The Wedding Banquet | Matthew 22:1-14
Church at the Cross : Sunday Messages
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The Wedding Banquet | Matthew 22:1-14
Church at the Cross : Sunday Messages
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Saying Yes Isn't Enough | Matthew 21:23-32
Church at the Cross : Sunday Messages
Scripture: Matthew 21:28-33 Key Takeaways: + Only those who demonstrate repentance and faith through wholehearted obedience to the will of the Father will enter the kingdom of heaven. + Repentance Is Necessary and Good + Repentance Should Be the Lifestyle of the Christian + Repentance Leads to Obedience John 15:5 + You Become Like What You Behold Philippians 2:5–11
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Saying Yes Isn't Enough | Matthew 21:23-32
Church at the Cross : Sunday Messages
Scripture: Matthew 21:28-33 Key Takeaways: + Only those who demonstrate repentance and faith through wholehearted obedience to the will of the Father will enter the kingdom of heaven. + Repentance Is Necessary and Good + Repentance Should Be the Lifestyle of the Christian + Repentance Leads to Obedience John 15:5 + You Become Like What You Behold Philippians 2:5–11
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Laborers in the Field | Matthew 20:1-16
Church at the Cross : Sunday Messages
Scripture: Matthew 20:1-16 Key Takeaways: + God is radically generous and free with His grace Psalm 145:8-9 Micah 7:18 + Everyone is equal in the Kingdom of God Ephesians 1:3 1 Peter 5:1-2 + It is never too late to come into the Kingdom of God Psalm 92:12-15
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Unforgiving Servant | Matthew 18:21-35
Church at the Cross : Sunday Messages
Scripture: Matthew 18:21-35 Key Takeaways: + Forgiveness is a lifetime pursuit + Forgiveness is the cancellation of a debt - Forgiveness doesn’t mean removing healthy boundaries - Forgiveness does not exempt us from justice + Forgiveness must be experienced - Luke 7:36-50 + Experienced forgiveness allows us to extend forgiveness “Forgiveness is granted before it is felt.” – Tim Keller + Forgiveness reflects the Gospel
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The Treasure and the Pearl | Matthew 13:44-46
Church at the Cross : Sunday Messages
Scripture: Matthew 13:44-46 Key Takeaways: — Finding — Assessing — Selling — Rejoicing — Buying + Jesus is the one thing worth losing all things just to have + This is how we become a Christian — Jesus is not your Savior unless He is your Treasure “How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to lose… You drove them from me, you who are the true, the sovereign joy. You drove them from me and took their place, you who are sweeter than all pleasure… you who outshine all light… you who surpass all...
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The Growth and Advance of the Kingdom | Matthew 13:31-33
Church at the Cross : Sunday Messages
Scripture: Matthew 13:31-33 Key Takeaways: + The Kingdom of God is humble in its start and unstoppable in its spread. Acts 6:7 Acts 12:24 Acts 19:20 + A Global Dimension Ezekiel 17:22-24 Matthew 24:14 + A Societal Dimension “I call myself a cultural Christian. I’m not a believer, but there is a distinction between believing in something and being steeped in the culture of it.” – Richard Dawkins, Atheist “You cannot take the fruit of Christianity and then say you don’t want the tree.” – Douglas Murray, Atheist Cultural Critic + A Personal...
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The Great Separation | Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43
Church at the Cross : Sunday Messages
Scripture: Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 Key Takeaways: + Two Destinies + One Day + Listen and Live + Patience and Persuasion 1 Peter 3:14-16
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The Storyteller: Jesus & His Parables | The Paradoxical Power of the Seed | Matthew 13:1-23
Church at the Cross : Sunday Messages
Scripture: Matthew 13:1-23 Key Takeaways: + The Seed explained “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison + The Soil explained The Path Rocky Ground Thorns + For me to live is ______ and to die is ______ The Good Soil
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Key Takeaways:
+ Work is a good gift from God.
“Let the Church remember this: that every maker and worker is called to serve God in his profession or trade—not outside it. The Apostles complained rightly when they said it was not meet they should leave the word of God and serve tables; their vocation was to preach the word. But the person whose vocation it is to prepare the meals beautifully might with equal justice protest: It is not meet for us to leave the service of our tables to preach the word.” – Dorothy Sayers, “Why Work?”
+ Work is to be done for God and for his glory.
Ephesians 6:5–8
+ Good work that glorifies God is ethical work.
+ Good work that glorifies God is excellent work.
"The Church’s approach to an intelligent carpenter is usually confined to exhorting him not to be drunk and disorderly in his leisure hours, and to come to church on Sundays. What the Church should be telling him is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables. Church by all means, and decent forms of amusement, certainly – but what use is all that if in the very center of his life and occupation he is insulting God with bad carpentry?” – Dorothy Sayers, “Why Work?”
“The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.” – Martin Luther
Exodus 31:1–5
Proverbs 22:29
+ Work is how we partner with God in his care of the world.
“God Himself will milk the cows through him whose vocation that is.” – Martin Luther
+ Our identity is to be found in Jesus and his work, not ours.
“If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.” – Tim Keller