Thieves
Matthew 21:12-17 (3/9/2014)
The gravest threat to God’s people is not what anyone else might do to us, but what we may fail to do for them.
Hypocrites
Matthew 23:13-28 (3/16/2014)
If you know you are a hypocrite and if you admit you are a hypocrite, maybe you really aren’t a hypocrite.
Murderers
Matthew 23:29-39 (3/23/2014)
Instead, we build fine tombs, for Jesus … and we call them churches.
Vultures
Matthew 24:1-28 (3/30/2014)
If we are vultures, preying on people in pain, offering no better than black and white answers and easy scapegoats, instead of coming alongside them in their pain and bearing their suffering with them, how will they ever know of the God of love who sent Jesus to bear our pains and carry our sorrows?
Faithless servants
Matthew 24:36-51 (4/6/2014)
We are Christ in this world. When the people of this world look at us, what Christ do they see?
Traitors
Matthew 26:20-24 (4/13/2014)
It’s personal.
When we love something else more than Jesus, we betray him.
When we love our way more than his way, we betray him.
When we love what we have or what we want to have more than we love having him, we betray him.
When we love our own lives more than the life he gives us, we betray him.
On watch
Matthew 27:62-66 (4/20/2014)
Why are we so afraid of joy?
Go and tell
Matthew 28:1-10 (4/20/2014)
Don’t be afraid. Don’t be afraid of believing it. Don’t be afraid of joy. Jesus came to bring joy, to plant his own joy in us, so that our joy may be complete. Can he do it? He already has.