Messages on Matthew

Messages on Matthew

Praying Together – securing our hearts to God

This week we continue learning about prayer. Pastor Peter asks the question, if prayer is personal do we need to pray in groups? He unpacks Matthew 6:9-13 to tell us God’s answer. 9 “Therefore, you should pray like this: Our Father in heaven,your name be honored as holy.10 Your kingdom come.Your will be doneon earth as it is in heaven.11 Give us today our daily bread.12 And forgive us our debts,as we also have forgiven our debtors.13 And do not bring us into temptation,but deliver us…

Prayer and Fasting – securing our hearts to God

This week Pastor Peter continued our series on prayer and taught from Matthew 6:16-18. These verses teach us that prayer and fasting are our way to declare our dependence on God. 16 “Whenever you fast, don’t be gloomy like the hypocrites. For they disfigure their faces so that their fasting is obvious to people. Truly I tell you, they have their reward. 17 But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, 18 so that your fasting isn’t obvious to others but…

Whenever You Pray

This week Pastor Peter asks the question: How do we maintain a personal and intimate connection to God where we recognize our deep dependence on Him regardless of our circumstances? 5 “Whenever you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by people. Truly I tell you, they have their reward. 6 But when you pray, go into your private room, shut your…

The Lord’s Supper

Remembering & Proclaiming Christ Pastor Peter started a new series this week about The Lord’s Supper. Since Jesus gave His body, shed His blood, and rose from the grave to save us from our sins, we should worship by remembering and proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ both in sharing communion and throughout our lives. 26 As they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take and eat it; this is my body.” 27 Then he took…

Secular Foundation: Inspecting the Structure – Finding God – week 3

Sex, Marriage and Gender This Sunday, Pastor Peter unpacks the question: How do we understand marriage, sex, sexual preference and gender identity inside a culture that bristles at our biblical understanding of those topics? 26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, the whole earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth.”27 So God created man in his own image; he created…

Preparing for Hope – Hope Realized

On this Christmas morning, Pastor Peter wraps up our series Preparing for Hope by answering the question, where do we find hope? Through Isaiah 9:6 & Matthew 2:9-12, we find we hope, despite the gloom of the distressed land, because God’s gift–His Son Jesus Christ–brings peace.

Preparing for Hope – Looking Back & Forward

As we prepare to celebrate the birth of the Savior we can struggle to reconcile the world we live in with the hope we’ve been celebrating for 2,000 years in the birth of Christ. Where is this Hope that seems promised in the birth of Jesus? Pastor Peter continues our series Preparing for Hope by looking at Matthew 4:12-17 to answer that question.
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