Sermon Prep | It will happen
Pastor Jim Fikkert
Matthew 24.3-14 But the one who endures to the end will be saved.And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. 24.13-14 False prophets, some even claiming to be the Savior, international conflict, violent persecution of Christians, natural and economic disasters will constantly […]
Sermon Prep | God’s plan unfolding
Pastor Jim Fikkert
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 in the chapter, Jesus laments over Jerusalem—the […]
Don’t just talk about grace, Be gracious
Pastor Jim Fikkert
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. | 1 Peter 4.8 There are a lot of people talking about grace: how to show grace to people struggling with this or that, victims of some sort of suffering. Often these conversations start to educate people, but turn into an […]
Sermon Prep | The Law of love
Pastor Jim Fikkert
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 verbal challenges seeking trap Jesus in controversy […]
Sermon Prep | The problem of Pharisees
Pastor Jim Fikkert
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, incited by compassion for those whom religious leaders have led astray (see 23:37). Second-century rabbis, […]
Finding God
Pastor Jim Fikkert
And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts, knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. For […]
Sermon Prep | Practice what you preach
Pastor Jim Fikkert
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 is indirectly condemning the hypocrisy of the religious leaders. They do not practice what […]
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