What is a Christian?
Drawing from Matthew 5, this four-part sermon series seeks to articulate what a Christian is, according to Jesus.
What is a Christian? (Part 4)
What is a Christian? Today we are completing our 4 week series trying to answer this question. Of course, on the one hand, the answer has always been obvious. A Christian is someone who follows Christ. But what does that actually mean? It’s worth remembering that part of the reason that we come here every week is that we’re all trying to work that answer in our lives.…
What is a Christian? (Part 3)
A Sermon for February 12, 2017 on Matthew 5:21-37 What is a Christian? We’re in our third week, trying to answer that question using Jesus’ teaching in “the Sermon on the Mount.” When we began this series two weeks ago, I urged us to commit ourselves to take Jesus’ words seriously. If you shared that sentiment with me, then this is probably the week where that commitment…
What’s a Christian (Part 2)
A Sermon for February 6, 2017 on Matthew 5:13-20 What is a Christian? We’re in week 2 of my planned 4 week sermon series focused on answering this question. We’re really trying to understand who Jesus’ followers are, both externally, in terms of how they act, and internally, in terms of what’s in their hearts. By way of review, last week we talked about the section of…
What is a Christian? (Part 1)
A Sermon for January 29, 2017 on Matthew 5:1-12 What does being a Christian look like? As I thought about this question this week in light of the scripture, I ran across something that John Stott, a recently-departed evangelical anglican said: No comment could be more hurtful to the Christian than the words, ‘But you are no different from anybody else.’ For the essential…