matthew-19:21

I have some concerns, OK? Can I just share them with you? Do you want to know what's in my heart, what bubbles up inside of me? Now, I preach two times a week, every week, at Grace Church, I have for twenty years, I have preached about 1500 sermons. So I go from subject to subject to subject pretty ... Read More

Turn with me in your Bible to Matthew chapter 10.. .Matthew chapter 10. I don't know about you, but we have missed so much, the joy of teaching through Matthew in the last month as we've been digressing and am excited about getting back this morning. We're looking today at Matthew 10 and particularl... Read More

TEXTUAL SERMONS IN OUTLINE We print in this chapter a number of outlines of textual sermons. It is not intended that these outlines shall be used exactly as here given; they are simply offered by way of illustration and suggestion. We first give outlines of sermons for Christians, and afterward outl... Read More

A very puzzling passage in the Bible to many is the story of the unrighteous steward recorded in Luke 16:1-14. Once when this passage was assigned by the International Sunday School Committee, a lady told me that she had made up her mind not to teach it. She said, "The three points of difficulty are... Read More

"But Saul, yet breathing threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, and asked of him letters to Damascus unto the synagogues, that if he found any that were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem" (Acts 9:1,2). "But when ... Read More

It is five years today, brethren, since I began my ministry among you in this place. It will be good for us today to stand up in the sight of God, and see how we have improved the years that are gone by. Let us observe, first of all, that faithful ministers preach Christ Jesus the Lord. Verse 5: 'Fo... Read More

An Amiable Youth Falling Short of Heaven by Archibald Alexander "One thing you lack." Mark 10:21 The history of this young man is given by three of the evangelists, Matthew 19, Mark 10, Luke 18, in nearly the same words. It is therefore doubtless worthy of our marked attention. This youth possessed ... Read More

The Rich Young Ruler George Everard, 1885 "What more do I lack?" Matthew 19:20 A mountain of self-righteousness lay at the back of this question. He who asked it, was rich in his possessions, but still richer in his imagined merit. So he comes to Christ and seems to say something of this kind, "I ha... Read More

Reasons Why Some Will Not Come to Christ Albert N. Martin Jerusalem was buzzing with activity during one of the high Jewish feast days. And now at the pool of Bethesda the controversial young rabbi from Galilee had astounded everyone by healing a man paralyzed for thirty-eight years! But instead of ... Read More

CHRISTIAN PERFECTION Arthur W. Pink (1886-1952) I suppose that every Christian has been exercised at some time or other by verses in Scripture containing the word "perfect" or "perfection." While convinced that those who lay claim to sinless perfection err, yet probably you have not been fully satis... Read More