A cemetery was pretty much the last place anyone expected to find an impressive display of power on that first Easter Sunday. And yet, that’s exactly what the followers of Jesus found when they went to His tomb that morning and found it empty. In this sermon, we exam how God’s Resurrection Power changes our…

“Jesus died on the cross, and on the third day God raised Him from the dead.” This is the core of Christianity. But sometimes we forget that something important happened between those two great events. According to all four Gospels, between His death and resurrection, Jesus was buried in a tomb. In this sermon, we…

If you travel to Jerusalem, you can visit at least two locations that purport to be the site where Jesus was crucified. They both have a pretty good claim, and they are both fascinating sites to see. But the truth is, the location where Jesus died is far less important than the reason Jesus died.…

Just a few hours before Jesus was crucified, one of his disciples asked Him to show them the Father (John 14:8). Jesus answered by saying, “If you’ve seen me, you’ve seen the Father.” His point was that Jesus and the Father are one, and so to see God the Son is to see God the…

The trial of Jesus moves now from the Jewish Sanhedrin to the Palace of the Roman Governor. This is no accident of history but is rather a theological necessity. God wants us to see that no single person or group or ethnicity is responsible for the death of Jesus. Instead the whole human race is…

What should we do when it feels like we are being crushed in the grip of guilt for some sin that we’ve committed? What is the godly, Biblical way to deal with those feelings? That’s the question we work through in this sermon. Simon Peter and Judas Iscariot both sinned terribly against Jesus in the…

“Who is Jesus?” From the perspective of eternity, this is the single most important question we will ever ask. Some Bible passages answer this question more directly than others – and this text is one of them. In Matthew 26:57-68, Jesus stands trial before the ruling council of 1st century Israel. While the council members…

The arrest of Jesus may be the greatest travesty of justice in the history of the world. Jesus of Nazareth – the only truly innocent human being to ever live – was arrested like a criminal under the cover of darkness. And if that wasn’t bad enough, Jesus was also betrayed. Not only was Jesus…

Commenting on Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, William Barclay wrote that “this is a passage we must approach upon our knees.” Indeed, sometimes we hurry past these verses so we can read about the cross. Yet three of the four Gospels dwell on the Garden precisely because there is so much here for us…

We often say that the Lord’s Supper is a “symbolic meal.” But what does it symbolize? That’s the question we turn to now in our study through Matthew. In this sermon from Matthew 26:26-29, we consider four forgiveness-related doctrines that are richly illustrated for us in the Ordinance of the Lord’s Supper. Text = Matthew…