Summer Blockbusters: The Two Builders The Wise and Foolish Builders 24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not…
God is Generous! [Read Matthew 20:1-16 NRSV] For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. 2After agreeing with the laborers for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard. 3When he went out about nine o’clock, he saw others…
Summer Blockbusters The Wheat and the Weeds Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 24 He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to someone who sowed good seed in his field; 25 but while everybody was asleep, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and then went away. 26 So when the plants came…
The Way, Week 5 RAGAMUFFINS Matthew 9:9-13 His name was Hector, and he was homeless. He was staying at the Samaritan Ministries shelter in Winston-Salem. One day he met three of our Main Street Youth. They prayed with him in front of the shelter, and then Hector said, “What church do y’all go to?” And…
PROCLAIMING THE KINGDOM Matthew 4:17, 23-25, 5:1-10 INTRO: 17 From that time Jesus began to proclaim, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” 23 Jesus[a] went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news[b] of the kingdom and curing every disease and every sickness among the people. 24 So his…
The Way, Week 1 THE JOURNEY BEGINS Matthew 4:1-11 4 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished.3 The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become…
REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE Matthew 3:7-17 There’s power in remembering who you are. Marty Johnson was the child of two college students who had a brief affair and gave him up for adoption. As an adult, he wanted to know more about his birth parents, so he started digging through records and he found his…
Herod and the MagiHEROD AND THE MAGI Matthew 2:1-12 King Herod was furious! He pounded the armrest of his throne and thought, “How dare these foreigners come into my city and ask, ‘Where is he who is born King of the Jews?’” I AM KING OF THE JEWS! Did not the Roman Emperor…
John 8:36, Matthew 28:16-20, Luke 2:16-17 (Full Text in PDF file) Imagine you’re an African slave in America, around the time of the Civil War – You’re working out in the cotton fields – The sun is beating down on you – Biting horseflies are buzzing around – Your fingers are bleeding, your back is…
31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
