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 […]
Matthew 13
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Matthew 13. This chapter contains several important parables about the kingdom of God. One sub-theme that recurs in this chapter is the truth that mundane things of life often crowd out what is really important: One human reason why people don’t come to Christ […]
Matthew 12
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Matthew 12. Does it really matter what you say? How often do people say things that are mean, unkind, and hurtful and then follow those words with, “I didn’t really mean it”? How often do people use words that are crass, crude, rude, condescending, […]
Matthew 11
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Matthew 11. Can you prove the existence of God? Can you prove that the Bible is true–that it is God’s Word, as we claim it is, not just a human book? These seem like reasonable questions, don’t they? But, they are not reasonable questions […]
Matthew 10
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Matthew 10. Christ sent the Twelve disciples on a brief preaching mission in this chapter. The first 15 verses describe the call and commission of these Apostles as well as the specific instructions Christ had for their mission. After verse 16, Jesus described aspects […]
Matthew 9
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Matthew 9. The opening paragraph of this chapter told us about five men. One of them was paralyzed; the other four carried him to Jesus (v. 2). We were not told if the men said anything to Jesus, but whether they spoke or not, […]