Bible Study

Matthew 19:4-6 Making A Good Marriage Partner At the beginning of this series, I made two important statements. 1. You can only change yourself. 2. The same things that make for a good Christian, make for a good marriage partner. Throughout this series, I have tied to emphasize the practical, to give you examples of … Continue reading “Matthew 19:4-6 – Making A Good Marriage Partner – Bible study”

Matthew 19:5-6 Keeping A Marriage Together This morning we continue our series on marriage. This morning, we tackle a very important topic. How do we keep our marriage together? We can know how to start a marriage and even what it may take to rekindle one, but what is the key to keeping a marriage … Continue reading “Matthew 19:5-6 – Keeping A Marriage Together – Bible study”

Matthew 19:16-22 Were You Faithful? Today is the last Sunday of 2018. Tuesday begins a new year and although it is just another day on the calendar, New Years do provide us with a good opportunity to evaluate our lives and make some decisions about the direction we are traveling. In this last year, you … Continue reading “Matthew 19:16-25 – Were You Faithful? – Bible study”

Matthew 20:1-16 Why stand ye here all the day idle? The title of the message comes out of \#Matt 20:6\. The Lord asks a question in this parable that all Christians are going to have to answer. When it comes to working for Jesus, why have we been idle. This story we are reading is … Continue reading “Matthew 20:1-16 – Why Stand Ye Here Idle? – Bible study”

Matt 20:1-16 Why Stand Ye About Idle? The title of the message comes out of \#Matt 20:6\. The Lord asked a question in this parable that all Christians are going to have to answer. When it comes to working for Jesus, why have we been idle? Why arent we working? This story we are reading … Continue reading “Matthew 20:1-16 – Why Stand Ye About Idle? – Bible study”

Matt 20:29-34 Faith Is Essential Sometimes I concern myself that I do not preach often enough on the very basics. While everything in the New Testament is important (and there are a lot of things there), some are critical for us to get than others. There are a lot of such topics. 1. We need … Continue reading “Matthew 20:29-34 – Faith Is Essential – Bible study”

Matthew 21:28-32 It Is Not Too Late Some twenty-five years ago, I preached a sermon at the Green Pond Baptist Church as a candidate to be pastor. This was the text that I preached from. It seems fitting, that after so many years, we look at this text again. You can tell a good bit … Continue reading “Matthew 21:28-32 – It Is Not Too Late – Bible study”

Matthew 23:37 What God Did Not Get This is one of those "tough passages" of the Bible. It is not "tough" in that it contains sayings or events that we do not understand but "tough" in that it contains sayings and events which we sometimes do not like. These are chapters of strong condemnation from … Continue reading “Matthew 23:37 – What God Did Not Get – Bible study”

Matt 24:3-12 What In This World Is Going to Happen? We just finished with the elections and the "conservative," Trump, won because more of the voting districts voted for him. However, so far (as of Friday, November 11) Hillary won more of the populous vote. The last I checked, she had around 300,000 more votes … Continue reading “Matthew 24:3-12 – What in This World Is Going to Happen? (1) – Bible study”

Matthew 24:43, John 10:10 What the Thief Steals The thrust of this text is to always be ready and to watch for the Lords coming. If not, the thiefwho in this case is Jesuswill come and separate us from treasures that we are not prepared to lose. We dont often think of Jesus as being … Continue reading “Matthew 24:42, John 10:10 – What the Thief Steals – Bible study”