April 23, 2023 • Greg Pinkner • Matthew 28:16–20, Deuteronomy 32:48–52
This Sunday, Greg completes our teaching on Matthew and teaches from Matthew 28:16-20. He compares the mountains that Moses ascended to see the Promised Land and the mountain that the disciples ascended after Jesus' resurrection. When the Jews were living under the Law, Moses was not allowed to enter the Promised Land due to his sin against God. However, after Jesus' resurrection, He forgave those who doubted because they no longer lived under the law and received grace. He then called those who received His grace to go and make disciples.
The Trials of Jesus
April 2, 2023 • Greg Pinkner • Matthew 26, Matthew 27
This Sunday, Palm Sunday, Greg teaches from Matthew 26 and 27. He looks at the inconsistent and illegal ways that Jesus was brought to trial and how these illegalities were the fulfillment of Judaism.
The Betrayal of Jesus
March 26, 2023 • Greg Pinkner • Matthew 26:47–56, Matthew 26:1–5, Matthew 26:14–16
This Sunday, Greg teaches from Matthew 26. In these verses following the Olivet Discourse, he looked into the history and culture of the time to give perspective on Judas' betrayal of Jesus and how easily we can betray Him.
Worship or Betrayal
March 19, 2023 • JC Neely • Matthew 26:6–14
This Sunday, JC teaches from Matthew 26:6-14. He spoke about how Jesus is not uninterested in the unimportant and that we should not let our pasts define us, but let it tell the story of what Christ has done in our lives. We need to look at our lives and ask ourselves if it is beautiful, as Christ sees it, or wasted. We need to look at our relationship with Christ and ask if we are more concerned about it being useful or beautiful. And we also need to ask ourselves if we really rejoice in the power of the cross and if we see betrayal or beauty.
Generosity: Evidence of Grace
March 12, 2023 • Rick Dunn • Matthew 25:31–46
This Sunday, Rick teaches from Matthew 25:31-46. This is a passage about looking to our Savior - a story of grace revealed through generosity. Generosity never ears salvation in Christ. Salvation in Christ is evidenced by generosity.
But in the Night
March 5, 2023 • Greg Pinkner • Matthew 24:45–51, Matthew 25
This Sunday, Greg teaches from Matthew 24 and 25 - a continuation of the Olivet Discourse. He challenged us to acknowledge two realities of practicing the way of Jesus: there is no Christianity without obedience, and all of us have seasons where we are not awake to God. He challenges us to make sure we are ready for the return of Jesus.
Resilient Faith
February 26, 2023 • RD McClenagan • Matthew 24:29–44
This Sunday, RD teaches from Matthew 24 - a continuation of the Olivet Discourse. In these verses, Jesus challenges His people to “stay awake.” Awake people remain resilient, though we all stumble. As resilient people, we must sow seeds of grace, obedience, holy awareness, and hope into the soil of our faith.
This is not the End
February 19, 2023 • Greg Pinkner • Matthew 24
This Sunday, Greg teaches from Matthew 24. These verses begin Jesus' Olivet Discourse, in which He teaches on the end times. He is speaking to the people about what is about to happen in their lives - they are entering into an era of suffering.
Masks of the Pharisees
February 12, 2023 • JC Neely • Matthew 23
This Sunday, JC teaches from Matthew 23. Jesus speaks to the Pharisees about their hypocrisy and the masks that they wear. God wants to reveal our hypocrisy so that we can be known, and the antidote to hypocrisy is confession. Confession to God leads to forgiveness, but confession to others leads to healing.
David Called Him Lord
February 5, 2023 • Greg Pinkner • Matthew 22:23–46
This Sunday, Greg teaches from Matthew 22:23-46. In these verses, the Pharisees and Sadducees continue to attempt to trap Jesus by trying to get Him to choose a side in their religious, political, and theological interpretations of Scripture. Jesus challenges their ideas of legalism by flipping the focus onto humanity's need for a Savior.
Render to Caesar
January 29, 2023 • Greg Pinkner • Matthew 22:15–22
This Sunday, Greg teaches from Matthew 22:15-22. In these verses, the Pharisees are trying to set a trap for Jesus to cause him to break the law so he will be deserving of murder. Through His ministry, Jesus communicates two realities about engaging the world: we, as kingdom citizens, should be involved in our world and community. Yet, the crucifixion of Christ shows that God works in ways we could never imagine, even when circumstances feel out of control.
A Parable: The Prince's Wedding
November 20, 2022 • Rick Dunn • Matthew 22:1–14
This Sunday, Rick teaches from Matthew 22:1-14. This is the last of the three parables Jesus told in response to the religious leaders asking Him under whose authority he was teaching and performing miracles. This passage reminds up of who we are in Christ and how dangerous it is to forget who we are. We are not human success stories, but divine redemption stories. We belong at the wedding table with Christ because He has redeemed us.
The Stone Rejected
November 13, 2022 • Greg Pinkner • Matthew 21:24–46
Jesus was asked by the religious leaders under whose authority he was teaching and performing miracles. In response to this question, Jesus told them three parables. This Sunday, Greg teaches from Matthew 21:24-46 - the first two. These stories about the two sons and the tenants focus on repentance and how only those that truly repent and change their minds will enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
Master of the House
November 6, 2022 • Greg Pinkner • Matthew 2:12–23
This Sunday, Greg teaches from Matthew 21:12-27. After Jesus enter Jerusalem in the triumphal entry, he go straight to the temple and kicks out those selling animals for sacrifice. Jesus' anger is not about them selling in the temple, it is about them cheating those who needed to purchase a sacrifice and also preventing the Gentiles from coming to pray. The Jews in power were blind to Jesus and had fruitless lives.
The King is Coming
October 30, 2022 • JC Neely • Matthew 21:1–11
This Sunday, JC teaches from Matthew 21:1-11 and looks and the kind of king Jesus is as he enters Jerusalem on a donkey. He is a king who uses ordinary things to do extraordinary things in our lives. He came not to set up an earthly kingdom, but a spiritual one - not to conquer the Romans, but our sin and darkness.
