Sunday Study Questions

Jesus’ Shepherd Heart For The Religious Leaders

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matt23q Matthew 23:1-39 Key Verse: 23:37 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing.”   1. Why does Jesus tell the crowds and his disciples that they must do what the Pharisees say, but not what they do? (1-4) How did the Pharisees exalt themselves? (5-7) In what ways must Jesus’ disciples Read more [...]
Sunday Messages

The God of the living

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matt22b-david August 19, 2012 Matthew 22:23-33 / Key verse: 22:32, “‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.” Last week we learned that through the parable of the wedding banquet, God wants to invite all undeserving sinners to the eternal kingdom of heaven. The kingdom of heaven is the main theme of Jesus’ teaching and the whole bible. Since the kingdom of heaven is where Read more [...]
Sunday Messages

The Parable of the Wedding Banquet

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matt22a-peter-rev August 12, 2012 Matthew 22:1-14 Key verse Matthew 22:2 “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.” The chief priests and the Pharisees challenged Jesus’ authority. Jesus refused to answer their question but told them two parables. In the parable of the two sons and the parable of the Tenants, we learned that we should produce the good fruits of obedience, the fruit pleasing God. Otherwise, the vineyard Read more [...]