Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Matthew 23. Today’s reading continued to chronicle the life of Christ during the week of the crucifixion. Yesterday, we read that the religious leaders took turns trying to discredit Jesus by attempting to stump him with hard questions. Jesus turned every question back on […]
Matthew 22
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Matthew 22. The parable about the wedding banquet, here in verses 1-14, is about Israel’s rejection of Jesus as Messiah. God the Father invited them to the wedding banquet and everything was ready (vv. 1-4) but Israel was too busy with their own stuff, […]
Matthew 21
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Matthew 21. Wouldn’t it be nice if your car or truck could just give birth? Instead of buying a new one, you could just breed the one you have and instantly have a new vehicle, a new way to move stuff around. That is […]
Matthew 20
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Matthew 20. There are billions of people living on earth today. Those of us who live in developed countries have millions of signals clamoring for our attention. Phone calls, text messages, emails, social media, billboards, websites, tv shows, radio shows, books, magazines, newspapers, and, […]
Matthew 19
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Matthew 19. People in our culture sometimes say, “Jesus never talked about homosexuality.” Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said that in 2012*. Technically, that statement is true. Jesus did not directly condemn homosexuality the way he did unlawful divorce (v. 9) and a number […]
Matthew 18
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Matthew 18. Matthew 18 opened by telling us that the disciples asked Jesus a question: “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” (v. 1). There are no dumb questions because only people can be dumb; questions cannot. But this question came close […]
Matthew 17
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Matthew 17. God’s Law required Jewish men to pay a flat tax at every census “for the service of the tent of meeting” (v. 16 of Ex 30:11-16). By the time of Jesus, this tax had become an annual fee required of every man […]
Matthew 16
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Matthew 16. Problems–they’re part of life, but nobody wants them. At the end of Matthew 16, Jesus told the disciples that big problems awaited him in Jerusalem. In verse 21 he told the disciples that he would “suffer many things… and… be killed.” He […]
Matthew 15
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Matthew 15. When I was a kid, all the kids in my neighborhood used to gather and play guns. In my memory, this game was as vague as “play guns” sounds. We all grabbed toy guns and hid, then tried to sneak up on […]
Matthew 14
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Matthew 14. Jesus performed miracles for one main reason: to prove his claims to be the Son of Man, the Messiah (v. 32, Acts 2:22). Here in Matthew 14, Jesus did two extraordinary miracles: He fed over 5000 people using seven small items of […]