the fictional story of the leader of a West African clan as he confronts the encroachments of European colonialism. And as the story unfolds, I don't think it's too much of a spoiler to say that the title of the novel comes to pass and Things Fall Apart. And as the life of the protagonist, Kang Woo, begins to unravel before him, there's a particularly poignant paragraph about the pro

1 Corinthians 10:1-13 |Transcription: If you have your copy of God's word with you, and I hope that you do, as you open it up to the book of first Corinthians chapter 10. If you'd like to follow along with the pew bible in front of you, you can find it on page 957. First Corinthians chapter 10. Wise men learn their lessons from their mistakes, but even wiser men learn the lessons from other people's mistakes. Did you know that the bible you have in front of you, your bibles t

1 Corinthians 12:12-21

Ecclesiastes 7:1-29

Proverbs 26:1-28 |Transcription: As we look at a passage tonight about the wisdom and the great gain and glory and joy of wisdom. I wanna start with looking at Proverbs 14:33. It says 22 on your screen, but it's verse 33. I promise. Wisdom rests in the heart of a man of understanding, but it makes itself known even in the midst of fools. This is a passage that describes the self evident nature of wisdom. You can see how wisdom is at work in a person's life because, first of a

Matthew 13:24-43 |Transcript: Matthew 13:24, Jesus tells another parable. This is called the parable of the weeds. It goes like this. The kingdom of heaven can be compared to a man who sowed good seeds in his field. But while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away. So when the plants came up and bore grain, the weeds appeared also, and the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, master, did you not sow good seed i

Matthew 13:18-23 |Transcription: Matthew 13 beginning in the middle of verse three, Jesus told them a parable saying a sower went out to sow, and as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, and they didn't have much soil. And immediately, they sprang up since they had no depth of the soil. But when the sun rose, they were scorched. As they had no root, they withered away. Other seeds fell among thorns, a

Proverbs 25:1-28 |Transcription: Many years ago, I helped one of my friends study for the firefighting academy, and I would, you know, I'd have flashcards. He had a little notebook and all those binders and flip through, and I would quiz him on things. And, I was thinking about that this week under the heading of one of the most basic things the fire officer needs to decide when he arrives at a at a working fire is whether or not they're gonna attack it in an offensive or a d

Proverbs 24:1-34 |Transcription: Well, tonight for a time in God's word, many of our passages will come from Proverbs 24. So if you wanna open the word of God there. I'll read for us from verses 10 down through verse 20. Proverbs 24. If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small. Rescue those who are being taken away to death. Hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter. If you say, behold, we didn't know this, doesn't he who weighs the heart perceive it

Matthew 13:1-17 |Transcription: Matthew 13:1. At the same day, Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea, and great crowds gathered around him so that he got into a boat and sat down and the whole crowd stood on the beach. He told them many things in parables saying, a sower went out to sow, and as he sowed, some seeds fell among the path, and the birds came and devoured them, other seeds on rocky grounds, and they didn't have much soil, and immediately sprang up sin

Matthew 12:43-45

Matthew 12:46-48