by Justin Marple | Mar 27, 2016 | 2016 Sermons, Parables of the Last Week (Matthew), SERMONS
One day during His ministry Jesus fed five thousand men plus women and children using two fish and five loaves of bread. He looked up to heaven and said a blessing and then broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples and the disciples gave them to the crowds and...
by Justin Marple | Mar 20, 2016 | 2016 Sermons, Jonah Children's Stories, SERMONS
At the end of the third part of Jonah we heard that when God saw what the people of Nineveh did and how they turned from doing wrong, God turned back from his plan to destroy the city as He had said He would do and He didn’t do it. The people from the lowest...
by Justin Marple | Mar 20, 2016 | 2016 Sermons, Parables of the Last Week (Matthew), SERMONS
There once was a fig tree by the side of the road between Bethany and Jerusalem. It was growing in a land flowing with milk and honey. It boasted of a heritage that went back to the mighty fig trees of old – to trees that fed King David and that even refreshed Abraham...
by Justin Marple | Mar 13, 2016 | 2016 Sermons, Parables of the Last Week (Matthew), SERMONS
Americans are likely to do two things when it comes to the Parable of the Talents in the Gospel according to Matthew. First, when we read the word talents we think of God-given abilities and so we might think of the parable as being about using our talents. Second,...
by Justin Marple | Mar 13, 2016 | 2016 Sermons, Jonah Children's Stories, SERMONS
The Lord spoke to the fish and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land. Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, “Get up and go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.” So Jonah now had a second chance...
by Justin Marple | Mar 6, 2016 | 2016 Sermons, Parables of the Last Week (Matthew), SERMONS
In the Middle East it is traditional even today for the groom and a few close friends to go and retrieve the bride and bring her back to the house for the wedding feast. The men show up at the bride’s door and when she is ready they put her on the back of a...
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