by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Jun 10, 2015 | Sermon Prep
23.37-24.2 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! 23.27 In contrast to the woes earlier...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | May 27, 2015 | Sermon Prep
Matthew 22.34-46 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 22.37-39 The...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | May 20, 2015 | Sermon Prep
Matthew 23.13-36 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness. 23.27 Jesus’ woes are the angry laments of wounded love,...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | May 13, 2015 | Sermon Prep
Matthew 23.1-12 “Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.” 23.12 Chapter 23 amounts to an unrestrained tongue lashing against the Scribes and Pharisees. Even though Jesus speaks directly to the crowds and his disciples, He...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | May 6, 2015 | Sermon Prep
Matthew 22.23-33 And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God: ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living. 22.31-32 People are easily divided by...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Apr 22, 2015 | Sermon Prep
Matthew 21.33-22.14 ‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’? Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits....
