Wednesday Night Messages
Giving Grace Instead Of Vengeance (Matthew 5:38-42)
To avenge means to inflict harm for harm done to yourself. I happen to love a series of movies called the Avengers. Since I watched the first one I have tried to keep up with the movies and I have loved them as have many, many people. Marvel has made billions of...
Be People Of Truth (Matthew 5:33-47)
Honesty is not that much fun, it doesn’t add viewers to your television shows, it doesn’t attract people to your business, and it’s just not that interesting. Someday, when your car is broken down and you can’t fix it then you’re not going to want interesting. When...
Adultery and the Seriousness of the Marriage Commitment (Matthew 5:31-32)
“I hate divorce”, God says in Malachi 2:16. A lot of us here might well say, “I do too.” We have seen either in ourselves or in the people around us the great damage that can be done in a divorce. So, I think we would come together as a group and say that we hate...
The True Meaning of Murder (Matthew 5:20-26)
Yesterday, as I was scrolling through the Twitterverse, I saw that a man was executed for killing a store owner back in 2004. The taking of another human life has long been seen as the worst of things that can be done to another human being and this means that it has...
God’s Word Will Always Stand And It’s All About Jesus: Matthew 5:17-20
I was chatting with a pastor friend one time about a Jewish teacher’s understanding of a certain text of the Old Testament. He laid down his answer as if it was the final word. My response sent him into a state of shock: “His understanding is not authoritative. He...
Sermon on the Mount: Be Who You Are In Christ (Matthew 5:13-16)
If you will remember quite some time ago the first Captain America movie was released in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Bucky Barnes and Steve Rogers became great friends. They were introduced when Bucky saved Steve Rogers in a back alley from a beating. Steve Rogers...