Jesus declared that all authority belongs to Him. This sermon shows why Christ’s word is the final standard in religion and why no preacher, council, tradition, creed, or denomination has the right to overrule Him.
Jesus cleansed the temple because men had turned worship into robbery. This sermon applies that warning to singing, prayer, the Lord’s Supper, giving, preaching, and the danger of offering God distracted or careless worship.
From Matthew, Ed Rangel addresses the authority of Scripture, examining Authority Of Scripture and Obedience and the importance of following God’s word in all things.
A sermon by Ed Rangel from Matthew, exploring Scripture and its application to Christian life and faith.
We hold in our hands the most familiar and the most neglected book on earth. Familiar, because it sits in every home; neglected, because we rarely stop to consider what it actually is. Boles asks us to look at the Book itself — its impossible unity…
To enter the kingdom a man must be born again — begotten by the Spirit through the word and delivered through the water of baptism; “born of water and the Spirit” is not natural birth and not a direct, wordless work of the Spirit, but the…
Jesus has been misunderstood by enemies, crowds, and even His own disciples; but His claims allow only two honest verdicts — base impostor or Son of God — and to understand Him rightly we must receive both Himself and His kingdom. On the Emmaus road two…
The sin that struck Ananias and Sapphira dead was not stinginess and not even mere lying to men; it was hypocrisy before God — the loss of the sense that God inspects the heart — and that sin is as deadly to a congregation now as…
The Lord chose twelve very different men to lay the foundation of His church, and in their variety He teaches every congregation that He has a place and a work for every kind of faithful disciple. We are tempted to look at the apostles as giants…
When God’s people borrow the world’s religious vocabulary, they soon borrow the world’s religious ideas; faithfulness therefore requires that we hold the pattern of sound words and call Bible things by Bible names. This is a lesson about words, and someone will object that words are…