New Testament (123)
  1. In other words, preachers need to help Christians navigate election season faithfully. This text can help.
  2. Jesus is making it crystal clear that the master, the king, God Himself decides who is and who is not welcome in His Kingdom.
  3. Contrary to common American Christian thinking, you would emphasize the individual is not the center of the biblical narrative. Christianity is not primarily about me and my relationship with Jesus.
  4. Peter stands again this week as a model Christian. He is not the type of model to emulate, however.
  5. Two things are ultimately certain in life, and they are not death and taxes. It is Jesus’ return and the preservation of His people until that day.
  6. This week’s miracle invites you to engage in an honest consideration of something pressing for every believer at some time in their lives: God’s silence.
  7. If the feeding of the 5000 invited an emphasis on Jesus’ COMPASSION, this week’s miracle invites a sermon focused on Jesus’ AUTHORITY.
  8. Jesus’ miracle in this sermon, then, is a type of the compassion He has for your hearers. While they certainly have many physical needs, your hearers also (more fundamentally) need Jesus’ mercy and forgiveness.
  9. If your congregation promotes and supports “family values,” you should be prepared to take this text head-on.
  10. The Father in Heaven is the only one we have legitimate reason to fear. But in Christ, we learn that the Father knows His children intimately and values His children exceedingly.
  11. Before the sending is the gathering. Before the gathering is the compassion. Before the compassion is the seeing. And it all starts with a gracious God.
  12. John chose to write these things for a specific purpose: “So that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name."
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